Norbert Walter (economist)

Norbert Walter ( born September 23, 1944 in Weckbach, Lower Franconia, † August 31 2012 in South Tyrol ) was a German economist. He was from 1990 to 2009 chief economist of the German Bank Group.

Life

After graduating from high school in Miltenberg Walter studied 1963-1968 Economics at the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 1968 he received his diploma and was a staff member at the Institute of Capital Market Research (now the Center for Financial Studies ) in Frankfurt am Main. In 1971, he was there to Dr. rer. pol. doctorate. From 1971 to 1986 he worked as an assistant to Herbert Giersch at the Institute for World Economics in Kiel. During this time, Walter was preparing his habilitation. After working as a research group leader he became in 1975 head of the economic department, and in 1978 professor and director of the Institute for the World Economy. After a confrontation with Giersch due to differing predictions 1986 Walter spent a year at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as John J. McCloy Distinguished Research Fellow.

In 1987, Walter in the economics department at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt am Main and in 1990 successor of Franz -Josef Trouvain as chief economist. In 1992 he also took over the management of the newly established subsidiary German Bank Research and was chief economist of the German Bank Group. After his retirement in late 2009 Walter founded the Walter & Daughters Consult. His successor as chief economist of the German banking group was Thomas Mayer.

Walter was involved in the committee of the " Seven Sages " the regulation of European securities markets at the EU Commission in Brussels. He was also a member of the inter-institutional Monitoring Group ( appointed by the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission) for the Lamfalussy process to oversee the securities markets. He was Chairman of the University Council of the Bauhaus - University Weimar, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Institute for Population Research in Wiesbaden and advisory board member of the association ecological tax reform. Walter was a member of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs ( BKU ) and the Central Committee of German Catholics ( ZdK ).

On 7 October 2009 Walter held the 10th Berlin speech on religious policy.

Norbert Walter was married and the father of two daughters. He died on 31 August 2012.

Writings (selection )

  • Less state. More market. mvg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-87959-479-1.
  • The new prosperity of the nation. 2nd edition, Econ, Dusseldorf, Vienna, New York, Moscow 1994, ISBN 3-430-19488-1
  • In defense of the market economy. Together with Astrid Rosenschon. Modern industry, Landsberg / Lech, 1996, ISBN 3-478-35470-6
  • The euro set course for the future. The consequences of monetary union for companies and investors. Together with Thomas Hanke. Fourth act. Ed, Campus, Frankfurt / New York 1999, ISBN 3- 593-36171 -X
  • More growth for Germany. together with Klaus Günter German, Campus -Verl., Frankfurt am Main / New York 2004, ISBN 3- 593-37529 -X
  • Market economy, ethics and morality as values ​​increase confidence in the economy. Berlin Univ. Press, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940432-59-9
  • Who should pay? Responses to the global economic crisis. Together with Jörn Quitzau. Pattloch, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-629-02291-2
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