Klaus RITZBERGER
Senior Professor
Vienna Graduate School of Finance
Personal Information: 
born: May
28, 1957, in Villach, Austria;
one child: Victoria Rebecca;
citizenship: Austrian.
Academic Degrees:
Univ.-Doz. ("Universitäts-Dozent"), University
of Vienna, 1996;
Dr. ("Doktor rer.soc.oec."),
University of Vienna, 1987;
Mag. ("Magister rer.soc.oec."),
University of Vienna, 1982.
Specialization:
Game Theory, Finance, Microeconomics, Industrial
Organization, Evolutionary Economics.
Current Position:
Senior Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies
in Vienna, Department of Economics and Finance, and faculty member of the
Vienna Graduate School of Finance (VGSF).
Editorial Services:
Associate editor for
·
"International
Journal of Game Theory",
·
"Economic
Theory",
·
"Mathematical
Social Science",
·
"Games",
·
"Dynamics and Games in Science"
Honors and Awards:
·
Economic
Theory Fellow (Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory), since 2011.
·
Oskar
Morgenstern Publication Award, IHS, 2007, 2009, 2010.
External Appointments:
- Jan.-July
1990 Guest professor at the Australian National University, Canberra;
Course: "Game Theory".
- Feb.
1992 Guest professor at the University of
Alicante, Spain; Course: "Advanced Topics in Game Theory".
- March
1992 Visitor at the Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
- Sept.-Oct.
1992 Lecturer for the "IMF-Basic Course in Economics" at
the Joint Vienna Institute, Austria.
- Oct.
1992 Visitor at the Industriens Utredningsinstitut (IUI), Stockholm, Sweden.
- Nov.-Dec.
1992 Guest professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland; Course:
"Topics in Game Theory".
- Jan./Jun./Oct. 93 Lecturer for the "IMF-Basic
Course in Economics" at the Joint Vienna Institute, Austria.
- Jan. 1994-Dec.1999 Editorial Assistant
for the "Zeitschrift
für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften".
- Feb./Sept. 94 Lecturer for the "IMF-Basic Course
in Economics" at the Joint Vienna Institute, Austria.
- April-May
1994 Visitor at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
- March-May
1995 Lecturer at the University of Vienna, Course: "Evolutionary
Game Theory".
- Sept.-Oct.
1995 Lecturer for the "IMF-Basic Course in Economics" at
the Joint Vienna Institute, Austria.
- April-June
1996 Guest professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; Course:
"General Equilibrium Theory".
- Sept.-Oct.
1996 Lecturer for the "IMF-Basic Course in Economics" at
the Joint Vienna Institute, Austria.
- April-Sept.
1997 "Lehrstuhlvertreter" (Substitute
Professor for Prof. Reinhard Selten)
at the University of Bonn, Germany; Courses: "Microeconomics I"
and "Evolutionary Game Theory".
- Sept.
1997 Lecturer for the "IMF-Basic Course in Economics" at
the Joint Vienna Institute, Austria.
- Feb.
1999 Guest professor at the University of
Alicante, Spain; Course: "Microeconomics II (Game Theory), Part
1".
- Oct.-Dec.
1999 Guest professor at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria; Course: “Non-Cooperative
Game Theory”, Seminar: “Game Theory and Applications”.
- Oct.-Dec.
2000 Guest professor at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria; Course: “Industrial
Organization”.
- Feb.-Mar.
2001 Guest professor at the University of Alicante, Spain; Course: “Refinements
of Nash Equilibrium”.
- Apr.
2001 Short-Term Consultant for the World Bank: Director of the “Managing
Transition”-Segment in the 5th Applied Economic Policy Course at the Joint
Vienna Institute.
- Oct.-Dec.
2001 Short-Term Consultant for the World Bank: Director of the “Managing
Transition”-Segment in the 6th Applied Economic Policy Course at the
Joint Vienna Institute.
- Apr.
2002 Short-Term Consultant for the World Bank: Director of the "Managing
Transition"-Segment in the 7th Applied Economic Policy Course at
the Joint Vienna Institute.
- May
2002 Guest professor at the University of Alicante, Spain; Course: "Strategic
Stability in Games".
- Dec.
2002 Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute, Jena, Germany.
- May
2003 Guest professor at the University of Alicante, Spain; Course: "Refinements
of Nash Equilibrium".
- May
2004 Guest Professor at the University of Alicante, Spain; Course: "The
Firm in Imperfect Competition and Incomplete Markets".
- February
2007 ERSA Lecturer at the University of Cape Town and Durban, South
Africa; Course: "Corporate Control and the Theory of the
Firm".
- October
2009 Research visitor at the University of Johannisburg,
South Africa.
- October
2010 Research visitor at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
Memberships
in Scientific Communities:
- American Economic Association
- Econometric Society
- European Economic Association
- Game Theory Society
- Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und
Sozialwissenschaften-Verein für Socialpolitik
- Nationalökonomische Gesellschaft Österreichs
Refereeing for:
- Econometrica
- Economica
- Economic Theory
- Economics and Philosophy
- Empirical Economics
- European Economic Review
- European Journal of Political
Economy
- Games
- Games and Economic
Behavior
- International Economic Review
- International Journal of Game
Theory
- International Journal of
Industrial Organization
- Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization
- Journal of Economic Theory
- Journal of
Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie
- Journal
of the European Economic Association
- Journal
of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
- Journal of Mathematical Economics
- Journal of Population
Economics
- Journal of Public Economics
- Metroeconomica