Christoph M. Schmidt

Christoph M. Schmidt ( born August 25, 1962 in Canberra, Australia ) is a German economist and president of the Rhenish- Westphalian Institute for Economic Research. He teaches at the Ruhr- University Bochum. His research interests are in applied econometrics, in particular labor and population- economic issues.

Life

Schmidt studied economics at the University of Mannheim, where he graduated in 1987 as a graduate economist. He then moved to Princeton University, earned a master's degree there in 1989 and in 1991 received his doctorate with an empirical work to the German labor market. He habilitated in 1995 at the University of Munich. During his education he was a Princeton University Fellowship (1987-1990), awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (1990-1991) and with a Habilitandenstipendium the German Research Foundation (1992-1995 ).

Since 1992, he was first a Research Affiliate, 1996 Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research ( CEPR ) in London, since 1998 he is a Research Fellow of the Bonn Institute for the Study of Labor ( IZA). In 1995 he was appointed to the Chair of Econometrics at the University of Heidelberg, where he remained until 2002. Since 2002 he is professor at the Ruhr- University Bochum and president of the Rhenish- Westphalian Institute for Economic Research ( RWI) in Essen. In March 2009, Smith was appointed to the Advisory Council on the Assessment of economic development, where he took the place of Bert Rürup. In March 2013 he took over the chairmanship of the Advisory Council of Wolfgang Franz Since spring 2011 he is also an expert member of the Commission of Inquiry growth, prosperity, quality of life of the German Bundestag.

Schmidt was co-editor of the Journal of Population Economics and published in various journals such as The Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Public Economics.

Positions

In connection with Thilo Sarrazin's book Germany abolishes itself he sharply criticized its methodology and accused him of misunderstanding of statistics and racism. Sarrazin mistaken about the methodological limitations of statistical methods and go to absurd conclusions, with which he was seeking to support pseudo-scientific racist theories.

In March 2013 Schmidt called economic reforms in Germany, which he sees as a further development of the "Hartz reforms " of the years 2003 to 2005. In this he includes a further liberalization of the labor market and an increase in the retirement age of the adopted 67 years to 70 years.

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