Helmut Lütkepohl (born 26 July 1951) is a German

econometrician Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships.M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8� ...

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

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

and Dean of the Graduate Center at the

German Institute for Economic Research The German Institute for Economic Research (german: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), or, more commonly DIWBerlin, is a economic research institute in Germany, involved in basic research and policy advice. It is a non-profit acad ...

Education and career

After a

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(1977) and

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(1981) from

Bielefeld University Bielefeld University (german: Universität Bielefeld) is a 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 a ...

, Lütkepohl was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

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

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

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

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

.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 ''Econometric Theory'' is an economics journal specialising in econometrics, published by Cambridge Journals. Its current editor is Peter Phillips Peter Mark Andrew Phillips (born 15 November 1977) is a British businessman and the son of Ann ...

'', ''

Journal of Econometrics The ''Journal of Econometrics'' is a scholarly journal in econometrics. It was first published in 1973. Its current managing editors are Serena Ng and Elie Tamer, Torben Andersen and Xiaohong Chen serve as editors. The journal publishes work deal ...

'', ''

Journal of Applied Econometrics The ''Journal of Applied Econometrics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering econometrics, published by John Wiley & Sons. It focuses on applications rather than theoretical issues. It was established in 1986 and is published seven times p ...

'', ''

Macroeconomic Dynamics ''Macroeconomic Dynamics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering macroeconomics. The editor-in-chief is William A. Barnett (University of Kansas) and it is published by Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the u ...

'', '' Empirical Economics'', and ''

Econometric Reviews ''Econometric Reviews'' is a scholarly econometrics Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," '' The New P ...

'', 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