From September 8–11, around 400 guests from Germany and beyond gathered at the University of Duisburg-Essen for Statistische Woche, the 99th annual conference of the German Statistical Society, the Association of German Municipal Statistics, and the German Society for Demography. The event was organized locally by the chairs of econometrics of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. We were delighted by the inspiring presentations on many current and relevant topics in statistics (methodological foundations, the census, and AI)! Furthermore, we hope we successfully presented UDE as a vibrant hub of academic research. The 100th anniversary conference will take place next year in Dresden—we’re already looking forward to attending as guests again!

Auch dieses Semester bieten wir wieder ein R-Propädeutikum an. Dieser Vorkurs dient als Einführung in die statistische Programmiersprache R und richtet sich an neue Master-Studierende sowie interessierte Bachelor-Studierende, die noch keine oder nur geringe R-Vorkenntnisse besitzen.

• Termine: 01. und 02.10.2026

Weitere Informationen finden sich auf unserer Website.

We are pleased to welcome Saskia Schütte as a new PhD candidate at our Chair since mid-April.

As part of her PhD, Saskia Schütte will support our Chair in both research and teaching. We wish her a successful start and a successful PhD program. 

RWE Supply & Trading GmbH offers a part-time position for students for a duration of six months. Please see the attached material and the link for more information.

Wir freuen uns sehr, Herrn Siebert seit vergangenem Montag als neuen Doktoranden an unserem Lehrstuhl begrüßen zu dürfen.

Herr Siebert wird im Rahmen seiner Promotion unseren Lehrstuhl in der Forschung als auch in der Lehre unterstützen. Wir wünschen ihm einen erfolgreichen Start und eine erfolgreiche Promotionszeit.

The paper "How to Compare Copula Forecasts?", written by Dr. Tobias Fissler and Prof. Dr. Yannick Hoga, has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. The publication can be viewed here.

The Faculty of Business Administration and Economics is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Dr. Yannick Hoga as Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Econometrics, an internationally distributed, peer-reviewed academic journal published by Oxford University Press.

The Journal of Financial Econometrics publishes research on econometric methods and their application in financial economics and is among the well-established international journals in the field.

In his role as Associate Editor, Prof. Hoga supports the review and selection process of submitted scholarly articles and thereby contributes to the further development of research quality in the area of financial econometrics.

The Faculty extends its warmest congratulations and is delighted about this recognition of scientific expertise at the UDE.

Ab dem 14.12.2025 ist der “studentische Stellenmarkt der Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE)” auf dem Portal “Stellenwerk” wiederzufinden. Dort werden Jobangebote für studentische Hilfskräfte (SHK) und wissentschaftliche Hilfskräfte (WHF/WHK) der UDE sowie Jobangebote externer Arbeitgeber für Studierende veröffentlicht.

Prof. Dr. Yannick Hoga and Prof. Dr. Timo Dimitriadis have once again succeeded in publishing a contribution in the internationally peer-reviewed journal Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. The article titled “Dynamic CoVaR Modeling and Estimation” can be accessed here.

In der neusten Folge des Podcast Data Science Talks (#17 auf Spotify) diskutieren Prof. Dr. Christoph Hanck und Prof. Dr. Johannes Lederer (Uni Hamburg) über spannende Fragen rund um das Thema Lehre in Zeiten von generativer KI:

• Wie entwickelt sich die Rolle der Dozierenden
• Welche Herausforderungen bestehen bei Prüfungen am PC und online
• u.v.m.