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Prof. Dr. Thomas Schuster, born in Germany, is professor of economics at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim.
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Education
Thomas Schuster studied economics at the University of Mannheim and at Portsmouth Polytechnic (Great Britain). Upon receiving his diploma from the University of Mannheim, he pursued a doctorate in economics and worked as a research assistant at Mannheim Centre of Social Research and at the Faculty of Economics of Mannheim University. For his doctoral thesis he conducted a European-wide survey about social policy. He estimated the determinants of the demand for social policy using microeconometric methods. He was the first scholar who determined the demand for social policy in the member states of the European Union.
Career
Professor Schuster gathered job experience as an equity analyst at the BBBank, a major German bank. He worked in the research department and was in charge of making investment recommendations for the bank’s customers on European and U.S. equities.
Afterwards, Professor Schuster was deputy professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern. Throughout this time, he taught many courses in statistics, economics and financial management. Besides his lectures in Kaiserslautern, he also taught at several other Universities of Applied Sciences including the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin (HTW), Pforzheim, and Deggendorf. Further, he regularly taught classes in Helsinki at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences - the largest University of Applied Sciences in Finland - and at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences.
In 2013, Professor Schuster was visiting research fellow at the Cologne Institute of Economic Research in Cologne, Germany.
In 2013-2014, he was a visiting professor in the faculty of business at Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.
In 2014, Professor Schuster won the Scientific Award for the Best Internal Publication 2013 of the Cologne Institute of Economic Research.
He regularly takes the floor in telecasts and gives radio interviews about financial markets and economics.
Research
Prof. Schuster’s research interests are primarily in the fields of social policy and labour economics. He is also an expert in international monetary policy. He regularly evaluates international opinion surveys which deal with economic and social policy topics. Recently, he also did some research on the European Monetary Union and the euro crisis. In all his research he has an empirical approach. Typically, new theories developed by him or well-known theories are tested empirically with a variety of statistical methods.
Further Activities
Prof. Schuster ist member of the catholic student fraternity K.D.St.V. Churpfalz, located in Mannheim (Germany). From 2006-2010 he was deputy head of the supervisory board of SIRE AG, Zittau (Germany). Since 2010 Prof. Schuster is listed in „Marquis Who's Who“. Additionally, he is listed in the German equivalent „Who is Who in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“ since 2011.