S510/520 Master Seminar on Econometrics
Details
Lecturer: | Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen Jacqueline Gut Henri Pfleiderer Simon Zeller | |
Profiles: | MSc Accounting and Finance 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 | tba | |
Presentation of Term Paper | tba | |
Exam: | 1) Term paper 2) Paper presentation 3) Discussion of another paper | |
Credits: | 9 ECTS |
Timeline
until 13.10.2025, 11:55pm | Upload transcript of records to the Ilias folder and fill out the survey | |
until 08.10.2025 | Assignment to supervising chair | via email |
until 25.10.2025 | Discussion of the chosen topic with assigned supervisor | |
tba | Start of working time | |
tba
| Deadline for submission of seminar thesis | |
tba | 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.