In today’s highly-competitive business climate, it is vital that economists and analysts possess a firm grasp of the economic data that factor into business decisions, drive economic modeling, and influence policy debates. Understanding how the data are constructed is a prerequisite for...

For over 50 years, the European Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society have fostered interaction among young scholars and a group of more senior academics representing different regions and fields of specialisation. At the turn of the century, the meetings began to focus on PhD students...

The course has several educational objectives. The first objective is to broaden the participants' knowledge concerning the various qualitative approaches, as well as to outline their potential for doctoral dissertations in the area of business research in various European countries. The third...

After reviewing basic identification strategies in econometrics as well as reviewing main ideas and methods of supervised machine learning, the main part of the lectures concerns causal machine learning, i.e. how to combine the prediction methods of the machine learning literature with the...

Ce colloque a pour objectif d'interroger les pratiques statistiques, les outils utilisés, les catégories produites, les champs investis par la statistique publique, mais aussi l'harmonisation internationale ou le métier de statisticien.

The Lecture Series is named after a remarkable German American scientist Hermann Otto Hirschfeld. As a brilliant statistician he was the 74th president of the ASA (American Statistical Association). He had a lot of earnings in establishing statistics as an important scientific area at American...

This interesting topic is right up-to-date, as accurate estimators of volatility become increasingly important in today's financial markets. It is therefore a great pleasure to have two specialists in this field of research, Professor Per Mykland (The University of Chicago) and Professor Olivier...

Timberlake Consultants Ltd is the worldwide publisher and distributor of OxMetrics. The course concerns the theory and practice of econometric modelling and forecasting in a non-stationary and evolving world, when the model and mechanism differ. The course has been designed for economic...

The Chinese Week is part of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. You are cordially invited to submit a paper to the conference on Thursday, July 22 or to the Humboldt-Xiamen Workshop on Friday, July 23. Both events accept contributions from all areas...

The Chinese Week is part of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. It consists of an official part with presentations by universities, alumni and students, a top-level international conference, and the Humboldt-Xiamen Workshop. The academic program...