Seminar: International Trade in Macro-Financial Modelling

2nd year Ph.D./MSQE seminar (6 CP, Macroeconomics)

Kickoff: April 23, 2025
Last meeting: July 09, 2025
Venue: see schedule

Find a detailed scheduled of times and locations on QiS or as a PDF as well as the syllabus (PDF).

The purpose of this seminar is to give advanced doctoral students a hands-on introduction to frontier research in structural macroeconomic analysis in the area of international trade. The students should be able to replicate an existing structural model, present the research objective and the model of a paper, and get an overview of literature in this area of research. At the end of the seminar, students should be able to start working on a dissertation project that involves structural macroeconomic modeling.

Teaching Assistants: Jan Herrmann (HoF 4.50) and Maximilian Vilt (HoF 4.57)

Registration: Please send an e-mail to Jan Herrmann (herrmann[at]imfs-frankfurt[dot]de) to confirm that you wish to obtain information and whether you will take this seminar for credit. Please include your matriculation number, student status (Ph.D. or MSQE), year of study and full name. Please note that in order to obtain credit points for the seminar, it is also required to register for the course at the Office of Academic Records at GSEFM.