Profile
My research and teaching interests are:
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Empirical Macroeconomics
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Macroeconomics of the US and EU
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Financial Markets
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Economics of Climate Change
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Business Cycles
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Macro Dynamics
Curriculum Vitae (10/2021)
New School spotlight: Modeling Sustainable Economics (8/2020)
Research Matters: Measuring Risk to Manage Climate Disaster (8/2019)
Research Matters: Unpacking the Economics of Climate Change (10/2017)
Degrees Held
Ph.D. 1976, Free University of Berlin
Habilitation 1980, Free University of Berlin
Professional Affiliation
Research Associate, SCEPA, New York, research on the Economics of Climate Change (Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis)
Research Associate, IIASA, Laxenbrug
Research Associate, Center for European Economic Research, Mannheim, Germany
University of Bielefeld, Germany
Recent Publications
Recent Books
Sustainable Macroeconomics, Climate Risks and Energy Transitions: Dynamic Modeling, Empirics, and Policies, with Unurjargal Nyambuu. Springer, 2023.
Sustainable Asset Accumulation and Dynamic Portfolio Decisions, with Carl Chiarella, C.-Y. Hsiao, and Lebogang Mateane. Springer, 2016.
(Festschrift) Dynamic Modeling, Empirical Macroeconomics, and Finance, Essays in Honor of Willi Semmler. Lucas Bernard and Nyambuu, Unurjargal (eds). Springer, 2016.
The Oxford University Handbook of "The Macroeconomics of Global Warming", edited by Lucas Bernard and Willi Semmler, Oxford University Press.
Book chapters
“Rebooting Europe---What Fiscal Union and What Social Union?” eds, Herr, H., and J. Priewe, Saving the Euro. Redesigning Euro Area Economic Governance. SE Publishing, 2017.
“Asset Accumulation with Heterogeneous Households: The Rise of Wealth Disparity" (with D. Parker), eds. B. Bökemeier, A. Greiner, Inequality and Finance in Macrodynamics, in Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance vol. 23, 2017.
“An Extended Integrated Assessment Model for Mitigation & Adaptation Policies on Climate Change”, (with H. Maurer and T. Bonen), in “Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical”, eds G. Feichtinger, R. Kovacevic, and G. Tragler, Springer Publishing House, 2018.
Articles
Articles published in Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economic Theory, Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistic. Books published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, and MIT Press.
For downloadable publications by Willi Semmler, see his page at SSRN and at Ideas (Research Papers in Economics). His Curriculum Vitae is also available.
Performances and Appearances
Member of the IMF Independent Evaluation Committee on Unconventional Monetary Policy, 2019
Evaluation Committee, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
Evaluation of Research Projects for the EU Commission
Visitor of the European Central Bank, Fall 2014
Visitor of the IMF, April 2017, October 2017
Research Interests
Empirical Macroeconomics; Macroeconomics of the US and EU; Financial Market; Economics of Climate Change; Business Cycles; Macro Dynamics; Nonlinear Modeling
Awards And Honors
Doctor honoris causa from the American University of Europe, Skopje, North Macedonia, 2020
RePEc worldwide ranking of economists, top 3 percent
Fulbright Professor, University of Economics, Vienna, Fall 2011
Portfolio
Curriculum Vitae