In 2012, Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl is the new Dean of the DIW Graduate Center.
Helmut Lütkepohl is an internationally renowned econometrician and former professor at the European University Institute in Florence. In 2011 he has been voted the no. 1 German Economists Abroad in a ranking published by the newspaper Handelsblatt.
While strengthing the GC's portfolio, Helmut Lütkepohl also lectures as Bundesbank Professor in the field of "Empirical Economics" at the Freie Universität Berlin. Before that, he was Professor of Econometrics at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has been on the editorial board of several scientific journals like Econometric Theory, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Empirical Economics und Econometric Reviews and has published numerous papers in academic journals. He is the author, co-author and editor of many books, like “Handbook of Matrices” (Wiley, 1996), “Applied Time Series Econometrics” (Cambridge University Press, 2004) und “New Introduction to Multiple Time Series Analysis” (Springer, 2005).