Winter Term 2012/13

The event is held in english.

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Exam

• Exam (90 min)
• Active participation and presentation in practical sessions
• Term paper

Creditable as

• Economics: MA-061

Content

The aim of this course is to provide participants with a deeper understanding of microeconometric estimation techniques. We will use the topic “Policy Evaluation” to illustrate and discuss several methods under various types of assumptions.

Topics

• Causality and the Potential Outcome Framework
• Experiments
• Unconfoundedness
• Matching
• Difference-in-Differences
• Selection Models
• Instrumental Variables
• Regression Discontinuity

The lecture will be complemented by a practical computer session where the estimators will be implemented using STATA.

Literature

• Caliendo, M. (2006): Microeconometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies. Springer, Berlin.
• Imbens, G., and J.M. Wooldridge (2009): Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation, Journal of Economic Literature, 47(1), 5-86.
• Wooldridge, J. (2009): Introductory Econometrics. A Modern Approach. Thomson South Western.
• A detailed reading list with relevant papers will be distributed in due time.

The provisional dates for the practical sessions using Stata are: 26.10, 09.11, 16.11, 07.12, 11.01, 01

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Exam 

• Written exam 60 min.

Creditable as

• Economics: BA-600,  B.BM.VWL.420,  B.VM.VWL.510/610
• Business Administration: BA-P-602

Content

The aim of this course is to provide the participants with a basic understanding of empirical economics and to give them an introduction to econometrics. Building on the lecture "BA: Statistics" the participants shall be enabled to conduct empirical analysis on their own.

Topics

• Analysis of economic relationships
• Introduction to econometrics
• Introduction to STATA
• Estimating, testing and predicting in the simple and multiple regression model framework
• Problems and extensions of the multiple regression model
• Policy evaluation

Literature

• Wooldridge, J. (2009): Introductory Econometrics. A Modern Approach. Thomson South Western.
• Schira, J. (2009): Statistische Methoden der VWL und BWL. Pearson Studium.
• Kohler, U., Kreuter, F. (2008): Datenanalyse mit Stata. Oldenburg Verlag.