RESEARCH FIELDS

• Regional economic growth
• Demography

• 2009 Promotion (Doctorate in Economics), Martin Luther University
• 2002 Diplom-Volkswirt (Diploma in Economics), Martin Luther University

• Since 2006 Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)

RESEARCH PAPERS

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• Titze M, Brachert M, Kubis A: The identification of industrial clusters - Methodical aspects in a multidimensional framework for cluster identification

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Services of general interest and demographic change in rural areas of Saxony-Anhalt.
  The project is carried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt, 2010-2013
• Economic status quo and perspectives for East Germany.
  The project is carried out under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, 2010
• Regional growth patterns and their consequences for regional planning policies.
  The project was carried out under the auspices of the Federal Office of Housing and Regional Planning (BBR), 2007-2008
• The formal and effective incidence of public spending.
  The project was carried out under the auspices of the Federal Office of Housing and Regional Planning (BBR), 2005-2006

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• The least back in the East? Zu Determinanten und Selektivität der Rückkehrneigung nach Ostdeutschland. December meeting of the research group "Cities and Regions" of the German Demography Association (DGD e.V) in cooperation with the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) on Demographic traces of the East German transformation process, 20 years German unification (Demografische Spuren des ostdeutschen Transformationsprozesses, 20 Jahre deutsche Einheit), Berlin, 09.12.2010
• Zuwanderungspotenziale nach Ostdeutschland (with Lutz Schneider). Annual IWH-Conference on analysis and policy for Eastern Germany (Analysen und Politik für Ostdeutschland), Halle. 18.11.2010
• Industrial Clusters as Source of Prospering Regions? Economic Structure and Regional Performance 1995-2005. European Congress of Regional Science Association International (ERSA 2010), Jonkoping (SE), 08.2010
• Blühende Landschaften und ökonomische Realitäten. Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Halle, 02.07.2010
• Lebenswelt im Umbruch: Strukturwandel und regionale Entwicklung. Festveranstaltung der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung zum 20-jährigen Jubiläum der Unterzeichung des Staatsvertrages über eine gemeinsame Währungs-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialunion, Berlin, 23.06.2010
• Are there gender specific tastes for regional location factors? A grouped conditional logit model of interregional migration flows in Germany. Congress of the European Association of Labour Economics (EALE 2008), Amsterdam (NL), 22.09.2008 and European Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA 2008), Liverpool (GB), 28.08.2008

HONORS/FELLOWSHIPS

• Luther certificate 2010 for PhD Thesis by Martin Luther University
• Fellowship for postgraduate studies by State of Saxony-Anhalt, 2004-2006
• L.V. Kantorovic Price 2003 for Best Diploma Thesis by ifu Institute

REFEREE

• Regional Studies

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Last updated: 01/2011 by Alexander Kubis