Faculty

My research and teaching interests are:

• Empirical Macroeconomics 
• Macroeconomics of the US and EU 
• Financial Markets 
• Economics of Climate Change
• Business Cycles
• Macro Dynamics

Curriculum Vitae (10/2021)

New School spotlight: Modeling Sustainable Economics (8/2020)

Research Matters: Measuring Risk to Manage Climate Disaster (8/2019)

Research Matters: Unpacking the Economics of Climate Change (10/2017)

Ph.D. 1976, Free University of Berlin

Habilitation 1980, Free University of Berlin

Recent Books

Sustainable Macroeconomics, Climate Risks and Energy Transitions: Dynamic Modeling, Empirics, and Policies, with Unurjargal Nyambuu. Springer, 2023.

Sustainable Asset Accumulation and Dynamic Portfolio Decisions, with Carl Chiarella, C.-Y. Hsiao, and Lebogang Mateane. Springer, 2016.

(Festschrift) Dynamic Modeling, Empirical Macroeconomics, and Finance, Essays in Honor of Willi Semmler. Lucas Bernard and Nyambuu, Unurjargal (eds). Springer, 2016.

The Oxford University Handbook of "The Macroeconomics of Global Warming", edited by Lucas Bernard and Willi Semmler, Oxford University Press. 

Book chapters

“Rebooting Europe---What Fiscal Union and What Social Union?”  eds, Herr, H., and J. Priewe, Saving the Euro. Redesigning Euro Area Economic Governance. SE Publishing, 2017.

“Asset Accumulation with Heterogeneous Households: The Rise of Wealth Disparity" (with D. Parker), eds. B. Bökemeier, A. Greiner, Inequality and Finance in Macrodynamics, in Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance vol. 23, 2017.

“An Extended Integrated Assessment Model for Mitigation & Adaptation Policies on Climate Change”, (with H. Maurer and T. Bonen), in “Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical”, eds G. Feichtinger, R. Kovacevic, and G. Tragler, Springer Publishing House, 2018.

Articles

Articles published in Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economic Theory, Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistic. Books published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, and MIT Press. 

For downloadable publications by Willi Semmler, see his page at SSRN and at Ideas (Research Papers in Economics). His Curriculum Vitae is also available.