Courses
First Year (Winter Term)
In the first term of the first year, doctoral students will take the following core courses:
Advanced Microeconomics
Advanced Microeconomics deepens modern duality concepts in the analysis of consumer and producer behavior and welfare economics as well as many game theoretic concepts and links them to market analysis (incomplete competition), market design (auctions), markets under incomplete information (moral hazard, adverse selection), and elaborates on microeconomic decision theory (dynamic programming, decision under uncertainty, etc.).
Econometric Methods
Econometric Methods starts with a review of basic regression analysis in the context of single equation linear models, and continues with stochastic regressors and simultaneous equation models. Estimation methods like generalized least squares, instrumental variables, generalized methods of moments, maximum likelihood techniques, two and three step least squares are discussed.
Advanced Macroeconomics
Advanced Macroeconomics deals with recent developments in macroeconomic theory including monetary and international economics and models for endogenous growth. A European perspective is explicitly taken into account, where special focus is given to the process of economic integration.
Economic Policy
The Economic Policy course provides students with the tools to think analytically and critically about regulatory policies and related problems. It serves to familiarize with the rationale, implementation issues, and legal-economic aspects associated with antitrust regulation, market liberalization, and market restructuring.
First Year (Summer Term)
The second term of the first year begins with either Microeconometrics or Macroeconometrics. The choice depends on what research area the student wants to specialize in. The Research Project Management course is compulsory for all students.
Microeconometrics
Microeconometrics provides an in-depth introduction to econometric models for cross section and panel data. Topics include linear and non-linear models for panel data, discrete-choice analysis, censored regression and duration models, and self-selection models.
Macroeconometrics
Macroeconometrics provides an in-depth introduction to the application of econometric techniques to macroeconomic issues. Univariate and multivariate time series techniques are considered, including structural autoregressive models, the concepts of integration and cointegration and error correction modeling. In addition, ARCH models are reviewed, as they are of special importance in the analysis of financial markets.
Research Project Management
This course is more practical and aims to convey to students all the management skills that are required to submit a research project proposal to the European Commission, research foundations, or other institutions. Participants who pass the course will know how research policy decisions are made. The course also covers all the skills necessary for managing an accepted project.
A Variety of Field Courses
Finally, students choose two additional courses out of the broad programs offered by the three universities in Berlin. The courses must be at master or doctoral level and fit well to their research interests.
Graduate Center Masterclasses
GC Masterclasses are a series of one-day courses on various areas in Economics, organized by 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 to those of the BDPEMS program.
You can download the current schedule of the GC Masterclass.
Please find here the schedule of the GC Masterclasses in 2009/2010 | PDF, 28.78 KB .
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