Willi Semmler

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Willi Semmler
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Academic career
InstitutionThe New School
Field Macroeconomic Dynamics, Empirical Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Macro Policies, Economics of Climate Change
School or
tradition
Keynesian Economics
Alma mater University of Munich, Free University of Berlin, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Website NSSR profile, SSRN profile

Willi Semmler is a German born American economist who currently teaches at The New School in New York.

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Academic career

Willi Semmler studied at the University of Munich, Technical University of Berlin and Free University of Berlin. He has a PHD (Dr. rer pol) and a Habilitation from the Free University of Berlin. He began his teaching career at the University of Berlin, was a Post-Doc at Columbia University, funded by the American Council of Learned Society, taught at the American University, Washington, D.C., and the University of Bielefeld, (Germany). He is currently the Henry Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at the New School for Social Research, [1] The New School, [2] New York. He was research fellow at the ZEW Mannheim and is Senior Researcher at the IIASA, [3] Laxenburg, Austria. He was visitor at the CEPREMAP, Paris, Stanford University, and Japanese Universities.

Theoretical contributions

Semmler's dissertation was on Multisector Growth Theory. His research topics include Classical Economic Dynamics, Business Cycles, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Economic Growth, Global Growth, Environment, and Resources, Macroeconomics and Finance, Financial Economics, the Economics of Climate Change, Empirical Macroeconomics and Regime Switching Models, and Numerical Methods in Economics.

Applied work

US and EU macroeconomics, and monetary and fiscal policy, disparities in income and wealth distribution, dynamic portfolio decisions, financing climate policies, climate policies and green jobs, empirics of nonrenewable and renewable energy, and economic comments in Spiegel Online, see External Links. Semmler’s policy research has also been featured in working paper series of the World Bank, IMF, ECB, and ILO.

Awards and Grants

Grant from the German Research Foundation, on Macroeconomics and Inequality, August 2015 – 2016

Grant from the German Research Foundation jointly with Stephan Klasen, on Infrastructure against Climate Risk, August 2012 – 2013, extension 2015-2016

Thyssen Foundation grant for a two year speaker series on Global Warming and Renewable Energy, August 2012-August 2014, extension 2015-2020

One year grant from the Center for European Economics Research (ZEW), Mannheim, on a research project on Financial Stress and Economic Dynamics: Asymmetries within and Across European Countries, June 2012-June 2013

Fulbright Professorship, University of Economics, Vienna, 2012 [4]

Grant from the Walker Foundation on "The Economics of Global Warming II: Renewable Energy", September 2011 [5]

Publications

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References

  1. "Willi Semmler - Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development - The New School for Social Research". www.newschool.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  2. "Home | NSSR". www.newschool.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. "Willi Semmler - IIASA". www.iiasa.ac.at. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  4. "WU Visiting Professor » FULBRIGHT". www.fulbright.at. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  5. "Curriculum Vitae | Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften | Startseite". www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  6. Grüne, Lars; Semmler, Willi; Stieler, Marleen (2015-01-19). "Using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Decision Problems in Economics" (PDF). Rochester, NY. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2242339. S2CID   53628822. SSRN   2242339.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. Bernard, Lucas; Semmler, Willi, eds. (2015-01-15). The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199856978.001.0001. ISBN   9780199856978.
  8. Mittnik, Stefan; Semmler, Willi (2013-08-01). "The real consequences of financial stress" (PDF). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 37 (8): 1479–1499. doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2013.04.014. ISSN   0165-1889.
  9. Asset Prices, Booms and Recessions - Financial Economics from a Dynamic Perspective | Willi Semmler | Springer. Springer. 2011. ISBN   9783642206795.
  10. Goeran, Kauermann; Tatyana, Krivobokova; Willi, Semmler (2011). "Filtering Time Series with Penalized Splines". Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics. 15 (2): 1–28.
  11. Gallegati, Marco; Gallegati, Mauro; Ramsey, James Bernard; Semmler, Willi (2011). "The US Wage Phillips Curve across Frequencies and over Time". Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 73 (4): 489–508. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0084.2010.00624.x. ISSN   0305-9049. S2CID   152634741.
  12. Charpe, M; Chiarella, C; Flaschel, Peter; Sr, Willi (2011-01-01). "Financial Assets, Debt and Liquidity Crises". Financial Assets, Debt and Liquidity Crises: A Keynesian Approach: 1–432. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511792540. ISBN   9780511792540.
  13. The Global Environment, Natural Resources, and Economic Growth. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2008-07-25. ISBN   9780195328233.
  14. results, search; Semmler, Willi; Gong, Gang (2016-06-28). The Forces of Economic Growth: A Time Series Perspective (Reprint ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN   9780691170961.
  15. "Dynamic Macroeconomics". The MIT Press. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  16. Semmler, Willi (1986). "On nonlinear theories of economic cycles and the persistence of business cycles". Mathematical Social Sciences. 12 (1): 47–76. doi:10.1016/0165-4896(86)90047-8. ISSN   0165-4896.
  17. Flaschel, Peter; Semmler, Willi (1987). "Classical and Neoclassical Competitive Adjustment Processes". The Manchester School of Economic & Social Studies. 55 (1): 13–37. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9957.1987.tb01287.x.
  18. "9783921241349: Zur Theorie der Reproduktion und Akkumulation. Bemerkungen zu neueren multisektoralen Ansätzen sowie Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von privatem und staatlichem Sektor - ZVAB - Willi Semmler: 3921241340". www.zvab.com. Retrieved 2018-05-06.