Christoph M. Schmidt

Christoph Matthias Schmidt (born 25 August 1962) is a German economist. He is the president of the RWI Essen and since 2009 chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts. He is also a professor at the University of Bochum. His field of interest is Applied Econometrics, particularly in the context of Labor Economics and Energy Economics.

Christoph M. Schmidt
Christoph M. Schmidt
Born (1962-08-25) 25 August 1962
Canberra, Australia
NationalityGermany
InstitutionRWI Essen
FieldEconometrics
Labor economics
Alma materLudwig Maximilian University of Munich
Princeton University
University of Mannheim
Doctoral
advisor		David Card
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Early life and education

Schmidt received his Diplom in Economics at the University of Mannheim in 1987, and his M.A. in Economics from Princeton University in 1989. He also earned his PhD from Princeton in 1991, under supervision of David Card. Schmidt received his Habilitation in 1995 from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Career

In 2002, Schmidt became president of the RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and in 2009 he replaced Bert Rürup on the German Council of Economic Experts (GCEE) advising the German government. Since March 2013, he has been chairman of the GCEE.[1] In 2014, he became member of the Steering Committee of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

Schmidt was co-editor of the Journal of Population Economics and the German Economic Review. His research has been published in journals like the European Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.[2]

In April 2020, Schmidt was appointed by Minister-President Armin Laschet of North Rhine-Westphalia to a 12-member expert group to advise on economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.[3]

Other activities

Corporate boards

Non-profit organizations

Recognition

Schmidt was awarded the Princeton University Fellowship (1987–1990), the Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (1990–1991) and a scholarship for his Habilitation from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; English: German Research Foundation) (1992–1995).[10]

Selected publications
  • Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; ——— (2015). "Evaluating the labor-market effects of compulsory military service". European Economic Review. 56 (4): 814–829. doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2012.02.002. hdl:10419/35864.
  • Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; ——— (2014). "Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment". Economics Letters. 124 (3): 313–515. doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2014.07.026. hdl:10419/61364.
  • Frondel, Manuel; ——— (2014). "A Measure of a Nation's Physical Energy Supply Risk". The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. 54 (2): 208–215. doi:10.1016/j.qref.2013.10.003. hdl:2003/31104.
  • Bauer, Thomas K.; Breidenbach, Philipp; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; ——— (2012). ""Phantom of the Opera" or "Sex and the City" - Historical Amenities as Sources of Exogenous Variation". Labour Economics. 37: 93–98. doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2015.05.005. hdl:10419/103319.
  • Bauer, Thomas K.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; ——— (2009). "Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages: An Analysis for Germany" (PDF). German Economic Review. 10 (2): 224–242. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0475.2009.00467.x.
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References
  1. http://en.rwi-essen.de/schmidt/lebenslauf/
  2. http://en.rwi-essen.de/schmidt/lebenslauf/
  3. Kristian Frigelj (April 1, 2020), Zwölfköpfiges Gremium: Armin Laschet gründet „Expertenrat Corona“ Die Welt.
  4. Members of the Advisory Board IKB Deutsche Industriebank.
  5. Scientific Advisory Board Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
  6. Scientific Advisory Board Wirtschaftsdienst.
  7. Members of the Advisory Board Archived 13 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine University of Wuppertal.
  8. Members of the Board of Trustees Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance.
  9. Members of the Board of Trustees Kinderstiftung Essen.
  10. http://en.rwi-essen.de/schmidt/lebenslauf/
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