Vita

Prof. Dr. Bernd Meyer is partner of GWS and was its academic director since its foundation in 1996 until 2015. Now he is working as a senior advisor for GWS.

From 1984 until 2011 he was full professor for economics at the University of Osnabrück (Macroeconomic Theory). His main field of research is the development and application of sectorally deep disaggregated macro-econometric models, especially with regard to the interrelations of the economy and the environment.

He is a member of several national and international organisations and committees.

From 1997 to 1998, he was chairman of the section evolutionary economics of the "Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften" ("Verein für Socialpolitik").

Since 1996, he has been a member of the council for economic- environmental accounting ("Wissenschaftlicher Beirat zur Umweltökonomischen Gesamtrechnung") at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment and was the chairman of this council from 1999 until 2002.

Currently he is the scientific advisor in all FP7 projects (CECILIA2050, POLFREE [&] TOPDAD) carried out by GWS mbH. Besides that he also manages the POLFREE project.

Research Interests

Macroeconomic theory

Global and national macroeconometric modelling

Envirionmental economics

Ressource economics

Evolutionary economics

Projects of Bernd Meyer

Entwicklung von Vorschlägen zum Einsatz von ökonomischen Instrumenten zur Steigerung der Ressourceneffizienz in Deutschland und der EU
Modelle, Potenziale und Langfristszenarien für Ressourceneffizienz (SimRess)
Analysing the German Resource Policy (PolRess)
Policy Options for a Resource-Efficient Economy (POLFREE)
Choosing Efficient Combinations of Policy Instruments for Low-carbon development (CECILIA 2050)
Tool Supported Development for Regional Adaptation (ToPDAd)
Future Internet Private Public Partnership
Cornerstones of a sustainable welfare model as a basis for environmental policy descision makers
Macroeconomic Modelling of Sustainable Development and the Links between the Economy and the Environment (MacMod)
Die ökologischen und ökonomischen Wirkungen eines nachhaltigen Konsums in Deutschland
Beschäftigungsprojektion für die Wachstumsregion Ems-Achse bis zum Jahr 2025
Energiepolitische Optionen
Kommt es in Deutschland zu einer Re-Industrialisierung?
Study on Tax Reform in Europe over the next decades: implication for the environment, for eco-innovation and for household distribution
IAB projection
Materialeffizienz und Ressourcenschonung (MaRess)
Differenzierte regionale und überregionale Analysen der nachhaltigen Raum- und Siedlungsentwicklung
Resource Productivity, Environmental Tax Reform and sustainable growth in Europe (PETRE)
Analyse und Modellierung der Energieverbrauchsentwicklung
Development of a macro-econometric forecasting and simulation model

Publications of Bernd Meyer