Gregor von Schweinitz

Head of Research Group

Thumb-tack Envelope

Biography

Gregor von Schweinitz is coordinator of the research group “Causes of Financial Crises in Europe” in the Department of Macroeconomics at Halle Institute for Economic Research and manager of the IWH Doctoral Programme in Economics. Before finishing his PhD thesis on the genesis of the European debt crisis in 2013, Gregor studied business mathematics in Dresden, Strasbourg and Munich. His research interests include, dynamic macroeconomics, European and international economic policy (particularly financial crises), risk modelling and analysis and stochastic processes and simulation.

Selected publications

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El-Shagi, M., Schweinitz, G. & Lindner, A. Real Effective Exchange Rate Misalignment in the Euro Area: A Counterfactual Analysis. Review of International Economics 1 (2016). http://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12207
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El-Shagi, M. & Schweinitz, G. Qual VAR Revisited: Good Forecast, Bad Story. Journal of Applied Economics 2 (2016). http://doi.org/10.1016/S1514-0326(16)30012-5
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El-Shagi, M. & Schweinitz, G. Risk and Return - Is there an Unholy Cycle of Ratings and Yields? Economics Letters 129, 49--51 (2015). http://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.02.007
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El-Shagi, M., Knedlik, T. & Schweinitz, G. Predicting financial crises: The (statistical) significance of the signals approach. Journal of International Money and Finance 35, 76--103 (2013). http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2013.02.001
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Knedlik, T. & Schweinitz, G. Macroeconomic Imbalances as Indicators for Debt Crises in Europe. Journal of Common Market Studies 50(5), 726--745 (2012). http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5965.2012.02264.x