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Rainer Winkelmann

Rainer Winkelmann

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
46
Citations
12608
World Ranking
1639
National Ranking
27

Overview

Rainer Winkelmann is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has a research profile primarily situated within the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their work spans several subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Demography, Statistics and Probability, and Finance.

The scientist has explored diverse topics with a focus on Healthcare Policy and Management, Global Health Care Issues, and Spatial and Panel Data Analysis. Other research topics include Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Economic and Environmental Valuation, and Health disparities and outcomes.

Some of the recent publications authored or co-authored by Winkelmann include:

  • Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidences from Count Data Models, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Neglected Heterogeneity, Simpson's Paradox, and the Anatomy of Least Squares, 2023, Journal of Econometric Methods
  • A flexible copula regression model with Bernoulli and Tweedie margins for estimating the effect of spending on mental health, 2023, Health Economics
  • Misspecified Exponential Regressions: Estimation, Interpretation, and Average Marginal Effects, 2024, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • feologit: A new command for fitting fixed-effects ordered logit models, 2020, The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata

Winkelmann frequently publishes in these venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
  • The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • Health Economics

The scientist has collaborated with a number of co-authors including Kevin E. Staub, Johannes Kunz, Carol Propper, Giampiero Marra, and Matteo Fasiolo. These collaborative works indicate interdisciplinary connections across econometrics, health economics, and statistical methods.

Best Publications

  • Why Are the Unemployed So Unhappy? Evidence from Panel Data

    Liliana Winkelmann;Rainer Winkelmann

  • Econometric Analysis of Count Data

    Rainer Winkelmann

  • Consistent estimation of the fixed effects ordered logit model

    Gregori Baetschmann;Kevin E. Staub;Rainer Winkelmann

  • The Trade Effects of Endogenous Preferential Trade Agreements

    Peter Egger;Mario Larch;Kevin E. Staub;Rainer Winkelmann

  • Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being

    Rainer Winkelmann

  • RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN COUNT DATA MODELLING: THEORY AND APPLICATION

    Rainer Winkelmann;Klaus F. Zimmermann

  • Econometric Analysis of Count Data

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  • Analysis of Microdata

    Rainer Winkelmann;Stefan Boes

  • Markov Chain Monte Carlo Analysis of Correlated Count Data

    Siddhartha Chib;Rainer Winkelmann

  • EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS AND SKILL ACQUISITION OF APPRENTICESHIP-TRAINED WORKERS IN GERMANY

    Rainer Winkelmann;Rainer Winkelmann

  • Health care reform and the number of doctor visits—an econometric analysis

    Rainer Winkelmann

  • Duration Dependence and Dispersion in Count-Data Models

    Rainer Winkelmann

  • Ordered Response Models

    Stefan Boes;Rainer Winkelmann

  • The Effect of Income on General Life Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction

    Stefan Boes;Rainer Winkelmann

  • Co-payments for prescription drugs and the demand for doctor visits--evidence from a natural experiment.

    Rainer Winkelmann

  • Count data models for demographic data

    Rainer Winkelmann;Klaus F. Zimmermann

  • Unemployment and happiness

    Rainer Winkelmann

  • Happiness and unemployment: a panel data analysis for Germany

    Liliana Winkelmann;Rainer Winkelmann

  • Posterior simulation and Bayes factors in panel count data models

    Siddhartha Chib;Edward Greenberg;Rainer Winkelmann

  • Subjective well-being and the family: Results from an ordered probit model with multiple random effects

    Rainer Winkelmann

  • Is job stability declining in Germany? Evidence from count data models

    Rainer Winkelmann;Klaus F. Zimmermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus F. Zimmermann
Klaus F. Zimmermann Maastricht University
Alois Stutzer
Alois Stutzer University of Basel
Peter Egger
Peter Egger ETH Zurich
Mario Larch
Mario Larch University of Bayreuth
Carol Propper
Carol Propper Imperial College London
Rafael Lalive
Rafael Lalive University of Lausanne
Joop Hartog
Joop Hartog University of Amsterdam
Andrew J. Oswald
Andrew J. Oswald University of Warwick
Gary King
Gary King Harvard University
Dennis J. Snower
Dennis J. Snower Kiel Institute for the World Economy

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