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Veronika Bertram-Hümmer (GC2010) and Ghassan Baliki of the Development and Security department have been awarded with the “Hans Raupach Best Paper Award“ of IOS Regensburg for their paper "Measuring Deprivation: A New Index Of Visible Wealth”. The price was awarded within the 5th Joint IOS/APB/EACE Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe on the subject of “Subjective ...
31.07.2013
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Dr. Daniel Kemptner received his doctoral title from the Free University Berlin on June 27, 2013. Under the supervision of Prof. Peter Haan and Prof. Frank Fossen, he investigated the relationship between individuals' education, health risks, and economic outcomes in Germany in his dissertation. The Dean congratulates him for successfully completing the program of the Graduate Center.
31.07.2013
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Jan Marcus, department Education Policy, has successfully defended his dissertation at Technische Universität Berlin. The dissertation with the title “Four Essays on Causal Inference in Health Economics" was supervised by Gert G. Wagner (TU Berlin) and Thomas Siedler (Universität Hamburg). The Dean congratulates him for his success!
22.07.2013
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Andreas Thiemann has been granted a scholarship from the Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung (FNA) from September 2013 on. The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates him on his success!
09.07.2013
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From June 26 to 28, the second Graduate Center Summer Workshop took place in the avendi Hotel at Griebnitz Lake in Potsdam and turned out to be a big success again. During the three-day workshop, GC10 and GC11 doctoral students presented their current research and received feedback from their supervisors and peers. The workshop was well attended by professors, doctoral students and external guests. ...
02.07.2013
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Verena Grass has been granted a scholarship from the Foundation of German Business (sdw) retroactively to May 1. The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates her on her success!
04.06.2013
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This year's application process for the Graduate Center is completed and the successful candidates have received an offer. Due to the large number of extremely well qualified applications decision making was far from easy. We regretfully had to reject many very promising candidates. We are grateful to everyone who expressed his/her interest and confidence in our program by submitting an application. ...
22.05.2013
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On the last day of March the submission deadline for applications for the 2013 intake expired. By this day, the Graduate Center received a total of 196 completed applications from around the world. Given the limited capacities of 10-14 participants for this year’s class, this implies an intense competition between the candidates in selections: Only the best 5-10% can be accepted into the 4-year ...
10.04.2013
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Markku Lanne, Professor of Economics at the University of Helsinki, is a GC guest researcher from January to May 2013. His research topics are: Noncausal and noninvertible time series, unit root and stationarity tests, near unit roots, structural vector autoregression, volatility modeling, empirical finance and nonlinear time series models.
21.01.2013
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The DIW Graduate Center opened its application procedure for the 2013 intake by early January. Graduates in economics and related sciences are welcome to submit their application documents until March 31th. Interviews will be held in late April and early May. Successful candidates start the program on October 1st. Application and Admission
03.01.2013
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What is a better measure for the accomplishment of a doctoral program than its graduates? In this spirit, the DIW Graduate Center doctoral program truly is a success story!As many as seven participants of the GC’s structured training and research program successfully defended their doctoral theses in 2012. Five of them attended this year’s celebratory graduation ceremony on Friday, 14 December ...
19.12.2012
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The Graduate Center invites all DIW colleagues to attend its annual Graduation Ceremony, which will be on December 14 in the Schumpeter Hall. In 2012 seven doctoral students successfully defended their doctoral theses. At the Ceremony, Prof. Dr. Bert Rürup, Chairman of DIW Board of Trustees, will give a welcome address, followed by the commencement address "Gotta Serve Somebody" by Dr. ...
10.12.2012
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From December 13 to 14, the annual Graduate Center Winter Workshop will take place in the Schumpeter Hall of DIW Berlin. During the two day workshop, doctoral students will present their current research and receive feedback from their supervisors and peers. The program consists of 12 presentations that cover a large range of topics in economics and social sciences, including two by GC alumni. Moreover, ...
10.12.2012
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Jan Marcus, doctoral student of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, has won a prize at the “Best Paper Prize for Young Economists competition” associated with the Warsaw International Economic Meeting 2012. His paper is entitled “The effect of unemployment on the mental health of spouses - Evidence from plant closures in Germany".
04.12.2012
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The Communications Department invites graduates and young scientists to participate in a 2-day-workshop on writing and publication skills. The workshop on Nov 15 and 16, 2012, will cover topic selection, structure of an article in the DIW’s main publication “Wochenbericht”, presenting your research to the media and several hands on –writing trainings. We will give each you individual ...
02.11.2012
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In winter semester 2012/2013, the GC cooperates further with the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) for various advanced courses at DIW Berlin. The lecturers for Microeconomic Analysis I include Prof. Ulrich Kameke (HU Berlin), Prof. Dorothea Kübler (WZB, TU Berlin) and Prof. Georg Weizsäcker (DIW Berlin, HU Berlin). The Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis Course ...
08.10.2012
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The Graduate Center offers two 2-day workshops on giving scientific talks on October 16/17 and on October 18/19.The course covers topics like targeting the audience, choosing content, commanding body language and voice, refining rhetorical skills, managing stress, as well as conveying messages authentically and convincingly. One part of the training will include videotaping presentations and analyzing ...
08.10.2012
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On October 4/5, the DIW Graduate Center welcomed its new cohort GC2012 through various events. Ten promising young students introduced themselves at the welcome reception in the evening of October 4, following the opening speeches of Prof. Gert G. Wagner, president of DIW Berlin, and Prof. Helmut Lütkepohl, Dean of the GC. On October 5, a detailed introduction to the doctoral program structure ...
05.10.2012
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From June 28 to 30, the first Graduate Center Summer Workshop took place in the avendi Hotel at Griebnitz Lake in Potsdam and turned out to be a big success. During the three-day workshop, GC09 and GC10 doctoral students presented their current research and received feedback from their supervisors and peers. The workshop was well attended by more than 50 professors, doctoral students and external guests. ...
06.07.2012
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This year’s Lecture series of the Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA) took place on 23 and 24 April with support from the DIW Berlin and in particular the Socio-Economic Panel. The lecture was held by Professor Joseph Altonji (Yale University) on the topic „Dealing with Selection on Unobservables“. Most of the more than 70 participants came from Berlin (students, PhD-students, ...
07.06.2012