Heinz König

Heinz König ( born December 25, 1927 in Montabaur, † 21 November 2002 ) was a German economist. He was rector of the University of Mannheim. He is considered one of the most famous econometricians Germany; he was the founding director of the Centre for European Economic Research ( ZEW) in Mannheim.

Life

King studied 1948-1951 Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. 1951 to 1953 he was an assistant at the Institute of Econometrics; in Mainz in 1952 he received his doctorate with a thesis on business cycle models and the method of input-output analysis. After his scientific assistant at the Institute of Economic and Social Sciences at the Westfälische Wilhelms -Universität Münster from 1953 to 1958 he habilitated in 1958. 1958/1959 he was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University and Stanford University. From 1959 to 1962 he was a lecturer in Münster, Department offices in Frankfurt and Basel.

In 1962 he was appointed to the Chair of Economics and Statistics at the University of Mannheim. Calls the universities of Bochum (1964 ), Munster (1966 ), Zurich (1966 ), Bonn (1970 ), Munich ( 1971), Zurich (1971 ) and Vienna ( 1974), he rejected each. Nevertheless, he was a visiting professor at the University of Basel ( 1963), North - Western University of Evanston / Illinois ( 1979-1982 ) and University of Pennsylvania / Philadelphia ( 1983). He retired in 1996.

Heinz König was in the years 1968/1969 and 1972-1978 Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Statistics and 1979-1982 Rector of the University of Mannheim. In 1991, he was the founding director of the Centre for European Economic Research ( ZEW) and had the scientific management until April 1997 held.

Work

King was considered one of the leading economists and a pioneer of empirical economics and econometrics in Germany. Many of his academic students, including Wolfgang Franz, president of the Center for European Economic Research, and Klaus F. Zimmermann, former President of the German Institute for Economic Research, today hold even top positions in science, business and administration. His research focused primarily in the areas of unemployment and wage formation, International trade, growth processes and the construction of empirical models to evaluate economic policies.

Honors and Memberships

• Honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen
• Fellow of the Econometric Society
• Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
• Scientific Member of the Business College (1990/ 91)
• Member of the Council of the European Economic Association EEA
• Member of the Science Council (1985-1990)
• Chief expert of Economics of the German Research Foundation ( DFG) (1984-1987 )
• Referees of the Science Centre Berlin for Social Research
• Member of the Academic Reform Commission of the State of Baden- Württemberg
• Agencies of the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class (1988 )
• Universitätsmedallie gold in 1988, the University of Mannheim

Writings (selection )

Monographs

• Helmut Reichardt, Carl Christian von Weizsäcker: contributions to production and growth theory ( = writings of the Association for Social Policy, NF, Volume 44 ). Edited by Wilhelm Krelle, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966.

Editorial Boards

• Changes in the economic structure in the Federal Republic of Germany ( = writings of the Association for Social Policy, NF, Volume 26 ). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1962.
• Growth and development of the economy ( = New Scientific Library, Volume 23 ). Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne, inter alia, In 1968.
• Education and the labor market ( = State allocation policy in market economies, volume 5 ). Lang, Frankfurt am Main, inter alia, 1983, ISBN 3-8204-7326-2.
• Control theoretic approaches in macroeconomic models ( = State allocation policy in market economies, volume 18). Lang, Frankfurt am Main, inter alia, 1985, ISBN 3-8204-8314-4.
• Possibilities and problems of recession -fighting. Results of a macroeconomic simulation model ( = row Economics, Volume 1). Campus, Frankfurt am Main, inter alia, 1988, ISBN 3-593-33876-9.
• Economics of wage determination ( = Studies in contemporary economics ). Springer, Berlin et al 1990, ISBN 3-540-52324-3.
• Environmentally sustainable development is an issue of science and politics ( = writings of the Association for Social Policy, NF, Volume 224). Duncker & Humbolt, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-428-07771-7.
• Bring the EU employment initiative the upswing? The German Economic Research takes position on the Delors White Paper ( = ZEW Economic Analysis, Special Volume 1). Nomos, Baden -Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3453-3.
• Viktor Steiner: labor market dynamics and business development in East Germany. Experiences and perspectives of the transformation process. Contributions of a workshop of the Centre for European Economic Research ( ZEW) on 4 and 5 March 1993, Mannheim ( = series of ZEW, Volume 1). Nomos, Baden -Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3364-2.