Andreas Behr (economist)

Andreas Behr (* 1967 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German economist and statistician .

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Andreas Behr was born in Offenbach am Main in 1967. After high school in 1987 at the Rudolf-Koch-Schule in Offenbach and the community service of the civil service , he graduated from 1988 to 1993 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main studying economy , which he as a graduate economist graduated. From 1990 to 1991 he studied two semesters at the University of Southampton . From 1994 to 1995 he also studied business administration in Frankfurt with a degree in business administration . In addition, from 1994 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Statistics and Mathematics with Werner Neubauer . In 1998 he was with the dissertation The intra-industry foreign trade in Germany for Dr. rer. pole. for which he received the thesis award of the IHK Frankfurt am Main .

In 1999 Behr stayed for a three-month research stay at the University of Kyūshū , Japan .

He completed his habilitation in 2003 with the thesis Investment and Liquidity Constraints . From 2003 to 2009 he was an academic advisor at the Institute for Econometrics and Economic Statistics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Behr has been Professor of Economics, especially Statistics, at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2009 . His research areas are determinants of investment activity , comparative analyzes of wage and income distributions as well as analysis methods for missing values.

Fonts (selection)

• Germany's intra-industrial foreign trade. Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1998, also dissertation, ISBN 3-428-09533-2
• Investment and liquidity constraints - empirical evidence for Germany. Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag , Wiesbaden 2003, also habilitation thesis , ISBN 3-8244-9127-3
• Introduction to statistics with R. Verlag Franz Vahlen, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8006-3599-3
• Economic and demographic statistics. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft , Konstanz 2013, ISBN 978-3-8252-3679-3
• Legal and notary's assistant. Verlag Europa-Lehrmittel Nourney, Vollmer , 2015, DNB 1075939186

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Behr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography of Andreas Behr on the website of the University of Duisburg-Essen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Prof. Dr. Andreas Behr. In: uni-due.de , accessed on August 25, 2016.
2. ↑ List of the winners of the IHK dissertation award. In: frankfurt-main.ihk.de , accessed on August 25, 2016.
3. ↑ Press release from the University of Duisburg-Essen. In: uni-due.de. September 25, 2009. Retrieved August 25, 2016 .