The paper "What is the best Lévy model for stock indices? A comparative study with a view to time consistency" by Dr. Till Massing has been accepted by the peer reviewed Journal Financial Markets and Portfolio Management. The...

The Paper "On Combining Evidence from Heteroskedasticity Robust Panel Unit Root Tests in Pooled Regressions" by Prof. Dr. Christoph Hanck and Martin Arnold has been accepted by the peer reviewed Journal of Risk and Financial...

The paper "Local asymptotic normality for Student-Lévy processes under high-frequency sampling" by Dr. Till Massing has been accepted by the peer reviewed Journal Statistics.

The chair of econometrics congratulates Till Massing and Jan Prüser for successfully completing their doctoral studies. The topic of Till Massing's dissertation is "Stochastic Properties of Student-Lévy Processes with...

This term we will offer a preparatory course in R which gives an introduction to the statistical programming language R. All students with no or little knowledge in R who want to take the course time series analysis are strongly...

The paper "E-Assessment Using Variable-Content Exercises in Mathematical Statistics" by Till Massing et. al. has been accepted by the peer reviewed Journal of Statistics Education.

The paper "Extending the Limits of Backtesting via the ‘Vanishing p’ Approach" by Dr. Yannick Hoga has been accepted by the peer reviewed Journal of Time Series Analysis. The publication can be viewed here.

On 5th November 2018, Dr. Yannick Hoga received the economics award of Sparkasse Essen. He received the award, which is endowed with 5.000 €, for his dissertation "Detecting changes in the extremal behavior of time series"....

The book Introduction to Econometrics with R by Christoph Hanck, Martin Arnold, Alexander Gerber and Martin Schmelzer has been published in the bookdown archive. The book is part of the project Reproducible Research in der...

An initial meeting for the master seminar will be held on 13.11.2018 at 10:00 in R12 R06 A48. Further informations on the seminar can be found here.

For his work in change point analysis, extreme value theory and financial econometrics, Dr. Yannick Hoga was awarded the Wolfgang Wetzel Award of the German Statistical Society (DStatG) at this years Statistical Week in Linz. The...

Christoph Hanck will serve, upon invitation of the editors Robert Kunst (Vienna University) and Joakim Westerlund (Lund University), as associate editor of Empirical Economics for, initially, three years.