Harald Uhlig

Harald Uhlig (born April 26, 1961) is a German economist and the Bruce Allen and Barbara Ritzenthaler Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he was the Chairman of the Department of Economics from 2009 to 2012.

Harald Uhlig
Born (1961-04-26) April 26, 1961
NationalityGerman
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
FieldMacroeconomics
Financial economics
Bayesian econometrics
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota (Ph.D. 1990)
Technical University of Berlin (Diplom, 1985)
Doctoral
advisor		Christopher A. Sims[1]
AwardsGossen Prize (2003)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Education

Uhlig received his Diplom in mathematics from the Technical University of Berlin in 1985. He went on to earn a doctoral degree in economics at the University of Minnesota in 1990. His Ph.D. thesis, titled "Costly Information Acquisition, Stock Prices and Neoclassical Growth", was supervised by Christopher A. Sims.

Career

Uhlig has held positions at Princeton University, 1990–1994, Tilburg University, 1994–2000 and Humboldt University of Berlin, 2000–2007. He has also been a consultant for both the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the European Central Bank.[2]

Uhlig was co-editor of Econometrica from 2006 to 2010. He became a co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy in 2012.

Awards and distinctions
  • In 2017, it was announced that Uhlig was named an Honorary Professor at Henan University in China.[2]
  • In December 2005, Uhlig received the Frank P. Ramsey Prize for the best paper in Macroeconomic Dynamics, for the article "The Sharpe Ratio and Preferences: A Parametric Approach," with Martin Lettau.[3]
  • In 2003, Uhlig won the Gossen Prize for his contributions to the theory and methods of dynamic macroeconomic models.[4]

Controversy

In June 2020, using Twitter, Uhlig compared people who supported defunding the police to "flat-earthers and creationists", causing controversy, covered in the New York Times.[5] Since the publication, unsubstantiated allegations of discriminatory conduct have resurfaced.[6] He was temporarily placed on leave as editor at the Journal of Political Economy "pending a determination of the Board as to whether it would be appropriate for him to continue in that role given recent accusations of discriminatory conduct in a University classroom setting."[7] He has since been reinstated after a finding that "there is not a basis for a further investigation or disciplinary proceeding."[8] His ties to the Chicago Federal Reserve, however, remain severed.[9]

Selected publications
  • Mountford, Andrew; ——— (2009). "What are the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks?" (PDF). Journal of Applied Econometrics. 24 (6): 960–992. doi:10.1002/jae.1079.
  • ——— (2005). "What are the Effects of Monetary Policy on Output? Results from an Agnostic Identification Procedure" (PDF). Journal of Monetary Economics. 52 (2): 381–419. doi:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2004.05.007.
  • Ravn, Morten O.; ——— (2002). "On Adjusting the Hodrick–Prescott Filter for the Frequency of Observations". Review of Economics and Statistics. 84 (2): 371–376. doi:10.1162/003465302317411604.
  • Ljungqvist, Lars; ——— (2000). "Tax Policy and Aggregate Demand Management under Catching up with the Joneses". American Economic Review. 90 (3): 356–366. doi:10.1257/aer.90.3.356. JSTOR 117333.
  • ——— (1997). "Bayesian Vector Autoregressions with Stochastic Volatility". Econometrica. 65 (1): 59–73. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.27.2055. doi:10.2307/2171813. JSTOR 2171813.
  • Taylor, John B.; ——— (1990). "Solving Nonlinear Stochastic Growth Models: A Comparison of Alternative Solution Methods". Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. 8 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1080/07350015.1990.10509766.
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gollark: I would argue that both explanations are roughly as "simple" as each other, so meh.
gollark: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by negligence/incompetence, except maybe do because people can be either.
gollark: What's "MSM"?
gollark: Apparently their initial plan was just to hope for herd immunity or something, based on models they came up with for a flu pandemic, but said plans had handwaved the issue of ventilators, and the models didn't actually match COVID-19, and it took them a while to actually do something about this.

References
  1. "Advantage Financial Harald Uhlig". Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  2. "Harald Uhlig". Retrieved Jun 11, 2020.
  3. "University of Chicago | Department of Economics | Harald Uhlig | CV". home.uchicago.edu. Retrieved Jun 11, 2020.
  4. "Gossen Prize Winners | Verein für Socialpolitik". www.socialpolitik.de. Retrieved Jun 11, 2020.
  5. "New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  6. "Chicago Tribune". www.chicagotribune.com. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  7. "Journal of Political Economy". www.journals.uchicago.edu. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  8. "Statement on Discriminatory Behavior: Update". www.economics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  9. "Chicago Fed Ends Ties With Scholar Who Criticized Black Lives Matter". www.wsj.com. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
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