Helmut Lütkepohl (born 26 July 1951) is a German

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specializing in

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analysis. Since January 2012, he has been Bundesbank Professor in the field of "Methods of Empirical Economics" at the

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and Dean of the Graduate Center at the

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Education and career

After a

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(1977) and

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(1981) from

Bielefeld University Bielefeld University () is a public university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization and teaching than the e ...

, Lütkepohl was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the

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(1984–85). He became Professor of Statistics at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ''Academia Holsator ...

in 1987, and later moved on to become Professor of Econometrics at

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.http://www.diw.de/documents/dokumentenarchiv/17/diw_01.c.414305.de/diwcvlong_en_hluetkepohl_jan2013.pdf Lütkepohl has been on the editorial boards of several scientific journals like '' Econometric Theory'', ''

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'', '' Journal of Applied Econometrics'', '' Macroeconomic Dynamics'', '' Empirical Economics'', and '' Econometric Reviews'', and has published numerous papers in academic journals. He is the author, co-author and editor of many books, like ''Handbook of Matrices'' (Wiley, 1996), ''Applied Time Series Econometrics'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and ''New Introduction to Multiple Time Series Analysis'' (Springer, 2005).

Selected publications

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References

External links

Website at the FU Berlin
1951 births Living people German economists Time series econometricians Bielefeld University alumni Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Academic staff of the University of Kiel {{Germany-economist-stub