All topics in financial econometrics are acceptable, but with some preference given to topics that are in line with the theme of the summer school. Topics: - The econometrics of parametric option pricing inference under alternative asymptotic settings (large and short time spans, large and short...

This one-week crash course is an introduction to the field of experimental economics. The course provides students with skills needed to design and run an experiment. There will be an additional one-day module on Statistical Data Analysis at the end of the course (on July 22). Topics include: -...

The goal of the summer school is to introduce researchers from various fields to key concepts, state-of-the-art methods, and computer tools in statistical genetics that can be applied in the social and medical sciences. The course will be highly quantitative and interactive, covering topics such...

This course introduces students to modeling policy choices in a dynamic setting. It starts with applications of dynamic programming techniques to incentive problems, both for the design of policies, their credibility. We then characterize equilibrium when policies themselves are endogenous and...

Recent years have seen a massive increase in the availability of large data sets. In this course we will cover some of the techniques that have been developed to analyze such data sets. Particular attention will be given to precise estimation, variable selection, and hypothesis testing. We will...

Central Theme "GIS and Regional Science: Theory and Applications" The summer school will first introduce the basic ingredients which underpin much of the analyses within a GIS framework including mapping, buffer, overlay and network analysis. It will then introduce a wide range of GIS...

Speaker: Prof. Andrew Kleit is a Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics, and his main area of research is Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economics. He has a great deal of teaching, researching and doing project experiences in the field of energy management and policy, global business...

The program of the CEE Vienna International Tax Law Summer School comprises a week of intensive work on scientific topics, provided by professors and experienced research associates, covering the practice of double tax treaties and European tax law. The English program is directed at full-time...

Course outline: 1. Overview of Bayesian econometrics: Bayesian theory and computations 2. Linear regressions: Gaussian and t errors, moving average errors, independence-chain Metropolis-Hastings, Griddy-Gibbs 3. Mixture models: scale mixture of normals, finite mixture of normals 4. Linear state...

The topic covered by the 2017 Summer School is the Macroeconomics, Growth, and the Environment. Some of the most pressing environmental and resource problems – including climate change, deforestation, urban air pollution – are closely related to economic growth. Environmental policies have...