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Graduate Center Masterclasses
This course aims to bring participants to the research frontier on how to estimate the causal effects of macroeconomic shocks, with a particular focus on monetary and fiscal policy. We will discuss how to: plausibly identify those shocks; best estimate their causal effects in finite samples; and finally use those shock causal effects for macroeconomic policy evaluation. The analysis throughout...
13.05.2024| Christian Wolf
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
This course provides a self-contained introduction to Bayesian analysis of panel data models. We will start with an introduction to Bayesian inference, covering the basic building blocks, which involve inference in a heteroskedastic linear regression model and Gibbs sampling to generate draws from the posterior distribution. Moreover, we will consider nonparametric inference. We then proceed with...
04.06.2024| Frank Schorfheide
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
What this course is about:
The study of nonlinearities permeates modern macroeconomics.This course will introduce tools to estimate the possibly nonlinear effects of various (possibly non-Gaussian) economic shocks. The tools/models we will cover come in two classes:
1. Models where nonlinearities and non-Gaussianity help to identify shocks2. Models where identification assumptions (such as...
07.10.2024| Christian Matthes
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
What this course is about:
These are many ways to analyse individual well-being. We will start from the traditional approach followed in the Social Sciences based on command over economic resources and discuss the individual attitudes towards an unequal distribution of resources. We will then enrich this traditional approach with insights from Biology looking at variables related to DNA...
24.02.2025| Conchita D'Ambrosio
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
Demand estimation and binary choice econometric models have long been central to the study of Industrial Organization, helping researchers and policymakers understand consumer preferences, market power, and competitive dynamics. These models allow for the estimation of demand elasticities and price markups. However, their applications have expanded far beyond this traditional domain, finding...
09.04.2025| Rosa Ferrer
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
to be announced
13.11.2025| Thomas Drechsel
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Research Project
The EU Tax Observatory is an independent research laboratory hosted at the Paris School of Economics and DIW is the national cooperation partner. It conducts innovative research on taxation, contributes to a democratic and inclusive debate on the future of taxation, and fosters a dialogue between the scientific community, civil society, and policymakers in the European Union and worldwide.
Current Project| Macroeconomics, Forecasting and Economic Policy
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Research Project
Political measures at the level of the European Union are intended, among other things, to ensure the stability of the economic and monetary union. This includes, for example, the establishment of the European Recovery Fund, which can be a first step towards a fiscal union in the Eurozone. The project examines how these, and other economic policy measures affect inequality between households. The...
Current Project| Macroeconomics, Forecasting and Economic Policy
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Research Project
Development of a dynamic framework to depict and compare the effects of wealth policy instruments in the short, medium, and long term. Among the examined instruments are a general wealth tax, a social inheritance, and a social dividend.
Completed Project| Macroeconomics, Forecasting and Economic Policy
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Research Project
This project assesses the sustainability of the German economy by recognizing that environmental degradation is not limited to carbon emissions or confined by national borders. It complements existing sustainability indicators by combining environmentally-extended input-output (EE-IO) tables with national-level sustainability thresholds based on the planetary boundary framework introduced by...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment, Macroeconomics