Seminar Empirical Monetary Macroeconomics (374002)

Seminar Overview

• Winter Term
  General Characteristics
  Title	Seminar Empirical Monetary Macroeconomics
  Reference number	374002
  Semester	Winter Term 2023/2024
  When is it offered	Winter and Summer
  General topic	Empirical Monetary Macroeconomics
  Target group	MSc WiWi PO 2018
  Amount of places	20
  Language	only English
  Event place	Online
  Practice partner	No
  Event cycle	Block course
  When do you have to write the paper	during the lecture period
  Requirements and Support
  Goal setting	Students can conduct an independent empirical analysis of a monetary policy issue
  Previous knowledge required	Basic knowledge of econometrics is required, previous knowledge of the R software is an advantage
  Supporting course for an introduction to scientific work	Course materials will be made available at the beginning of the seminar
  Formal requirements	To be determined within the framework of the information on scientific work at the beginning of the course
  General literature	Basic literature on the individual topics will be announced in the introductory event
  Basic literature to start with per topic	Yes
  Methodology	Empirical analysis
  Special Software used	R
  Recommended word processing software	LATEX / MS Word
  Word scope of the housework	Max. 12 pages of text
  Outline meetings	Min. 1
  Performance requirements / evaluation including weighting	Compulsory attendance, verbal participation in discussions [5%], presentation [25%], seminar paper (individual work) [70%]
  Tester	Prof. Dr. Lena Dräger
  Contact Person	Dr. Giang Nghiem
  Group Work and Choice of Topics
  Work in groups	For the presentation with multiple topics
  Students per group	2-3
  Group composition procedure	Preferences based
  Subjects	1. Analysis of optimal currency areas 2. Estimation of Taylor rules 3. Estimation of money demand functions 4. Estimation of PPP and Balassa-Samuelson effect 5. Tests for the Uncovered Interest Parity
  Procedure for assigning topics	Preference-based, if necessary lottery
  Pre-Registration	Web form (will then here be activated)
  Schedule
  Pre-Registration / application	20.10.2023-06.10.2023 via Webformular
  Introductory event	Wednesday, 18.10.2023, 12:45-14:15, room 442 (1501)
  Introduction to R	Two sessions on Thursday, 19.10.2023, 7:30- 9:00 and 9:15-10:45, room 342 (1501)
  Topic assignment	During the introductory event
  Binding registration	During the introductory event
  Start of processing seminar paper	With the binding registration on the date of the introductory event
  Submission of seminar paper	10.01.2024, per Email to Dr Giang Nghiem
  Submission presentation	Two days before the presentation by email
  Presentation event	Wednesday, 06.12.2023, 12:45-19:30, room 112 (1501)

• Summer Term
  General Characteristics
  Title	Seminar Empirical Monetary Macroeconomics
  Reference number	374002
  Semester	Summer 2022
  When is it offered	Winter and Summer
  General topic	Empirical Monetary Macroeconomics
  Target group	MSc WiWi PO 2018
  Amount of places	20
  Language	English
  Event place	internal seminar
  Practice partner	No
  Event cycle	Block Event
  When do you have to write the paper	during the semester
  Requirements and Support
  Objective	Students are able to perform an individual empirical analysis of monetary policy problems
  Previous knowledge	Previous knowledge in econometrics is necessary, some knowledge in using the software R is benefitial
  Supportive courses regarding the academic working style	Online materials
  Formal requirements	To be determined within the framework of the information on scientific work at the beginning of the course
  General literature	Starting literature will be provided in the kick-off meeting
  Starting literature available	Yes
  Methods	Empirical analysis
  Used software	R
  Recommended word processing software	LATEX or MS Word
  Word scope of the term paper	Max. 12 pages of text
  Meeting to discuss your papers structure	Min. 1, max. 3
  Grade weights	Participation is required, participation in discussion [5%], presentation [25%], seminar paper (individually) [70%]
  Examiner	Prof. Dr. Lena Dräger
  Persons in charge	Prof. Dr. Lena Dräger, Dr. Giang Nghiem
  Group Work and Choice of Topics
  Group Work	for the presentations, if several students work on the same topic
  Students per group	2-3
  How are groups allocated	Preferences
  Topics	1. Analysis of optimal currency areas 2. Estimation of Taylor rules 3. Estimation of money demand functions 4. Estimation of PPP and Balassa-Samuelson effect 5. Tests for the Uncovered Interest Parity
  How are topics allocated	Preferences, possibly lottery
  Pre-Registration	Webformular
  Schedule
  Pre-Registration	04 till 10 April, 2022 via Webformular
  Kick-Off Meeting	Wednesday, 13 April, 14.30-16.00, Room 401 (Building 1501)
  Tutorial in R	Wednesday, 20 April, 14.30-16.00, room 301 (building 1501); Wednesday, 27 April 14.30-16.00, Room 115 (Building 1503) and 16.15-17.45, room 442 (building 1501)
  Choice of topics	During kick-off Meeting
  Binding registration	During the kick-off meeting
  Starting point	Day of kick-off meeting
  Paper due	On 20 July 2022
  Presentations due	Two days prior to presentation day via E-Mail
  Presentation day	Tuesday, 21 June 1-6 p.m., Room 112 (Building 1501)