MIEPP News

Dear MIEPP Students,

First of all welcome again to all of the new students and first time receivers of the newsletter. I hope you are having a blast in your math course and even if not, the real fun is about to begin. Now that everyone is settled in again and getting super hyped for all of the courses in the upcoming semester, I have another newsletter for you. It will consist of but not be limited to:

-          Course registration

-          Stata Introduction

-          Pub Crawl

-          City Tour

As every semester, we will open up course registration again next week and keep it open until the end of exam registration. This gives you the opportunity to check out more courses that you might want to take an exam in and gives you extra flexibility. Please keep in mind that you deregister from excess courses (the ones you do not want to take an exam in) yourself or they will block you from taking new courses in the future.

Also, a lot of useful work in economics is done using statistics programs such as Stata. In order to help you get accustomed to such statistics programs, the chairs of Prof. van Evijk and Prof. Schank are organizing a Stata introduction course again. Even if you are not going to partake in the statistics course this semester, it is always useful to be able to handle statistics programs such as Stata for the writing of seminar papers or the master thesis. Here is the original message:

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Dear participants in “ Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data”, Dear MIEPP-Students,

As every Summer semester we provide a Stata-Introduction for all students of “Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data” (the corresponding lecture starts one week later). This course is also opened for all MIEPP students.

The key informations regarding the course are:

(1) First session will be on Tuesday, 23rd April; 16:15 - 18:00;  HS VII

(2) To complete the course you should submit a homework until Thursday, 25th April; 20:00

(3) During the self-study phase you can make use of an open consultation hour at the PC-Pool (details at the ILIAS-page)

(4) There  is a final discussion with feedback on Friday, 26th April: 08:30 - 10:00pm;   "Übungsraum 1" [Container-Building]

Note that participating the exam “Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data” requires the submission of the homework.

If you are not a student of the course mentioned, please send an email to Constantin Weiser (constantin.weiser AT uni-mainz.de; subject: “Stata Course”; content: just your name)

This Course is held by Dr. Constantin Weiser. At his ILIAS-Page you can find all materials and further information.

                http://ilias.uni-mainz.de/goto.php?target=crs_611359&client_id=JOGU

Kind regards,

  -- The Econometric Team at JGU –

  Dr. Constantin Weiser

  Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schank

  Prof. Dr. Reyn van Ewijk

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As already mentioned in last week’s newsletter, the pub Crawl will take place April 25 at 6:30 pm and all of you are invited to come. While this was originally geared towards first semester students, it has become tradition that as many of the MIEPP students as possible partake in the Pub Crawl. The meeting point is the train station Römisches Theater. It was great to see so many of you show up for the welcome reception on Monday and it makes me confident to think that the tradition of the MIEPP pub crawl will receive a new worthy chapter from all of you next Thursday.

The student representatives have also organized a city tour on April 27. The meeting point is again the train station Römisches Theater, just this time it is 10:00 am. If you are new to Mainz or you simply want to get a better look at the city, you are invited to come.

That is all from my side, enjoy the sun, the long weekend, eat some chocolate, enjoy life and have a happy Easter.

Sincerely,

Christoph Wirp

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Christoph Wirp
Program Manager Master in International Economics and Public Policy

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Studienbüro des Fachbereichs Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften

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55128 Mainz

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