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...

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....

Long-term trends like demographic change and climate change pose major challenges for the sustainability and stability of financial markets. For households, firms and financial institutions these entail far-reaching consequences with regard to financial decision-making, old-age provision,...

We invite full paper submissions for the Kiel-CEPR conference “Monetary Policy After the Inflation Surge – What Have We Learned?” Paper contributions should focus on issues related to monetary policy during the recent inflation surge and the following disinflation period. We invite both...

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...

The conference will focus on the new global challenges for international fiscal and monetary policy. Just three years after the recent pandemic, policy makers are confronted with a new set of global challenges. These include increasing geoeconomic fragmentation, regional conflicts and climate...