Professorship in Empirical Economics and Applied Statistics

We wish all students good luck for all upcoming exams in the upcoming exam phase!

Prof. Dr. Martin Missong, together with Dr. Ludwig Heinzelmann, published the article "Nonlinear interest rate-setting behaviour of German commercial banks" published in the latest issue of "Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics".

The next exam for the eGS course "Working with Microsoft Excel" will take place on 09 June. Please remember to register in time for the exam and book a place in the test center via Stud.IP.

Dr. Tanja Ihden has received a teaching assignment from the Harz University of Applied Sciences and will give a lecture in statistics in the business administration course of studies in the digital summer semester 2020.

The professorship's team will of course continue to be available to you in the summer semester 2020 - even if only in digital form. For information on the course Statistics please register for the respective Stud.IP courses on lecture, exercise and tutorials.

Due to current developments in connection with the corona virus, the professorship can only be accessed electronically until further notice. The sale of scripts is therefore also temporarily suspended. Stay at home and stay healthy!

Dr. Tanja Ihden was appointed as Country Coordinator for Germany of the International Statistical Literacy Project.

The office hours of Prof. Dr. Martin Missong will only take place during the semester break by prior arrangement.

Our team took part in this year's black light dodgeball tournament of sports economics students. In a strong group of 7, we missed the entry into the knockout phase unfortunately by a very narrow margin as third in the group.

The EmpWiFo team congratulates Dr. Christina Uffmann: Her dissertation on the measurement of liquidity risks was awarded the "Special Prize of the Deutsche Bundesbank for Economic Theses 2019" at the University of Bremen!