This course takes place on each Wednesday at DIW from May 13 to July 15, 14:30-17:30 o'clock. It discusses advantages and limitations of structural econometric models to give students an understanding of why and when adding structure is important. It also provides insights into strategy in important papers in structural Labor, Public and IO literature and establishes basic estimation techniques and numerical methods such as Simulation, Numerical integration and Discretisation. Besides of that, the course provides introduction to the matrix programming language MatLab.
Please note, that as of May 18th there is a new version of the syllabus uploaded.