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We would like to welcome our new colleague Ricarda Kochems! Ricarda Kochems will be teaching this semester and play a key role in shaping the course "Data Analysis."

This winter semester, Prof. Missong will again take up a teaching assignment at the Türk-Alman University in Istanbul.

Korri and the rest of the team "Professorship in Empirical Economics and Applied Statistics" wish you all a good start into the winter semester 2024/25!

As part of the lecture series "Lying and Misleading with Data", Prof. Dr. Missong will give a lecture at the University of Münster on January 18th 2024.

Congratulations to Dr. Maximilian Horn, who was awarded a special prize of the Deutsche Bundesbank for his dissertation in our field of work "Technology Acceptance, Path Dependence, and the Demand for Robo-Advisory Services"!

This winter semester, Prof. Missong will again take up a teaching assignment at the Türk-Alman University in Istanbul.

Prof. Dr. Martin Missong's office hours this semester take place every Monday during lecture time between 2 pm and 3 pm.

Further information is available on  Stud.IP!

Prof. Dr. Martin Missong's visiting hours this semester take place every Monday during lecture time between 15:00 and 16:00 o'clock.

Korri and the rest of the team "Professorship in Empirical Economics and Applied Statistics" wish you all a good start into the summer semester 2023!

Prof. Dr. Martin Missong's visiting hours this semester are every Monday during lecture time between 14:00 and 15:00 o'clock. On 31.10. no consultation hour takes place.

In the winter semester 2022/23, Prof. Missong will be teaching at the Türk-Alman Üniversitesi in Istanbul and will therefore be working in Turkey on a weekly basis.

Maximilian Horn and Martin Missong will present their paper "An Augmented UTAUT Model for Robo-Advisor Adoption" at Americas' Conference on Information Systems AMCIS 2022 in August.

On May 25, Prof. Dr. Dr. Hanjo Hamann will give a guest lecture on "Legal linguistics - a basic discipline in the making?" as part of the key qualification course "Statistics in Court?" (Lecture hall H1010, building GW1, 12:00 c.t.)

Korri and the rest of the team "Professorship in Empirical Economics and Applied Statistics" wish you all a good start into the summer semester 2022!

Korri and the rest of the team "Professorship in Empirical Economics and Applied Statistics" wish you all a good start into the winter semester 2021/22!

Dr. Tanja Ihden will leave our work area as of 1. September. She is going to lead transnational study programs at the University of Applied Sciences Krems in Austria.

Korri and the rest of the team "Professorship in Empirical Economics and Applied Statistics" wish you all a good start into the summer semester 2021!

The Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) – course „Business Analytics Application in Industries“ in cooperation with the Coventry University and the GISMA Business School has been completed with a closing event on the 12th of april 2021.

Paola Janßen has successfully completed her dissertation entitled "Inference with empirical theorems - investigating the connection between statistical and legal methods of persuasion".

We wish all students a good start into the next digital semester and welcome the new students at the University of Bremen!

Tim Vintis presented the paper "Are Sustainability-Oriented Investors Different? Evidence from Equity Crowdfunding" at the 4th European Alternative Finance Research Conference at Utrecht University on 6 October. The paper was written in collaboration with Lars Hornuf and Eliza Stenzhorn.

By the end of the year, Jana Sell had received a teaching assignment at the North German Academy for Finance and Tax Law in Bremen. There she teaches the financial candidates in the subject "Business Administration".

Prof. Dr. Theo Berger is the new Professor for Statistics and Data Analytics at the Harz University of Applied Sciences, but will remain with us as a private lecturer. We wish Prof. Dr. Theo Berger all the best and much success also at the Harz University of Applied Sciences!

We wish all students good luck for all upcoming exams in the upcoming exam phase!

Prof. Dr. Martin Missong, together with Dr. Ludwig Heinzelmann, published the article "Nonlinear interest rate-setting behaviour of German commercial banks" published in the latest issue of "Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics".

The next exam for the eGS course "Working with Microsoft Excel" will take place on 09 June. Please remember to register in time for the exam and book a place in the test center via Stud.IP.

Dr. Tanja Ihden has received a teaching assignment from the Harz University of Applied Sciences and will give a lecture in statistics in the business administration course of studies in the digital summer semester 2020.

The professorship's team will of course continue to be available to you in the summer semester 2020 - even if only in digital form. For information on the course Statistics please register for the respective Stud.IP courses on lecture, exercise and tutorials.

Due to current developments in connection with the corona virus, the professorship can only be accessed electronically until further notice. The sale of scripts is therefore also temporarily suspended. Stay at home and stay healthy!

Dr. Tanja Ihden was appointed as Country Coordinator for Germany of the International Statistical Literacy Project.

The office hours of Prof. Dr. Martin Missong will only take place during the semester break by prior arrangement.

Our team took part in this year's black light dodgeball tournament of sports economics students. In a strong group of 7, we missed the entry into the knockout phase unfortunately by a very narrow margin as third in the group.

The EmpWiFo team congratulates Dr. Christina Uffmann: Her dissertation on the measurement of liquidity risks was awarded the "Special Prize of the Deutsche Bundesbank for Economic Theses 2019" at the University of Bremen!

The work area strengthens the cooperation with the University of Coventry: Together with Coventry University and UFS in Bloemfontein (South Africa), Prof. Missong is currently running a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) - Course (B.A.) on "Data/Business Analytics".

On 23 January 2020, Prof. Missong will give a lecture on "Statistics and Law - Methodological and Didactic Challenges" at the Mathematics Department of the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel.

At the Chair of Empirical Economic Research and Applied Statistics, positions as a tutor for the module Statistics are to be filled for the summer semester 2020.

The professorship wishes all students a Happy New Year! We would also like to remind you that registration for the upcoming exam phase is only possible until 10.01.

The empirical economic research team wishes all students happy and restful holidays!

The office hours of Prof. Dr. Martin Missong are cancelled on 03.12.. Starting from that 07.12. the consulting hour takes place as used in the lecture time Tuesday between 10:00 and 11:00 clock.

Together with Björn and Sören Christensen, Prof. Dr. Martin Missong has published the textbook "Statistik klipp & klar". The book is published in the "WiWi klipp & klar" series of Springer Verlag, in which economic contents are presented in an understandable and concise way.

Tim Vintis has presented his Working Paper "Are Green Investors Less Rational? Evidence from Equity Crowdfunding" at the 7th Crowdinvesting Symposium at the Humboldt-University Berlin.

The exams for the exams "Analysis of Economic Data" and "Statistics" from the summer semester 2019 will take place on 26.11. in the test center. Information about the registration can be found in the corresponding course in Stud.IP.

The visiting time of Prof. Dr. Martin Missong take place this semester during the lecture time every Tuesday between 12:00 and 13:00 o'clock. On 22.10., 19.11. and 03.12. no consultation hour takes place.

You can purchase the scripts for the events of the professorship on the following dates this semester:

Tim Vintis has successfully completed the examination as "Certified Derivatives Trader (Eurex)" of Deutsche Börse AG. The exam was offered for the first time this year at the University of Bremen and was successfully passed by six participants.

Prof. Dr. Martin Missong, Dr. Tanja Ihden and Paola Janßen held a workshop on 20 September at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg entitled "Statistics in Court - A Workshop on Data-Based Decision-Making in Law".

Within the framework of the German-Turkish scientific cooperation, Prof. Dr. Martin Missong will give the lecture "Econometrics I" in the course of studies "Economics" of the Türk Alman Üniversitesi in Istanbul.

Dr. Theo Berger, Dr. Tanja Ihden, Jana Sell and Tim Vintis participated together in the conference "Statistische Woche 2019" from 10 - 13 September in Trier. Dr. Theo Berger and Dr. Tanja Ihden gave speeches on statistical literacy and statistics in finance.

Dr. Tanja Ihden has published a new paper in the journal Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Rechtswissenschaft (ZDRW) with the title: "Recht auf Bilder?: Visualisierungen im juristischen Kontext zur Wissensvermittlung und –verarbeitung".

We wish you much success for all upcoming exams in the coming exam phase!

We congratulate Christina Uffmann on her successful promotion! The topic of her dissertation is: "Die ökonometrische Bestimmung von Liquiditätsrisiken und deren Einfluss auf Finanzrisikoprognosen".

Prof. Dr. Martin Missong and Jana Sell conducted a workshop on statistical basics in tax audits at the Bremen tax office. The aim was to impart knowledge of statistical methods for practical application in external audits.

Until the end of Summer term 2019, the visiting time of Prof. Dr. Martin Missong will be possible after previous arrangement only.

Prof. Missong will hold a presentation at 04.06. about "e-Exams in Practice" at the seminar "e-Exams" at Deutscher Hochschulverband in Bonn.

Insights of exams in "Introductory Econometrics" and "Econometrics" of past winter term, will be on 15.05.2019 at 08:00 a.m. (bachelor exams) and 08:30 a.m. (master exams). Information for registration of the insights can be found at Stud.IP.

Dr. Tanja Ihden, Jana Sell and Tim Vintis participated at the 15. Deggendorfer Forum for digital Data Analysis. Designated experts spoke to this years topic "Algorithms - Tools of a new thinking?".

Prof. Dr. Martin Missong and Dr. Tanja Idhen are with the research project "Statistics in Court" participants of "Lehre hoch N" program by Toepfer-Stiftung, which encourages interdisciplinary research topics.

With begin of summer term 2019 the professorship offers a new eGerneal Studies lecture "Working with Microsoft Excel" for all students.

Script for lectures of the professorship can be purchased at following dates: