Research within the Network
Quantitative
General Econometric Method and Model Development
Dynamic duration models, empirical-econometric valuation models for risky investments, measurement of information flows in parallel markets, econometric analysis of partial and general equilibrium models; statistical and other test methods; indirect inference methodology and simulated moment method, generalized moment method; multiple time series models, statistical analyses of the financial market microstructure; risk modelling
Research Group "Asset Pricing" with Universities of Constance, Frankfurt and Karlsruhe (planned)
Involvement: Department of Statistics and Econometrics, WiSo Faculty; Member of the Senate Committee and Grants Committee for the Collaborative Research Centres at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Research Fellow Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt and Centre for Financial Research, Cologne; Research Professor at the Deutsche Bundesbank; Programme Officer for the international study programme "Msc Economics and Finance"; Study Commission of the Faculty of Economic Sciences
Interdisciplinary Teaching: Responsible (with Prof. Biewen) for the statistical-mathematical-econometric education at the Faculty of Economic Research; 4 (3 German, 1 English) method lectures at Bachelor level, 3 (English) method lectures at Master and PhD level (2); Summer School method course on behalf of the Verein der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaftslehre (VHB); guest lecturer at the University of Mannheim (financial econometrics) and methodological continuing education courses at the Deutsche Bundesbank
Responsible: Prof. Dr. Joachim Grammig
Causality
More information available soon.
Responsible: Prof. Augustin Kelava
Reproducibility, Statistical Misconceptions, Open Science
Reproducible Reporting, Preregistration, Open Educational Resources
Involvement: Education Sciences, TüSE
Interdisciplinary Teaching: Workshops
Responsible: Jun.-Prof. Samuel Merk
Statistical Modeling of Income Distributions
Inverse Probability Reweighting, Re-Centered Influence Function Regression, Quantile Regression, Selection on Unobservables, Decomposition Methodology
Involvement: Principal Investigator Priority Programme SPP 1764 of the German Science Foundation (DFG) "The German Labor Market in a Globalized World"
Consulting: Consultant and Member of Scientific Advisory Board for the "Report on Income and Wealth" published by the German Federal Government
Responsible: Prof. Martin Biewen
Statistical Modeling of Income-, Employment and Educational Trajectories
Econometric Modeling of Dynamic Decisions, Discrete Dynamic Choice Models for Panel Data, Dynamic Decision Models with Potential Outcomes, Evaluation of Dynamic Treatment Effects Econometric Methods for Micro Data, Methods for Causal Inference
Involvment: Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW); LEAD Graduate School of Empirical Educational Research
Interdisciplinary Teaching: Applied Econometrics (Bachelor), Programming in Stata (Bachelor), Advanced Microeconometrics (Master, Ph.D.)
Responsible: Prof. Martin Biewen
Nonlinear information transfer models by transfer entropy
Financial Econometrics
Bridge function/participation: Department of Statistics and Econometrics, WiSo Faculty
Responsible: PD Dr. Thomas Dimpfl
Further Development of Situation-Based Econometric Methods, Machine Learning in Econometric Analysis, Financial Econometrics, Forecasting Methods
Research Group "Asset Pricing" with Universities of Constance, Frankfurt and Karlsruhe (planned)
Involvement: Department of Statistics and Econometrics, WiSo Faculty, Study Commission Department of Economic Sciences
Interdisciplinary Teaching: Master Course Machine Learning in Econometrics
Responsible: Dr. Jantje Sönksen
Applications of Machine Learning in Labour Market and Educational Research
Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects, Generalized Random Forests, Instrumental Variable Random Forests
Efficient selection of predictors for educational outcomes and career decisions, Lasso, Neural Nets, Random Forests
Responsible: Prof. Martin Biewen
Qualitative
Quality Criteria for Interpretive Research; Curating Criteria for Archiving and Secondary Analysis of qualitative Data
Grounded Theory; Situational Analysis; Science and Technology Studies; Philosophy of Science; Epistemology; Management of Qualitative Research Data; Reserach Ethics
Involvement: Permanent Guest, German Data Forum (RatSWD); Speaker, QualitNet; Member, Advisory Council of both QualiService (Uni Bremen) and eLabour (Uni Göttingen)
Interdisciplinary Teaching: Permanent Research Workshop Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis; Spring and Summer School "Qualitativ Forschen"
Responsible: Prof. Jörg Strübing
Research about and inside the United Nations (Document Analysis and Participatory Observation)
Ethnographic methods; Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology of Human Differentiation (gender, race, disability in particular); Sociology of the body and sports; Globalization and World Society Research
Involvement: Member of the scientif advisory board of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research ZGD); Speaker of the Interdisziplinary Research Training Group "The Persistance of Gender Binaries"
Interdisciplinary Teaching: Introduction Sociological Theories
Responsible: Prof. Dr. Marion Müller
Documentary Method; Institution/Orgnisation-Related Inequality Research (Focus on Educational System); Qualitative Multi-Level Analysis
Documentary method; interface cognitive/objective theory/methodology/method
Involvement: TüNaPro
Interdisciplinary Teaching: VL 'Inclusion/Diversity': Teaching profession/master's degree programmes of the faculty
Responsible: Prof. Marcus Emmerich
Qualitative Evaluation, Practice Development
Reconstructive procedures; cooperation, professional and addressee research
Bridge function/participation: Research Training Group "Doing Transitions"; TÜSE
Interdisciplinary teaching: Introduction to sociological theories (lecture); seminars together with Catholic and Protestant Theology, Educational Science
Responsible: Prof. Petra Bauer
Method Reflection/Theory
Complex Mixed-Methods-Designs
Dialogue of qualitative and quantitative approaches
Mixed methods; qualitative content analysis
Involvement: Research training group "Doing Transitions"; LEAD
Interdisciplinary Teaching: Lecture "Introduction to qualitative data analysis"
Person responsible: Prof. Bernhard Schmidt-Hertha
Pragmatism, Theories about Practice
More information coming soon.
Responsible: Prof. Jörg Strübig
Systems Theory, Differentiation Theory
More information coming soon.
Responsible: Prof. Marcus Emmerich