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Hans-Werner Sinn (born March 7, 1948) is a German economist and President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and serves on the German economy ministry’s advisory council. He is Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Munich. 〔(Europe’s Easy-Money Endgame ), Project Syndicate, from 26 March 2015〕 == Education and career == After studying economics at the University of Münster from 1967 to 1972 and receiving his doctorate from the University of Mannheim in 1978, Sinn was awarded the venia legendi in 1983, also from the University of Mannheim. Since 1984 Sinn has been full professor in the faculty of economics at the University of Munich (LMU), first holding the chair for economics and insurance, and from 1994 the chair for economics and public finance. During leaves of absence from Mannheim and Munich he held visiting professorships (1978/79 and 1984/85) at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. During sabbaticals he was also visiting researcher at the London School of Economics, as well as at Bergen, Stanford, Princeton and Jerusalem Universities. Since 1988 he has been honorary professor of the University of Vienna, where he has given many lectures. In 2008 he was knighted with the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, and in 2013 he was awarded the Ludwig Erhard Prize by the Ludwig-Erhard Foundation. Since February 1, 1999, Sinn has been president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. The Leibniz Association, the umbrella organization for Germany's federally funded research institutions, extolled his turnaround of Ifo after having taken over the presidency at a highly critical juncture in the institute’s history, bringing it back to a level of “very good, in some cases even excellent, research output” and turning it into "one of Europe's leading economic research institutes".〔(Statement of the Leibniz Association of German Research Institutes on the Ifo Institute )〕 In 2006 he became president of the International Institute of Public Finance, a position he held until 2009. From 1997 to 2000 Sinn headed the Verein für Socialpolitik, the association of German-speaking economists. In 2013 he was awarded a further honorary doctorate, this time by the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. Sinn is fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the first German-speaking economist to deliver the Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures〔(Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures )〕 in Helsinki (1999) and the Tinbergen Lectures in Amsterdam (2004).〔(List of Tinbergen Lectures )〕 In the 2006 ''Handelsblatt'' ranking of German economists ((Ökonomen-Ranking VWL )), based on cross citations of SSCI papers in SSCI journals, Sinn ranked fourth.〔http://www.handelsblatt.com October 1, 2006〕 In a study by Ursprung and Zimmer, based on SSCI citations per author of the full oeuvre, Sinn ranked second of all German economists, after Nobel laureate Reinhard Selten. In the RePEc database he is the German economist most frequently quoted in academic works.〔("The RePEC Ranking of German Economist Working in Germany" ) The list was compiled with the information available on the RePEc website on October 1, 2006.〕 In a survey conducted by the ''Financial Times Deutschland'' among more than 550 German economic experts, Sinn was one of the two professors in Germany (the other was Herbert Giersch) to attract a large following of academic pupils, and in terms of political influence he ranked only behind Bert Rürup at the top of the list of German professors. The British newspaper The Independent nominated him as one of the “ten people who changed the world” in 2011.〔("Ten people who changed the world: Hans-Werner Sinn, German economist who made sense of the financial crisis" ), ''The Independent'', 31. December 2011.〕 In its latest evaluation of the Ifo Institute, the Leibniz Association praised Sinn as one of “Germany’s most renowned economists, who constantly succeeds in bringing the most variedeconomic issues to public debate”.〔("Leibniz Association, Statement on the Ifo Institute" ), 17 July 2013, p. 3〕 Sinn has published 85 scholarly articles in refereed journals, has written numerous newspaper articles and given many interviews. In addition he has made longer contributions for radio and television and has made many talk-show appearances. More than twenty articles on his person have been published in German and foreign newspapers.〔(CV with list of publications )〕 His 2003 book "ドイツ語:Ist Deutschland noch zu retten?" has stimulated policy discussion in Germany and influenced the Agenda 2010 reforms. With more than 100,000 copies in print, the book is one of the most popular public policy monograph in recent history. It has also been published in English as "Can Germany be Saved?" by MIT Press in 2007. As a reaction to the criticism of his book in the media, Sinn wrote a follow-up book in 2005, "Die Basarökonomie". His book the ''Green Paradox'' and his prior research on this topic triggered a worldwide debate, as did Sinn's research on Target balances, which is summarised in his book ''Die Target Falle''. Sinn's book ''Casino Capitalism'' was named as one of the 50 best economics books of all time by ''Handelsblatt''. His book "The Euro Trap: On Bursting Bubbles, Budgets, and Beliefs", published by Oxford University Press in 2014, reviews the effects of the adoption of the euro as a common currency and, in particular, the policy measures undertaken to combat the euro crisis. The book was hailed as "perhaps the most important scholarly book on the euro in at least a decade" by Kenneth Rogoff.〔(List of Euro Trap Endorsements )〕 Since 1989 Sinn has served on the Advisory Council of the German Ministry of Economics, and represented the Free State of Bavaria on the Board of Supervisors of HypoVereinsbank for ten years.〔(Hypovereinsbank: ''Gremien und Governance'' )〕 Sinn lives with his wife near Munich. They have three adult children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans-Werner Sinn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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