Suchergebnis: Katalogdaten im Frühjahrssemester 2021

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NummerTitelTypECTSUmfangDozierende
364-0531-00LCER-ETH Research Seminar Belegung eingeschränkt - Details anzeigen Z0 KP2SH. Gersbach, A. Bommier, L. Bretschger
KurzbeschreibungForschungsseminar des Center of Economic Research CER-ETH
LernzielVerständnis der aktuell führenden Forschung in der ökonomischen Theorie, insbesondere aus dem Bereich der CER-ETH Forschung.
InhaltReferate zu aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen aus den Bereichen der CER-ETH Forschung von in- und ausländischen Gastreferierenden.
Voraussetzungen / BesonderesBitte spezielle Ankündigungen beachten.
364-0556-00LDoctoral Workshop: Astute Modelling Belegung eingeschränkt - Details anzeigen
Prerequisite: Students are expected to attend the course 364-0559-02L "Design of Institutions and Political Economy", before registering for this workshop.
W3 KP1GH. Gersbach
KurzbeschreibungIn this workshop, we present ongoing research at MIP and discuss the criteria and guidelines for smart modelling of social and economic situations.
LernzielWe will learn how to present our own research and improve our modelling skills.
364-0559-02LDesign of Institutions and Political Economy Belegung eingeschränkt - Details anzeigen W3 KP2VV. Britz
KurzbeschreibungInstitutions and in particular political institutions are a central determinant of economic performance. In this course, we learn the characteristics of collective decision making and political processes as well as the theoretical tools in institutional design. At the end of the course we will discuss recent research in political economics, design of institutions and policy.
LernzielIn this doctoral course, we learn the theoretical tools and major results in collective decision theory and political economics. We will use this knowledge to discuss recent research in political economics. The course enables the participants to do their own research in political economics or apply the frameworks to interesting institutional design problems in their own research area.
InhaltPart I: Theoretical Tools and Important Results (lectures)
1. Collective Decision Making and Impossibility Results
2. Voting Models
3. Lobbying
4. Creating Institutions: A Mechanism Design Perspective
5. Dynamic Political Economy

Part II: Recent Research in Political Economics (presentations)
Voraussetzungen / BesonderesIn the first part, the theory is presented in lectures. In the second part, each participant will present a paper of her/his interest from the syllabus (provided in the first class meeting) and has to write a referee report (of max. 3 pages) on it.
364-0576-00LAdvanced Sustainability Economics Information
PhD course, open for MSc students
W3 KP3GL. Bretschger, A. Pattakou
KurzbeschreibungThe course covers current resource and sustainability economics, including ethical foundations of sustainability, intertemporal optimisation in capital-resource economies, sustainable use of non-renewable and renewable resources, pollution dynamics, population growth, and sectoral heterogeneity. A final part is on empirical contributions, e.g. the resource curse, energy prices, and the EKC.
LernzielUnderstanding of the current issues and economic methods in sustainability research; ability to solve typical problems like the calculation of the growth rate under environmental restriction with the help of appropriate model equations.
364-0581-00LMicroeconomics Seminar (ETH/UZH)
No enrolment to this course at ETH Zurich. Book the corresponding module directly at UZH.
UZH Module Code: DOEC6089

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E-0 KP2SH. Gersbach
KurzbeschreibungResearch Seminar
research papers of leading researchers in Microeconomics are presented and discussed
LernzielResearch Seminar
research papers of leading researchers in Microeconomics are presented and discussed
InhaltInvited Speakers present current research in Microeconomics
364-1015-00LKOF-ETH-UZH International Economic Policy Seminar (University of Zurich)
No enrolment to this course at ETH Zurich. Book the corresponding module directly at UZH.
UZH Module Code: DOEC0584

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W2 KP2SP. Egger, J.‑E. Sturm
KurzbeschreibungIn this seminar series, which is held jointly with Prof. Dr. Woitek and Prof. Dr. Hoffman from the University of Zurich, distinguished international researchers present their current research related to international economic policy. The participating doctoral students are expected to attend the presentations (bi-weekly). Moreover, a critical review has to be prepared for 1 of the papers presented
LernzielOn the one hand, participating students are exposed to research at the frontier of international economic policy research. On the other hand, skills such as critical thinking and preparing reviews are learned.
364-1026-00LIdentification and Causal InferenceW3 KP1VS. Pichler, M. Siegenthaler
KurzbeschreibungMost policy relevant research questions in the social sciences face the same challenge: How can we identify a causal impact of one variable on another when we cannot use a controlled experiment? This course will teach program evaluation methods for causal analysis based on non-experimental (i.e. observational) data, derive the underlying theory and discuss recent applications.
LernzielThe main objective of this course is to make PhD students familiar with program evaluation methods such as Difference-in-Differences/Event Study estimations, Instrumental Variables Estimators, Regression Discontinuity designs and Matching Methods. The course will cover the underlying theory, illustrate the connection to classical regression analysis, show how these different methods relate to each other and how they differ in terms of the required identifying assumptions as well as data needs. Recent research papers will be discussed to illustrate their use. The course has an applied focus. The goal is to place students in the position to have a broad toolkit of quasi-experimental methods and to apply these methods in their empirical research.
SkriptWe will provide printed slides at the beginning of each lecture.
LiteraturLecture notes will be provided and course will also draw on recent research papers. No specific textbook is required.
364-1045-00LAdvances in Public EconomicsW3 KP2SM. Köthenbürger
KurzbeschreibungIn the doctoral course, we will discuss recent advances in public economics. After a review of basic concepts in public economics, we go through recent papers on taxation, social security and fiscal federalism. Students will be asked to present a paper and to critically comment on it (as if they would referee the paper). The paper presentation will take place at the end of the semester.
LernzielAfter the course participants will have a solid understanding of the current state of research in the selected fields in public economics and, starting from there, will be able to develop their own research ideas.
364-1058-00LRisk Center Seminar SeriesZ0 KP2SG. Sansavini, D. Basin, A. Bommier, D. N. Bresch, L.‑E. Cederman, P. Cheridito, H. Gersbach, F. Schweitzer, D. Sornette, B. Stojadinovic, B. Sudret, U. A. Weidmann, S. Wiemer, M. Zeilinger, R. Zenklusen
KurzbeschreibungThis course is a mixture between a seminar primarily for PhD and postdoc students and a colloquium involving invited speakers. It consists of presentations and subsequent discussions in the area of modeling and governing complex socio-economic systems, and managing risks and crises. Students and other guests are welcome.
LernzielParticipants should learn to get an overview of the state of the art in the field, to present it in a well understandable way to an interdisciplinary scientific audience, to develop novel mathematical models and approaches for open problems, to analyze them with computers or other means, and to defend their results in response to critical questions. In essence, participants should improve their scientific skills and learn to work scientifically on an internationally competitive level.
InhaltThis course is a mixture between a seminar primarily for PhD and postdoc students and a colloquium involving invited speakers. It consists of presentations and subsequent discussions in the area of modeling complex socio-economic systems and crises. For details of the program see the webpage of the seminar. Students and other guests are welcome.
SkriptThere is no script, but the sessions will be recorded and be made available. Transparencies of the presentations may be put on the course webpage.
LiteraturLiterature will be provided by the speakers in their respective presentations.
Voraussetzungen / BesonderesParticipants should have relatively good scientific, in particular mathematical skills and some experience of how scientific work is performed.
364-1090-00LResearch Seminar in Contract Theory, Banking and Money (University of Zurich)
No enrolment to this course at ETH Zurich. Book the corresponding module directly at UZH.
UZH Module Code: DOEC0933

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W3 KP2SH. Gersbach, Uni-Dozierende
KurzbeschreibungRecent developments in the fields of contract theory, finance, banking, money and macroeconomics.
LernzielUnderstanding recent developments in the fields of contract theory, finance, banking and macroeconomics.
364-1121-00LFrontiers in Applied Econometrics: Methods and Applications in Environmental and Energy Economics
Findet dieses Semester nicht statt.
W3 KP3G
KurzbeschreibungThe focus of this course is on applied econometrics. The course will cover methods and applications that are used in recent papers in the field of energy and environmental economics. The course will focus on state-of-the-art empirical methods and applications that illustrate how such methods can be successfully applied.
LernzielThe course will cover methods that span four broad themes: experimental, quasi-experimental, structural, and machine learning approaches.

The goal of the class is to familiarize students with state-of-the-art empirical techniques in the field of of energy and environmental economics and help them identifying methods that they can apply in their own research.
364-1133-00LEmpirical Methods for Macroeconomic ResearchW3 KP2GS. Sarferaz
KurzbeschreibungThe course equips PhD students with the toolkit required for empirical analysis in macroeconomic research and forecasting as conducted by academic researchers or government agencies.
LernzielThe first part of the course focuses on Bayesian statistics and multivariate time series analysis, such as Bayesian shrinkage, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, Structural Vector Autoregressions, Dynamic Factor Models and Time-Varying Parameter models. In the second part, we apply these methods to specific problems of causal inference and forecasting in macroeconomics. In the computer tutorials, we work on actual programming exercises, thus developing our own toolkit for many of the techniques using R.
364-1147-00LTechnology and Organization: A Social Practice PerspectiveW1 KP1VE. Cacciatori
KurzbeschreibungThe social practice approach provides a nuanced way to examine the co-shaping of technology and organizing, and account for ‘the duality of technology’ as it operates between the material and the social. We will look at what that means and how to craft research and papers in this perspective.
LernzielAfter this seminar participants will:
- Know the distinctive features of the social practice approach to technology and organizing, including what questions it can and cannot answer
- Know the distinctive features of specific approaches to sociomateriality
- Know the debates surrounding key concepts in these approaches, such as material agency, affordances, socio-material entanglement, boundary object, epistemic objects etc.
- Understand the methodological strategies associates with a social practice approach to technology
- Be able to generate research questions and research strategies with a view to advancing the scholarly debate in this area
- Be able to position a paper in this literature
InhaltThis seminar will be relevant to students interested in developing a socially grounded perspective on how technologies are adopted and used, in particular in relation to problem-solving processes, knowledge flows, and power dynamics of organizations and industries. The seminar will enable participants to become familiar with a major theoretical perspective that is influencing technology studies in organization theory and information systems; and that is becoming increasingly influential in strategy via the strategy as practice approach.

Participants will benefit from having attended a foundational seminar on knowledge in organizations (e.g., “Perspectives on Organizational Knowledge”) and will find the module a useful complement to modules such as “Innovation in the Digital Space”.

The seminar will be structured in three sessions of three hours plus 15 minutes break each. Each session will include a short introduction by the lecturer. A discussion of readings, led by designated discussants but involving all participants, will follow.
LiteraturBailey, D. E., Leonardi, P. M., Barley, S. R. (2012). The lure of the virtual. Organization Science, 23(5), 1485-1504.
Barley, S. R. (1986). Technology as an occasion for structuring: Evidence from observations of CT scanners and the social order of radiology departments. Administrative Science Quarterly, 31(78-108).
Beane, M. (2019). Shadow learning: Building robotic surgical skill when approved means fail. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(1), 87-123.
Bechky, B. A. (2003). Object lessons: Workplace artifacts as representations of occupational jurisdiction. American Journal of Sociology, 109(3), 720-752.
Comi, A., Whyte, J. (2017). Future making and visual artefacts: An ethnographic study of a design project. Organization Studies, 0170840617717094.
Leonardi, P. M. (2013). Theoretical foundations for the study of sociomateriality. Information and Organization, 23(2), 59-76.
Leonardi, P. M. (2017). Methodological guidelines for the study of materiality and affordances In M. Raza & S. Jain (Eds.), Routledge companion to qualitative research in organization studies (pp. 279-290). New York: Routledge.
MacKenzie, D., Spears, T. (2014). ‘A device for being able to book P&L’: The organizational embedding of the Gaussian copula. Social Studies of Science, 44(3), 418-440.
Nicolini, D., Mengis, J., Swan, J. (2011). Understanding the role of objects in cross-disciplinary collaboration. Organization Science.
Orlikowski, W. J. (1992). The duality of technology: Rethinking the concept of technology in organizations. Organization Science, 3(3), 398-427.
364-1157-00LDecision-Making under Ambiguity and Unawareness: Theory an ApplicationsW2 KP1VA. Dominiak
KurzbeschreibungThis course reviews recent advances in modeling decision-making under ambiguity and under unawareness. Ambiguity refers to situations with unknown probabilities of states, whereas unawareness refers to the lack of conception of all payoff-relevant contingencies. We will study models that accommodate both phenomena into economic theory, and apply them to insurance problems and speculative trade.
LernzielAfter taking this course, students will be able to
- Comprehend the recent literature on ambiguity
- Comprehend the recent literature on unawareness
- Apply ambiguity and unawareness models
- Recognize new research topics in the above areas
Inhalt1. Choice Under Uncertainty
1.1. Probabilistic Beliefs and Subjective Expected Utility
1.2. Bayesian Updating and Its Limitations
1.3. Asymmetric Information, Knowledge and No-Speculative Trade

2. Choice under Ambiguity
2.1. Ellsberg Paradox
2.2. Maxmin Expected Utility
2.3. Smooth Ambiguity Model
2.4. Choquet Expected Utility
2.5. Parametric Ambiguity Models
2.6. Insurance under Ambiguity

3. Dynamic Choice under Ambiguity
3.1. Updating Ambiguous Beliefs
3.2. Ellsberg Paradox and Dynamic Behavior
3.3. Speculative Trade under Ambiguity

4. Games with Strategic Ambiguity
4.1. Equilibrium under Ambiguity
4.2. Duopolistic Competition and Coordination
4.3. Rationalizability and Strategic Ambiguity

5. Choice under Unawareness
5.1 Formal Models of Unawareness and Growing Awareness
5.2. Evolution of Preferences and Reverse Bayesianism
5.3 Speculative Trade under Unawareness
Skript1. Choice Under Uncertainty.
We discuss the canonical approach to modeling decision-making under uncertainty, the Subjective Expected Utility (SEU). In many economic applications, a decision maker responds to new information, which requires a dynamic version of the theory. We extend the SEU theory to cope with dynamic decision problems (Bayesianism). We discuss the main tenets and the main limitations of the Bayesian paradigm. We briefly review one recent approach to belief updating on events with a zero-probability. We derive and discuss the intriguing result on the impossibility of speculative trade among Bayesian agents.

2. Static Choice under Ambiguity.
We focus on decision-making under ambiguity. First, we recall the famous Ellsberg paradox, showing the descriptive limitation of the SEU theory. We then introduce the three widely studied generalizations of SEU in the economic literature: Choquet Expected Utility, Maxmin Expected Utility, and Smooth Ambiguity models. These models can account for ambiguity and a decision maker’s attitude towards it. We briefly elaborate on the concepts of ambiguity perception and ambiguity attitudes. We introduce a couple of intuitive parametric specifications of the ambiguity models, which are particularly suitable for economic applications. We apply one to study how ambiguity aversion affects demand for insurance.

3. Dynamic Choice under Ambiguity.
When new information is faced in an ambiguous environment, there are various ways to update non-probabilistic beliefs allowing us to accommodate broader behavioral phenomena. In particular, the decision maker may perceive signals as "bad" news or as "good'" news, reflected in the pessimistic and optimistic updating rules, respectively. We discuss the main theories of updating ambiguous beliefs, and show that they are empirically relevant. Moreover, we will study the role of asymmetric information and updating ambiguous beliefs for speculative trade. In particular, we show that a (common-knowledge) speculative trade is feasible if and only if private signals are ambiguous, other states may be unambiguous.

4. Games with Strategic Ambiguity.
We introduce the concept of strategic ambiguity. We present novel solution concepts for games under ambiguity, which generalize the standard Nash equilibrium to allow for ambiguous beliefs over the opponents' strategies and different attitudes towards strategic ambiguity. To study the effect of strategic ambiguity on economic behavior, we apply these concepts to solve a number of games in the area duopolistic competition and coordination. We also discuss a weaker solution concept, Choquet rationalizability. This concept does not rely on any consistency notion between equilibrium behavior and beliefs. It only requires that behavior is consistency with common knowledge of players' (Choquet) rationality.

5. Choice under Unawareness.
We discuss recent approaches to modeling unawareness and choice under growing awareness. Unawareness refers to a situation under uncertainty, or a state of mind, in which of a decision maker cannot conceive all the payoff-relevant states. What are the logical properties of unawareness? How could we formalize unawareness? We introduce the so-called lattice-approach to unawareness. We present two intuitive and tractable models of growing awareness. When awareness grows, the initial state space expands and so does the original decision problem. This requires the decision maker to extend her preference to a larger domain. We study how Subjective Expected Utility preferences may evolve in response to growing awareness (e.g., reverse Bayesianism). Finally, we relate speculative trade to asymmetric (un)awareness between traders.
LiteraturBook:

Gilboa, I. (2009). Theory of Decision under Uncertainty,
Cambridge University Press.


Surveys Articles:

Ambiguity (Eichberger and Kelsey, 2009)
The Oxford Handbook of Rational and Social Choice ed. by P. Anand, P. Pattanaik, and C. Puppe.

Ambiguity and Ambiguity Aversion (Machina and Siniscalchi, 2014):
Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty, ed. by Machina M., K. Viscusi, Volume 1, 729-807.

Ambiguity and the Bayesian Paradigm (Gilboa and Marinacci, 2015):
Readings in Formal Epistemology, ed. by Arló-Costa H., V. Hendricks, J. van Benthem, Volume 1.

Awareness (Schipper, B. 2014):
Handbook of Epistemic Logic, ed. by H. van Ditmarsch, J. Y. Halpern, W. van der Hoek, and B. P. Kooi, London: College Publications, 77 – 141.

Unawareness – A gentle introduction to both the literature and the special issue (Schipper, B. 2014):
Mathematical Social Sciences, 70, 1–9

Remark:
A list of articles related to the topics covered during the course will be provided in the first class.
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