Michael Lechner
Michael Lechner
Prof. Dr.
Professor of Economics with special focus on Applied Microeconometrics
SEW-HSG
Büro 06-301
Varnbüelstrasse 14
9000 St. Gallen
Büro 06-301
Varnbüelstrasse 14
9000 St. Gallen
Publications
Further fields of research
Sports and Health Economics
Affiliations
Research Fellow of the CEPR, London, PSI, London, IAB, Nuremberg, IZA, Bonn and CESifo, München
Member of German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Fields of research
Sports and Labor Economics
Machine Learning & Econometrics
Editorial Board
Coeditor of Empirical Economics (2014-2017).
Coeditor of the German Economic Review (2013-2017).
Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Labour Market Research (2013-).
Co-Editor of economics (2006-).
Member of the Editorial Board of Foundations and Trends in Econometrics (2004-).
Associate editor of Econometric Reviews (2010-2013).
Member of the Editorial Board of the German Economic Review (2012-2013).
Associate editor of the Journal of Labor Economics (2008-2012).
Associate editor of the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (2007-2010).
Associate editor of Labour (2006-2012).
Co-editor of a Special Issue of Empirical Economics on Programm Evaluation (2013).
Associate editor of Empirical Economics (2002-2006).
Talks
Selection:
2022:
- Keynote, Annual Meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), Basel, 12.9.2022
- Ausschuss für Ökonometrie im VfS, Annual Conference, Kloster Hegne am Bodensee, 07. - 09.04.2022
2021:
- Keynote, SSES Annual Conference, Online, 10.-11.06.2021
- COMPIE 2021, University of Mannheim, Online, 23. - 25.06.2021
- Keynote, Data Science, Statistics & Visualisation (DSSV) Conference, Online, 07. - 09.07.2021
2020:
- Labour Seminar, Engelberg, Schweiz, 12. - 14.01.2020
- Bevölkerungsökonomischer Ausschuss, Basel, Schweiz, 13. - 15.02.2020
- IZA Workshop on Labour Market Institutions, Online, September 2020
- Keynote, DZHW und Deutsche Akademie für Soziologie, Online, Oktober 2020
- Keynote, Institute of Employment Research, Online, November 2020
2019:
- ECASE Workshop, Rotterdam, Niederlande, 02.2019
- DAGStat Conference, München, Germany, 18. - 22.03.2019
- HCHE Hamburg, Germany, 03. - 07.05.2019
- SSES Jahreskonferenz, Genf, Switzerland, 13. - 14.06.2019
- IAAE, Nikosia, Zypern, 24. - 28.06.2019
- EEA-ESEM, Manchester, England, 26. - 30.08.2019
- ROeS, Lausanne, Switzerland, 10. - 12.09.2019
- EMbeDS Workshop, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, 11.2019
Main Focuses
Causal Machine Learning, Sports, labour, health, and population economics.; Microeconometrics.