Federal Statistical Office grants 2007 Gerhard Fürst Award
WIESBADEN – This year, the Federal Statistical Office has granted the Gerhard Fürst Award, the scientific award of the Federal Statistical Office, to three scientific projects closely related to official statistics. In the category of doctoral thesis, the thesis by Dr. Michael Beer (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) on “Hedonic Elementary Price Indices: Axiomatic Foundation and Estimation Techniques” and the thesis by Dr. Matthias Schmid of Munich University on “Estimation of a Linear Regression with Microaggregated Data” were regarded by the jury as equally outstanding and worth an award. In the category of diploma/master’s dissertations, the diploma dissertation by Max Friedrich Steinhardt of Hamburg University on “Labour Market and Migration – an Empirical Analysis of the Wage and Employment Effects of Inward Migration for Germany” was regarded by the jury as an outstanding achievement. For further information please call: Birgit Baptistella, tel: (+49-611) 75-2603,
