Harald Uhlig

Harald Uhlig (born April 26, 1961) is a German economist. He is professor of economics at the University of Chicago since 2007 and was Chairman of the Department of Economics from 2009 to 2012. He previously held positions at Princeton University, 1990–1994, Tilburg University, 2004–2010 and Humboldt University of Berlin, 2000–2007. Uhlig won the Gossen Prize in 2003. He was co-editor of Econometrica from 2006 to 2010. He is co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy since 2012.

Uhlig received his Diplom in mathematics from the Technical University of Berlin in 1985. He went on to earn a doctoral degree in economics at the University of Minnesota in 1990. His Ph.D. thesis, titled "Costly Information Acquisition, Stock Prices and Neoclassical Growth", was supervised by Christopher A. Sims.

Selected publications

• Mountford, Andrew; ———. "What are the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks?". Journal of Applied Econometrics 24 (6): 960–992. doi:10.1002/jae.1079. 
• ——— (2005). "What are the Effects of Monetary Policy on Output? Results from an Agnostic Identification Procedure". Journal of Monetary Economics 52 (2): 381–419. doi:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2004.05.007. 
• Ravn, Morten O.; ——— (2002). "On Adjusting the Hodrick–Prescott Filter for the Frequency of Observations". Review of Economics and Statistics 84 (2): 371–376. doi:10.1162/003465302317411604. 
• Ljungqvist, Lars; ——— (2000). "Tax Policy and Aggregate Demand Management under Catching up with the Joneses". American Economic Review 90 (3): 356–366. doi:10.1257/aer.90.3.356. JSTOR 117333. 
• ——— (1997). "Bayesian Vector Autoregressions with Stochastic Volatility". Econometrica 65 (1): 59–73. JSTOR 2171813. 
• Taylor, John B.; ——— (1990). "Solving Nonlinear Stochastic Growth Models: A Comparison of Alternative Solution Methods". Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 8 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1080/07350015.1990.10509766. 

External links

• Website at the Humboldt University Berlin
• Uhlig's Blog "Makro und mehr" (German)