Professor Willi Semmler Returns to The New School After Exciting Semester in Italy
, Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at the
New School for Social Research
and Tishman Center Affiliated Faculty, has returned from Italy where he served as a visiting professor at Italy's Sapienza University of Rome, in the Fall 2016 semester, in the law and economics department.
Visiting Scholar with Italy's Sapienza University of Rome
This fall, Dr. Semmler served as a visiting professor in the department of economics and law at La Sapienza University of Rome. Invited by Professor Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, he collaborated with faculty to research financial markets, the macroeconomy, and the financing of climate policies.
Professor Semmler is an internationally recognized expert in the field of climate economics and leads SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change project. His recent work includes the
Oxford Handbook on the Macroeconomics of Global Warming
with Lucas Bernard and numerous papers on the economics of climate change and green bonds. Earlier this year, Dr. Semmler
as senior research associate at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, where he worked on models of economic growth under environmental constraints.
Dynamic Modeling, Empirical Macroeconomics and Finance Publication
Dynamic Modeling, Empirical Macroeconomics, and Finance
, a collection of essays in honor of Professor Semmler was published in the Fall 2016 semester. The book covers Dr. Semmler's work on sustainable development, economic growth, technological change, climate change, commodity markets, long wave theory, nonlinear dynamic models, and boom-bust cycles.Dr. Semmler’s long-time co-authors,
and
, edited the volume of essays by many of Professor Semmler's former students and collaborators. Former New School Professor
wrote the forward, and New School PhD
contributed an introduction on Professor Semmler’s impact on contemporary economics. Other contributors include
,
, Daniel Samaan,
, among others.
Presenting at the Bank of England on Climate Change Research
Professor Semmler also presented his research at a workshop organized by the Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the Bank of England (BoE) on
Central Banking, Climate Change, and Environmental Sustainability
. The event brought together researchers from academia, central banks, and other institutions to discuss how monetary policy and financial systems can be used to mitigate climate change.Professor Semmler shared his work modeling mitigation and adaptation policies on climate change. His
was based on
with Helmut Maurer from the Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of Muenster in Germany and New School students Michael Flaherty, Arkady Gevorkyan and Siavash Radpour.