Simon Wintter

Since 2019 PhD candidate at the Chair of Empirical International Economics. 

2017-2022 employee at Building Radar GmbH in Munich. 2017 Master of Arts in International Economics at the University of Göttingen. 2012-2014 Internships at Euler Hermes and the Hamburg Institute of International Economics. 2013 Bachelor of Science in Economics and History at the University of Hamburg.

Research Interests

• Time series forecasting
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Big Data in Macroeconomics

Publications

• "Economic forecasting with German newspaper articles", Journal of Forecasting, forthcoming with Tino Berger

Work in Progress

• "Nowcasting with newspaper articles"
• "Central bank communication, consumer expectations, and newspapers"

Teaching

• Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics
• Applied Macroeconomics with Python
• Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics