Simon Wintter

Since 2018 PhD candidate and research associate 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 Germany and the Hamburg Institute of International Economics. 2013 Bachelor of Science in Economics and History at the University of Hamburg. Born in Stuttgart, Germany.

Research interests

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

Teaching

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

Working Paper

"Economic forecasting with German newspaper articles" with Tino Berger [pdf]

Work in Progress

"Economic nowcasting with newspaper articles" with Tino Berger
"Do newspaper articles influence household expectations by conveying the sentiment of central bank communications?" with Tino Berger