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...

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...

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...

Rising costs of living and the lack of affordable housing have brought social inequalities back to the centre of political debates in many countries. Large, high quality survey and register data provide social scientists with a solid foundation to explore topics in inequality research and to...

We invite researchers to submit papers or extended abstracts to the 7th Economics of Media Bias Workshop. As a group of economists and political scientists, we investigate forms, causes, and consequences of bias, especially in news markets and on social media. Main questions of interest are: •...

This interdisciplinary conference aims at bringing together junior and senior researchers to present and discuss their ongoing research on inequalities in outcomes such as education, health, occupation, income, or wealth.

Die Tagung wird sowohl Beiträge zum Kernthema enthalten als auch einen offenen Teil mit Sektionen, deren Themen nicht vorgegeben sind. Das Kernthema lautet "Verteilung und Teilhabe: Konflikte in polarisierten Gesellschaften". Die Verteilung knapper Ressourcen geht mit wirtschaftlicher...