Prof. em. Dr. Bernd Schips

Bernd Schips was Full Professor of Economics at the ETH Zurich, beginning in 1993. He was Head of the Swiss Institute of Business Cycle Research at the ETH Zurich. He retired on 30 September 2005.

Prof. Schips was born in 1939 and studied economics at the Universities of Karlsruhe, Tübingen and Bochum (DE). He earned his degree in economics in 1966 and one year later his doctorate (Dr.rer.pol.). He achieved his habilitation on economic theory and econometrics in 1970. From 1970 to 1972, he was lecturer (Privatdozent) at the University of Bochum. Afterwards, from 1972 to1974, he taught at the University of Bochum as scientific council and professor of econometrics before being appointed in 1974 to the University of St. Gallen as professor of econometrics. From 1978 to 1984, he was a member of the board of directors of the Swiss Society for Statistics and Economics. From 1979 to 1981, he was Dean of the Department of Economics of the University of St. Gallen. Bernd Schips has been a guest lecturer and/or guest professor at the universities of Zurich, Saarbrücken, Karlsruhe, Eichstätt/Ingolstadt among others.

His main areas of research are Econometrics, Economic Theory and Empirical Economic Research.

From 1993 to 1999, he was a member of the Advisory Board of the ifo-Institute in Munich. Since 1994, he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Center for European Economic Research at the University of Mannheim. From 1995 to 1997, he was Head of the Law and Economics Department at the ETH Zurich. From 1994 to 1996, he chaired the Federal Board of Economic Advisers (Eidgenössische Kommission für Konjunkturfragen, KfK), of which he was a member from 1980 to 1996. Since 2000, he has been President of CIRET [Centre for International Research on Economic (Tendency) Surveys].