The New School for Social Research

Willi Semmler

PhD 1976, Free University of Berlin.

Professor of Economics.

Profile:

Concentrations: macroeconomics, financial markets; public finance; industrial organization, growth, climate change, resources.

Recent Publications:

The Global Environment, Natural Resources, and Economic Growth (co-author, Oxford University Press, 2008), The Forces Economic Growth: A Time Series Perspective (co-author, Princeton University Press, 2005), Asset Prices, Booms, and Recessions (2006); Dynamic Macroeconomics: Instability, Fluctuations, and Growth in Monetary Economies (co-author, MIT Press, 1997), co-author of “Firm Value, Diversified Capital Assets and Credit Risk: Towards a Theory of Default Correlation”, Journal of Credit Risk, 3(4), Winter 2007/08, “On Poverty Traps, Threshold and Take-offs”, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics”, 2007, vol. 18:1-26, "Default Risk, Asset Pricing and Debt Control'', Journal of Financial Econometrics, 2005, vol. 1:1-28, ''Monetary Policy Rules under Uncertainty: Empirical Evidences, Adaptive Learning and Robust Control'' , Macroeconomic Dynamics, June: 1-31, 2005, ''Creditworthiness and Thresholds in a Credit Market Model with Multiple Equilibria'' , Economic Theory, 2004, vol. 25, no. 2: 287-315, ''Endogenous Growth: Estimating the Romer Model for the US and Germany'', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 66, no. 2: 147-164, 2004, "A Keynesian Macroeconometric Framework for the Analysis of Monetary Policy Rules," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2001); "Statistical Estimation and Moment Evaluation of Stochastic Growth Model with Asset Market Restrictions," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2001); "Critical Debt and Debt Dynamics," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2000); "Growth and Finance: An Intertemporal Model," Journal of Macroeconomics (1995); Business Cycles: Theory and Empirical Methods (editor, 1994); Financial Dynamics and Business Cycles (editor, 1989, translated into Japanese, 2008).

Spiegel online Coulumns

For downloadable publications by Willi Semmler, see the "Comparative Empirical Macroeconomics" website.

Office Location:

Room 1120, 6 East 16th Street

Office Hours:

Monday 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Phone Number/Extension:
212-229-5717, ext. 3050

Email:
SemmlerW@newschool.edu

Research Interests:

Public debt; the financial market; macroeconomics, economic growth and business cycles; dynamic economics; macroeconometrics, growth and climate change, resources.

CV (pdf):
Willi Semmler CV

Current Courses:

Advanced Macroeconomics 2

Computer Language Workshop (Fall 2008)

Dissertation Workshop (Fall 2008)

Financial Economics

Graduate Macroeconomics

Independent Study (Spring 2009)(2)

Independent Study (Summer 2008)

International Finance

Internship (Fall 2008)

Mentored Research (Fall 2008)

Practical Curricular Training (Fall 2008)(2)

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