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In the upcoming summer term, our chair offers again a seminar on "Economic Expectations and Forecasting Methods" for Bachelor students. The seminar is probably most interesting for students who took already either the lecture "Analysis of Macroeconomic and Financial Markets Data" or "Empirical Finan...

A research paper by Prof. Dr. Jonas Dovern is now available at the International Journal of Forecasting. The study presents a new qualitative measure of macroeconomic expectation uncertainty based on data from a German online survey of consumer expectations and shows that this survey method works we...

Dr Alexander Glas received the "Preis für gute Lehre an den staatlichen Universitäten in Bayern". The award winners are nominated by their home university. The vote of the students is also taken into account. The prerequisite for receiving the award is an outstanding teaching performance over the co...

A summary of the study concerning the effectiveness of the German tax cut on fuel prices („Tankrabatt“), which was conducted by our chair, has been published on the online portal Ökonomenstimme. In the analysis, we compare German prices for petrol and diesel with those in a synthetic control group, ...

In the upcoming summer term we offer a number of courses for Bachelor and Master students. For Bachelor students, we offer the module "Empirical Finance" and the seminar on "Economic Expectations and Forecasting Methods". For Master students, we offer the modules "Bayesian Econometrics" and "M...