Ziesemer Thomas U Maastricht   Burgemeester Donnersstraat 6 Munstergeleen, Limburg 6151 EM Netherlands   T.Ziesemer@maastrichtuniversity.nl   https://www.merit.unu.edu/about-us/profile/?staff_id=58   Biographical Sketch: Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, since December 1996. He studied economics at the Universities of Kiel (1974-75) and Regensburg (1975-78) in Germany. From 1982 to 1989 he was employed at the University of Regensburg, where he completed his doctoral dissertation on Economic Theory of Underdevelopment in 1985. Since December of 1989, he has been Assistant Professor of International Economics and Associate Professor of Microeconomics (1994-97) at Maastricht University. In November 1996 he received his 'Habilitation' from the Free University Berlin in 1996.   Primary Research Focus: Growth, Technical Change, Development, International and Environmental Economics   JEL Areas: F4 : Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance: General O4 : Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General