The DIW Berlin organizes its annual workshop on macroeconometric modelling. The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to promote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling. Contributions should apply modern time series or...

Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium constitutes nowadays a standard modeling framework for monetary policy analysis. It is commonly accepted and utilized by both central banks and the academia. It serves as a methodological paradigm within which theoretical arguments and empirical...

Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium constitutes nowadays a standard modeling framework for monetary policy analysis. It is commonly accepted and utilized by both central banks and the academia. It serves as a methodological paradigm within which theoretical arguments and empirical...

The workshop will cover among others the following topics: yield curve modeling, multi-country models of the term structure of interest rates, sovereign and credit risk models, modeling of money market rates, bond portfolio management, bond prices in dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE)...

Main topic areas: - Agent-based modeling - Artifical/experimental markets - Asset pricing and computational finance - Dynamic games - DSGE/business cycle modeling - Economic dynamics development and growth - Econophysics - Finance and financial crises - Fiscal policy - Heterogeneous-agent...

This course provides a review and practical guide to a number of microeconometric models and estimators. We focus on panel and count data models and also examine a broad class of models of discrete choice behaviour. The course emphasise two estimators, the instrumental variable estimator, and...

Topics: - Volatility and forecasting I: Univariate GARCH, theory and applications - Volatility and forecasting II: Multivariate GARCH , theory and applications - Measuring contagion among stock markets. - Panel factor models in finance - The impact of macro-announcements on the term structure,...