André Kuck

Prof. Dr. André Kuck is a Professor for Quantitative Methods in Finance at the Faculty of Economics of Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Villingen-Schwenningen. He also serves as Head of the Center for Emergency-Based Statistics (ZES) since 2017.

• Current affiliation: Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Villingen-Schwenningen
• Academic focus: Quantitative Finance, Risk Management, Emergent Law-Based Statistics
• Email: andre.kuck@dhbw.de

Research Interests:

• Emergent law-based statistical modeling
• Credit risk analysis
• Macroeconomic risk factors
• Structural adjustment programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Big data applications in finance
• Philosophy of science in economic modeling

Publication Trends: Recent work focuses on emergent deterministic laws as alternatives to probabilistic statistics, predictive modeling for financial systems, and macroeconomic risk analysis. He has developed simulation tools like MESOSIM and contributed to empirical macroeconomics research.

Education & Career: Studied economics (statistics/econometrics focus) and philosophy/psychology/sociology at the University of Münster (1985-1992). Held academic and consulting roles across Germany, including leadership positions at Gerhard Mercator University and international consulting projects on credit risk.