Norbert Walter (economist)

{{Short description|German economist}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|9|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Weckbach, Bavaria

| death_date = {{death date and age|2012|08|31|1944|09|23|df=y}}{{cite news |url=http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2012-08/norbert-walter-deutsche-bank-tod |title=Langjähriger Deutsche-Bank-Chefvolkswirt Walter ist tot |newspaper=Die Zeit |date=31 August 2012 }}

| death_place = South Tyrol{{Cite web |url=http://www.fnp.de/tz/region/lokales/main-taunus/eine-herausragende-persoenlichkeit-ist-tot_rmn01.c.10116884.de.html |title=Obituary in Taunus Zeitung (online) 31 August 2012 |access-date=20 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908070306/http://www.fnp.de/tz/region/lokales/main-taunus/eine-herausragende-persoenlichkeit-ist-tot_rmn01.c.10116884.de.html |archive-date=8 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}

| nationality = German

| institution = Deutsche Bank

| field = Macroeconomics, Monetary economics

| alma_mater = University of Frankfurt

| influences = Herbert Giersch

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Norbert Walter (23 September 1944 – 31 August 2012) was a German economist. He was the chief economist of Deutsche Bank{{cite book|last=Vogel|first=Steven Kent|title=Japan Remodeled: How Government And Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism|url=https://archive.org/details/japanremodeledho00voge_0|url-access=registration|accessdate=4 August 2012|year=2006|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=9780801444494|pages=[https://archive.org/details/japanremodeledho00voge_0/page/155 155]–}} from 1990 to 2009.

Born in Weilbach, Bavaria, Walter studied economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, earning his Diplom in 1968.

In 1990, he succeeded Franz-Josef Trouvain as chief economist of Deutsche Bank, and remained in that position until 2009, when he was succeeded by Thomas Mayer.