S510/520 Master Seminar on Econometrics

Details

Lecturer:		Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen Prof. Dr. Joachim Grammig Dr. Julie Schnaitmann Alexander Reining Miriam Sturm Marian Rümmele
Profiles:		MSc Accounting and Finance MSc Economics and Finance MSc European Economics MSc European Management MSc General Management MSc International Business MSc International Economics MSc Management and Economics MSc Economics MSc Data Science in Business and Economics
Prerequisites:		At least one successfully completed master course offered by the chairs of Prof. Biewen and/or Prof. Grammig.
Language:		English
Registration		Upload transcript of records to the Ilias folder and fill out the survey
Deadline for Submission of Term Paper		05.07.2024, 12:00
Presentation of Term Paper		12.07.2024 (time and place tba)
Exam:		1) Term paper 2) Paper presentation 3) Discussion of another paper
Credits:		9 ECTS

Timeline

until 14.04.2024, 11:55pm	Upload transcript of records to the Ilias folder and fill out the survey
until 17.04.2024	Assignment to supervising chair	via email
until 25.04.2024	Discussion of the chosen topic with assigned supervisor
26.04.2024	Start of working time
05.07.2024 12:00	Deadline for submission of seminar thesis
12.07.2024	Presentation of final thesis (mandatory participation in whole day seminar)	time and format tba

Seminar outline

The seminar will be held jointly by the chair of Prof. Biewen and Prof. Grammig. Topics of the seminar will be chosen from the following fields: 1) Time Series Analysis, 2) Financial Econometrics, 3) Microeconometrics, 4) Panel Data Analysis. We expect and encourage participants to come up with ideas for their own topics (of course, we will provide assistance in finding a suitable topic). We expect all participants to prepare a professional presentation and a term paper on their topic, which may include a small empirical application using data such as the German Socio-Economic Panel Study or a data set from the field of finance. If you are interested in carrying out your own empirical project we recommend you to read chapter 19 "Carrying out an Empirical Project" of Wooldridge's book "Introductory Econometrics".

Formal guidelines

Formal guidelines for the written thesis are provided in the Ilias folder.
Orthography, grammar and style of the thesis will be taken into account for grading.
The written thesis should be set in Word, or, preferably, in LaTeX or a similar word/formula-processing software. The following template (pdf) illustrates the use of LaTeX.
The presentation of the final thesis has to be in Powerpoint, LaTeX or similar. There is no need for handouts.