Klaus Wälde (born 1966) is a German economist and Professor of Economics at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz. He is also an extramural fellow at the

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and a fellow of the CESifo network. Previously, he was Professor of Economics at the Universities of Dresden,

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and

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. He also worked for the

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and for the

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. He published on

macroeconomics Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole. This includes regional, national, and global economies. Macroeconomists study topics such as output (econ ...

and

economic theory Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics anal ...

, on

labour market Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labou ...

research and the analysis of the role of emotions in decision making. His evaluations (with Andey Launov) of Hartz III and Hartz IV received quite some interest from the public. He is also supportive of the role of

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

s in society. He teaches in the "Dynamic Aspects of Stress at Work"

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at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz. This is an interdisciplinary graduate school of psychologists and economists. As of March 2020 he contributed to the analysis of COVID-19 dynamics in Germany. Applying methods from labour market theory (continuous time Markov chains) to epidemiology, he developed new versions of the SIR model to predict the evolution of COVID-19 in Germany
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His most known textbook is titled ''Applied Intertemporal Optimization'', and is a frequently downloaded economics textbook. Klaus Wälde held a research professorship at the Gutenberg Research College from 2009 to 2014.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Walde, Klaus 1966 births Living people German economists Macroeconomists University of Hamburg alumni Academic staff of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz