Roland Kirstein (born 10 August 1965) is a German economist and professor of Business Administration at the Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg, Germany.
Roland Kirstein was born Schröder in Bremen, Germany. He studied economics and law at the Saarland University in Germany in 1988-1994. He finished his Ph.D. thesis in 1998 (supervisor Prof. Dieter Schmidtchen) on the topic "Imperfect Decision-Making Judges". As an assistant professor of economics, he specialized in law and economics, namely banking regulation, insurance economics, and constitutional economics.
In 2002, Roland Kirstein visited the University of California, Berkeley (Law School, invited by Prof. Robert Cooter) and in Santa Barbara (Economics Department, invited by Prof. Ted Bergstrom) to do research into asymmetric information in consumer markets. In 2003 and 2005, he has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, giving courses in Law and Economics.
Since October 2006, he holds the professorship "Economics of Business and Law" at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg. In August 2007, he became a tenured professor. From 2012 to 2023 he was the president of the German Law and Economics Association (Gesellschaft fuer Recht und Oekonomik e.V.).
Roland Kirstein is a supporter and member of the German soccer clubs SV Werder Bremen and 1._FC_Magdeburg.
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