The paper "Mixtures of log‑normal distributions in the mid‑scale range of firm‑size variables" by Dr. Till Massing, Prof. Dr. Atushi Ishikawa, Prof. Dr. Arturo Ramos, Prof. Dr. Shouji Fujimoto and Prof. Dr. Takayuki Mizuno has...

Last month we said goodbye to our colleagues Mert Basaran and Alexander Langnau. We  would like to thank them for their excellent work and collaboration and wish both of them a lot of success in their professional and personal...

Dr. Stephan Hetzenecker received the Science Award for Economics of the Sparkasse Essen, which is endowed with 5.000 € for his dissertation "Essays on Using Shrinkage Estimators in Econometrics". The award honors outstanding...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) recently approved the third-party funded project "Predictive regressions for measures of systemic risk" for two years. Yannick Hoga, together with Prof. Dr. Matei Demetrescu (TU Dortmund...

Prof. Dr. Yannick Hoga has been accepted with an article in the peer-reviewed journal "Econometric Theory". The title of the paper is "The Estimation Risk in Extreme Systematic Risk Forecasts" and can be viewed here. 

For the internationally peer-reviewed journal "ESAIM: Probability & Statistics", Dr. Till Massing has been accepted with his paper "Approximation and Error Analysis of Forward–Backward SDEs Driven by General Lévy Processes Using...

Zum Ende des vergangenen Monats haben wir unseren Kollegen Cedric Jüssen vom Lehrstuhl verabschiedet.  Wir bedanken uns für seine hervorragende Arbeit und sein hohes Engagement, jedoch bedauern wir es auch, einen persönlich...

With the paper "A Data Mining Approach for Detecting Collusion in Unproctored Online Exams", Prof. Dr. Christoph Hanck, Dr. Till Massing, Jens Klenke, Janine Langerbein, Natalie Reckmann, Prof. Dr. Michael Goedicke and Dr. Michael...

The paper "Backtesting Systemic Risk Forecasts Using Multi-Objective Elicitability" by Prof. Dr. Yannick Hoga and Dr. Tobias Fissler was accepted for the internationally peer-reviewed Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. The...

The paper "Effects of Early Warning Emails on Student Performance" by Prof. Dr. Christoph Hanck, Dr. Till Massing, Jens Klenke, Janine Langerbein, Natalie Reckmann, Benjamin Otto and Prof. Dr. Michael Goedicke has been accepted...

Im vergangenen Monat haben wir Marco Schwarzbach von unserem Lehrstuhl verabschiedet. Es fällt schwer einen sehr geschätzten Kollegen verabschieden zu müssen, außerdem möchten wir uns für seine hervorragende und engagierte Arbeit...

Wir freuen uns mitzuteilen, dass Yannick Hoga in dieser Woche zum Professor für Finanzmarktökonometrie an der Universität Duisburg-Essen ernannt wurde. Er wird damit, gefördert durch eine Heisenberg-Professur der DFG, seine...