This seminar is jointly offered by the chairs of Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen (Statistics, Econometrics, and Quantitative Methods) and Prof. Dr. Joachim Grammig (Econometrics, Statistics, and Empirical Economics).

Students who want to join the seminar are required to upload a current transcript of records to the S510/S520 folder on Ilias and fill out the short survey (also in the Ilias folder) until October 20, 23:55, and be present at the preliminary meeting on October 22.

Time and place for the preliminary meeting will be announced on this page. Participants are asked to have a rough idea regarding a possible topic of their seminar thesis when attending the preliminary meeting.

The seminar will be held jointly by the chair of Prof. Biewen and Prof. Grammig. Topics of the seminar will include:

• Time Series Analysis
• Financial Econometrics
• Microeconometrics
• Panel Data Analysis

Each participant will be assigned a specific topic. We expect all participants to prepare a professional presentation and a term-paper on his/her topic, which may include a small empirical application using data such as German Socio-Economic Panel Study or a data set from the field of finance.

• The thesis should be written in 11pt font size and contain 18-20 pages of text. Line spacing should be 1.5.
• Further formal guidelines for the written thesis are provided in the following document.
• Orthography, grammar and style of the thesis will be taken into account for grading.
• We suggest to use Latex to prepare the thesis and the presentation. The zip-file contains a document "vorlage.tex" which illustrates the use of Latex and provides installation information. "vorlage.pdf" is the result when compiling the tex-file.
• The presentation of the final thesis has to be in Powerpoint, Latex or similar. There is no need for handouts.
• Presence at the entire final presentation session is obligatory.