Peter Winker

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Peter Winker (* 1965 in Stuttgart ) is a German econometrician and university professor .

Life

Winker studied mathematics and economics at the Universities of Konstanz and Paris VI from 1984 to 1991 and initially graduated as a qualified mathematician . Then until 1997 he was a research assistant with Wolfgang Franz at the University of Konstanz. His doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. took place there in 1991 with the dissertation credit rationing on the market for corporate loans in the FRG . In 1997, Winker Franz followed to the University of Mannheim where he worked as a research assistant until 2001 . There he completed his habilitation in 2000 with the thesis Optimization Heuristics in Econometrics: Applications of Threshold Accepting .

From 2001 to 2002 Winker was Associate Professor for Economics and Quantitative Methods at the International University in Germany in Bruchsal . In 2002 he accepted a call to the interdisciplinary political science faculty at the University of Erfurt , where he held the chair of econometrics .

In 2006 he went to the Justus Liebig University in Gießen where he accepted a professorship for statistics and econometrics. From April 2012 to April 2018 he was also Vice President for Scientific Infrastructure at the University of Giessen.

Research priorities

Winker's research areas include empirical macroeconomics , heuristic optimization in econometrics and statistics, and econometric analysis of educational decisions and educational success . He also deals with the Monte Carlo method and the quasi Monte Carlo method.

Publications (selection)

  • Rationing in the market for corporate loans in Germany . Mohr, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-16-146559-8 .
  • Empirical economic research and econometrics . Springer, Berlin 1997, 2nd edition 2007; 3rd edition 2010, ISBN 3-540-62979-3 .
  • (Ed.) Interviewers' deviations in surveys: impact, reasons, detection and prevention . PL Academic Research, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-63715-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biographical information in Empirical Economic Research . Springer 1997: Berlin. ISBN 3-540-62979-3 .
  2. ↑ a b CV on uni-giessen.de (as of January 25, 2014).
  3. ↑ Vice President Winker stops | Giessener Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Research areas on uni-giessen.de (as of January 25, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Winker, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German econometrician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart