Department of Political Science

Associate Professor

Education: PhD, (University of Iowa), 1996
Position: Associate Professor, 2000
Administrative Assistant: Annette Bruun Andersen

Allan Würtz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science. He had previously held positions at the Department of Economics and Business at Aarhus University, and at the economics departments of the University of New South Wales and the University of Copenhagen. His research interests are the econometric theory of estimating and testing cross-sectional and panel data models. He mainly teaches econometrics and quantitative research methods.

Teaching Interests

• Econometric Theory
• Probability Theory and Statistics for Social Scientists
• Microeconomic Theory

Research Interests

• Estimation of Panel Data Models
• Finite Sample Properties of Estimators and Tests
• Model Selection

Selected Publications

• Savin, N. E. and A. H. Würtz, 1999, Power of Tests in Binary Response Models, Econometrica.
• Blume, K., M. Ejrnæs, H. Skyt Nielsen and A. Würtz, 2008, Labor Market Transitions of Immigrants with Emphasis on Marginalization and Self-Employment, Journal of Population Economics.
• Jensen, P. S. and A. Würtz, 2011, Estimating the Effect of a Variable in a High-Dimensional Linear Model, Econometrics Journal
• Malchow-Møller, N. and A. Würtz, 2014, An Insight into Statistics, Hans Reitzels Forlag.