DIW Graduate Center Masterclasses

Summer Semester 2012

GC Masterclasses are a series of one-day courses on various areas in Economics,
organized by Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl and Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D. A wide
range of topics are covered from empirical industrial models to decision making, etc.
The target audience is aimed at graduate students in Economics at Berlin universities
and research institutes. The GC Masterclasses are held on an irregular basis at DIW
Berlin (about once a month) and are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin and those
of the BDPEMS program.

The upcoming DIW Graduate Center Masterclasses will be announced in the DIW
weekly newsletter and on the DIW website. If you want to participate, or have a
question, please contact Yun Cao at

Place: DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58

Room: Eleanor-Dulles-Room (5.2.010).
Please note that the masterclasses on June 07 in Room 2.2.008.


Program Summer Semester 2012
DateSpeakerInstituteTopicTime
29.03.2012
30.03.2012
Juan de Dios Ortúzar | PDF, 184.11 KB Pontificia Universidad
Catolica de Chile
Discrete choice: Basics, new developments and applications in the transport sector14:30-18:30(29.03.)
09:30-12:30(30.03.)
 
12.04.2012
13.04.2012
Michel JuillardBank of FranceBayesian estimation of DSGE models14:00-18:30(12.04.)
09:30-12:30(13.04.)
 
10.05.2012
11.05.2012
Marco CaliendoPotsdam UniversityIntroduction to Matching and Weighting Estimators | PDF, 80.26 KB 14:00-18:30(10.05.)
09:30-12:30(11.05.)
 
29.05.2012
30.05.2012
Lutz Kilian University of MichiganThe Relationship between Oil Markets and the Macro Economy: Theory and Empirics | PDF, 96.42 KB 14:00-18:30(29.05.)
09:00-12:30(30.05.)
 
07.06.2012
08.06.2012
John Ham University of MarylandUsing duration models for public policy evaluation14:00-18:30(07.06.)R22008
09:30-12:30(08.06.)R52010
 
20.09.2012
21.09.2012
Gary KoopUniversity of StrathclydeBayesian Methods for Empirical Macroeconomics14:00-18:00(20.09.)
09:00-12:30(21.09.)
 
04.10.2012
05.10.2012
Miklos KorenCentral European UniversityRecent topics in international trade14:00-18:00(04.10.)
09:30-12:30(05.10.)
 
10.01.2013
11.01.2013
Carsten TrenklerUniversität MannheimBootstrap Inference in Econometrics14:00-18:00(10.01.)
09:00-12:30(11.01.)