Master Seminar “International Economic Policy”

Application and Registration

Students who would like to participate in the seminar write an e-mail with the subject “Seminar: International Economic Policy” to LSHefeker@uni-siegen.de. The application must include the following:

1. Matriculation number
2. A set of your five most preferred topics, ranked highest to lowest preference of all announced topics. Alternatively, you may also suggest a topic on your own from the field of “International Economic Policy”.
3. A list of all successfully attended courses thus far, this can be obtained via unisono. Please send a PDF-File.

The seminar topics will be assigned in a first step according to urgency (e.g. if the seminar is the last remaining examination for obtaining the Master’s degree) and topic preference sets. If several applicants would like the same topic, the topic is assigned by lot. Each topic will be assigned to at most one applicant. The maximum number of participants is 12. Applicants, who do not receive a topic are put on a waiting list and will succeed to seminar participation if slots become vacant. Application deadline is August 30, 2018. Applications may be sent via e-mail from now on. Applicants will be notified whether or not their application was successful by September 15, 2018 and in case of success will also receive their assigned topic on that date.
Successful applicants may then register for the seminar in unisono until September 29, 2018. De-registration is also possible until that date. Only registration in unisono guarantees the seminar slot, failure to do so until September 29, 2018 will void the successful application and the slot including the assigned topic will go to applicants on the waiting list, if applicable. Registering for the seminar without an assigned topic will result in failure and the loss of one of the three tries to successfully pass a seminar; do not register for the seminar if you have not been assigned a topic!

Please note the guidelines for application, registration and examination regarding seminars:
http://www.wiwi.uni-siegen.de/pruefungsamt/pruefungen/anmeldung_seminare/anmeldung_vwl_seminare.html?lang=de
(German only, sorry)

Deadlines and due dates

As of now         Begin of the application period
August 30, 2018        End of the application period
September 15, 2018         Slots and topics assigned
September 29, 2018    End of the (de-) registration period in unisono (Do not register if you are not assigned a slot and topic!)
October 16, 2018     Compulsory introductory meeting (19h s.t. – 20h, room will be announced)
December 21, 2018    Submission deadline for the thesis, both printed and electronic copies
January 18/19, 2019    Seminar (9h – 18h, room will be announced)

Topics

1. Cyclicality of fiscal policies
2. The Taylor-Rule
3. Promotion of renewable energies
4. Quantitative easing and currency wars I
5. Quantitative easing and currency wars II
6. Optimal tariffs, retaliation, and the welfare loss from tariff wars
7. International Trade Balances
8. Exchange Rates: Trilemma or Dilemma?
9. Capital controls
10. Global Imbalances
11. The HP-Filter: Advantages, shortcomings and applications
12. State-Space-Models: Advantages, shortcomings and applications
13. Vector Autoregression Models: Advantages, shortcomings and applications