Willi Semmler
{{short description|German born American economist}}
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Willi Semmler is a German born American economist who currently teaches at The New School in New York.
Academic career
Willi Semmler studied at the University of Munich, Technische Universität 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,{{Cite web|url=https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/willi-semmler/|title=Willi Semmler - Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development - The New School for Social Research|website=www.newschool.edu|access-date=2018-05-06}} The New School,{{Cite web|url=https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/|title=Home {{!}} NSSR|website=www.newschool.edu|access-date=2018-05-06}} New York. He was research fellow at the ZEW Mannheim and is Senior Researcher at the IIASA,{{Cite web|url=http://www.iiasa.ac.at/staff/staff.php?type=auto&visibility=visible&search=true&login=semmler|title=Willi Semmler - IIASA|website=www.iiasa.ac.at|access-date=2018-05-06}} 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{{Cite web|url=https://www.fulbright.at/going-to-austria/scholars/programm/wu-visiting-professor/|title=WU Visiting Professor » FULBRIGHT|website=www.fulbright.at|access-date=2018-05-06}}
Grant from the Walker Foundation on "The Economics of Global Warming II: Renewable Energy", September 2011{{Cite web|url=http://www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/lehrbereiche/emeriti/wsemmler/|title=Curriculum Vitae {{!}} Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften {{!}} Startseite|website=www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de|language=de|access-date=2018-05-06}}
Publications
- Using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Decision Problems in Economics{{Cite journal|last1=Grüne|first1=Lars|last2=Semmler|first2=Willi|last3=Stieler|first3=Marleen|date=2015-01-19|title=Using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Decision Problems in Economics|language=en|location=Rochester, NY|doi=10.2139/ssrn.2242339 |ssrn=2242339|s2cid=53628822 |url=https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/1855/1/Gruene_Stieler_et_al_using_nmpc_revision2.pdf }}(with L. Gruene and M. Stieler), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 60:112 133, 2015.
- Handbook on the Macroeconomics of Global Warming{{Cite book|date=2015-01-15|title=The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming|url=http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199856978.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199856978|language=en|doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199856978.001.0001|isbn=9780199856978|publisher=Oxford University Press|editor1-last=Bernard|editor1-first=Lucas|editor2-last=Semmler|editor2-first=Willi}} (edited with L. Bernard), Oxford University Press, 2015.
- The Real Consequences of Financial Stress{{Cite journal|date=2013-08-01|title=The real consequences of financial stress|journal=Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control|language=en|volume=37|issue=8|pages=1479–1499|doi=10.1016/j.jedc.2013.04.014|issn=0165-1889|last1=Mittnik|first1=Stefan|last2=Semmler|first2=Willi|url=http://sfb649.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/papers/pdf/SFB649DP2013-011.pdf}} (with S. Mittnik), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 37, no: 8, 2013.
- Asset Prices, Booms and Recessions, Financial Economics from a Dynamic Perspective,{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783642206795|title=Asset Prices, Booms and Recessions - Financial Economics from a Dynamic Perspective {{!}} Willi Semmler {{!}} Springer|language=en|isbn=9783642206795|publisher=Springer|year=2011}} and Sustainable Asset Accumulation and Dynamic Portfolio decisions (2016), both Springer Publishing House. 2011.
- Filtering Time Series with Penalized Splines{{Cite journal|last1=Goeran|first1=Kauermann|last2=Tatyana|first2=Krivobokova|author2-link= Tatyana Krivobokova |last3=Willi|first3=Semmler|date=2011|title=Filtering Time Series with Penalized Splines|url=https://ideas.repec.org/a/bpj/sndecm/v15y2011i2n2.html|journal=Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics|language=en|volume=15|issue=2|pages=1–28}} (with G. Kauermann and T. Krivobokova), Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, vol 15, no:21-26, 2011;
- The US Wage Phillips Curve Across Frequencies and Over Time{{Cite journal|last1=Gallegati|first1=Marco|last2=Gallegati|first2=Mauro|last3=Ramsey|first3=James Bernard|last4=Semmler|first4=Willi|date=2011|title=The US Wage Phillips Curve across Frequencies and over Time|url=https://econpapers.repec.org/article/blaobuest/v_3a73_3ay_3a2011_3ai_3a4_3ap_3a489-508.htm|journal=Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics|volume=73|issue=4|pages=489–508|issn=0305-9049|doi=10.1111/j.1468-0084.2010.00624.x|s2cid=152634741}} (with M. Gallegati, M. Gallegati, J. Ramsey), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 73. no 4: 489–508. 2011.
- Financial Assets, debt and Liquidity Crisis{{Cite journal|last1=Charpe|first1=M|last2=Chiarella|first2=C|last3=Flaschel|first3=Peter|last4=Sr|first4=Willi|date=2011-01-01|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286199327|journal=Financial Assets, Debt and Liquidity Crises: A Keynesian Approach|pages=1–432|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511792540|isbn=9780511792540|title=Financial Assets, Debt and Liquidity Crises}} (with M. Charpe, C. Chiarella, and P. Flaschel), Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Global Environment, Natural Resources, and Economic Growth{{Cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-global-environment-natural-resources-and-economic-growth-9780195328233?cc=us&lang=en&|title=The Global Environment, Natural Resources, and Economic Growth|date=2008-07-25|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195328233|location=Oxford, New York}} (with A. Greiner), Oxford University Press, 2008.
- The Forces of Economic Growth, A Time Series Perspective{{Cite book|title=The Forces of Economic Growth: A Time Series Perspective|last1=results|first1=search|last2=Semmler|first2=Willi|last3=Gong|first3=Gang|date=2016-06-28|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691170961|edition= Reprint|language=English}} (with A. Greiner and G. Gong), Princeton University Press, 2005 (paper back 2016).
- Dynamic Macroeconomics, Instability, Fluctuations, and Growth in a Monetary Economy{{Cite web|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/dynamic-macroeconomics|title=Dynamic Macroeconomics|website=The MIT Press|language=en|access-date=2018-05-06}} (with P. Flaschel and R. Franke), MIT Press, 1997.
- On Nonlinear Theories of Economic Cycles and the Persistence of Business Cycles,{{Cite journal|last=Semmler|first=Willi|date=1986|title=On nonlinear theories of economic cycles and the persistence of business cycles|url=https://econpapers.repec.org/article/eeematsoc/v_3a12_3ay_3a1986_3ai_3a1_3ap_3a47-76.htm|journal=Mathematical Social Sciences|volume=12|issue=1|pages=47–76|issn=0165-4896|doi=10.1016/0165-4896(86)90047-8}} Journal of Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 12, no 1, pp. 123–147, 1986.
- The Classical and Neoclassical Competitive Adjustment Processes{{Cite journal|last1=Flaschel|first1=Peter|last2=Semmler|first2=Willi|date=1987|title=Classical and Neoclassical Competitive Adjustment Processes|url=https://econpapers.repec.org/article/blamanch2/v_3a55_3ay_3a1987_3ai_3a1_3ap_3a13-37.htm|journal=The Manchester School of Economic & Social Studies|volume=55|issue=1|pages=13–37|doi=10.1111/j.1467-9957.1987.tb01287.x}} (with P. Flaschel), The Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies 55(1):13-37, March, 1987.
- Zur Theorie der Reproduktion und Akkumulation. Bemerkungen zu neueren multisektoralen Ansätzen sowie Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von privatem und staatlichem Sektor,{{Cite web|url=https://www.zvab.com/9783921241349/Theorie-Reproduktion-Akkumulation-Bemerkungen-neueren-3921241340/plp|title=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|website=www.zvab.com|access-date=2018-05-06}} Free University of Berlin, published in German at Wolter Verlag Berlin. 1977.
References
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External links
- {{cite web|title=Willi Semmler, Sr.|url=https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pse120.htm|publisher=EconPapers}}
- {{cite web|title=Willi Semmler|url=https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=au%3A%22Willi+Semmler%22+&acc=off&wc=on&fc=off&group=none|publisher=JSTOR}}
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