The workshop offers an introduction to the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The SOEP is a survey of the population of Germany that has been conducted annually since 1984 and addresses topics such as household composition, employment and family biography, income trajectories, health, education, life...

Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models (DSGE) command wide support among macroeconomists as a modeling methodology. In addition, they are widely used by policy institutions for both policy assessments and forecasting exercises. Nevertheless, there is much less agreement about the details...