Hans-Werner Sinn
| Hans-Werner Sinn | |
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| Born |
7 March 1948 Brake, Westphalia |
| Nationality | German |
| Institution | Ifo Institute for Economic Research |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition |
Ordoliberalism |
| Alma mater |
University of Mannheim University of Münster |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Hans-Werner Sinn (born 7 March 1948) is a German economist and was President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research from 1999-2016. He serves on the German economy ministry’s advisory council. Until 2016, when he retired, he was Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Munich.
After studying economics at the University of Münster from 1967 to 1972 and receiving his doctorate from the University of Mannheim in 1978, Sinn was awarded the venia legendi in 1983, also from the University of Mannheim.
Since 1984 Sinn has been full professor in the faculty of economics at the University of Munich (LMU), first holding the chair for economics and insurance, and from 1994 the chair for economics and public finance. During leaves of absence from Mannheim and Munich he held visiting professorships (1978/79 and 1984/85) at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. During sabbaticals he was also visiting researcher at the London School of Economics, as well as at Bergen, Stanford, Princeton and Jerusalem Universities. The University of Magdeburg, the University of Helsinki, the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and the University of Economics in Prague have all awarded him honorary doctorates. Since 1988 he has been honorary professor of the University of Vienna, where he has given many lectures. In 2008 he was knighted with the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, and in 2013 he was awarded the Ludwig Erhard Prize by the Ludwig-Erhard Foundation. Since February 1, 1999, Sinn has been president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. The Leibniz Association, the umbrella organization for Germany's federally funded research institutions, extolled his turnaround of Ifo after having taken over the presidency at a highly critical juncture in the institute’s history, bringing it back to a level of “very good, in some cases even excellent, research output” and turning it into "one of Europe's leading economic research institutes". In 2006 he became president of the International Institute of Public Finance, a position he held until 2009. From 1997 to 2000 Sinn headed the Verein für Socialpolitik, the association of German-speaking economists.He reformed the Verein für Socialpolitik and actively promoted the internationalization of economics as a science in the German speaking countries. During his presidency he founded two journals – the German Economic Review and the Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik -, initiated the Thünen price to honor young economists that publish internationally and created a scholarship programme to financially support conference presentations of young economists.
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