Activities and Events
2024
18th Ruhr Graduate Summer School
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF NET-ZERO EMISSIONS POLICIES USING GAMS AND MPSGE
Oktober 7-11, 2024
Essen, Germany
Instructors: Christoph Böhringer (University of Oldenburg, Germany) & Volker Clausen
(University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
The registration deadline is September 6, 2024.
Writing a Paper in Economics
Instructor: Thomas K. Bauer
January 12th, 2024, 10:00-12:00 @ RWI E-Werk hybrid
Please register with info(at)rgs-econ.de, indicating whether you want to take part in-person or online.
2023
How to Behave at Conferences
Instructor: Thomas K. Bauer
December 8th, 2023, 10:00-12:00 @ RWI E-Werk hybrid
Please register with info(at)rgs-econ.de, indicating whether you want to take part in-person or online.
RGS Jamboree
November 24th, 2023 9:00-15:00 @ RWI E-Werk
RGS/RWI Short Course "Research Data Management: General Workflow and Version Control"
November 22, 2023 : 9:00 -12:00
In-person, E-Werk @ RWI
Instructors: Philip Raatz (RWI) and Patrick Thiel (RWI)
The course introduces you to the broad field of research data management and the documentation and version control tool Git, to ensure the reproducibility of your research.
The mini lecture focuses on good coding practices, version control, and documentation using Git/GitHub, providing a brief overview of the relevance and requirements of research data management.
It is recommended to bring your own laptop for the mini-lecture. To prepare for the course, install Git on your laptop and register yourself on GitHub.
Link for Installation File: https://git-scm.com/
Link for Registration: GitHub: Let’s build from here · GitHub
Space is limited to 25 participants. Please register via info@rgs-econ.de until November 15th. The course is not for credit.
RGS Mini Lecture Introduction to Data Science and Predictive Analytics for Economists
October 11-13, 2023
Instructor: Steven Lehrer (Queen's University)
Wednesday October 11: 9:30 -12:30; 14:00-16:00
Thursday October 12: 9:30 - 12:30; 14:00 -16:00
Friday October 13: 9:30 -12:30
In-person, E-Werk @ RWI
Please note the following prerequisites: Students are expected to be comfortable with econometrics, statistics, and microeconomics. Students are expected to be able to undertake data analysis with R.
Space is limited. Please register via info@rgs-econ.de until October 3rd indicating if you want to take the course "for credit" or "audit only".
17th Ruhr Graduate Summer School
Trade Policy Analysis with GAMS and MPSGE
September 18– 22, 2023
Essen, Germany
Instructors: Edward J. Balistreri (University of Nebraska-Lincoln,, USA), Christoph Böhringer (University of Oldenburg, Germany) & Volker Clausen (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
The registration deadline is August 18, 2023.
RGS Mini Lecture DYNAMIC TREATMENT EVALUATION USING DURATION ANALYSIS
Instructor: Gerard J. van den Berg (University of Groningen, IFAU Uppsala, University of Bristol)
Four-day mini-lecture: June 20- 23, 2023 11:00-14:00
In-person, RGS Econ @ RWI
Please register via email with info@rgs-econ.de by June 12th at the latest.
Mini Lecture on Spatial Econometrics
Instructor: Yanos Zylberberg
Three-day mini-lecture: May 17 - 19, 2023
• Day 1: a lecture on the general use of spatial econometrics and examples (1 hour); concrete use of GIS with small exercises (4 hours); reading group on a spatial econometrics topic (1 hour);
• Day 2: a lecture on more involved spatial econometrics/use of spatial data and examples (1 hour); concrete use of GIS with two problems (4 hours); reading group on a spatial econometrics topic (1 hour);
• Day 3: a lecture on innovative data approaches with a highlight on spatial data (1 hour); use of Python in GIS and introduction to Google Earth Engine (4 hours); reading group on a spatial econometrics topic (1 hour).
Please register via email with Cagla Diner (cagla.diner-eken(at)uni-due.de) by 17th of March at the latest. Please indicate if you want to take the mini-lecture for credit or not.
RGS Mini-Lecture "Differences-in-differences and two-way fixed effects with heterogeneous treatment effect"
virtual via Zoom
Instructor:Clement de Chaisemartin (Sciences Po)
6 lectures from 15:30 to 17:30 pm on April 5th, 6th, 12th, 14th, 17th, and 19th.
1 office hour from 14:30 to 17:30pm on April 21st.
Please register until March 31 under info(at)rgs-econ.de, indicating if you want to take the course for credit.
Career Talk
with RGS Alumnus Mathias Klein from the Sveriges Riksbank
online. Please obtain the meeting link from info@rgs-econ.de
March 23, 2023, 10:30 a.m.
Performing reproducible research in economics and management sciences
Instructor: Katharina Blankart, University of Duisburg-Essen
February 27-28, 2023 or March 1-2, 2023 @ UDE Campus Essenn or online
Please register by December 15, 2022 via https://forms.gle/ECtrg5FC6fERhJBm7
2022
Writing a Paper in Economics
Instructor: Thomas K. Bauer
November 25, 2022, 09:00-11:00 @ RWI E-Werk hybrid
Please register with info(at)rgs-econ.de, indicating whether you want to take part in-person or online.
Impulse Talk "Twitter for academics - two perspectives"
with Rüdiger Bachmann (Notre Dame) and Christoph Kronenberg (UDE)
November 23, 2022, 15:00-16:00, online via Zoom (you can obtain the zoom link via info@rgs-econ.de)
Introductory Course "Text Mining and Natural Language Processing (NLP)"
Instructors: Stefan Conrad, HHU Düsseldorf and Boris Thome, HHU Düsseldorf
November 22, 2022 from 9:30 am to 1 pm @RWI in Essen (E-Werk)
Impulse Talk "How To Write A Title And Abstract"
with Josh Goodman (U Boston, on yearlong leave from BU to serve as a Senior Economist on President Biden's Council of Economic Advisers).
November 18, 2022, 13:30-14:30, online via Zoom (you can obtain the zoom link via info@rgs-econ.de)
Career Talk "Job Prospects at the OECD"
with Levke Jessen-Thiesen
November 15, 13:15 -14:45, TU Dortmund, Mathetower M127
Impulse Talk "5 steps toward a paper"
with Frank Schilbach (MIT)
November 11, 2022, 15:00-16:00, online via Zoom (you can obtain the zoom link via info@rgs-econ.de)
How to Behave at Conferences
Instructor: Thomas K. Bauer
November 7, 2022, 15:00-17:00 @ RWI E-Werk hybrid
Please register with info(at)rgs-econ.de, indicating whether you want to take part in-person or online.
Career Talk
with Jonas Keil from the Ministry of Economic Affairs of NRW
online
November 2, 2022, 06:00 p.m.
Career Talk "Career Prospects at ARAG"
with Laura Janisch, head of the department Product and Sales International, ARAG
October 26, 17:00-18:30, Campus Essen, WST-B 10.02
16th Ruhr Graduate Summer School
Economic impact assessment of Energy and climate policies Using gams And MPSGE
September 26– 30, 2022
Essen, Germany
Instructors: Christoph Böhringer (University of Oldenburg, Germany) & Volker Clausen (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
The registration deadline is August 26, 2022.
RGS Mini-Lecture "Behavioral Public Policy"
in-person @RGS Econ @ RWI Essen
Instructor: Lorenz Götte (University of Bonn and National University of Singapur)
September 5-7, 2022, 10:00-17:30 daily
Please register until August 29th under info(at)rgs-econ.de, indicating if you want to take the course for credit.
Python Block Course
May 23-25 + 30-31, 2022, 10:00 – 16:00 or May 30 - June 03, 2022, 10:00-16:00
Instructor: Niklas Benner (TU Dortmund and RGS Econ)
Room: tba
This course is aimed at PhD students with no or intermediate Python knowledge. Experience with other languages is helpful but not necessary.
Working with Spatial Data: Applications in R
RGS Econ & RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Essen, Germany (in -person)
May 19-20, 2022
RWI, E-Werk
Arijit Ghosh (RWI)
The course deals with specifics of applications in spatial data, nuances which all economics graduate students can make good use of. In this seminar, we go through the most commonly used geographic information systems (GIS) tools and follow a simple framework of learning how to work with spatial data.
Registration: The course is open to all UA-Ruhr doctoral students in economics. Please register by sending an email to rgs(at)rgs-econ.de until May 1st.
Workshop on Causal Inference with Spatial Data
RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Essen, Germany
May 9-10, 2022
Organizer: FDZ Ruhr at the RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Call For Papers Deadline: February 11th, 2022
Full papers or extended abstracts can be submitted to fdz(at)rwi-essen.de. Submissions from PhD students are highly encouraged! Information on acceptance will be conveyed soon after the call for papers deadline.
Scientific Writing for Economists
Jens Wrona
Monday 21.03.2022 – Friday 25.03.2022 (08:00-12:00), online lecture
See course website for more information.
Note: Please register by email (jens.wrona(at)uni-due.de).
RWI Career Perspectives Seminar: Anne Oeking (IMF)
online
March 11, 2022, 15:00-16:00
MS-Teams link via info(at)rgs-econ.de
Impulse Lecture: Ronald Bachmann (RWI and HHU Düsseldorf)
hybrid (for in-person, UDE-3G-rules apply)
March 10th, 2022, 15.00-16.00
Instructor: Ronald Bachmann (RWI and HHU Düsseldorf)
Location: UDE- Campus Essen Weststadttürme A.12.04
To paticipate in person, please register via lisa-marie.duletzki(at)stud.uni-due.de until March 8th. To join via zoom, please send an Email to rgs(at)rgs-econ.de .
In this series of invited talks by external researchers for doctoral students, the presenter will give a short talk (10-20 minutes) on a research topic and her experience in academia, followed by a short discussion with the presenter and among students. The series is organized by Daniel Kühnle (UDE).
Mini-Lecture "Choice models applied to experimental data: an introduction"
in-person (2G+) UDE Campus Essen
February 22-24, 2022, 09:00-15:00
Instructor: Geir Godager
Register until 11.02.2022 at nikolaos.prodromidis (at) uni-due.de
15th RGS Doctoral Conference
online
February 21-22, 2022
Submission deadline: December 10th, 2021
2021
RGS Virtual Mini-Lecture "Causal Machine Learning"
online
December 7-10, 2021, 4:00-7:00 p.m.
Instructor: Michael Lechner, Schweizerisches Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung (SEW-HSG)
Registration required for all via rgs(at)rgs-econ.de , indicating whether you want to take the course for credit. Course Details tba.
How to Behave at Conferences
Instructor: Thomas K. Bauer
November 19, 2021, 10:00-12:00, online lecture - links for online event will be provided
RGS Virtual Mini-Lecture "Economics of Crime"
online
November 16, November 18, November 23 and November 25, 2021; 10:00-13:00
Instructor: Giovanni Mastrobuoni, University of Torino
Registration required for all via rgs(at)rgs-econ.de , indicating whether you want to take the course for credit.
Writing a Paper in Economics
Instructor: Thomas K. Bauer
November 12, 2021, 14:00 -16:00, online lecture - links for online event will be provided
RGS Jamboree
online
November 5-6, 2021
Impulse seminar: Stefanie Schurer (USydney)
online
October 20th, 2021
Instructor:Stefanie Schurer (USydney)
In this series of invited talks by external researchers for doctoral students, the presenter will give a short talk (10-20 minutes) on a research topic and her experience in academia, followed by a short discussion with the presenter and among students.
Details: tba. Please register with rgs(at)rgs-econ.de
RGS Python-Workshop
October 11-15, 2021; 10:00-16:00
Room E27, TU Dortmund (Math. Fak.)
Instructor: Niklas Benner (TU Dortmund and RGS Econ)
Please register with rgs(at)rgs-econ.de until Oct 1st, indicating if you want to take the course for credit or audit only.
RGS Mini-Lecture "Topics in Applied Econometrics"
October 5-7, 2021
Instructor: Matthias Westphal, TU Dortmund; Hendrik Schmitz, Paderborn University
Location: Schloss Oberwerries, Hamm
Website and Directions
Registration required for all via rgs(at)rgs-econ.de , indicating whether you want to take the course for credit.
RGS Mini-Lecture "Text as Data"
online
September 6-8, 2021
Instructor: Leif Anders Thorsrud, BI Norwegian Business School
Registration required for all via rgs(at)rgs-econ.de , indicating whether you want to take the course for credit.
RTG onine-workshop "Policy Making, Institutions and Regional Development: Theory and Evidence"
online
July 1-2, 2021
The RTG 2484 – Regional Disparities & Economic Policy online-workshop is organized by Galina Zudenkova (TU Dortmund) and Nadine Riedel (WWU Münster).
2020
How to Behave at Conferences
Instructor: Thomas K. Bauer
Dec 7, 2020 15:00 - 17:00, online lecture - links for online event will be provided
How to Write a Paper
Instructor: Thomas K. Bauer
Nov 30, 2020 15:00 - 17:00, online lecture - inks for online event will be provided
RGS Jamboree
RGS Econ & RWI
October 27th, 2020.
all day - virtual
RGS Econ & RWI
October 27th, 2020.
all day - virtual
Summer School "Theorie und Praxis ökonomischer Politikberatung"
- in German -
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Sep 7-9, 2020 -online-
Application deadline: May 24th, 2020
Call for applicatons and further information
RTG Mini-Lecture "Gravity with Gravitas"
online
Mini-Lecture organized by the RTG Regional Disparities and open to RGSians space permitting. Register via Email with Sebastian Kunert sebastian.kunert@uni-due.de
Yoto Yotov (Drexel University)
13 & 15 – 17 July, 9:00 – 13:00, online
14 July, 9:00 – 12:00, online
https://www.regional-disparities.de/courses/
RGS Econ meets German Council of Economic Experts
online
June 30, 2020: 13:00-16:00
Florian Kirsch & tba
topics: Climate / Corona
The event is mandatory for RGSians in their first to third years.
Registration required for all, by June 23rd, 2020: via rgs(at)rgs-econ.de
How to Behave at Conferences
Instructor: Thomas Bauer
June 9th, 2020, 15:00 - 17:00, online lecture
https://www.regional-disparities.de/courses/
Registration required: via Sebastian.Kunert(at)uni-due.de
How to Write a Paper
Instructor: Thomas Bauer
May 26 2020, 14:00 - 16:00, online lecture
https://www.regional-disparities.de/courses/
Registration required: via Sebastian.Kunert(at)uni-due.de
Mini-Lecture "The Economics of Health Care"
online
May 25, May 27, June 3, and June 8, 2020; 15:00 - 18:00
Instructor: Molly Schnell, Northwestern
This course provides an introduction to theoretical models and empirical applications in health economics. Topics include the provision and design of health insurance, causes and consequences of provider behavior, and competition in health care markets. There will also be a module on Pollution and Health.
As all RGS Mini-Lectures, the course is designed for students who have taken a first-year PhD sequence in Economics. Students taking the course for credit will be asked to give a 30-minute, in-class presentation on one paper (papers and presentation dates to be assigned before the first class based on registration).
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