Uwe Sunde

Uwe Sunde (born May 29, 1973 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a German economist and university professor .

Life

Sunde studied at the University of Munich from 1993 and obtained a degree in economics in 1998 . He switched to a European doctoral degree at the University of Bonn , where, after stays abroad in 2003, he worked on Aggregate returns to individual decisions: development, income inequality and competition for jobs and workers for Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate. He accepted a position as a postdoc at the University of Bonn and began working as a research fellow at the Institute for the Future of Work, also in Bonn . In 2008 he completed his habilitation at the university .

In 2008 Sunde went to the University of St. Gallen as professor of macroeconomics and became director of the Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research . In 2012, Sunde accepted a call to the University of Munich, where he is professor at the Department of Population Economics. In 2015 he received the Gossen Prize .

Research priorities

Sundes' main research interests include long-term developments and economic growth , the areas of political economy , labor economy , population economy and behavioral economics .

Publications (selection)

• Armin Falk , Thomas Dohmen, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde: The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes. In: The Review of Economic Studies 79.2 (2012): pp. 645-677.
• Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde: Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability? In: American Economic Review, 100.3 (2010): pp. 1238-1260.

Web links

• Sunde's website at uni-muenchen.de
• Curriculum vitae and list of publications on iza.org (as of December 31, 2013; main source)
• Video on Uwe Sonde's research (Latest Thinking)