Principal Investigator

Rainer Klump

Projects and positions at the research center
Principal Investigator

Funding period 2019-2021
Project management: Normative Economic Policy – Past, Present and Future | Research focus 2 – Liquefied Orders: Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence
Project management: Normative Economic Policy – Past, Present and Future | Research focus 4 – Overstretched Orders: Global governance between de- and renationalization

Funding period 2012-2019
Project management: Self-interest vs. the common good: On norm change within economics | Research field 1

Funding period 2007-2012
Project management: Norm types and stages of normative practices | Research field 1

Fields of study
Economics

Main research
Growth theory and growth policy, economic development, economic integration, economic systems, history of theory and cultural economics

  • Biografische Angaben

    Since 2020: Scientific Director of the Center for Financial Studies, Gesellschaft für Kapitalmarktforschung e.V. Since 2000: Full Professor of Economics at the Chair of Economic Policy at Goethe University Frankfurt (2009-2017 on leave) and Co-Director of the Wilhelm Merton Center for European Integration and International Economics 2018: Visiting professor at Fudan University Shanghai, School of Economics 2015-2017: President of the University of Luxembourg 2013-2016: Principal Investigator, Interdisciplinary Research Center "Africa's Asian Options (AFRASO)" at the Goethe University Frankfurt 2009-2021: Principal Investigator, Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders" at the Goethe University Frankfurt 2009-2014: Vice President of the Goethe University Frankfurt 2012: Visiting professor at the Groupe d'Economie Mondiale (GEM), Sciences Po, Paris 2006-2009: Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Law, Goethe University Frankfurt 2004-2009: Elected member of the Evaluation Committee "Economic and Administrative Sciences" at the German Research Foundation (DFG) 2005: Visiting professor at the Université Paris-Dauphine 2003: Visiting professor at the Université Lyon 2 1997-2000: Full Professor of Economic Policy (Ludwig Erhard Endowed Professorship) Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Ulm 1992-1997: Professor of Economics (with tenure) Department of Economics, University of Würzburg 1991: Habilitation at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Habilitation Prize of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 1987-1992: Post-doctoral research assistant at the Department of Economics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 1987: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) 1986-1987: Research Fellow, Department of International Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC 1986: Doctorate at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg ("summa cum laude") Research grant from the Volkswagenwerk Foundation 1983-1986: Research Assistant, Chair of Economic Policy, Department of Economics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 1979-1983: Studied economics - Universities of Mainz, Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Erlangen-Nuremberg 1979: Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Office Franco-Allemand pour la Jeunesse (OFAJ)
  • Publikationen

    2022 Klump, Rainer (2022): Schulden und Staatlichkeit: Überlegungen zur Politischen Ökonomie des Schuldenstaats (No. 06-22). IBF Paper Series. Klump, Rainer; Jurkat, Anne; Schneider, Florian (2022): „Tracking the Rise of Robots. The IFR Database“. In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik. Klump, Rainer (2022): Von Seckendorff zu Moser: Finanz- und wirtschaftspolitische Herausforderungen und Reformpläne in Hessen-Darmstadt 1660 – 1780, in: Caspari, Volker (Hrsg.), Kameralismus und Merkantilismus. Studien zur Entwicklung der ökonomischen Theorie XXXV, Berlin: Beck, 73-112. 2021 Klump, Rainer; Wolf, Pascal (2021): Das Trickle Down-Narrativ als Rechtfertigung wirtschaftlichen Wachstums, in: Forst, Rainer; Günther, Klaus (Hrsg.), Normative Ordnungen, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 502-519. Klump, Rainer; Pilz, Lars (2021): The Formation of a ‚Spirit of Capitalism‘ in Upper Germany: Leonhard Fronsperger’s ‚On the Praise of Self-Interest‘, Journal of the History of Economic Thought 43, 401-419. Klump, Rainer (2021): Wirtschaftspolitik. Instrumente, Ziele und Institutionen; München, Pearson, 4. Auflage. 2019 Klump, Rainer (2019): Wirtschaftspolitik, in: Oberreuter, Heinrich (Hrsg.), Staatslexikon der Görres-Gesellschaft, 8. Auflage, Freiburg i. Br.: Görres-Gesellschaft u. Herder, https://www.staatslexikon-online.de/Lexikon/Wirtschaftspolitik. 2018 Klump, Rainer; Pilz, Lars (2018): Durch Eigennutz zum Gemeinwohl: Individualisierung, Reformation und der „Geist des Kapitalismus“. Zur Entstehung und Bedeutung von Leonhard Fronspergers Schrift „Von dem Lob deß Eigen Nutzen“ aus dem Jahre 1564. Normative Orders Working Paper 01/2018. Klump, Rainer; Jurkat, Anne (2018): Monetary Policy, Factor Substitution, and Convergence, in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 22:1, 63–76. 2017 Gröger, André; Klump, Rainer (2017): The Vietnamese-Chinese Migration Industry in Angola: A Case Study, in: Graf, Arndt/Hashim, Azirah (Hrsg.), Asian-African Encounters. New Cooperations and New Dependencies, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 133–153. 2015 Wörsdörfer, Manuel; Klump, Rainer (2015): Paternalist Economic Policies. Foundations, Implications and Critical Evaluations; Ordo Yearbook of Economic and Social Order 66; 27-60. Kemper, Niels; Viet, Ha; Klump, Rainer (2015): Property rights and consumption volatility: Evidence from a land reform in Vietnam, in: World Development, 71, 107–130 2013 Kemper, Niels; Klump, Rainer; Menkhoff, Lukas; Rungruxsirivorn, Ornsiri (2013): Financial and Other Smoothing Mechanisms in Rural Thailand and Vietnam, in: Klasen, Stephan/Waibel, Hermann (Hrsg.), Vulnerabilty to Poverty: Theory, Measurement and Determinants, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 258–282. Mausch, Kai; Revilla Diez, Javier; Klump, Rainer (2013): Rural Vietnam: Pro-Poor Growth vs Income Structure, in: Klasen, Stephan/Waibel, Hermann (Hrsg.), Vulnerabilty to Poverty: Theory, Measurement and Determinants, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 136–159. Rutz, Cordula; Klump, Rainer; Schramek, Jörg; von Urff, Winfried (2013): Synthesis and Assessment of the Public Debate on the Reform of the CAP after 2013, Baden-Baden: Nomos. Klump, Rainer (2013): Wirtschaftspolitik. Instrumente, Ziele und Institutionen; München, Pearson. 2012 Vec, Miloš; Klump, Rainer (2012): Große Erwartungen. Völkerrecht und Weltwirtschaft im 19. Jahrhundert, in: Rainer Klump und Miloš Vec (Hrsg.), Völkerrecht und Weltwirtschaft im 19. Jahrhundert, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag (Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts 26), S.1-16. Klump, Rainer; McAdam, Peter; Willman, Alpo (2012): The normalized CES production function: theory and empirics, in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 26:5, 769–799. Vec, Miloš; Klump, Rainer (Hrsg.) (2012): Völkerrecht und Weltwirtschaft im 19. Jahrhundert, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag (Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts 26), VII, 271 S. 2011 Klump, Rainer; Wörsdörfer, Manuel (2011): On the Affiliation of Phenomenology and Ordoliberalism: Links between Edmund Husserl, Rudolf and Walter Eucken; European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 18(4), 551-578. Klump, Rainer (2011): Wirtschaftspolitik im wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Curriculum – Glanzstück oder Auslaufmodell? in: Schefold/Caspari (Hg.): Wohin steuert die ökonomische Wissenschaft? Ein Methoden¬streit in der Volkswirtschaftslehre, Normative Orders Bd. 3, Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2011, S. 89-108. 2010 Klump, Rainer; Wörsdörfer, Manuel (2010): An Ordoliberal Interpretation of Adam Smith; ORDO Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 61; 29-51. Klump, Rainer; Herzer, Dierk (2010): Poverty and government transfers in the United States; Applied Economics Letters, 17 (16), 1565-1569. Klump, Rainer; Kemper, Niels (2010): Shock-Coping and Household Finance in Rural Vietnam, in: Morelli, Emanuela/Amiscora Onnis, Giorgio/Ammann, Walter/Sutter, Corina (Hrsg.), Microinsurance: An Innovative Tool for Risk and Disaster Management, Davos: Global Risk Forum, 269–297. Klump, Rainer; Kim, Sangho (2010): The Effects of Public Pensions on Private Wealth: Evidence on the German Savings Puzzle, in: Applied Economics, 42:15, 1917–1926. 2009 Klump, Rainer; Irmen, Andreas (2009): Factor Substitution, Income Distribution, and Growth in a Generalized Neoclassical Model, German Economic Review 10, S. 464-479. Klump, Rainer (2009): How to Integrate Culture into Economics? Some Reflections on an Old and still Challenging Research Agenda, in: Rieter, Heinz/Zweynert, Joachim (Hrsg.), Economic Styles in the Process of EU Eastern Enlargement, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 55–68. Klump, Rainer; Herzer, Dierk (2009): Poverty, government transfers, and the business cycle: evidence for the United States, Applied Econometrics and International Development 9, S. 342-364. Klump, Rainer; Wörsdörfer, Manuel (2009): Über die normativen Implikationen des Ordoliberalismus für die moderne Wirtschaftsethik; zfwu Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik 10(3); 322-340. 2008 Klump, Rainer; Saam, Marianne (2008): Calibration of normalised CES production functions in dynamic models, in: Economics Letters, Vol. 99 (2008), 256-259. Klump, Rainer (2008): „Kleine Stadt und großer Markt“: Die Herausforderung der Globalisierung 1980-2007, in: W. Plumpe und D. Rebentisch (Hrsg.): „Dem Flor der hiesigen Handlung“ 200 Jahre Industrie- und Handelskammer Frankfurt am Main, IHK Frankfurt 2008, 348-379. Klump, Rainer; Hadnes, Myriam (2008): Pro-poor Growth in Asia – Conceptual Debates, Empirical Evidence, and Some Lessons Learnt, in: The Social and EcoIogical Market Economy – A Model for Asian Development?, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, 2008, 106-133. Klump, Rainer; McAdam, Peter; Willman, Alpo (2008): Unwrapping the euro area growth puzzle: Factor substitution, productivity and unemployment, in: Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 30 (2008), 645-666. 2007 Klump, Rainer; Pilz, Lars (2007): Mehr Integration durch die „Methode der offenen Koordinierung“? – Das Beispiel der Beschäftigungspolitischen Leitlinien im Rahmen der Lissabon-Strategie, in: Ohr, Renate (Hrsg.), Arbeitsmarkt und Beschäftigung, Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 129–156. Klump, Rainer; Bonschab, Thomas (2007): Pro-Poor Growth in Vietnam: Explaining the Spatial differences, in: Grimm, Michael/Klasen, Stephan/McKay, Andrew (Hrsg.), Determinants of Pro-Poor Growth, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 81–110.

News from the research center

News
30.06.2025

Article "Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?" by Amadeus Ulrich published in EJPT

The article "Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?" by Amadeus Ulrich has just been published open access in the European Journal of Political Theory (EJPT). Ulrich brings the perspective of radical realism into a productive dialog with Adorno's critical theory.

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30.06.2025

Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay awarded the Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose University Prize 2025

Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay (Junior Professor of Ethnology with a focus on Political Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and former postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center Normative Orders at Goethe University) receives the Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose University Award 2025 in the category Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Publication
25.06.2025 | Online article

Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?

Ulrich, Amadeus (2025): Ideology and suffering: What is realistic about critical theory? European Journal of Political Theory, 0(0).  https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851251351782

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24.06.2025

New series “Vertrauensfragen” in the Frankfurter Rundschau initiated by Hendrik Simon

Democracy thrives on debate - if it serves the joint search for solutions. There is often a problem with this cooperation. The new FR series “Vertrauensfragen”, initiated by Hendrik Simon (Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) Frankfurt location at Goethe University's Research Centre Normative Orders ), examines why this is the case and how we can do better.

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Publication
23.06.2025 | Working Paper

Untrustworthy Authorities and Complicit Bankers: Unraveling Monetary Distrust in Argentina

Moreno, Guadalupe (2025): “Untrustworthy Authorities and Complicit Bankers: Unraveling Monetary Distrust in Argentina”. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Discussion Paper 25/3.

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News
22.05.2025

Does deliberative democracy have a future in the age of oligarchs, autocrats and patriarchs?

On June 3, Prof. Simone Chambers will give a lecture on the value of democracies and the future of the form of government.

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Publication
19.05.2025 | Anthology

Klimaethik. Ein Reader

Sparenborg, Lukas; Moellendorf, Darrel (Hrsg.) (2025) : Klimaethik. Ein Reader. Suhrkamp.

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19.05.2025

What can a baroque tapestry tell us about colonial iconography?

Lecture by Cécile Fromone on May 21. The professor at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, director of the Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center and author will talk about the long-forgotten African origins of iconography and its colonial dimension.

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