| Kai A. Konrad | |
| Birth Date: | 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg |
| Nationality: | German |
| Institution: | Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance |
| Field: | Public Economics Political Economy |
| Alma Mater: | LMU Munich University of Heidelberg |
| Awards: | Gossen Prize (2000) |
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| Repec Id: | pko51 |
Kai A. Konrad (born 1961 in Heidelberg) is a German economist with main research interests in public economics, microeconomic theory, political economy, and public finance.
Konrad got his university degrees at the University of Heidelberg (Diplom in Economics, 1985) and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Doctoral degree in economics 1990, and Habilitation 1993).
Konrad had research and teaching positions at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Bonn, Bergen (Norway) and the University of California at Irvine. He held a chaired Professorship of Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1994 to 2009 and was a director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) from 2001–2009. From 2009–2010 he was a director at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law and since 2011 he is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance .
Konrad was a co-editor (2007-2018) of the Journal of Public Economics. He was a managing editor of Economic Policy and a co-founding editor of Economics of Governance. He is on the editorial boards of several other international journals in Economics and Political Science. He served as an advisor to governments and is the Chairman of the Council of Scientific Advisors to the Federal Ministry of Finance.
His main research interests are public economics, microeconomic theory, and political economy. He published more than 140 papers in economics, political sciences, law, and management in peer-reviewed international journals, such as American Economic Review, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of International Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Management Science.
Since 2012 Konrad has been a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). In 2013, he was admitted to the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina) and the Academia Europaea, in 2014 to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), and 2015 to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste).