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Harald Uhlig (1961)
Address: (further
details, see below) Prof. Harald Uhlig, Ph.D. |
Curriculum vitae:
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| German | [pdf] |
Current position (since
October 2007): Professor
in Economics at University
Previous positions:
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2000-2007 |
Professor
for Economic Policy (Macroeconomics) at Humboldt University |
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1999-2000 |
Visiting professor at Stanford
University. |
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1994-2000 |
Research professor in
macroeconomics at Tilburg University. |
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1993-1994 |
Visiting professor in
Bonn and visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago. |
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1990-1994 |
Assistant professor at Princeton
University. |
Ph.D.: 1990, University of Minnesota, "Costly information
acquisition, stock prices and neoclassical growth"
Major field:
Macroeconomics.
Topics:
Applied quantitative theory and applied dynamic, stochastic general
equilibrium theory:
- Business Cycles
- Growth
- Dynamic Contracts
- Psychological Foundations of Dynamic
Decision Theory
- Economic Policy
The Intersection of Macroeconomics and Financial Economics:
- Monetary Economics
- Asset Pricing
- Financial Crises
Methods:
- Vector Autoregressions
- (Bayesian) time series econometrics
- Numerical Methods
Position on editorial boards:
- Review of Economic Studies [past issues] [more info]
- Macroeconomic Dynamics
- European Economic Review
- Computational Economics
Honors and Fellowships:
- December 2005: Frank P. Ramsey Prize from Macroeconomic Dynamics
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December 2003: Elected Fellow
of the Econometric
Society
- October 2003: Gossen Award of the Verein für Socialpolitik
Memberships:
- Business Cycle Dating Committee
of the CEPR
- CEPR
Some recent publications:
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2000 |
"Tax Policy and
Aggregate Demand Management Under Catching Up with the Joneses," American
Economic Review, joint with Lars Ljungqvist. |
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1999 |
"Rules of Thumb versus
Dynamic Programming," American Economic Review, joint with Martin
Lettau. |
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1997 |
"Bayesian
vectorautoregressions with stochastic volatility," Econometrica. |
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1996 |
"Increasing the
capital income tax may lead to faster growth," joint with Noriyuki
Yanagawa, European Economic Review. |
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1993 |
"Portfolio insurance
and asset prices," J. of Finance, joint with G. Donaldson. |
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1991 |
"Understanding unit
rooters: a helicopter tour," Econometrica, joint with C.A. Sims. |
Press:
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Prof. Harald Uhlig now blogs on macroeconomics and economic policy for the
Handelsblatt, see
http://oekonomie.blogg.de/ . Check it out - and have fun adding your own
comments! |
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Prof. Uhlig at Bloomberg
TV |
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“Der Montagsökonom” Interview with Prof. Uhlig in FTD, 06/10/2003 |
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“In dreißig Jahren drei Rezessionen im Euroraum”, in FAZ, 23/09/2003 |
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Contact information,
further information and links:
- Current research and publications
- Institute of Economic Policy I
- Grants
- My e-mail address:
huhlig@uchicago.edu (uhlig@kub.nl also still works)
- My address:
Prof.
Harald Uhlig, Ph.D.
Department of Economics
1126 East 59th Street
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
USA