The increasing availability of real-time, high-frequency financial data—ranging from credit card transactions to bank records and digital payment platforms—has opened new frontiers in economic research. For instance, such data enables a deeper understanding of spending and saving behavior,...

The course is targeted at PhD students and young researchers who want to apply data science methods in their research. It covers various data preparation, statistical modeling, and visualization techniques for extracting knowledge from the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in business...

Grundlegendes Ziel dieses Kurses ist es, den Teilnehmenden Kenntnisse über den Prozess und die Methoden qualitativer Forschungsdesigns zu vermitteln und die Eignung solcher Designs für konkrete Problemstellungen der Teilnehmenden zu diskutieren (Werkstatt-Prinzip). - Grundlagen und...

Researchers are often interested in calculating how variables respond over time to a given stimulus, such as a policy intervention. This is often referred to as an impulse response. The method of local projections offers a convenient approach to investigate such impulse response dynamics. This...

The UECE Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications are an annual event that brings together leading scholars doing theoretical or applied research in the field of game theory.

Meta-analysis encompasses a broad set of methods to conduct a systematic, quantitative review of the literature in order to derive empirical generalizations. This workshop will deal with methods for conducting a meta-analysis. The purpose is to train the participants to conduct and publish a...

The Dresden Branch of the ifo Institute and the Technische Universität Dresden invite you to submit your (preliminary) paper to the 14th ifo Dresden Workshop on Labor Economics and Social Policy. Relevant topics include evaluations of labor market policies and related social programs,...

Das ZEW Mannheim veranstaltet die dreizehnte Mannheim Conference on Energy and the Environment. Führende Expert/innen sowie Wissenschaftler/innen aller Karrierestufen sind eingeladen, innovative aktuelle Forschung im Bereich der Energie- und Umweltökonomik zu präsentieren und zu diskutieren....

Social reality is built on the capacity of human beings to engage in social behavior – complex forms of intentional, coordinated actions of multiple individuals. In some cases, peoples’ willingness to engage in such behavior can be explained by their self-oriented interest in advancing their...

Mobile phone data are ubiquitous today, as almost everyone carries a mobile device in their pocket. This generates huge data trails that provide almost unbiased information about people’s mobility and location. These data have been used, for example, in the COVID-19 years to assess the impact...