Heinz König (economist)

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Heinz König (born December 25, 1927 in Montabaur ; † November 21, 2002 ) was a German economist . He was rector of the University of Mannheim . He is considered one of the most famous econometricians in Germany; he was the founding director of the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim.

Life

König studied economics at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1948 to 1951 . 1951 to 1953 he was an assistant at the Institute for Econometrics; in Mainz, he was in 1952 with the dissertation output analysis Input economic cycle models and the method of at Louis Zimmerman doctorate . After his research assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social Sciences at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 1953 to 1958 , he completed his habilitation. 1958/1959 he was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , Harvard University and Stanford University . From 1959 to 1962 he was a private lecturer in Münster, and was a substitute professor in Frankfurt and Basel.

In 1962, he received a call to the chair of economics and statistics at the University of Mannheim . He declined calls from the universities in Bochum (1964), Münster (1966), Zurich (1966), Bonn (1970), Munich (1971), Zurich (1971) and Vienna (1974). Nevertheless, he was visiting professor at the University of Basel (1963), North-Western University of Evanston / Illinois (1979–1982) and University of Pennsylvania / Philadelphia (1983). In 1996 he retired .

Heinz König was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Statistics from 1968/1969 and 1972 to 1978, and Rector of the University of Mannheim from 1979 to 1982. In 1991 he was founding director of the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) and was scientific director until April 1997.

Act

König was considered one of the leading economists and pioneers of empirical economic research and econometrics in Germany. Many of his academic students, including Wolfgang Franz , President of the Center for European Economic Research , Clemens Fuest , Franz's successor at ZEW, Hans-Werner Sinn , President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research , and Klaus F. Zimmermann , former President of the German Institute for Economic Research , today hold top positions in science, business and administration. His research focuses, among other things, in the areas of unemployment and wage formation, international trade, growth processes and the construction of empirical models for evaluating economic policy measures.

Honors and memberships

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • with Helmut Reichardt, Carl Christian von Weizsäcker : Contributions to the theory of production and growth (= writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik , NF, Volume 44). Edited by Wilhelm Krelle , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966.

Editorships

  • Changes in the economic structure in the Federal Republic of Germany (= writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik , NF, Volume 26). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1962.
  • Growth and Development of the Economy (= New Scientific Library , Volume 23). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne a. a. 1968.
  • Training and the labor market (= state allocation policy in the market economy system , Volume 5). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-8204-7326-2 .
  • Control theoretical approaches in macroeconomic models (= state allocation policy in the market economy system , Volume 18). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1985, ISBN 3-8204-8314-4 .
  • Possibilities and problems of combating recession. Results of a macroeconometric simulation model (= Economics Series , Volume 1). Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1988, ISBN 3-593-33876-9 .
  • Economics of wage determination (= Studies in contemporary economics ). Springer, Berlin a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-540-52324-3 .
  • Environmentally compatible economic activity as a problem of science and politics (= writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik , NF, Volume 224). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-428-07771-7 .
  • Will the EU job offensive bring a boost? German economic research takes a stand on the Delors White Book (= ZEW Economic Analysis , Special Volume 1). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3453-3 .
  • with Viktor Steiner: Labor market dynamics and corporate development in East Germany. Experiences and perspectives of the transformation process. Contribution to a workshop of the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) on March 4th and 5th, 1993 in Mannheim (= ZEW series of publications. Volume 1). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3364-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ morgenweb.de
personal data
SURNAME King, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Montabaur
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2002