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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...

The registration period for exams in the winter term has started. We ask all students in our English-speaking courses to register in time for the examinations. Please note that in this semester for "Bayesian Econometrics" and "Empirical Finance" registration is only for students who failed a previou...

A team of the chair, consisting of Jonas Dovern, Johannes Frank, Alexander Glas, Lena Müller and Daniel Perico, has published a research paper in the journal "Energy Economics". The study examines the extent to which the reduction in the fuel tax for three months in 2022 was passed on to consumers t...