• Social and Cultural Framing of Economics, with particular regard to Spain and Latin America
• Comparative Institutionalism
• Economics and Ethics
• Applied Game Theory

The political economy of the middle-income trap

Flechtner, S. & Panther, S. (2015): Global and domestic inequalities and the political economy of the middle-income trap, working paper. [download]

Flechtner, S. & Panther, S. (2016, forthcoming): Economic inequality, political power and political decision-making: the case of the "middle-income trap", in S. Fadda & P. Tridico (eds), Verities of Capitalism, Routledge.

Global Political Economy

Panther, S. (2014): Institutions in a World System - Contours of a Research Program, desigualdades.net Working Paper Series, No. 76. [download]

• Wirtschaftsethik und Ökonomik, in: Beschorner, Thomas et al. (eds.), Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, Rückblick, Ausblick, Perspektiven, München und Mering: Rainer Hampp, 2005, 67-94.

• Homo Oeconomicus vs. Homo culturalis: Kultur als Herausforderung für die Ökonomik, in: Blümle, Georg et al. (eds.), Perspektiven einer kulturellen Ökonomik, Münster: Lit, 2004, 287-310.

• Warum ist Argentinien kein reiches Land? in: Eger, Thomas (ed.), Erfolg und Versagen von Institutionen, Berlin:Duncker und Humblot, 2004, 199-216.

• Ökonomik und  Sozialwissenschaft, Marburg: Metropolis, 2002 (mit Walter Ötsch).

• Sozialkapital und Religion. Das Beispiel China, in: Hans G. Nutzinger (ed.), Religion, Werte und Wirtschaft. China und der Transformationsprozess in Asien, Marburg: Metropolis, 2002, 243-266.

• Kulturelle Faktoren in der Transformation Osteuropas, in: Thomas Eger (ed.), Kulturelle Prägung, Entstehung und Wandel von Institutionen, Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 2002.

• The Economics of Crime and Criminal Law: An Antithesis to Sociological Theories?, European Journal of Law and Economics 2, 1995, S. 365-378 reprinted in: Fiorentini, Gianluca und Stefano Zamagni (eds.), The Economics of Corruption and Illegal Markets, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 111, Edward Elgar, 1999.

• Cultural Factors in the Transition Process. Latin Center, Orthodox Periphery?, in: Jürgen G. Backhaus und Günter Krause (eds.), Issues in Transformation Theory, Marburg: Metropolis, 1997, S.95-122.

• Born in 1961
• 1980-1986 Degree in Economics and Political Science at Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich
• 1990 Doctorate in Economics (Dr. oec. publ.) with a dissertation on the economic analysis of environmental liability legislation at the Faculty of Economics of the LMU
• 2000 Habilitation at the Department of Economics of the University of Hamburg with a work on ?Social Relations and Markets?
• 2001- 2003 Temporary Professorship (for Prof. Dr. Hans Nutzinger at the University of Kassel)
• Since 2003 Professor for International and Institutional Economics with regional focus on Spain and Latin America at the University of Flensburg
• Member of the Committee for System Comparison and Institutional Economics of the Association for Social Policy
• Chairman (with Prof. Dr. Gerd Grözinger) of the "Arbeitskreis Politische Ökonomie" (Working Group Political Economy)
• Visiting lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management