Dr. Christian Aßmann

Consultation-hours:

• In summer term 2012: Thu, 10:00 - 12:00 o'clock in room F21/367 and on appointment
• In semester break: only on appointment, room F21/367

Courses in summer term 2012:

• Lecture: Advanced Econometrics (Fortgeschrittene Ökonometrie)
  (Teleteaching: Bamberg)
• Lecture and exercise course:Computationally intensive Methods / Monte-Carlo-Methods (Vorlesung und Übung zu Rechnerintensive Verfahren / Monte-Carlo-Methoden)

Competencies/ Projects:

National Educational Panel Studies (NEPS), Coordinator of methods group

Research interests:

• Analysis of current performance data
• Nonlinear panel models
• Volatility of growth
• General equilibrium models

Monographs:

Aßmann, C. (2004): Timing and Detecting Structural Breaks. Diplomarbeit, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel.

Publications in in peer-reviewed journals:

• Aßmann, C. und Boysen-Hogrefe, J. (2009): Dynamic multi-sector CGE modeling and the specification of capital: Comment on Farmer and Wendner (2004), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 20(1), 74-75.
• Aßmann, C., Boysen-Hogrefe, J. und Liesenfeld, R. (2009): The Decline in German Output Volatility: A Bayesian Analysis, Empirical Economics 37(3), 653-679.
• Aßmann, C., Hermanussen, M. und Tutkuviene, J. (2010): Statistical agreement and cost-benefit: can we replace established empirical methods for constructing growth reference charts?,  Annals of Human Biology 37(1), 57-69.
• Aßmann, C. und Boysen-Hogrefe, J. (2010): Analysis of Current Account Reversal via Regime Switching Models, Economic Change and Restructuring 43(1), 21-43.
• Aßmann, C. und Boysen-Hogrefe, J. (2011): A Bayesian Approach to Model-Based Clustering for Binary Panel Probit Models, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 55(1), 261-279.
• Aßmann, C. (2011): Determinants and Costs of Current Account Reversals under Heterogeneity and Serial Correlation, erscheint demnächst in Applied Economics.

Discussion papers:

• Aßmann, C. (2008): Assessing the Effect of Current Account and Currency Crises on Economic Growth, Economic Working Paper No. 2008-01.
  
• Aßmann, C., Henning, C. H.C.A., und Mumm, J. (2008): Social Network Estimation and Imputation. ADVANCED EVAL Working Paper Series WP4-14, University of Kiel.
• Aßmann, C., Boysen-Hogrefe, J. und Jannsen, N. (2009): Costs of Housing Crises: International Evidence. Kiel Working Paper No. 1524 (2009), Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel.
  
• Aßmann, C. und Boysen-Hogrefe, J. (2009): A Bayesian approach to model-based clustering for Panel probit models, Economic Working Paper No. 2009-03.

Further publications:

• Aßmann, C. (2009), Buchrezension: "Economic Modeling and Inference" by Christensen, B.J. and Kiefer, N.M., Journal of Economics 98(3), 257-259.
• Aßmann, C., Hermanussen, M., Godina, E., Rühli, F.J., P. Blaha, J.L. Boldsen, van Buuren, S., MacIntyre, M., Goshi, A., de Stefano, G.F.,   Sonkin, V.D., Tresguerres, J.A.F., Meigen, C., Scheffler, C., Geiger, C., und Lieberman, L.S. (2010): Growth Variation, final height and secular trend. Proceedings of the 17th Aschauer Soiree, 7th November 2009, Journal of Comparative Human Biology 61(4), 277-284.
• Aßmann, C., Steinhauer, H.W., Kiesl, H., Koch, S., Schönberger, B., Müller-Kuller, A., Rohwer, G., Rässler, S. und Blossfeld, H.-P. (2011): Sampling Design of the National Educational Panel Study: Challenges and Solutions. H.-P. Blossfeld, H.-G. Roßbach & J. von Maurice (Eds.), Education as a Lifelong Process. The German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) (Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, Special Issues 14 - 2011).

Lectures/ talks:

• March 2006, ”The decline in German output volatility: A Bayesian analysis”, DStatG Nachwuchsworkshop, Berlin Wannsee.
• December 2006, ”Determinants and costs of current account reversals under heterogeneity and serial correlation”, DIW Macroeconometric Workshop, Berlin.
• August 2007, ”Determinants and costs of current account reversals under heterogeneity and serial correlation”, Econometric Society European Meeting, Budapest, Ungarn.
• September 2007, ”The decline in German output volatility: A Bayesian analysis”, DStatG Statistische Woche 2007, Kiel.
• October 2007, ”Dynamic multi-sector CGE modeling and the specification of capital and a consumption-based pension system”, Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2007, München.
• August 2008, ”Assessing the Costs of Currency Crises and Current Account Reversal on Economic Growth”, Econometric Society European Meeting, Mailand, Italien.
• September 2008, ”Model-based Clustering for Panel Probit Models”, DStatG Statistische Woche 2008, Köln.
• August 2009, ”Bayesian Analysis of Binary Networks via Socio-Spatial Processes: An Application to Local Elite Communication”, International Workshop on Networks as Determinants of Economic and Political Behavior 2009, Kiel.
• December 2009, ”Bayesian Analysis of Binary Networks via Socio-Spatial Processes: An Application to Local Elite Communication”, 3rd International Workshop on the Analysis of Incomplete Data, Bamberg.
• February 2010, ”Estimating policy networks and political influence of Polish and Slovakian local elites: A Bayesian Analysis via Socio-Spatial Processes”, International Food Policy Research Institute Workshop, Washington, D.C.
• May 2010, ”The emergence of local elite networks: Structure or preference? – An econometric approach”, 3rd Annual Political Networks Conference, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
• July 2010, ”Data augmentation for missing values in social network models”, IV European Congress of Methodology, IQB Humboldt Universität Berlin, Potsdam.
• September 2010, ”Assessing the Costs of Currency Crises and Current Account Reversal on Economic Growth”, DStatG Statistische Woche 2010, Nürnberg.