PD Dr. Joachim Winter

Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging
Department of Economics
University of Mannheim

Joachim Winter studied economics at the University of Augsburg and at the London School of Economics. He obtained his postgraduate education at the University of Mannheim. After receiving his doctorate in economics in February 1997, he was a research associate in the Sonderforschungsbereich 504 (Project B1), working on life-cycle models of households' saving decisions and the macroeconomic implications of population aging. Since 2002, he is the deputy director of the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, also at the University of Mannheim. He is an adjunct researcher at RAND, Santa Monica, and the project manager of the Internet Virtual Laboratory (IVLab) at Berkeley. In 2000, he was visiting UC Berkeley to work with Daniel McFadden on response behavior in household surveys and on the design of survey questions. In addition to this ongoing project on the behavioral economics of household surveys, his recent research has focused on the role of heuristics in dynamic decisions problems such as saving, retirement, and search.

Selected Publications

Börsch-Supan, A., A. Reil-Held, R. Rodepeter, R. Schnabel, and J. Winter (2001): The German savings puzzle. Research in Economics, Vol. 55, No. 1, 15-38.
Januszewski, S., J. Köke, and J. Winter (2002): Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance: An empirical analysis for Germany. Research in Economics, Vol. 56, No. 3, 299-332.
Börsch-Supan, A., A. Ludwig, and J. Winter (2002): Aging and international capital flows. In A. Auerbach and H. Hermann (eds.): Aging, Financial Markets and Monetary Policy. Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 55-83.
Börsch-Supan, A., F. Heiss, A. Ludwig, and J. Winter (2002): Pension reform, capital markets, and the rate of return. Forthcoming, German Economic Review.
Houser, D. and J. Winter (2003): How do behavioral assumptions affect structural inference? Evidence from a laboratory experiment. Forthcoming, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.

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