Harald Uhlig

Uhlig received his Diplom in mathematics from the Technical University of Berlin in 1985 and earned 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.

Uhlig has held positions at Princeton University, 1990–1994, Tilburg University (1994–2000) and Humboldt University of Berlin (2000–2007). He has also been a consultant for both the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the European Central Bank.[2]

Uhlig was co-editor of Econometrica from 2006 to 2010. He became a co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy in 2012 but was removed from the position in 2021 after a public controversy. He was also its lead editor from 2013 to 2021.[3]

• In 2017, it was announced that Uhlig was named an Honorary Professor at Henan University in China.[2]
• In 2013, Uhlig was appointed Duisenberg Fellow at the European Central Bank.[4]
• In December 2005, Uhlig received the Frank P. Ramsey Prize for the best paper in Macroeconomic Dynamics, for the article "The Sharpe Ratio and Preferences: A Parametric Approach," with Martin Lettau.[4]
• In December 2003, he was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society.
• In 2003, Uhlig won the Gossen Prize for his contributions to the theory and methods of dynamic macroeconomic models.[5]

In June 2020, using Twitter, Uhlig criticized Black Lives Matter and compared people who supported it to "flat-earthers and creationists", claiming lack of scientific evidence that supports the movement, causing controversy, covered in The New York Times.[6] Since the publication, other allegations of discriminatory conduct have resurfaced.[7] He was temporarily placed on leave as editor at the Journal of Political Economy "pending a determination of the Board as to whether it would be appropriate for him to continue in that role given recent accusations of discriminatory conduct in a University classroom setting."[8] He was reinstated after a finding that "there is not a basis for a further investigation or disciplinary proceeding",[9] concluding that allegations against him were unfounded. His nonetheless he was removed from the position on 06-30-2021.[10][11] His ties to the Chicago Federal Reserve remain severed.[12]

• Mountford, Andrew; ——— (2009). "What are the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks?" (PDF). Journal of Applied Econometrics. 24 (6): 960–992. doi:10.1002/jae.1079. S2CID 547059.
• ——— (2005). "What are the Effects of Monetary Policy on Output? Results from an Agnostic Identification Procedure" (PDF). 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. S2CID 845683.
• 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. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.27.2055. doi:10.2307/2171813. 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. S2CID 161599.

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