CDSE: Guest Lecture Matthias Doepke
He will give a lecture "Inflation and Redistribution: The Economics of Money as a Unit of Account" on July 23, July 25 and July 27, 15:00 to 16:30 h resp. The course will take place in L 9, 7, room 3.08.
The course provides an overview of research that is concerned with the role of money as a unit of account for assets and liabilities. Long-term contracts that specify future payments (such as mortgages, loans, or government debt) are usually written in fixed nominal (dollar) units. The use of money as a unit of account in this sense implies that unanticipated changes in the price level (inflation or deflation) have redistributive effects: for example, inflation lowers the real value of all nominal assets and liabilities, and thereby shifts wealth from lenders to borrowers. The mini-course covers research that aims to understand the economic mechanisms that give rise to the use of money as a unit of account; that assesses the extent and direction of redistribution generated by changes in the price level; and that quantifies the implications of large inflation shocks on economic aggregates, the welfare of different groups of households, and the housing market.
SOEP@campus - Längsschnittdatenanalyse mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)
CDSB Workshop 2012
We are happy to announce the 3rd CDSB Workshop to take place on March 30, 2012. The
goals of this workshop are (1) to provide CDSB students with the opportunity to present their
early research ideas as well as working papers and (2) to promote the exchange of ideas, topics
and methods between different tracks of the CDSB. The CDSB Workshop is jointly organised
by the student representatives of the CDSB with the help of the administrative CDSB support
team.
Click here for the Program.
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Dissertation Fellowship for Jens Brandenburg
Congrats to our second year student Jens Brandenburg! He has won a dissertation fellowship by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) for his dissertation project.
The FNF fellowship programme is open to foreign students and postgraduates at German universities. Applicants are subject to a preliminary selection process under which the applicants' qualifications are checked and the chance for a successful application is assessed carefully. Find more information about the application process here.
Petyo Bonev: best research paper at this year's annual meeting of young economists
The Economics PhD Student Petyo Bonev from the University of Mannheim has won the award for best research paper at this year's annual meeting of young economists. The meeting brings together many hundreds of the best PhD students and postdocs in economics worldwide, and gives them a platform to present their latest research findings. This year's meeting was held in April 2011 in Groningen, The Netherlands. Bonev presented his paper
NONPARAMETRIC INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE METHODS FOR TREATMENT EVALUATION AMONG SURVIVORS
The paper focuses on the effect of an intervention on the probability of leaving a certain state among those who have already spent some time in that state. For example, one may think of the effect of participation in a training program for long-term unemployed individuals on the probability that they will find a job within a year. Often, the individuals who are willing to participate are more motivated to take a job anyway, so simply comparing them to those who do not participate would result in incorrect conclusions. However, with a rich set of observations, one may apply econometric techniques called "instrumental variables" to deal with this. Bonev shows how to do this, without relying on unjustified assumptions that are often made in practice.
Petyo Bonev is currently a PhD student in the Mannheim Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS), which has been awarded the excellence status by the German Science Foundation (DFG). His research is supervised by Gerard van den Berg and Enno Mammen.
We congratulate him with this impressive achievement in a contest with strong competition.
Best Paper Award for Georg Wernicke
Congratulations to our fourth-year PhD Student Georg Wernicke for winning the Best Paper Award for his Paper "Holier than Thou: Strategic CSR and the threat of managerial hypocrisy" at the 12th Prebem PhD Conference 2011 in Rotterdam!
The 12th PREBEM Conference 2011 is a conference for PhD researchers organized by PhD researchers. PREBEM is the Dutch organization for PhD researchers in Business Economics and Management, which is embedded within the Netherlands Organization for Researchers in Business Economics and Management (NOBEM). Currently, 11 Dutch universities participate in NOBEM.
The goal of this organization is to facilitate contact, knowledge sharing and cooperation between PhD researchers. PREBEM contributes to helping PhD researchers make a successful start in their academic career and to enable them to participate in existing and new academic networks.
The conference enables PhD researchers to present and discuss scientific research and research papers, and thus participate in the scientific debate. In addition, the conference also offers PhD researchers the opportunity to connect to existing research networks or to start new networks.
Georg Wernicke is currently a PhD student in the Mannheim Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS), which has been awarded the excellence status by the German Science Foundation (DFG). His research is supervised by Professor Walter Oechsler.
