Year: 2024

We welcome all new and returning students to the winter semester and wish everyone a great start! Our department is offering several courses again in the Winter Semester 2024/25. The modules Data Science: Data Analysis and Data Science: Statistics are part of the core curriculum for the BA in Eco...

We are pleased to welcome a new team member to our department. Since October 1st, Annabell Schneider has joined our team at the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics as a doctoral candidate. In the coming semesters, Annabell will be teaching various courses at the department. Her research will focus ...

We are pleased to welcome a new team member to our department. Since September 1st, Maximilian Böck has joined our team at the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics as a postdoc. Maximilian is an expert in time series econometrics and Bayesian statistics, and his research focuses on empirical macroec...

The renowned Journal of Applied Econometrics has published a contribution by Jonas Dovern, Alexander Glas (formerly a postdoc at the chair, now ZEW), and Geoff Kenny (ECB). In the research paper, a method is proposed to examine whether there are significant heterogeneities in survey-based probabilis...

Our chair offers new seminars on web scraping in the summer term 2024. The hands-on seminars offers an opportunity to learn how to scrape data from websites in R. During the first part of the semester, students will teach each other the necessary tools and skills by means of seminar presentations of...