This workshop combines best practice thinking with tips and exercises to provide a quick primer on academic writing. We explore the broad principles underlying academic writing – what makes academic writing distinctive, how to situate your argument within a broader literature, and how to structure a coherent argument. The workshop unfolds over two, 90- minute sessions. In Part One, we look at how to approach academic writing "as a conversation." Part Two walks students through the five steps to writing a killer introduction and how to think about - and write - literature reviews. While you do not need to attend both sessions of the workshop, it is strongly advised. The second workshop will take place on 29 January and needs to be booked separately.
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Assessment: N/A

Ensuring the transition to net zero and resilient economies is just and inclusive has never been more important as climate action builds momentum and the urgent need for a green and just recovery from COVID-19 arises. South Africa and India, two of the largest coal-dependent emerging economies, are beginning to explore how to ensure no one is left behind in the transition, particularly in coal dependent regions, and the most vulnerable can access emerging opportunities including new quality jobs in net zero sectors. It is clear that financial institutions have a critical role to play in helping achieve a just transition in both countries – more practical guidance is now needed to signal where financing is needed and how it can be enabled by specific policy, market and regulatory mechanisms. CDC is delighted to be working with our partners to launch the ‘Just Transition Finance Roadmaps in South Africa and India’ project , which will build on existing local processes and encourage tangible action, particularly on the road to COP26. Partners: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies , National Business Initiative, Observer Research Foundation, LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Harvard Kennedy School’s Initiative for Responsible Investment with support from the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Supporters: This project has been catalysed with funding from CDC Group. More details here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/just-transition-finance-roadmaps-in-south-africa-and-india-project-launch/
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This introductory workshop will take you through the key aspects of what it takes to have an impact as a public speaker online. The ability to speak confidently in public in talks, presentations, and group events, is a crucial part of any academic or policy making post. It allows you to present your ideas and yourself in the best possible light. As conferences and presentations move online, being an effective speaker in this environment has suddenly become a new and important challenge, and requires a brand-new set of skills. This introductory workshop will take you through the key aspects of what it takes to have an impact as a public speaker online. We will look at both the practical and technical sides of presenting via Zoom, Skype etc; including vocal and physical presentation techniques and tricks; advice on how to best structure your talk; and a close look at the some of the more subtle qualities required to make yourself interesting online.
Teachers:

• Anna Tobert (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are known to cause global climate change but no damage to the local environment. However, because CO2 is often jointly produced with other substances that pollute the environment, CO2 abatement may generate ancillary benefits, especially for human health. Previous research suggests that these co-benefits can offset a substantial share of the economic costs of mitigation policies. This paper lays the groundwork for testing this hypothesis in the context of the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) for CO2. We compile a new dataset on discharges of more than 90 different pollutants into air, water and soil, at more than 6,000 ETS regulated installations in 29 European countries. We track installation-level changes in emissions of major air pollutants between 2001 and 2013. We compare those to changes at more than 23,000 unregulated installations and explore causal attribution. We derive stylized facts for the spatial redistribution of air pollution across European countries and explore correlations with income and demographics. Some implications for efficiency and environmental justice of the EU ETS are discussed. For more details: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/tatiana-filatova/
Teachers:

• Laure De Preux (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Dr Eray Çaylı (LSE) ‘Urban political ecologies of emergency in Turkey’s Kurdistan: Notes from a neighbourhood on the banks of the Upper Tigris’ This talk grapples with urban political ecologies of emergency in late-2010s Turkey with a focus on its largest predominantly Kurdish-inhabited city, Amed (also known as Diyarbakır, in Turkish). A growing body of critique in geography and kindred disciplines shows how emergency increasingly figures in state techno-politics as a normalised condition to inhabit rather than simply as an abnormality to prevent. Some focus this critique on neoliberalism as a project that instrumentalises violence and disasters (or the risk thereof) for transforming the earth in a speculative-developmentalist, rentierist, and extractivist manner and producing docile (i.e., indebted and/or entrepreneurial) citizens in the process (included here are critics who emphasise the project’s imperfection and thus openness to subversion through citizens’ initiatives and political work). Others, however, emphasise the racialised motivations and effects at work in what neoliberalism-focused critics tend to homogenise. Such emphases more specifically situate racialisation within the mutually entangled — and, in many cases, ongoing — histories of colonialism and nation-state building. In this vein, indigenous and/or local knowledges and practices are conceptualised as potent and persistent challenges against statecraft’s claims to scientific universalism and developmentalist standardisation. In conversation with these critical literatures, this talk presents ethnographic fragments from a neighbourhood located on the banks of the uppermost stretch of the Tigris River, where emergency has recently loomed large in numerous respects (e.g., both as the basis of a legal regime and as the result of a disaster). As many of the neighbourhood’s residents and their allies have responded to emergency by insisting on holding statecraft answerable to its own claims rather than simply repudiating them, I explore what critical imaginaries and practices relevant to the politics of ecology might be informed by this insistence.
Teachers:

• Eray Çaylı (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

All students and researchers are involved in the use of their data and data of others. The risk of invasion of privacy is two-fold. It is therefore important to be able to protect your own data and that of others. An increasing use of information technologies requires that each of us respect the principles of the right to the protection of personal data in its two aspects: rights and obligations to respect the private life and freedoms of individuals. Higher education establishments support each student in the use of new tools and make them aware of the possible risks they may represent. In addition, as part of studies regardless of the field, each of us is required, as part of our studies (thesis, dissertation or educational work), to process data concerning natural persons whose use may present a risk (surveys, studies). To ensure the protection of this data, everyone is required to comply with various obligations and good practices. 21 January, 4 February, 18 February and 4 March 2021 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Contact: katia.dumoulin@sciencespo.fr
Teachers:

• Sophie FORCADELL (Sciences Po)
• Cyril HEUDE (Sciences Po)
• Marion LEHMANS (Sciences Po)
• Nicolas SAUGER (Sciences Po)

Entry requirements: None
Assessment: None

Do you believe stress is an inevitable part of doing a PhD? With multiple deadlines, performance pressure, escalating tuition fees, and an uncertain job market, it isno wonder that students are reportedly experiencing higher levels of stress and anxiety. This three hour workshop will examine how sustained periods of stress actually impact the mind and body. We will also consider hoe specific thought patterns contribute to this and explore which tools you can incorporate into your daily routine to help reduce stress. The course will cover: • The prevalence of stress in academia• The physiology of stress (The Fight/Flight Response mechanism and The Relaxation Response)• The role of thought processes in contributing to stress• Tools to minimize the symptoms of stress
Teachers:

• Serena Sharma (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

A media and communications workshop designed to ensure that, the next time you address a live mic, a rolling camera, an audience or an interviewer. A media and communications workshop designed to ensure that, the next time you address a live mic, a rolling camera, an audience or an interview panel, you’re equipped to get your message across effectively. This session covers a range of communication and broadcast skills including: taking control of your interview, developing and amplifying your messages, building confidence and presence, and dealing with hostile media or curveball questions. We’ll break down some interview examples and we’ll also look at the media environment, exploring the different types of interview and how to best prepare for each one. By the end of the session, you will have the confidence and ability to take media requests - even at short notice.
Teachers:

• Rachel Shabi (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

“Institutions” are the second nature of society. Creations of men and women, institutions order social, political, economic and even cultural intercourse. Indeed, institutions constitute the very basis for human interaction. Consequently, institutions bear within them equally the potential danger of the most deep-seated social control, as well as the promise of human liberation from both the social bond and the constraints of nature. Institutionalism is the study of the origins, effects and potential for reform of institutions. This seminar introduces students to the theoretical program of the new institutionalism. We will review the three main strands of theory, rational choice institutionalism, historical institutionalism and sociological institutionalism, and discuss recent literatures on institutional design, institutional stability and change, and social and political consequences of institutions. The aim of the class is two-fold. One is to familiarize students with classic texts and recent publications that any emerging political scientist will find useful to know and cite (the list is in that sense necessary but not sufficient, of course). The other is to help students develop their own research projects by encouraging them to see it through the lens of the class readings.
Assessment: readings, participation, discussion questions, optional term paper

Inequalities in Breastfeeding in the U.S. across the 20th Century Tuesday 26 January 2021, 5.00pm-6.00pm Speaker: Dr Vida Maralani (Cornell University) Chair: Dr Berkay Ozcan Abstract: Using data from nationally representative surveys fielded between 1965 and 2011, we assemble cohort data for mothers born from 1910 to 1990 and their breastfeeding practices. We use these data to investigate how and when breastfeeding became a practice differentiated by socioeconomic status. We answer the following research questions: (1) When did socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding emerge, and how do these differ by social category (education, race, marital status) across the century? (2) What role do the dramatic changes in family formation that emerged in the 1970s, including non-marital childbearing and the massive divergence of fertility timing by race and education play in explaining persistent SES differences in breastfeeding practices? (3) Are the observed patterns consistent with cultural explanations that argue that breastfeeding is a predominantly class-based practice that is closely related to a commitment to intensive parenting and the accompanying resources to realize this commitment child investment? To attend, please register here: https://lse.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpf-igqjkvHtLUffFYo3svacO3Lfbs6X7q
Teachers:

• Vida Maralani (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

The course introduces students to foundational, modeling and computational aspects of the Bayesian approach to statistical inference. The presentation moves from the classical Bayes-Lalpace paradigm to the discussion of the case of sequences of exchangeable observations and some noteworthy examples of priors. Some asymptotic issues related to Bayesian procedures will also be addressed. Finally, most popular algorithms for posterior convergence will be introduced and discussed. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/e948132b-f459-4fad-9276-eae3f6c41a16/40025+BAYESIAN+STATISTICAL+TH+1+Lijoi-Zanella+20-21.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=napD7p0 ----- Course schedule (UTC+1): 26 Jan. 2021 10:30-12:00 | 27 Jan. 10:30-12:00 | 2 Feb. 10:30-13:30 | 3 Feb. 14:30-16:00 | 9 Feb. 10:30-12:00 | 11 Feb. 10:30-12:00 | 16 Feb. 10:30-12:00 | 18 Feb. 10:30-12:00 | 23 Feb. 10:30-12:00 | 25 Feb. 10:30-12:00 | 2 March 10:30-13:00 |
Teachers:

• Antonio Lijoi (Bocconi University)
• Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University)

Entry requirements: basic knowledge of measure-theoretic probability
Assessment: written exam

The first part of the course is devoted to the economic models explaining why cities exist and induce an uneven distribution of land and good prices. Then it is shown how the mobility of people between cities and goods trade allow cities of different size to co-exist. The second part of the course moves to the empirical studies that evaluate the gains and costs of agglomeration. A special emphasis is put on the impact on spatial disparities of individual location choices by workers and firms that are heterogeneous (in terms of productivity for instance). Specifically, the spatial determinants of productivity, land and housing prices, R&D, and real income are presented. It is appealed to both reduced-form and structural econometric strategies. Contact: katia.dumoulin@sciencespo.fr
Teachers:

• Pierre-Philippes COMBES (Sciences Po)

Entry requirements: Basic for second-year master: Microeconomics under perfect and imperfect competition (Micro I and II), Applied econometrics (I, II, including panel approaches and instrumentation).
Assessment: The exam has two parts (two short essays to be written over a 6-week period) with equal weight for the grade, based on the reading of a recent research article (to be chosen within a long list). A first essay will present the intuitions of the paper and will relate and compare it to what is presented in class. The second essay consists in a research project elaborated from the paper read for the first essay. It will present some weaknesses of the paper, propose solutions to address some of these limits, and present ideas for possible extensions and / or variants.

This course is an advanced course in International Trade. It is targeted at second year PhD students. This course introduces students to the theories of international trade, with a special emphasis on the role of firms. After an introduction on key empirical regularities and traditional theories of international trade, we move on to study the most recent work in international trade: trade from the point of view of individual firms. First, we will try and understand the determinants of the decision of firms to export or not, which foreign market to enter, the role of heterogeneity between firms in shaping those decisions, and the aggregate behavior of an economy populated with such heterogeneous firms. Second, we will study the determinants of the size distribution of firms, as the heterogeneity in size is the key novel ingredient of modern models of firms and international trade. Third, we will study recent advances on the connection between international trade and wage inequality. Finally, we will study the international organization of production, focusing on recent models of off-shoring, outsourcing and foreign direct investment. Contact: katia.dumoulin@sciencespo.fr
Teachers:

• Thomas CHANEY (Sciences Po)

Entry requirements: Second year PhD students.
Assessment: The grade will be based on class participation, weekly reports, an oral presentation, and a research proposal. Class participation will contribute to 10% of the grade, the weekly reports, the oral presentation and the research proposal 30% each.

Graph searching investigates combinatorial models for the detection or neutralization of an adversary’s activity on a network. One such model is the \emph{localization game}, where pursuers use distance probes to capture an invisible evader. We present new results on the \emph{localization number} of a graph, which is the minimum number of pursuers needed to capture the evader. We survey what is known and unknown for the localization number, discuss connections with the chromatic number, and give bounds on graph families such as hypercubes, incidence graphs of combinatorial designs, and Kneser graphs.
Teachers:

• Anthony Bonato (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This workshop combines best practice thinking with tips and exercises to provide a quick primer on academic writing About this Event . We explore the broad principles underlying academic writing – what makes academic writing distinctive, how to situate your argument within a broader literature, and how to structure a coherent argument. The workshop unfolds over two, 90- minute sessions. Part Two walks students through the five steps to writing a killer introduction and how to think about - and write - literature reviews. While you do not need to attend both sessions of the workshop, it is strongly advised.
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Assessment: N/A

In this course you will learn about some commonly used methods in Computational Economics. These methods are being used in all fields of Economics. The course has a clear focus on applying what you learn. We will cover the theoretical concepts that underlie each topic, but you should expect a fair amount of hands on action required on your behalf. In the words of the great Che-Lin Su: Doing Computation is the only way to learn Computation. True to that motto, there will be homeworks for you to try out what you learned in class. There will also be a term paper. Required reading : Fackler and Miranda (2002), Applied Computational Economics and Finance, MIT Press. Kenneth Judd (1998), Numerical Methods in Economics, MIT Press. Nocedal, Jorge, and Stephen J. Wright (2006): Numerical Optimization, Springer-Verlag. Kochenderfer and Wheeler (2019), Algorithms for Optimization, MIT Press. A Gentle Introduction to Effective Computing in Quantitative Research - What Every Research Assistant Should Know, Harry J. Paarsch and Konstantin Golyaev. Entry requirements : Be familiar with the material from Introduction to Programming. You must sign up for a free account at github.com. Choose a reasonable user name and upload a profile picture. Before you come the first class, please do this: Download the latest stable Julia release for your OS. Download the VSCode Editor.
Teachers:

• Florian OSWALD (Sciences Po)

Entry requirements: Read description.
Assessment: There will be homeworks. They will be listed within the Course Outline. Your grade will be 60% homeworks, 40% term project. This year your term project will be to replicate a paper published in an economics journal. Ideally this would be related to your field of interest. The requirements for choice of paper to replicate are: Published version and replication kit is available online. The paper to replicate must not use Julia. You must use Julia for your replication. Ideally your choice will involve at least some level of computational interest (i.e. more than an IV regression) However, you can replicate a paper with an IV regression, but you have to go all the way to get the exact same results as in the paper. i.e. if the author typed the stata command ivreg2 lw s expr tenure rns smsa _I* (iq=med kww age), cluster(year) you will have to write (or find) Julia code which will match all output from this, including standard errors. I do not recommend to do this. You need to set up a public github repository where you will build a documentation website of your implementation. You'll learn how to do this in the course. I encourage you to let the world know about your replication effort via social media and/or email to the authors directly. This is independent of whether you were able or not to replicate the results. Replication is not about finding errors in other peoples' work. If you are able to replicate some result in Julia, this may be very interesting for others.

The normativity of marriage and the marriage premium for children’s outcomes Tuesday 2 February 2021, 5.00pm-6.00pm Speaker: Professor Florencia Torche (Stanford University) Chair: Dr Berkay Ozcan Abstract: Children born to married parents have better health, behavioral, educational, and economic outcomes than children of unmarried mothers. This association, known as the “marriage premium” has been interpreted as emerging from the selectivity of parents who marry and from a positive effect of marriage. We suggest that the positive effect of marriage could be contextual, emerging from the normativity of marriage in society. We test this hypothesis using the case of Chile, where marital fertility dropped sharply from 66 percent of all births in 1990 to 27 percent in 2016. We find that the benefit of marriage for infant health was large in the early 1990s but declined as marital fertility became less normative in society, to fully disappear in 2016. Multivariate analysis of temporal variation, multilevel models of variation across place, sibling fixed-effects models, and a falsification test consistently indicate that marriage has a beneficial effect when marital fertility is normative and a weak or null effect when is not. Generalizing from this case, we discuss contextual effects of diverse practices and statuses. To attend, please register here: https://lse.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sce-prDwvGteeVIaLi9Mxyw2yxoob4bjl
Teachers:

• Florencia Torche (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This course offers an in-depth overview of many of the central debates in contemporary comparative politics (defined inclusively to encompass also American politics), and is designed to enable students to actively contribute to the literature. The choice of readings emphasizes recent work, but some more dated classics are also included because of their paradigm-defining importance. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/61d10bb5-db7a-4bdf-a091-6b7f30593388/PoliticalScienceSyllabus2021.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nrd1drC ----- Course schedule (UTC+1): 2 Feb. 2021 12:10-13:40 | 4 Feb. 12:10-13:40 | 9 Feb. 12:10-13:40 | 11 Feb. 12:10-13:40 | 16 Feb. 12:10-13:40 | 18 Feb. 12:10-13:40 | 23 Feb. 12:10-13:40 | 25 Feb. 12:10-13:40 | 2 March 12:10-13:40 | 4 March 12:10-13:40 | 9 March 12:10-13:40 | 11 March 12:10-13:40
Teachers:

• Piero Stanig (Bocconi University)

Assessment: term paper + in class presentations + course participation

Ethical issues around studying social media and using social media data in research. There is enormous potential to harness the power of social media as a researcher, not just to promote your research findings, but as a way to collect new and interesting data. However, the ethical principles around conducting research on social media and using social media data are something that need careful consideration before planning a research project..
Teachers:

• Ellen Helsper (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: None
Assessment: N/A

The nitrogen cycle is one of the most perturbed geo-chemical cycles on earth. Human activity, mainly through intensive farming, releases nitrogen by-products such as nitrates and ammonium in the environment where they have wide ranging impacts on human health, biodiversity and climate change. In this paper, we study the impact of one of the earliest and most ambitious regulation of nitrogen use in the world: the EU Nitrate Directive. The EU Nitrate Directive not only sets limitations on the amount and timing of application of nitrogen but also imposes the adoption of modern nitrogen management tools in an effort to increase nitrogen use efficiency. The geographical and temporal variation of the implementation of the Nitrate Directive opens up the possibility of estimating its effects using a Difference In Difference (DID) approach. We adapt the DID estimator to account for the existence of diffusion effects along river streams and for the non-point source nature of pollution by nitrates. We state conditions for identification of and provide ways to do estimation and inference for causal effects in the presence of diffusion effects on a network under the DID assumptions. Applying our estimator to rich data on water quality, biodiversity, farmers practices, profits and Total Factor Productivity, we find that the EU Nitrate Directive has been able to reduce the concentration of nitrates in surface water by 1.23 milligrams per liter, a decrease of 8%. We find a clear dose-response relationship, with higher impacts where more of the upstream area is covered by the Directive. We find that other biochemical indicators, as well as biodiversity, as measured by the number of fish and fish species, also improved thanks to the Directive. We also find that the Directive managed to improve farmers’ nitrogen use efficiency and productivity and did not decrease their profits. Finally, we show that not accounting for diffusion effects would bias downwards the estimate of the effect of the Directive, and that the most recent geographic discontinuity estimators would detect no effect at all. For more details see: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/sylvain-chabe-ferret/
Teachers:

• Sylvain Chabe Ferret (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Transnational Perspectives from Nineteenth Century Spanish America: Rethinking Borders and Peripheries 4-6pm Aleksandra Kaye (University College London): "Wielding the Power of Topography: Polish Participation in Materializing a Border in the Pampa in the 1870s" Pablo Soffia Palma (University College London): "On Multiple Enlightenments: The Uses of Johannes Gottfried von Herder in the Global Americas, 1837- 1844" Papers will be circulated in advance and can also be access with a password on this page (under HY509): https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-History/CurrentStudents/PhDWorkshopsandSeminars. You will be required to pre-register through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transnational-perspectives-from-nineteenth-century-spanish-america-tickets-137612636099 Log in details will be sent via EventBrite.
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

12.30-2pm (UK time) Speakers: Duncan Green and Kate Meagher The Politics of Open Access: Decolonizing Knowledge or Corporate Capture? Please contact Dipa Patel D.Patel20@lse.ac.uk for the Zoom link
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Aim of the course: introducing the main tools used for data analysis and applied empirical research, focusing in particular on the estimation of causal relationships. The methods covered will allow students to address questions that are relevant from a social, economic, and political perspective: Do longer prison sentences deter crimes? Which are the economic returns to obtaining an elite education? Does alcohol consumption increase mortality? Does the death penalty reduce homicides? Does cannabis make you dumber? These are just examples of questions that can be addressed using evidence-based policy evaluation methods. The course is inherently applied, the students will implement the methods during computer lab sessions. By the end of the course,students should be able to go through the multiple stages of empirical research: searching for interesting questions, devising an appropriate research design, collecting the data, and implementing the analysis. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/224624cf-9f25-4364-9c0d-49b30134e575/40393+Econometrics_policy_anaysis_2020.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=n509yM7 ----- Course schedule (UTC+1): 3 Feb. 2021 10:20-11:50 | 5 Feb. 16:50-18:20 | 8 Feb. 15:00-16:30 | 10 Feb. 10:20-11:50 | 12 Feb. 16:50-18:20 | 15 Feb. 15:00-16:30 | 17 Feb. 10:20-11:50 | 19 Feb. 16:50-18:20 | 22 Feb. 15:00-16:30 | 24 Feb. 10:20-11:50 | 26 Feb. 16:50-18:20 | 1 March 15:00-16:30 | 3 March 10:20-11:50 | 5 March 16:50-18:20 | 8 March 15:00-16:30 | 10 March 10:20-11:50 | 12 March 16:50-18:20 | 15 March 15:00-16:30
Teachers:

• Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University)
• Selin Koksal (Bocconi University)

Entry requirements: basic statistics and econometrics
Assessment: written final exam and research project

This workshop will show you how to organize your presentation in a way that brings your audience along with you, step by step. Public engagement with academic research is more important than ever before. But scholars are rarely trained in how to present their work to a wider public. Successful academic presentations aimed at a wider audience need to do three things: 1) Communicate your arguments and evidence, 2) persuade your audience that they are compelling and 3) engage and entertain. This workshop will show you how to organize your presentation in a way that brings your audience along with you, step by step. It will also teach you how to communicate persuasively through a host of tips related to slide format, timing and delivery. Finally, this workshop will help you to introduce a bit of yourself into your public speaking, so that your presentations sparkle with wit and originality. The workshop unfolds over two, 90- minute sessions. In Part One, we look at strong starts, how to organise your key points, and what to keep in and what to keep out of your talk. While you do not need to attend both sessions of the workshop, it is strongly advised. The second session will take place on 9 February.
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: None
Assessment: N/A

Guest Speaker: Lap Chi Lau Further details will be published nearer the time here: #https://www.lse.ac.uk/Mathematics/Events-and-Seminars/Seminar-and-PhD-Seminar-on-Combinatorics-Games-and-Optimisation
Teachers:

• Lap Chi Lau (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Dr Lewis Asante (Kumasi Technical University) ‘Politically induced displacement in Ghana: How clientelist politics shape African urban regeneration’ Several scholars have argued that existing North-centric theories are insufficient to explain the dynamics of urban (re)development in an African context. Through new concepts such as ‘hybrid gentrification’, ‘accumulation by urban dispossession’, ‘urban governance as decentralisation, entrepreneurialism and democratisation’ and ‘bold encroachment’, these scholars have demonstrated how African cases can inform new theorisations of urban development and governance. This paper builds on the discourse of Southern urbanism by introducing the concept of politically-induced displacement (PID) as a new theoretical construct for analysing displacement processes during regeneration of urban infrastructure in Africa. PID is a process whereby state-led transformation of dilapidated urban infrastructure is accompanied by the dispossession of supporters of opposition political parties in favour of individuals who are affiliated with ruling political parties. PID not only dwells on the theoretical framing of state-led displacement and clientelist politics but conceptualises both as nuanced characteristics of urban regeneration in Africa. Through an empirical case of the regeneration of the municipal market infrastructure in Cape Coast, Ghana, the paper argues that PID is characterised by five features: the displacement process is based on political conviction and party membership; it strongly depends on urban regeneration; it occurs on a grand scale; it provokes a radical and sophisticated practices of resistance; and it is a colonial legacy of the political system. The task that lies ahead of us is to depoliticise urgently the apparatus and processes of governance of urban infrastructure in Africa.
Teachers:

• Lewis Abedi Asante (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Do you have a challenging relationship with your academic supervisor? Do you feel unsupported and discouraged in your interactions? The relationship we have with our academic supervisors is a crucial component of completing the PhD, yet very often these relationships come under strain and leave us feeling disempowered. Come along to this workshop as we explore strategies for enhancing your relationship with your supervisor in a confidential and safe setting.
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

The PhD seminar aims to equip students with the skills necessary to design, conduct and write up empirical studies in the social sciences. We will critically discuss what constitutes ‘good’ research questions (i.e., important, interesting, novel and answerable), and consider examples from an array of fields and methodological traditions. Our overarching focus will be on the key issues that come up when pursuing any kind of empirical research: identifying a ‘puzzle’ in the literature, theory building and testing, and considering causality, measurement, sampling, generalizability and research ethics. Finally, we will examine how these elements of research design come together in a single manuscript that stands a reasonable chance of publication in a reputable journal. By the end of the course, students will develop a clear understanding of what kind of social-scientific puzzles they wish to solve over the medium-term, and how this ambition fits with designing their independent research projects. Note: This is not a course on research methods. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/210cf0cf-e9ca-4f29-a158-a63f3e51dd3d/40439_Research+Colloquium_Kentikelenis_2021.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nrsgl1C ----- Course schedule (UTC+1): 8 Feb. 2021 15:00-18:20 | 11 Feb. 15:00-18:20 | 15 Feb. 15:00-18:20 | 29 March 15:00-18:20 | 30 March 15:00-18:20 | 28 April 10:20-13:40
Teachers:

• ALEXANDER KENTIKELENIS (Bocconi University)

Assessment: Written assignments and presentation

This workshop will show you how to organize your presentation in a way that brings your audience along with you, step by step. Public engagement with academic research is more important than ever before. But scholars are rarely trained in how to present their work to a wider public. Successful academic presentations aimed at a wider audience need to do three things: 1) Communicate your arguments and evidence, 2) persuade your audience that they are compelling and 3) engage and entertain. This workshop will show you how to organize your presentation in a way that brings your audience along with you, step by step. It will also teach you how to communicate persuasively through a host of tips related to slide format, timing and delivery. Finally, this workshop will help you to introduce a bit of yourself into your public speaking, so that your presentations sparkle with wit and originality. The workshop unfolds over two, 90- minute sessions. In Part Two, we look at speaking from notes, how to use visual aids effectively, and how to prepare for the Q and A. While you do not need to attend both sessions of the workshop, it is strongly advised.
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: None
Assessment: N/A

Does Incarceration Shape Trust in the State, Community Engagement, and Civic Participation? Tuesday 9 February 2021, 5.00pm-6.00pm Speaker: Professor Chris Wildeman (Duke University) Chair: Dr Berkay Ozcan Abstract: In this article, we provide the most complete assessment to date of how incarceration is associated with trust in the state, community engagement, and civic participation in the contemporary United States using data from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS). The results support three conclusions. First, own incarceration is associated with a deep distrust of state institutions even after adjusting for a host of possible confounders and matching on observed characteristics. Second, family member incarceration is also associated with distrust of state institutions, but these differences are roughly half the magnitude of the associations tied to own incarceration. These first two conclusions strongly mirror findings from existing research, suggesting that the FamHIS data can provide reliable estimates of how incarceration shapes community engagement and civic participation. Finally, and in a significant break from most existing research in this area, neither own incarceration nor family member incarceration is significantly associated with any of the 14 indicators of community and political participation we consider in any of the total of 84 models we run on participation (14 outcomes, 3 models per outcome, models including both own incarceration and family member incarceration). Although the cross-sectional nature of our data precludes strong causal claims, we see this third finding as providing important evidence that while there may well be heterogenous effects of incarceration on community engagement and civic participation, it appears that these heterogenous effects largely cancel each other out. To attend, please register here: https://lse.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqfuCqqDwoHtZVIIfzSld07xj9dh3Lcpuk
Teachers:

• Chris Wildeman (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This training aims to help you develop the relevant aspects of formal Project Management theory to give you practical toolkits to use throughout your PhD. Please note this is a two part course: 9 & 10 February and you should only join if you can attend both sessions. While a PhD can be seen as a project – a temporary set of planned tasks done to achieve a specific aim – how can we manage it effectively to get our PhD done? Moreover, how can we manage many projects at once, from completing our research and thesis, to teaching successfully and attending seminars and conferences? This practical two-part course – aims to help you use the relevant aspects of formal Project Management theory to give you practical toolkits to use throughout your PhD. Outcomes include: - Knowing how to plan your projects - Knowing how to work well with others to complete projects - Knowing how to manage your procrastination to get the project done - Knowing how to cope and get back in control when things go wrong.
Teachers:

• Matt Lane (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This course presents current discussions in public administration and public management research. It discusses what is “new” in public management: which innovations are currently debated and implemented, why and to which effect? The first part addresses macro-level societal and paradigmatic changes such as global crises, new governance processes involving citizens and the rise of populism. How does the state and public administration react to these challenges? How far are their roles changing, and in which direction? The second part examines the meso-level of civil servants, i.e. the professionals of governing, when faced with new challenges. What are the new dynamics that the body of civil servants and, consequently, the organizations they populate undergo nowadays? In particular, we will examine dynamics with respect to hybrid public-private organizations and hybrid public managerprofessionals, the rise of big data and algorithms as a new forms of expertise, and of communication efforts between public administration and citizens. The third part focuses on the micro-level and it addresses some key topics of public management research. Why do government innovate? How do they adopt innovation? What are the outcomes of innovation. We will also address the relationship between innovation, transparency and competitiveness as outcome of innovation. At the end of the course, students should be able to understand current debates and discuss current research in public management. They should also understand the diversity and the multidisciplinary character of public management research. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/d4423684-44f2-4746-b8bd-c99609bdd579/40345_Adv+topics+public+management_2020_21.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nr.-oxN ----- Course schedule (UTC+1): 9 Feb. 2021 10:20-11:50 | 16 Feb. 10:20-11:50 | 17 Feb. 10:20-11:50 | 23 Feb. 15:00-18:20 | 25 Feb. 12:10-13:40 | 1 March 15:00-18:20 | 4 March 15:00-18:20 | 8 March 15:00-18:20
Teachers:

• Greta Nasi (Bocconi University)
• Amelia Compagni (Bocconi University)
• Marlene Jugl (Bocconi University)

Assessment: in class discussion + class seminars + take-home assignment

This training aims to help you develop the relevant aspects of formal Project Management theory to give you practical toolkits to use throughout your PhD. Please note this is a two part course: 9 & 10 February and you should only join if you can attend both sessions. While a PhD can be seen as a project – a temporary set of planned tasks done to achieve a specific aim – how can we manage it effectively to get our PhD done? Moreover, how can we manage many projects at once, from completing our research and thesis, to teaching successfully and attending seminars and conferences? This practical two-part course – aims to help you use the relevant aspects of formal Project Management theory to give you practical toolkits to use throughout your PhD. Outcomes include: - Knowing how to plan your projects - Knowing how to work well with others to complete projects - Knowing how to manage your procrastination to get the project done - Knowing how to cope and get back in control when things go wrong.
Teachers:

• Matt Lane (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This introductory workshop will take you through the key aspects of what it takes to have an impact as a public speaker online. The ability to speak confidently in public in talks, presentations, and group events, is a crucial part of any academic or policy making post. It allows you to present your ideas and yourself in the best possible light. As conferences and presentations move online, being an effective speaker in this environment has suddenly become a new and important challenge, and requires a brand-new set of skills. This introductory workshop will take you through the key aspects of what it takes to have an impact as a public speaker online. We will look at both the practical and technical sides of presenting via Zoom, Skype etc; including vocal and physical presentation techniques and tricks; advice on how to best structure your talk; and a close look at the some of the more subtle qualities required to make yourself interesting online.
Teachers:

• Anna Tobert (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

The Invention of Peacekeeping?: Suez and the Transformation of the UN's Role in International Security 4-6pm Margot Tudor, University of Manchester if you would like to take part in the seminar, please sign up via the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-invention-of-peacekeeping-suez-and-the-transformation-of-int-security-tickets-136312252617
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

State officials of the public administration are key players in democratic governance and the policy process, stretching from decision-making, policy formulation, and agenda-setting to policy output and evaluation. At the same time, bureaucracy itself is affected by political decision-making. This scenario is particularly challenging in the European context which exhibit different administrative traditions and varying relationships with the European Union. Considering these dynamics, this panel invites doctoral researchers to shed light on politico-administrative relations. How do political processes impact public administration, and vice versa? Presenters: Anna Hundehege, PhD researcher at Hertie School; Second and third presenter vacant, please apply; Discussants: Dr. Thurid Hustedt, Professor of Public Administration and Management, Prof. Dr. Marlene Jugl, Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Bocconi University; TIME: 12-2 pm
Entry requirements: none

Jessie Munton (Cambridge): “Base rate neglect in the service of modal knowledge” 4.30-6pm (UK time) Are there ever good epistemic reasons to misrepresent base rates? I investigate this question in the context of recent legislation restricting the presentation of gender stereotypes, and the representation of minority groups in children’s books. I argue that our hesitancy around certain base rates makes sense in the context of a more general epistemic dilemma we face: between knowledge of acuality and knowledge of possibility. Given this dilemma, there are sound epistemic reasons to behave in ways the may involve wariness or misrepresentation of base rates. This approach has implications for the way in which ethical and epistemic norms interact with one another. Jessie Munton is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Her core areas of research are philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of psychology. Join the event using this link: https://lse.zoom.us/j/88937835129
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

A media and communications workshop designed to ensure that, the next time you address a live mic, a rolling camera, an audience or an interviewer. A media and communications workshop designed to ensure that, the next time you address a live mic, a rolling camera, an audience or an interview panel, you’re equipped to get your message across effectively. This session covers a range of communication and broadcast skills including: taking control of your interview, developing and amplifying your messages, building confidence and presence, and dealing with hostile media or curveball questions. We’ll break down some interview examples and we’ll also look at the media environment, exploring the different types of interview and how to best prepare for each one. By the end of the session, you will have the confidence and ability to take media requests - even at short notice.
Teachers:

• Rachel Shabi

Assessment: N/A

Legitimacy is central to the functioning of both national as well as supranational institutions such as the European Union. Citizen’s trust provide legitimacy to European integration and its (policy) institutions. The lack of social and political trust among the citizens may affect the legitimacy and therefore also the stability and problem-solving effectiveness of democratic regimes. Today the EU and other global governance institutions are more publicly contested than ever. Yet, there is no consensus whether the decline in support and trust is permanent or only of short-term nature. The Panel seeks to explore the role of trust and legitimacy in the EU’s multilevel political system. What explains citizens’ political and social trust in the EU and its institutions? And what are the implications of varying levels of citizens’ social and political trust for the legitimacy of the EU and its institutions? Presenters: Maria Uttenthal, PhD researcher at Hertie School; Second and third presenter vacant, please apply; Discussants: Dr. Christine Reh, Professor of European Politics at Hertie School, Prof Dr. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology at Hertie School. TIME: 12-2 pm
Entry requirements: none

Poverty, Not the Poor Tuesday 16 February 2021, 5.00pm-6.00pm Speaker: Professor David Brady (University of California, Riverside) Chair: Dr Berkay Ozcan Abstract: Scholars, commentators, politicians and the public tend to think about American poverty as a 'problem of persons.' The poor are in poverty because of individuals' bad behavior, risks, pathological cultures, or innate traits. This leads us to concentrate on the poor as individuals and distracts us from the systemic problem of high poverty in the U.S. On one hand, many aim to "fix the poor" by focusing on behavior and culture, mistakenly arguing that fixing behavior, eliminating risks, and improving culture would substantially reduce poverty. On the other hand, many "dramatize the poor" by focusing on emotive selections of poor people, exotifying and mischaracterizing the population in poverty. Several examples from recent research will be presented to show how both approaches concentrate on the poor and misunderstand poverty. Political and structural theories of poverty will be advanced as a better way to understand poverty and not just the poor. Registration details will be available on Monday 1 February here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/events/Seminars/The-International-Social-and-Public-Policy-seminar-series
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Guest speaker: Max Auffhammer Title to be confirmed Further details of this workshop will be published nearer the time here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/max-auffhammer/
Teachers:

• Max Auffhammer (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

PhD Student Session: Nick Makins and Nicolas Cote Nick Makins: “The Balance and Weight of Reasons” Abstract: The aim of this paper is to give a more fleshed out proposal for the ways in which our preferences reflect our reasons. I will argue that practical reasons can be characterised along two dimensions that influence our preferences: their balance and their weight. This is analogous to a similar characterisation of the way in which probabilities reflect the balance and weight of evidence in epistemology. Much attention in the philosophical literature related to practical rationality concerns the balance of reasons. That is, the degree to which our reasons favour one option over another, or not, as the case may be. However, comparatively little attention has been paid to the role of the overall weight of reasons in our practical deliberation. In this paper I will begin fill this gap, building a more complete picture of the balance of reasons and arguing that a full understanding of the weight of reasons is crucial for an adequate account of preference and choice. The upshot is a more complete picture of a particular kind of decision, labelled by Ruth Chang as “hard choices”. These are choices in which one option is better than another in some ways, the other is better than the first in some ways, but neither seems better overall. My account of the balance and weight of reasons has both explanatory and normative implications for such choices. Nicolas Cote: TBA Abstract: TBA Join the event using this link: https://lse.zoom.us/j/88937835129
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This short course will introduce participants to the art of survey design. This includes understanding the logic of survey design, learn how to develop a multidimensional survey, ethical implications of survey research and tips and tricks on how to implement it. The target group for this course is PhD researchers at the start of their doctoral research. No prior experience in survey methodology is required to take this course. Dates (to be confirmed): 17 February 2021, 9:30 am-12:30 pm, 18 February 2021, 9:30 am-12:30 pm & follow-up peer feedback session on 2 March 2021, 9:30-11:30 am. Call for registrations with exact course dates and times and registration deadline will follow around 22 January 2021. All registrations must go through Hertie School PhD Team. In case of questions in the meantime, write to phd-team@hertie-school.org
Teachers:

• Dr. Jessica Breaugh (Hertie School)

Entry requirements: none

Dr Kate Dawson (LSE) ‘Between plastic and sand: Living in Accra’s Anthropocene’ Further details will be published nearer the time here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/geography-and-environment/research/seminar-series/urbanisation-planning-development
Teachers:

• Kate Dawson (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

No matter how much we accomplish in our careers, many of us have an inner critic that constantly questions our abilities and our worth. Ironically, the voice of the inner critic tends to get louder the more that we achieve. This workshop will teach you strategies for minimizing the volume of your inner critic and enable you to move towards greater self-confidence.
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

19 Feb 2021 13:30 – 15:00 UK Time Scoping the literature for your review, planning you search strategy or overwhelmed by results? This session will enable you to devise a search strategy, define search term and identify relevant resources available to you. Recommended for new researchers/PhD students or as a refresher. Your librarians will work with you to consider strategies for your literature search.
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Objectives: This course is intended for students interested in understanding how people, organizational processes and digital technologies interact and transform each other. Students will be able to understand what it means to innovate in the digital age, by critically exploring the effects of digital technologies on people, processes, work systems and society. Topics: digital innovations that disrupt economy and society, creating value in the digital world, ethical issues of the digital innovation, etc.
Teachers:

• Florina Magdalena Pînzaru (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)

Entry requirements: Motivation letter; personal CV; copy (scan) of the ID document / passport; • mobile phone number with country code; institutional email; • do you want to take the course assignments/exam in order to have a final grade / ECTS? Please specify.
Assessment: Final examination: 50%; Continuous assessment during the semester: 50%

Tense times for young migrants: Temporality, life-course, and immigration status Tuesday 23 February 2021, 5.00pm-6.00pm Speaker: Dr Vanessa Hughes (Department of Social Policy, LSE) Chair: Dr Timo Fleckenstein Abstract: This paper examines the intersection between immigration status, life-course, and the experience of time. Based on ethnographic research, it looks at how time and life-course transitions are experienced by young people who are in constant encounter with the immigration regime in the UK. The encounters at this intersection produce a complex landscape that young people must navigate during their transitions to adulthood, producing a messy and complex temporal matrix. This temporal matrix distinctly shapes young people’s lives and migration experience: a sense of waiting and feeling stuck before getting status; paradoxical adulthood transitions for young people throughout the application process; and long-term uncertainty that is produced as a result of the immigration regime. Registration details will be available on Monday 8 February https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/events/Seminars/The-International-Social-and-Public-Policy-seminar-series
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Climate change brings about important political and legal challenges to citizens and states around the globe. Worldwide, global warming impacts immigration dynamics, and affects populations globally in their accesses to basic services such as sanitation, health, and the guarantee of food supply chain. While current evidence points in particular to the Global South, most notably in agriculturally dependent countries, in developed countries climatic change represents an important economic challenge. This session aims at discussing the differing effects of climate change on policies and human rights worldwide. Presenters: Juan Auz, PhD researcher at Hertie School; Second and third presenter vacant, please apply. Discussants: Başak Çali, PhD, Professor of International Law at Hertie School; Second discussant; TIME: 12-2 pm
Entry requirements: none

24 Feb 2021 15:00 – 16:30 UK Time There is no shortage of tools to help you store your articles, manage your references and cite them right but they all seem similar! In this session we will help you find out how these different tools work, in particular, EndNote, Mendeley and Zotero, so that you can choose the one that works for you.
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

26 February 2021 14:00 – 15:00 UK Time You may have been asked by your Department to write a Data Management Plan for your research project or you need to submit one as part of your ethical review of your PhD because your research involves human research participants. But what exactly is a Data Management Plan and how do you write one efficiently and effectively? A good data management plan will prepare you for collecting, using, organising and storing your research data effectively across your PhD. Not only will this save you time during your research, it also helps to ensure you are handling any personal data in line with data protection legislation and your ethical duties. In this workshop, the LSE Research Data Librarian will take you through the main elements of the Data Management Plan, tell you what tools are available at LSE to help you write one and give you the chance to ask questions about your own project.
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Poverty Among the Working Age Population in Post-Industrial Democracies (with some comments on inequality) Tuesday 2 March 2021, 5.00pm-6.00pm Speaker: Professor Evelyne Huber (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Chair: Dr Timo Fleckenstein Abstract: Both pre- and post-tax and transfer poverty among the working age population have increased over the past three decades in post-industrial democracies. Economic and demographic changes, along with changes in labor market institutions are responsible for rising market income poverty. However, welfare states have also exhibited declining effectiveness in reducing poverty. We measure welfare state effort with social rights rather than expenditures, which allows us to separate the effect of policy from need, which jointly shape expenditure. We pool data from LIS, the OECD, and SILC (Eurostat Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) for 22 post-industrial democracies. Registration details will be available on Monday 15 February: https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/events/Seminars/The-International-Social-and-Public-Policy-seminar-series
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Whose Hand on the Button?: The Thatcher Government's Battle to Deploy Cruise Missiles at Greenham Common, 1979-1983 4-6pm if you would like to take part in the seminar, please sign up via the relevant eventbrite link: if you would like to take part in the seminar, please sign up via the relevant link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thatcher-government-and-cruise-missiles-at-greenham-common-1979-1983-tickets-136314372959 Oliver Barton, LSE
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Guest speaker: Christopher Costello, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management Further details of this workshop will be published nearer the time here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/christopher-costello/
Teachers:

• Christopher Costello (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Dr Sin Yee Koh (Monash University Malaysia) ‘The interurban migration industry: “Migration products” and the materialisation of urban speculation at Iskandar Malaysia’ Iskandar Malaysia is an urban conurbation and development region located at the Malaysia-Singapore border. State-led development of this regional economic corridor has attracted inflows of foreign investments and spurred the rise of mid- to high-end urban developments by foreign developers. This has resulted in the emergence of an interurban migration industry consisting of intermediary entities that are co-developing and co-marketing ‘migration products’ (real estate, education, and lifestyle migration) as an integrated package to middle-class, aspiring transnational investor/lifestyle migrants from the region. This paper argues that this middleman industry is crucial to the materialisation of urban speculation, for state actors and investor/lifestyle migrants alike. Through interurban alliances that capitalise on the broader state-led speculative urbanism landscape, the industry co-creates an imagined urban future that is grounded in transnational lifestyle mobilities. This paper highlights the need to analyse speculative urbanism and transnational investment/lifestyle migration as intertwined processes.
Teachers:

• Sin Yee Koh (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This course follows Wendy Laura Belcher's Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (Belcher’s book is required) quite closely. Over a period of 10 weeks we will try to get your article ready for submission to a peer-reviewed journal. To do this, we will discuss how to improve your writing strategies and habits, identify appropriate journals for your article, clarify arguments, write an interesting title and abstract and organise your material and arguments to meet the journal’s expectations. The course will also help you to fine-tune and polish your writing.
Entry requirements: Participants must have a rough draft of something prepared that they want to work on / get ready for publiation.

This workshop looks at storytelling as a communication technique. Storytelling has become a popular way to deliver messages in a wide range of professional settings. In this workshop, we look at why stories are an effective communication technique, the narrative components of a good story, and how we apply those elements to our research to bring it alive. This workshop should be useful to researchers from any discipline and at any point in their careers. This is a 90-minute workshop.
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This workshop will explore multiple strategies for dealing with sleep challenges. Do you struggle to fall asleep or wake up in the middle of the night with your thoughts racing? Do you wake up in the morning feeling more tired than the night before? Getting a good night’s sleep is one of the most important thingswe can do for our physical and mental health, yet a sound sleep can often be a challenge for many of us. This workshop will explore multiple strategies for dealing with insomnia. We will examine the science of sleep and the different phases of the sleep cycle; learn how good sleep hygiene connects to our general health and wellbeing; consider techniques for falling asleep and staying asleep; and discuss the links between nutrition and sleep. Participants will come away from this workshop with a better understanding of the causes and consequences of insomnia, as well as tools for promoting a more restful sleep. This session will cover: • The science of sleep and the sleep cycle• Common causes of insomnia• The essentials of effective sleep hygiene• Nutritional advice to promote a restful sleep
Teachers:

• Serena Sharma (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

IMPORTANT: DO NOT REGISTER THROUGH THIS COURSE CATALOGUE BUT USING THE LINKS INDICATED BELOW The course is an introduction to basic aspects of ethics and transparency in social science research, particularly with human subjects. In addition to general considerations, the research ethics review process at EUI will be introduced. We will also cover an introduction to data protection and data protection regulations in Europe. For whom? Early stage researchers are particularly encouraged to attend. Please note that no study credits are associated with this course. Participants who attended 4 out of 5 sessions can request a certificate of attendance. Organisers : Prof. Thomas Crossley and the EUI Ethics Committee Contact: rossella.corridori@eui.eu Please find below the registration links and the programme for each session: 5 March 2021- Ethics in publishing - https://www.eui.eu/events/detail?eventid=536187 12 March 2021 : Data Protection in the EU and Publishing and Archiving Your Research Datasets https://www.eui.eu/events/detail?eventid=536188 19 March 2021: Transparency and Research Integrity in Data Analysis and Ethics and qualitative research in SPS https://www.eui.eu/events/detail?eventid=536189 26 March 2021: Transparency in Research and Ethics in Oral History and Memory Studies https://www.eui.eu/events/detail?eventid=536190 Please register by 24 February 2021. Registered participants will receive the Zoom link shortly before the event.

Demographic Change and Perceptions of Racism Tuesday 9 March 2021, 5.00pm-6.00pm Speaker: Christopher Maggio Chair: Professor Lucinda Platt Abstract: Various research has demonstrated that rapid racial demographic change may aid in triggering various forms of backlash under certain conditions. This has led scholars to speak of Whites “defending” their local environment in the face of eroding racial dominance. However, little research has addressed how perceptions of racism among minorities may be triggered under conditions of demographic change. This study attempts to fill this gap in the literature by examining the relationship between racial demographic change for Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians and perceptions of racial problems among these groups. I find that Blacks and Hispanics living in counties undergoing rapid growth of Black and Hispanic populations, respectively, have higher perceptions of racial problems. Registration details will be available on Monday 22 February here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/events/Seminars/The-International-Social-and-Public-Policy-seminar-series
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Course outiline: Theoretical perspectives in the study of the family – Trends in gender roles, family behavior and structure – Family formation and marriage – Fertility and policies – Divorce – Parenting and Children – Investing in Children – The Allocation of Time between the Household and the Labour Market – Public Policy and Family-work reconciliation – Social Mobility and Family Demographic Outcomes ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/5e7d2bb0-c940-4a56-909c-d80e4e445219/40343_Avd_topics_SocialDynamics+2020-2021.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nrd0TyM ----- Course schedule (UTC+1): 9 March 2021 15:00-16:30 | 10 March 15:00-16:30 | 11 March 15:00-16:30 | 22 March 15:00-16:30 | 24 March 15:00-16:30 | 25 March 15:00-16:30 | 12 April 15:00-16:30 | 14 April 15:00-16:30 | 15 April 15:00-16:30 | 19 April 15:00-16:30 | 21 April 15:00-16:30 | 22 April 15:00-16:30 Please note that CIVICA students are expected to attend the course online.
Teachers:

• Gøsta Esping-Andersen (Bocconi University)

Assessment: paper

Uncovering the Agency of Marginalized Groups in Early 20th Century Colonial Societies Femi Owolade (Kings College London) British Colonisation, Law and the Emancipation of Enslaved Women in Kano, Northern Nigeria: 1900-1920 Femi is a PhD student in the history department at King's College London working on a thesis entitled "A Benevolent Autocracy? Law and British Colonial Rule in Kano Province, Northern Nigeria (1903-1960)." He holds an MA in Medical Ethics and Law, from King’s College London and an LLB in Law, from Kingston University London. Sonali Dhanpal (Newcastle University) Imagining Native Christian Spaces in Colonial Bangalore Sonali is a PhD student in Architectural History and Theory at the Newcastle School of Architecture working on a thesis entitled ‘Living in Princely cities: Residential extensions, bungalow culture and the production of everyday spaces in Bangalore and Mysore, South India 1881-1920’ which investigates the understudied agency of the princely state and its mutually constitutive architecture and urbanism. Papers will be circulated in advance and can also be access with a password on this page (under HY509): https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-History/CurrentStudents/PhDWorkshopsandSeminars You will be required to pre-register through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uncovering-the-agency-of-marginalized-groups-in-early-20th-century-colonies-tickets-137980590661
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

A media and communications workshop designed to ensure that, the next time you address a live mic, a rolling camera, an audience or an interviewer. A media and communications workshop designed to ensure that, the next time you address a live mic, a rolling camera, an audience or an interview panel, you’re equipped to get your message across effectively. This session covers a range of communication and broadcast skills including: taking control of your interview, developing and amplifying your messages, building confidence and presence, and dealing with hostile media or curveball questions. We’ll break down some interview examples and we’ll also look at the media environment, exploring the different types of interview and how to best prepare for each one. By the end of the session, you will have the confidence and ability to take media requests - even at short notice.
Teachers:

• Rachel Shabi (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Unidentical Twins? Comparing Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 in North America Tuesday 16 March 2021, 5.00pm-6.00pm Speaker: Professor Daniel Béland (McGill University) Chair: Dr Timo Fleckenstein Abstract: In the social policy and health care literature, it is common to compare Canada and the United States, these North American “unidentical twins” that have so much in common and yet that are so different from each another in areas like health care and political institutions. How have these two “unidentical twins” responded to COVID-19 and how have political and institutional factors shaped their distinct policy responses to the crisis? Focusing on social protection, this talk compares the policy responses to COVID-19 in the United States and in Canada. Bio: Daniel Béland is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. He currently serves as Executive Editor of the Journal of Comparative Public Policy, Editor (French) of the Canadian Journal of Sociology, and President of Research Committee 19 (Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy) of the International Sociological Association. A student of social and fiscal policy, he has published 20 books and more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Registration details will be available on Monday 1 March here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/events/Seminars/The-International-Social-and-Public-Policy-seminar-series
Teachers:

• Daniel Béland (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
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Guest speaker: Andreas Lange Further details of this workshop will be published nearer the time here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/andreas-lange/
Teachers:

• Andreas Lange (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

17 March 14;00-16:00 UK Time Informed consent is central to the ethical conduct of research, but what does it mean in practice? This session will provide an overview of the general issues associated with informed consent, and the places where it becomes tricky to navigate. It will include a discussion of informed consent in different contexts such as interviews, ethnography, and social media; informed consent with children and vulnerable individuals; the ethics of ‘second-hand’ participation (such as when images of others are produced by research participants); deception and covert research; and data-sharing. The special circumstances of obtaining informed consent in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic are also considered. Participants are invited to bring their own questions and dilemmas to the session for discussion. Note: This session is foundational for the course coming later in the schedule on ‘conducting sensitive interviews’ and students intending to attend that course, are strongly urged to attend this session on Informed consent
Teachers:

• Josie Dixon (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
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This workshop is designed for PhD researchers who have already developed a preliminary survey or structured interview for their PhD projects, and wish to present and test the survey with their peers. All types of surveys are welcomed including but not limited to attitude surveys, organisational survey’s and/or experimental surveys. It will begin with a very concise overview of survey research, especially regarding how to design and write survey questions. The PhD researchers will be given an opportunity to update and correct their surveys and the course will resume one week later for an in-depth peer review session. All participants are expected to join with their survey already developed and be able to devote time in correcting/updating their survey in a relatively short time.
Entry requirements: Please only register if you can attend all sessions and intend to have your survey method prepared.

Dr Deen Sharif Sharp (LSE) and Dr Salem Al Qudwa (Harvard University) ‘Open Gaza: Architectures of hope’ This seminar celebrates the launch of a new book -- Open Gaza (American University of Cairo Press, 2021). Spatially speaking, the Gaza Strip is a hyper-dense string of Palestinian cities and refugee camps whose geographic smallness belies its global import. Implicating an international web of geopolitical interests (most saliently those of Israel, which effectively encircles it), it is also the subject of this new volume from Urban Research, the imprint of urban think tank Terreform, founded by the late architect and critic Michael Sorkin, who died in 2020. (One of Sorkin’s last works, the book is dedicated to him.) Co-edited by Sorkin and Deen Sharp, the contributions collated in the book range from architectural accounts of uniquely Gazan typologies to speculative visions of future development trajectories in the beleaguered territory. Gaza’s resilience in the face of abject desperation has long inspired the international community, making it a highly salient crucible in discussions of spatial justice, occasionally to the point of abstraction. Privileging 'substantive change', Sharp and Sorkin suggest any 'imaginative pitch' for Gaza must prioritise the recovery of its people’s agency and humanity. Oscillating between the poetic and the academic, the historical and the current, Open Gaza promises to be more than just another installment of armchair solutionism for the oft-discussed but rarely aided Strip.
Teachers:

• Deen Sharif Sharp (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)
• Salem Al Qudwa (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This interactive workshop will consider how to navigate professional setbacks. Have you ever failed an exam, had a paper rejected, or not been short-listed for a job? Professional setbacks are an inevitable part of academic life and learning how to navigate through them is critical. While universities excel in preparing students for success, there is considerably less advice on how to recover from perceived failures. This interactive workshop will offer a different perspective on professional setbacks while exploring techniques for moving beyond your disappointments with greater ease.
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Education policy in the UK since Beveridge: Continuity and change Tuesday 23 March 2021, 5.00pm-6.00pm Speaker: Professor Anne West (Department of Social Policy, LSE) Chair: Dr Berkay Ozcan Abstract: coming soon Bio: Anne West is Professor of Education Policy and is also Director of the Education Research Group. She joined the LSE in 1990 as a part-time research officer having previously worked for the Research and Statistics Branch of the former Inner London Education Authority. She was appointed professor in 2002. Anne carries out a range of different types of research, focusing in particular on education policy and early childhood education and care, in England (past and present), and in comparative perspective; and on the financing of education, including the role played by parents. Registration details will be available on Monday 8 March here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/events/Seminars/The-International-Social-and-Public-Policy-seminar-series
Teachers:

• Anne West (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Rethinking Anglo-American World War II-era Visions of Global Order Grant Golub (London School of Economics) The American Way of War?: Rethinking the 1941 Victory Program and American Grand Strategy during the Second World War Grant is originally from Sarasota, Florida in the United States of America. He received his BA in History and American Studies cum laude from Princeton University, and an MSc in History of International Relations with Distinction from LSE. After his MSc, he worked as a communications consultant for Fortune 500 companies in Brooklyn, New York before returning to LSE to pursue his PhD in International History. Andrew Ehrhardt (Kings College London) A ‘Great Power Man’?: The International Thought of Charles Kingsley Webster Andrew is the Engelsberg Applied History Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for Grand Strategy. He recently completed his doctorate in the Department of War Studies, where his research focused on Britain and the creation of the United Nations. A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, he is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Papers will be circulated in advance and can also be access with a password on this page (under HY509): https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-History/CurrentStudents/PhDWorkshopsandSeminars You will be required to pre-register through Eventbrite:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rethinking-anglo-american-world-war-ii-era-visions-of-global-order-tickets-137985374971
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24 March 11;00-12:30 UK Time This workshop will give an introduction to the current and quickly developing data publishing and archiving landscape and why it matters to researchers (including funder requirements). It will address the benefits and challenges of making research data available and the points at which you might be asked to do this. Key routes to publishing data will be covered including data availability statements, choosing the right data archive and data journals. Options for data publishing will be discussed including access levels, licensing and rights and time frames. There will also be key tips for documenting and preparing your data for publication.
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John Dougherty (LMU): “I ain’t afraid of no ghost” 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm This paper criticizes the traditional philosophical account of the quantization of gauge theories and offers an alternative. On the received view, gauge theories resist quantization because they feature distinct mathematical representatives of the same physical state of affairs. This resistance is overcome by a sequence of ad hoc modifications, justified in part by reference to semiclassical electrodynamics. Among other things, these modifications introduce “ghosts”: particles with apparently unphysical properties which do not appear in asymptotic states and which are said to be purely a notational convenience. I argue that this sequence of modifications is unjustified and inadequate, making it a poor basis for the interpretation of ghosts. I then argue that gauge theories can be quantized by the same method as any other theory. On this account, ghosts are not purely notation: they are coordinates on the classical configuration space of the theory—specifically, on its gauge structure. This interpretation does not fall prey to the standard philosophical arguments against the significance of ghosts, due to Weingard. Weingard’s argumentative strategy, properly applied, in fact tells in favor of ghosts’ physical significance.
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This course will show you how to generate timely and relevant content for blogs, &how to write a blog so that it actually gets read. Blogging has taken off as a form of communication unique to the 21st century. As a researcher, blogging can help you create a community around a specific body of expertise. This course will show you how to generate timely and relevant content for blogs, how to write a blog so that it actually gets read and how to create that signature conversational tone we associate with blogging. This course is useful for beginners who would like to build a successful blog from the ground up, as well for those who wish to fine-tune and improve an existing blog. This is a 90-minute workshop.
Teachers:

• Anna Lloyd (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Wed, 31 March 2021 14:00 – 16:00 UK Time Sensitive interviews include interviews about emotionally difficult topics or deeply personal issues, interviews with vulnerable populations or research that could have negative consequences for participants. What are the ethical and practical considerations in conducting such interviews? How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected these? What are the risks for respondents and how should these be managed? What will researchers need to consider in order to gain ethical approval for such research? What are the researcher’s responsibilities? What skills and competencies are required in the conduct of such interviews? What issues might arise in practice and what strategies can interviewers employ in the moment? What are the possible impacts for researchers and how can these be addressed? Participants are invited to bring their own research projects and examples, experiences, questions and concerns to the session. Note: Students attending this session are expected to have a solid understanding of the principles of informed consent and are strongly urged to attend the session on Informed consent scheduled earlier in the term
Teachers:

• Josie Dixon (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This interactive workshop will explore the challenges of doctoral overload and ways to move beyond it. Do you feel overwhelmed by your to-do list? Do you feel overloaded and exhausted at the end of each day? It’s not uncommon to find PhD students juggling their workloads alongside a host of other responsibilities. Having multiple and competing commitments on their plates can often leave students feeling depleted. This interactive workshop will explore the challenges of doctoral overload and ways to move beyond it. You will learn practical tools for balancing professional and personal commitments while enhancing your enjoyment and sense of fulfilment with the tasks on your plate. CONTENT This session will cover: • The challenges and rewards of being an academic • The symptoms of work-life imbalance • How to evaluate and prioritise the tasks on your plate • Tips for balancing competing commitments
Teachers:

• Serena Sharma (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

The course will focus on the regional aspects of certain late medieval devotional trends and religious ideals by looking at the dissemination of different highly popular book types as well as texts in Latin and the local vernaculars especially in the Kingdoms of Bohemia, Croatia, Hungary, and Poland. Classroom discussions of different topics (such as: Texts of the Modern Devotion in East Central Europe, Carthusian Monasteries in Spiš Region as Hubs of Cultural Transfer, Books of Hours or Prayer Books in Central and East Central Europe, etc.) will be accompanied by visits to the Manuscript Departments of Budapest libraries where the manuscripts discussed previously can be viewed.
Teachers:

• Ágnes Korondi (Central European University)

Course Description: The course will investigate the rhetoric of defending Christendom from the XIIIth to the XVth centuries. We shall first trace the concept of the emergence of the concept of 'Christendom'. Then, through case studies, we shall analyse the use made of it by rulers who claimed to fight for the community of Christians. Finally, we reflect on the long-term success of such a concept. Learning Outcomes: • Understanding the development and use of political rhetoric, focusing on our chosen exmple. • Becoming familiar with different late medieval contexts where such a rhetoric was used. • Gaining methodological knowledge about medieval genres. • Learning about the critical reading of primary sources. • Thinking about the use of the Middle Ages in modern nationalism.
Teachers:

• Nóra Berend (Central European University)

Assessment: The analysis of a medieval primary source of your choice that contains political rhetoric; your analysis should be in the form of a short, c. 500-word essay. The primary source may be different from those we analyse in class.

Civil wars are increasingly internationalized due to external involvement of states and transnational actors. In addition, non-state actors are influencing conflict dynamics and the life of civilians through violence or (in)formal regulations which sometimes mimic state functions and are labelled rebel governance. The session seeks to advance the debate on the direct and indirect involvement of external actors (state and non-state) at all stages of conflicts and possible consequences for civilians and international politics. All further information (on speakers etc.) here: https://281782.seu2.cleverreach.com/m/12630683/531223-48f09608f7b41d0ab4f9df08f027b6e6314b209911d7fd885e55a48f7d66c7487715a30c80cd77502c4cbe47c4c71d91
Entry requirements: none

This course is intended for PhD students in economics and related fields including network science, and for enthusiastic second-year MA students. Good quantitative skills are required. Familiarity with MA level microeconomics and data science is useful but not required. If you are in doubt about whether this course is right for you, come to the first class Course Decription: Social networks affect many economic transactions. They transmit information about job opportunities, affect the trade of goods and services, influence how diseases spread, which products we buy, how we vote, whether we become criminals, which technologies we adopt. They also create trust and provide access to financial and other resources. This course reviews some current research on social networks in economics. We will explore both theoretical models and their applications to development and labor economics. The course begins with an overview of basic facts and tools. We will then cover network formation, peer effects and the social multiplier, social capital and trust, information aggregation in networks, social learning, trade in networks, technology diffusion, job search, and other topics. One goal of the course is to identify new research questions for students. Learning Outcomes: Key outcomes. By the end of this course, students will have: (1) Knowledge and understanding of the current research on the economics of social networks. (2) The ability to read research papers in this field. (3) The ability to present and critically discuss research papers in this field. (4) Sufficient understanding of open issues to formulate a new research question in this field. Other outcomes. The course will also help develop skills in the following areas. (1) Critical thinking: students will have an improved ability to distinguish between evidence and interpretation. (2) Quantitative reasoning: students will have an improved understanding of the difference between correlation and causation. (3) Interpersonal communication skills: students will have an improved ability to conduct and to constructively participate in small-group presentations. Syllabus: https://courses.ceu.edu/sites/courses.ceu.hu/files/attachment/course/5522/economicandsocialnetworkssyllabus2021v2.pdf
Teachers:

• Ádám Szeidl (Central European University)

Assessment: The course grade will be based on student presentations, problem sets and a final exam. Small groups of students will be assigned a topic, and several lectures will consist entirely of student presentations. There will also be regular problem sets. Your course grade will be determined as follows: Presentation: 25% Problem sets: 25% Final exam: 50%

This course provides both an introduction to financial economics and at the same time highlights the forefronts of research. We focus on understanding the economic mechanisms using formal models and learning to work with the workhorse models in finance. The course prepares you to understand and critically evaluate research in the area and help you identify potential areas of contribution. The topics covered are asset pricing, limits to arbitrage, Credit Default Swaps, trading liquidity, and bubbles. This is a rigorous research-oriented academic course. Those interested in a more practice-oriented treatment of the subject should consider the ``Trading and Portfolio Theory'' and ``Asset Pricing'' MS Finance courses instead. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course, students will be able to: understand the role of asymmetric information in financial markets identify the main assumptions driving the results of a model relate theoretical models to reality know the tenets of efficient markets understand why and how financial frictions lead to inefficient prices know how information gets incorporated into prices comprehend how trading in derivative markets affect the price of the underlying asset Syllabus: https://courses.ceu.edu/sites/courses.ceu.hu/files/attachment/course/3773/syllabusassetpricingv2.pdf
Teachers:

• Adam Zawadowski (Central European University)

Entry requirements: Microeconomic Theory 1 and 2
Assessment: Assessment: The midterm exam will cover material from the first half, while the final exam will cover the second half of the course. Letter grades will be assigned following departmental guidelines. The weights on different parts of the class are: Exam 50% Homework 20% Presentation and discussion 20% Participation 10%

Course outiline: The Contours of Research in Social Dynamics & Stratification – Poverty in High-Income Countries – Intergenerational Mobility – Families and the Reproduction of Inequality – Welfare States in Comparative Perspective – European Social Policy: What Use Is Social Investment? – Labour Markets & Labour Movements – Globalization & Technological Change – Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration – Global Inequality and Stratification ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/914ff1cb-a76a-49dd-8ad9-5f7c71673c19/40294_Sociology_Parolin_2020-21.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=njpnd6A ----- Course schedule (UTC+1): 13 April 2021 15:00-18:20 | 20 April 15:00-18:20 | 27 April 15:00-18:20 | 4 May 15:00-18:20 | 11 May 15:00-18:20 | 18 May 15:00-18:20 Please note that CIVICA students are expected to attend the course online.
Teachers:

• Zachary Parolin (Bocconi University)

Assessment: Class Project (Written) – Class Project (Presentation) – Final Exam

Science matters: science influences societies, and vice versa. Which influences exist and whether they should be as they are is contested in many ways as part of history and philosophy of science (HPS), science and technology studies (STS), as well as science policy. This course will address advanced issues about how science and societies connect. After a short recap of basics in history, sociology and philosophy of science and technology and science policy, we will focus on one specific issue related to science and society, and then broaden our horizon again by applying what we learned to concrete issues or cases, depending on research interests of students. Each academic year, in which the course will be offered, a new topical focus will be set. In the academic year 2020/21 the focus will be on values in sciences. We will discuss different ways of how science can be value-laden. To do so, we will discuss in depth the philosophical implications regarding different choices that scientists make before, during, or after research, e.g. the choice of the topic, the choice of the methods, the choice of the samples, the response to uncertainty and errors, the language employed to study and to interpret the results, etc. We will also discuss how to philosophically distinguish between appropriate and non-appropriate influences of values, and what value-ladenness means for scientific practice in terms of the difference between natural sciences and social sciences and with respect to objectivity. We will also ask how science should be organized with respect to its diversity and its autonomy given that values play multiple roles in scientific knowledge production. Since these are normative questions, the discussion style will mainly be philosophical, i.e. argumentative, despite the interdisciplinary orientation of the course. In terms of readings, we will start with a contemporary philosophy book that reviews the state of the art in the field. We will then study some classic and influential contemporary accounts in detail. To live up to the interdisciplinarity of the course, we will include readings from history of science, science policy and STS. From the start, we will gradually integrate more and more of the research interests of students and thus also deal with the questions that arise for students in their own PhD research regarding science and values. Schedule: Apr 13, 1:30-5:10pm; Apr 14, 3:30-5:10pm; Apr 27, 1:30-5:10pm; May 4, 1:30-5:10pm; May 11, 1:30-5:10pm; May 25, 3:30-5:10pm; May 26, 3:30-5:10pm; June 1, 3:30-5:10pm More information is in syllabus: https://courses.ceu.edu/sites/courses.ceu.hu/files/attachment/course/5694/sylscienceandsocietyvaluesay2021.pdf
Teachers:

• Maria Kronfeldner (Central European University)

Entry requirements: Some background in philosophy of science.
Assessment: Assessment: The final grade is based on the book review (30%), the presentations (20%), the final term paper (50%). Excellent class participation can contribute up to plus one grade to the final grade (e.g. from B to B+ etc). Reaction papers should include a brief summary of the main points of a reading, and some research engagement. More specific guidelines for class activities and for the term papers will be made explicit during the course. The assessment criteria will be integrated in the structured discussions in the last two weeks of the course to facilitate reflective engagement with these criteria.

The future of higher education collaboration and exchange is at a crossroad, due to the limitations to international exchange posed by the pandemic. While some experts see a growing tendency to expand online education services, others in turn perceive a future in which academic exchange is widespread. Moreover, on political grounds, such as the Brexit, academic markets have closed and create new barriers to academic exchange. Considering these developments, this panel addresses the present and future of higher education collaboration on the globe. The panel invites doctoral researchers in the fields of education, education governance and related subjects to discuss the opportunities and limitations to higher education international exchange and its implications. All further information (on presenters etc.) here: https://281782.seu2.cleverreach.com/m/12630683/531223-48f09608f7b41d0ab4f9df08f027b6e6314b209911d7fd885e55a48f7d66c7487715a30c80cd77502c4cbe47c4c71d91
Entry requirements: none

Guest Speaker: Joelle Noailly Title to be confirmed Further details of this workshop will be published nearer the time here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/joelle-noelly/
Teachers:

• Joelle Noelly (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Soaring renting prices, unmet limits to air pollution, decreasing public spaces, gentrification – living in bigger and medium ranged cities is often marked by a loss in quality of life. The management and design of sustainable cities is one of the major tasks amid the global climate emergency. Transforming European cities to deliver healthier and prosperous environments requires multiple solutions for energy, transport, food, and water. Will this be achievable as planned by the EU, in the up-coming 30 years? This panel invites doctoral researchers to present their work on the past, present, and future of urban governance in the EU and beyond. All further information (i.e. on presenters) here: https://281782.seu2.cleverreach.com/m/12630683/531223-48f09608f7b41d0ab4f9df08f027b6e6314b209911d7fd885e55a48f7d66c7487715a30c80cd77502c4cbe47c4c71d91
Entry requirements: none

6 May 14:00 – 15:30 BST Having devised your search strategy, join this session to discuss further search techniques, strategies and tools to keep up to date with research and literature. We will consider citation searching, alerts, finding current and previous research, and open access resources.
Entry requirements: N/A
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7 May 16:00 – 17:00 BST Do you find yourself flooded with negative thoughts and worries about your PhD? Join us for an online workshop where we will discuss the link between thoughts and wellbeing. We will explore hour specific thought patterns are formed, the connection between thoughts and emotions, and techniques for shifting stressful thoughts. This session will cover • Where do our thoughts originate? • How does stress relate to our thought processes? • The connection between thoughts and emotions • Techniques for shifting stressful thoughts
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Course Description: This course provides doctoral candidates with a foundation in the strategy literature. Drawing on strategy traditions that vary from positioning to dynamic capabilities, a primordial aim of the seminar will be to explain variation in firm and industry performance. Each session during the seminar is intended to expose doctoral candidates to the seminal literature on the topic with a view to encouraging them to write a research paper of publishable quality in peer review journals. Topics covered in the seminar include general areas such as the resource-based view of the firm, industry evolution and dynamics, strategy-related theories of the firm, and diversification and vertical integration. Given the relatively short nature of the course, we will not cover all areas of strategy, but participants are encouraged to develop further readings and exploration based on the literature covered in this seminar. Learning Outcomes: Participants will develop a thorough mastery of the seminal research literature strategy. This involves Evaluating the importance and validity of theory and empirical evidence in academic research on strategy Developing a comprehensive synthesis of the main intellectual traditions in the strategy literature Developing a thorough literature review of current research Applying relevant parts of the extant literature in their own ongoing research agendas Assessment: Six (6) Analytical Summaries (40% of grade) – each week, participants will be asked to prepare an analytical summary (3-5 pages) of the articles assigned as reading for that session. The summary will focus on the theme of the session rather than being a general critical analysis. These must be submitted before class starts. The instructor will provide preliminary feedback after the session and participants are expected to revise the summary and resubmit a week later for further feedback. Research Paper (empirical or theoretical) drawing on a theme in strategy (45% of grade) – You will be expected to write a research paper based around your current research on the doctoral program. You will be expected to draw on the literature covered in this seminar with a view to publication in a peer-reviewed journal. You will be expected to submit a draft paper for feedback from your instructors before re-submitting for grade. To get an ‘A’ grade, the paper will have to be accepted for presentation at a reputable, academic conference. Class Participation (15% of grade) – as this is a doctoral seminar, participants are expected to be fully engaged intellectually, attend all sessions, be prepared to constructively evaluate each other’s contributions and seek innovation in thinking. It’s a tall order, but it is a necessary expectation. Prerequisites: none Syllabus: https://courses.ceu.edu/sites/courses.ceu.hu/files/attachment/course/4116/strategyphdsyllabusspring2021.pdf
Teachers:

• Yusaf Akbar (Central European University)

Assessment: Six (6) Analytical Summaries (40% of grade) – each week, participants will be asked to prepare an analytical summary (3-5 pages) of the articles assigned as reading for that session. The summary will focus on the theme of the session rather than being a general critical analysis. These must be submitted before class starts. The instructor will provide preliminary feedback after the session and participants are expected to revise the summary and resubmit a week later for further feedback. Research Paper (empirical or theoretical) drawing on a theme in strategy (45% of grade) – You will be expected to write a research paper based around your current research on the doctoral program. You will be expected to draw on the literature covered in this seminar with a view to publication in a peer-reviewed journal. You will be expected to submit a draft paper for feedback from your instructors before re-submitting for grade. To get an ‘A’ grade, the paper will have to be accepted for presentation at a reputable, academic conference. Class Participation (15% of grade) – as this is a doctoral seminar, participants are expected to be fully engaged intellectually, attend all sessions, be prepared to constructively evaluate each other’s contributions and seek innovation in thinking. It’s a tall order, but it is a necessary expectation.

11 May 10:00-11:00am BST This introductory workshop will take you through the key aspects of what it takes to have an impact as a public speaker online. About this Event The ability to speak confidently in public in talks, presentations, and group events, is a crucial part of any academic or policy making post. It allows you to present your ideas and yourself in the best possible light. As conferences and presentations move online, being an effective speaker in this environment has suddenly become a new and important challenge, and requires a brand-new set of skills. This introductory workshop will take you through the key aspects of what it takes to have an impact as a public speaker online. We will look at both the practical and technical sides of presenting via Zoom, Skype etc; including vocal and physical presentation techniques and tricks; advice on how to best structure your talk; and a close look at the some of the more subtle qualities required to make yourself interesting online.
Entry requirements: N/A

14 May 2021 14:00 – 16:00 BST During this hands-on workshop to citation tracking and bibliometrics we will use a range of citation and author profiles tools such as Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, SciVal and ORCID to: • retrieve which are the most cited publications in your field of expertise • review the publication pattern of your subject • find out potential collaborators • create citation reports and author profiles • gather and explain the most commonly used research metrics along with their strengths and weaknesses We will discuss the results and explore how to keep up to date on the key literature in your field.
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This two-day intensive workshop prepares participants to enter the academic job market by learning how to analyse academic job calls, showcase their strengths through a well-crafted CV, and write effective cover letters and statements of motivation. Dates and times: two half-day sessions (17 May 2021, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm & 21 May 2021 morning & individual appointments in the afternoon); all information on course contents and target group here: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/docgov/phd-workshops/how-to-write-your-academic-cv-and-cover-letter
Entry requirements: none

Guest speaker: Stephie Fried Title to be confirmed Further details of this workshop will be published nearer the time here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/stephie-fried/
Teachers:

• Stephie Fried (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Fri, 21 May 2021 16:00 – 17:00 BST Do you struggle to maintain healthy eating habits during periods of stress? Do you feel too stressed and overwhelmed to make healthy eating a priority? Join us for an online workshop and learn about the links between stress and nutrition. We will consider how dietary habits and stress impacts the mind and body, discuss which foods are the most beneficial for managing stress, and explore tips for eating well during episodes of stress. This session will cover: the links between stress and nutrition how to upgrade your food choices the benefits of mindful eating tips for healthy eating during times of stress
Entry requirements: N/A
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Guest Speaker: Carolyn Fischer Title to be confirmed Further details of this workshop will be published nearer the time here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/carolyn-fische/
Teachers:

• Carolyn Fischer (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Guest speaker: Spencer Banzhaf Title to be confirmed Further details of this workshop will be published nearer the time here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/spencer-banzhaf/
Teachers:

• Spencer Banzhaf (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

2 Jun 2021, 10:00 BST This course introduces participants to a variety of different tools for innovative thinking. It is based on the premise that there is never any one, “right” answer to a problem, just a series of options. But by approaching problems as a group and from a variety of different angles, we can make our ideas better. In this workshop we use exercises to examine divergent thinking and convergent thinking. We then apply these to common challenges we face in academic writing including how to overcome writer’s block and how to structure a talk on our research. This is a 90-minute workshop.
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd

Entry requirements: N/A
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The Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School is pleased to announce its Second Annual Workshop on Research Methods in Fundamental Rights, taking place online from 2-4 June 2021. The workshop is hosted by the Hertie School as a member of CIVICA - The European University of Social Sciences. The Workshop aims to provide doctoral and early-career legal researchers with opportunities to reflect on diverse research methods in human rights research. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to discuss these methods with renowned faculty, who will provide guidance and reflections on the methods they have applied in key pieces of their own research. Participants will also submit reflections on their own research questions and methods, and will receive individual feedback on their projects. We encourage applications from PhD and early-career legal researchers carrying out fundamental rights research employing any of the methodological approaches covered in the workshop. Participants will receive assigned readings and video-recorded presentations by Faculty in advance of the workshop, as well as guidance on the preparation of their own workshop presentations. Deadline for applications: 1 March 2021. Please submit your application by sending an email to fundamentalrights[at]hertie-school[dot]org with the subject line 'Research Methods in Fundamental Rights'. Applications should include one single pdf file, containing the following information: a CV, a letter of motivation, an outline of your research project, including your research question, research methodology and current stage of the research (2 pages); for PhD candidates: a letter of recommendation written by PhD supervisor. More information and links here: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/events/workshop-research-methods-in-fundamental-rights (Please note that you must apply via the above-mentioned email address, not via this course catalogue! This is only for information purposes.)
Entry requirements: Successful application

The European Union has pledged 40% emissions reductions by 2030. While this target is ambitious, and substantial advancements have been made, the European Commission considers that climate change, energy import dependence, and the increasing energy prices suppose a mounting pressure for countries to delay their emission reduction targets - with immediate repercussions for the entire European community. Considering these events, this panel addresses the limitations coming from the societal, technical, and political sectors that might prevent the EU from transiting into renewable and sustainable sources of energy utilisation. resenters Kilian Raiser, PhD researcher at the Hertie School Faris Al-Sulayman, PhD researcher at the London School of Economics Anton Berezutskii, PhD researcher at the Central European University Discussants Prof. Dr. Christian Flachsland, Professor of Sustainability at the Hertie School Prof. Dr. Kathryn Hochstetler, Professor and Head of the Department of International Development at the LSE
Entry requirements: none

4 June 2021 16:00 – 17:00 BST Do you have a viva or an upgrade coming up that you are anxious about? Does the prospect of defending your work fill you with fear and dread? This workshop will consider some common concerns that arise during the viva and upgrade process. We will discuss what to expect during your viva, practical ways to prepare, and tips for managing your fears surrounding the process. This session will cover how the viva differs from a traditional academic presentation how to prepare for the viva tips for managing difficult questions from the examiners how to manage the transition to post-PhD life
Teachers:

• Serena Sharma (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Drowned in the empirics or your PhD? If you cannot currently imagine submitting your dissertation, the timing is perfect for considering life after the PhD. What career do you want to pursue? Which skills do you have that you would like to bring to the world? Plan ahead in the middle of your PhD phase and enjoy a smoother career transition. Dates: Monday, 7 June 2021, 9 am - 5:30 pm & Tuesday, 8 June 2021, 2-5:30 pm, online. More info here: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/docgov/phd-workshops/plan-early-for-life-with-a-phd-career-orientation
Teachers:

• Christiane Kasack (Hertie School)

Entry requirements: none

This panel aims at building an interactive platform for early career faculty members to provide insights, advice and input for doctoral researchers nearing the completion of their studies, as well as for postdoctoral researchers. This panel will advise on the range of institutional types and requirements for navigating the academic job market in different higher education settings: European, UK and the US. Participants are expected to engage in a horizontal conversation concerning post-doctoral job opportunities, entering the job market, weighting the benefits of moving abroad vs staying in place, insights for the shortlisted interview, and other valuable tips. Discussants Prof. Mark Kayser, PhD, Acting Dean of Faculty and Research and Professor of Applied Methods and Comparative Politics at the Hertie School Prof. Dr. Abhijeet Singh, Associate Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics Prof. Dr. Mariyana Angelova, Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Central European University Register (until two days befo
Entry requirements: none

11 Jun 2021, 10:00 BST his course will show you how to generate timely and relevant content for blogs, &how to write a blog so that it actually gets read Blogging has taken off as a form of communication unique to the 21st century. As a researcher, blogging can help you create a community around a specific body of expertise. This course will show you how to generate timely and relevant content for blogs, how to write a blog so that it actually gets read and how to create that signature conversational tone we associate with blogging. This course is useful for beginners who would like to build a successful blog from the ground up, as well for those who wish to fine-tune and improve an existing blog. This is a 90-minute workshop.
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

What is Computational Text Analysis ? Computational text analysis (also called Quantitative Text Analysis, Automated Content Analysis, Text Mining, Text as Data etc.) draws on techniques developed in natural language processing and machine learning to analyse textual documents. While there are a wide range of methods, computational text analysis typically follows this workflow: raw texts are processed and converted into a quantitative form, which is then analysed using the statistical tools. Computational text analysis therefore transforms text into the quantitative data, rendering it possible to employ well-established statistical and machine learning tools for inference and prediction. As a result of the advert of the internet and advancement in information technology, massive volume of text on a wide variety of topics has become available. These include not only contents on social media and websites, but also digitized content of government documents, newspapers, books, and other historical sources. At the same time, computational text analysis methods are increasingly being used to conduct social and political research. The course is perfect for researchers who are interested in utilising textual data but lack the technical knowledge. In this course, you will develop the foundation skills needed for collecting and analysing textual data from digital sources. The course begins with an introduction to fundamental R programming for absolute beginners. After acquiring the necessary skills in R, we will then moves on to harvesting data from online sources. The course will conclude will an introduction to analysing textual data using computational techniques. These techniques can be used to analyse texts from a wide range of digital sources, including website content, digitised books and documents, party manifestos, political speeches, and so on. By the end of the course, students will have the skills and resources to apply computational methods to address scholarly problems in social and political sciences.
Teachers:

• Justin HO (Sciences Po)

Entry requirements: 0
Assessment: 0

Guest speaker: Christian Vossler Title to be confirmed Further details of this workshop will be published nearer the time here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/christian-vossler/
Teachers:

• Christian Vossler (The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Event history, or duration analysis, is a method that is widely used across social science disciplines – particularly in sociology and political science, and also of interest in history, social policy, demography and economics. Beyond the practicalities of its statistical use, the method is essential for thinking about how social, political and economic processes evolve over time. I have used this method in my research in sociology, social policy, and political science, and the course will draw on interdisciplinary examples. Many important social science questions focus on time, duration, and the probability of event occurrence - the lengths of wars or legal disputes, the failure of cabinets over time, the longevity of alliances or dictatorships, the survival of firms or persons. Event history or survival analysis is a class of statistical techniques that analyzes the probability that an event occurs, how that probability changes over time, and how it is mediated by other factors. Event history analysis is a very coherent method, with a clear progression in how students acquire understanding. We start with the research logic of event history, data structure, nonparametric techniques, and introduction to multivariate survival models. The course will end with a discussion of special topics [competing risks, unobserved heterogeneity]. It is possible for students to master this method at an advanced level within an intensive one-week course. This course provides students with the key concepts and competence to pursue further statistical expertise of this method on their own.The course aims to introduce students to the key concepts of event history, data structure, an overview of parametric, semi-parametric and non-parametric approaches, and a focus on application of these concepts on practice datasets and students’ own data. Each class will consist of a lecture component where we will discuss key concepts, and an applied component where we will analyze data, and implement the concepts from the lecture. There will also be a time for lab-work in the afternoon, where students can work together on problem sets, with aid from the instructor. For more information : https://www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-doctorale/fr/actualites/event-history-analysis.html
Teachers:

• Sukriti ISSAR (Sciences Po)

Entry requirements: The course prerequisite is some experience with any statistical software (STATA, R), and that you have studied basic regression in some previous class.
Assessment: 0

The course introduces participants to the theory and practice of teaching in higher education. They can apply what they have learned in practical exercises, for example through individual teaching sessions. This is a block seminar over several days (28 June 2021, 2 - 5:30 pm, 29 June, 9 am - 5:30 pm – with breaks, 30 June, 2 - 5:30 pm & 1 July, 2 - 5:30 pm; plus micro-teaching sessions (of which you must attend at least one) on 5 July, noon - 6 pm & 7 July, noon - 6 pm). Instructor: Dr. Annika Zorn. More information here: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/docgov/phd-workshops/introduction-to-teaching-in-higher-education
Entry requirements: no or little teaching experience

The Hertie School invites PhD researchers to participate in a workshop on European higher education in times of uncertainty. The virtual workshop is organised in cooperation with the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences. From geopolitical tensions, including Brexit, to attacks on academic freedom, as well as an unprecedented disruption to university learning and research through COVID-19, European higher education is currently facing a plethora of challenges. How have European universities responded to this period of uncertainty? What policies have been developed at national and supranational levels of governance in light of political and social developments? This PhD workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for emerging scholars to share and discuss their research with peers and senior academics. The aim of the workshop is for PhD researchers to present their work in an encouraging environment. We welcome submissions of different theoretical and methodological approaches across social science disciplines. Deadline for applications: 15 April 2021. Please apply by submitting an abstract (300-500 words) and a CV to edu.gov.team[at]hertie-school[dot]org. Applications via the CIVICA course catalogue are not recommended. For all further information, topics and so forth, please visit this website: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/events/15-04-2021-international-phd-workshop
Teachers:

• Lukas Graf (Hertie School)
• Anna Prisca Lohse (Hertie School)
• Marcelo Marques (Hertie School)

The Covid-19 pandemic has marked a turning point for the digitalisation of public services including education and health. In this context, the EU has pledged its commitment to promote a faster connectivity, and to increase the engagement of civil society. However, the EU still presents various challenges due to the mismatch between the growing demand of technology and the current limited supply – examples are the slow implementation of the 5G network, limited automated mobility, and questionable personal data security regulations. This panel will focus on the challenges and opportunities of the European digital governance and the construction of advanced digital skills in the economy and society.
Entry requirements: none

Since the European debt crisis, several economic measures have been implemented in the bloc, most of them aiming at controlling excessive debt acquisition, adequate statistical reporting of budgetary balances, and the introduction of debt ceilings in various member states’ constitutions. Ahead of what several specialists see as the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, the European Commission faces novel economic and political challenges previously unseen since its creation. Considering these events, this panel addresses the multiple economic challenges ahead in the EU monetary union with a special emphasis on its political economic behaviour in times of the Covid-19. Presenters Tom Arend, PhD researcher at the Hertie School Martino Comelli, PhD researcher at the Central European University Discussants Arianna Ornaghi, PhD Assistant Professor of Economics at the Hertie School Jimena Valdez-Tappata, PhD Fellow in European and Comparative Political Economy at the LSE

Course Description:The course will cover the standard mathematical tools that are required for subsequent Ph.D. courses in Economics and Finance. We start with basic set theory and logic. Then, we study/review linear algebra and basics of convex sets and functions from a higher standpoint. We move on to real analysis (topology) and convex analysis, with applications to economics and finance. Then, after studying/reviewing multi-variable calculus from a higher standpoint, we study (static) optimization and comparative statics of optimization problems. Finally, we briefly study dynamic programming. For some economic applications of the course materials and static and dynamic economic optimization problems, we will also study numerical implementation with MATLAB . The course will cover both abstract mathematics and applications to economics and finance. For core mathematical concepts whose conceptual or logical understanding is essential, the course materials (lectures and problem sets) are largely proof-based. In contrast, for certain topics when the emphasis of the course is for you to be able to use certain mathematical results correctly in applied settings, the focus during the course is to enable you to understand and use the results correctly as a user. The detailed syllabus (for example, with information on office hours) will be distributed at the course website. ----- All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40312.
Teachers:

• SATOSHI FUKUDA (Bocconi University)

Entry requirements: Undergraduate-level Calculus, Matrix/Linear Algebra, and Probability required for economics and finance.
Assessment: A combination of problem sets (both theory and programming) and final exam. Precise information will be announced.

This is a topics course in Industrial Organization. The goal is to bring students to the frontier of the research literature, with the expectation that they could then perform research in this area independently. The course covers two major areas of IO: demand estimation, with applications to health care markets (Part I) and advanced topics in auction markets (Part II). Both of them are analyzed from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Particular emphasis is given to recent empirical methods for the structural analysis of these markets. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/833e1e0b-0736-4c83-b23e-bd343cc42d1a/40404+Topics+Applied+Econom+Decarolis+19-20.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=mQASUYv ----- All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40404.
Teachers:

• Francesco Decarolis (Bocconi University)

Assessment: Referee reports of two papers (25%), Presentation of one paper (25%), Empirical project (50%)

Course description. We will cover measure theory and integration. The course will hopefully be useful for students whose research will involve rigorous proofs in probability theory, statistics and functional analysis. Course outline (tentative) (*) s-algebras, measurable functions and measures. (*) Integration. (*) Construction of measures. Radon measures on R and Lebesgue-Stieltjes integral. (*)Product measures, Fubini-Tonelli theorem. (*) [Lp spaces or signed measures] and Radon-Nykodim theorem. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/98e82ce2-bbd4-4a78-9b07-2220047e0dfc/40143+INTRODUCTION+TO+REAL+ANALYSIS+Lavenant+20-21+updated.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nd89.7b ----- All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40032.
Teachers:

• Hugo Lavenant (Bocconi University)

Entry requirements: strong background in undergraduate "mathematical analysis"
Assessment: Written examination

The course provides an introduction to the theory of Optimal Transport, in the context of Convex and Functional Analysis. Optimal Transport deals with the problem to find the best strategy to move a given distribution of masses (or goods, or physical quantities…) to an assigned configuration, in order to minimize a cost depending on the initial and final position. Starting from the pioneering and famous work by Monge (1781) and after the fundamental contribution by Kantorovich in the first half of the last century, this fascinating subject have been investigated under various point of views, and has grown up to form a rich and beautiful theory with many applications to statistics, probability, convex and functional analysis, calculus of variations, PDE’s and geometry. The aim of the course is to provide the principal results of Optimal Transport, within the broader framework of Measure Theory, Convex and Functional analysis. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/aa3e708c-2340-47a2-bcc0-fae71c53296c/40143+INTRODUCTION+TO+REAL+ANALYSIS+II+Savare+21-22.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nHEgwvw ----- All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40143.
Teachers:

• Giuseppe Savare' (Bocconi University)

Assessment: Written exam

Whatever the endeavor — business, nonprofit, government, the arts, the military — people are organized formally and informally. Formally, people report to someone, a boss, and supervise some number of others. We derive much of our identity from our title and position in the formal organization. But the bulk of what we get done is through the informal organization composed of colleagues, friends, and strangers with whom we cajole, entreat, pressure, and generally collaborate to get things done. Formal is the skeleton. Informal is the flesh. Together, the two define a social network around you. This course is an introduction to the ways certain people and groups have a competitive advantage in creating value because of their social network. The advantage stems from the way a person engages the diversity of information in organizations and markets. Half the puzzle is production: Certain people have an advantage in recombining information to produce and deliver on good ideas. The other half of the puzzle is governance: Certain people have an advantage in being accepted as a source of good ideas. This course is about doing research on how the two network mechanisms operate to create advantage for certain people, and ways to enhance and maintain personal and group advantage. ----- All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/0b244330-9c7e-4e46-9299-08e87dda9ab8/BURT+Social+Network+Analysis+Syllabus+ay+2020_2021.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=negfoRt ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40092.
Teachers:

• Ronald Stuart Burt (Bocconi University)

Entry requirements: Working familiarity with correlation/regression
Assessment: Grades will be based on participation in class discussion and written work. See syllabus for detailed info.

Content. The course introduces Markov processes and dynamic programming, two tools for forecasting dynamic processes and solving dynamic optimization problems. After introducing the key concepts and theoretical results, the tools will be immediately applied in quantitative computing using the Julia programming language. Relevance. Markov processes and dynamic programming are key tools to solve dynamic economic problems and can be applied for stochastic growth models, industrial organization, and structural labor economics. Julia is an efficient, fast, and open-source language for scientific computing, used widely in academia and policy analysis. Learning Outcomes: Key outcomes. By the end of the course, students will be able to - Use difference equations to characterize 2-dimensional dynamic systems. - Solve for the steady-state of 2-dimensional linear dynamic systems. - Characterize the stability of 2-dimensional linear dynamic systems. - Create plots in Julia. - Understand the definition of Markov processes. - Create functions in Julia. - Simulate Markov processes in Julia. - Understand the definition of Markov chains. - Solve for ergodic distributions of Markov chains. - Forecast Markov chains analytically. - Apply arrays and matrix algebra in Julia. - Simulate Markov chains in Julia. - Understand the principle of dynamic programming. - Derive the Bellman equation for several simple recursive problems. - Solve for the value function using the guess and verify method. - Solve the Bellman equation using value function and policy function iteration. - Understand contraction mappings. - Use while loops in Julia numerical iteration. - Solve the Ramsey growth model using dynamic programming - Solve the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides search model using dynamic programming. Other outcomes. The course will also help develop skills in the following areas. Critical Thinking Compare sequential and recursive formulation of dynamic optimization problems. Evaluate the limitations of Markov processes. Quantitative Reasoning Use Markov processes for forecasting. Technology Skills Install and use basic libraries in the Julia language. Use key programming tools in Julia: functions, loops. Interpersonal Communication Skills Convey difficult concepts verbally. Management Knowledge and Skills Create software with many components. Organize work components effectively. Meet deadlines. Cultural Sensitivity and Diversity Work together with students of different backgrounds. Ethics and Social Responsibility Assessment: Grading will be based on the total score out of 100, in line with CEU’s standard grading guidelines. - Class participation (20 percent) - Take-home problem (40 percent) - Take-home coding assignment (40 percent) Syllabus link: https://courses.ceu.edu/sites/courses.ceu.hu/files/attachment/course/3337/advancedmacroeconomics.pdf
Teachers:

• Miklós Koren (Central European University)

Entry requirements: Master's level Macroeconomics
Assessment: Grading will be based on the total score out of 100, in line with CEU’s standard grading guidelines. - Class participation (20 percent) - Take-home problem (40 percent) - Take-home coding assignment (40 percent)

Syllabus: https://courses.ceu.edu/sites/courses.ceu.hu/files/attachment/course/6422/bankingandcrisessyllabusfallay20212022.pdf Schedule: http://schedules.ceuecon.org/econ-phd This course provides both an introduction to financial economics and at the same time highlights the forefronts of research. We focus on understanding the economic mechanisms using formal models and learning to work with the workhorse models in finance. The course prepares you to understand and critically evaluate research in the area and help you identify potential areas of contribution. The topics covered are banking, market liquidity, and financial crises. This is a rigorous research-oriented academic course. Those interested in a more practice-oriented treatment of the subject should consider the ``Trading and Portfolio Theory'' and ``Asset Pricing'' MS Finance courses instead. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course, students will be able to: understand the role of asymmetric information in financial markets understand why bank regulation is important understand what causes banking crises and more specifically what caused the Financial Crisis of 2007/8 identify the main assumptions driving the results of a model relate theoretical models to reality Assessment: Letter grades will be assigned following departmental guidelines. The weights on different parts of the class are: Exam 50% Homework 20% Presentation and discussion 20% Participation 10% Prerequisites: Microeconomic Theory 1 and 2
Teachers:

• Ádám Zawadowski (Central European University)

Entry requirements: Microeconomic Theory 1 and 2
Assessment: Letter grades will be assigned following departmental guidelines. The weights on different parts of the class are: Exam 50% Homework 20% Presentation and discussion 20% Participation 10%

The aim of this course is to provide students familiarity with a select set of textual and archival sources related to early modern Ottoman history. More specifically, the course has a focus on the period of ca. 1580-1650, which many scholars today consider the beginning of a long era of “crisis and transformation” in the dynastic, political, socio-economic, military and administrative structures of the Ottoman Empire. We will accordingly explore, read and compare a range of primary sources in manuscript or published forms (such as siyâsetnâmes, nasîhatnâmes, kânûnnâmes, reform treatises, religious tracts, letters of advice and memoirs) while discussing them in the light of most recent scholarly literature so as to reach at a better understanding of the complex patterns and historical conceptualizations of continuity and change in the key institutions of the early modern Ottoman imperial system in the post-1580 era. Learning Outcomes: Acquiring a good knowledge of different primary source materials about early modern Ottoman political, intellectual and socio-economic history Considering new methodological and theoretical approaches to the old and new sources in relation to late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman history; Establishing a vocabulary in English connected to technical and theoretical concepts related to early modern Ottoman studies Acquiring and/or strengthening interdisciplinary approaches in the field of history. Assessment: Class participation (20%) Preparation of texts and discussion questions (40%) Paper assignment based on a primary source at the end of the term (40%) Prerequisites: This class is open to all students with medium-to-advanced Ottoman-Turkish reading skills.
Teachers:

• Günhan Börekçi (Central European University)

Entry requirements: This class is open to all students with medium-to-advanced Ottoman-Turkish reading skills.
Assessment: Class participation (20%) Preparation of texts and discussion questions (40%) Paper assignment based on a primary source at the end of the term (40%)

Syllabus: https://courses.ceu.edu/sites/courses.ceu.hu/files/attachment/course/6421/phddata-analysis-prediction-econ-bekes-syllabusecon2021-08-18.pdf Schedule: http://schedules.ceuecon.org/econ-phd Data Analysis 3 covers the fundamentals of data analysis with the aim of prediction also called predictive analytics. This course equips students with the knowledge and skills necessary to carry out and evaluate predictions in business and policy environments. We focus on select few applications with tabular data, those that offer good performance and are widely used in industry. This course starts with the fundamentals of predictive analytics and covers topics such as variable selection with LASSO, prediction with regressions, probability prediction and classification with binary targets. We cover in depth one area of machine learning models: tree-based models (CART, random forest and gradient boosting). The course will also discuss model independent issues such as sample design and external validity of the results. Learning Outcomes: Key outcomes. By the end of the course, students will be able to Carry out reasonably good predictions and evaluate their performance; Evaluate the predictive performance of all kinds of models; Build machine learning models with some of most widely used methods such as random forest and boosting. Discuss and evaluate results of predictive analysis. Present the results of predictive analytics and write short reports; Evaluate the merits of presentations and reports that carry out predictive analytics. Assessment: Grading will be based on the total score out of 100, in line with CEU Department of Economics and Business grading guidelines. In particular, The median student can expect to get a B+ Probably not more than 1/3 of the students can expect to get an A or A- To pass, students will need to get at least 50% of the overall grade. The final grade is based on: start-of-the-class and in-class quizzes/exercises [10%]; three assignments [90%]; Assignments are data exercises, where students potentially need to gather and clean data, carry out analysis and interpret results. One of the assignment is a small group project. Prerequisites: Data Analysis 1,2 or Introductory Econometrics. Good coding knowledge is expected in R or Python or Stata+some Python.
Teachers:

• Gábor Békés (Central European University)

Entry requirements: Data Analysis 1,2 or Introductory Econometrics. Good coding knowledge is expected in R or Python or Stata+some Python.
Assessment: Grading will be based on the total score out of 100, in line with CEU Department of Economics and Business grading guidelines. In particular, The median student can expect to get a B+ Probably not more than 1/3 of the students can expect to get an A or A- To pass, students will need to get at least 50% of the overall grade. The final grade is based on: start-of-the-class and in-class quizzes/exercises [10%]; three assignments [90%]; Assignments are data exercises, where students potentially need to gather and clean data, carry out analysis and interpret results. One of the assignment is a small group project.

Over the last four decades, the world has witnessed the transition of political and economic regimes - from autocracies to democracies and various types of political regimes in between, and from closed to open market economies and back. The current situation provides ground for disparate, and sometimes outright contradictory, diagnoses about the present state of democracy around the globe, its future development, and the interaction between economic and political processes. Clear non-democracies like China show economic growth rates that are overwhelming both in size and duration, while rulers in Russia and elsewhere could profit from a resource boom that has enabled them to devise sophisticated measures to secure their power and turn their political system into hybrid regimes. At the same time, popular uprisings in the Middle East and Northern Africa have brought down long-standing dictators and set in motion counter-reactions that have led in most of the cases to the reinstatement of some form of repressive authoritarian regime. Meanwhile, democracy is in crisis even in its heartland in the North-Western hemisphere, not least due to profound economic transformations and changes. This course is designed to give a broad overview of the literature on the processes of economic and political regime change and their interaction in the early and late 20th and early 21st century. There are four main parts: I. Core concepts and theories; II. Historical Perspectives; III. Contemporary Issues; IV Student presentations. The aim is to provide students with the analytic tools, theories, and concepts that enable them to make better sense of the current economic and political processes in countries around the globe, with a special emphasis on the link between economic and political changes. The list of concepts discussed is comprised of, among others, types of transitions, political regime types, the consolidation, and the qualities of democracy, and forms of economic systems. The topic of this course will be dealt with from a global perspective. We will thus attempt to capture cases and evidence from different world regions. Learning Outcomes: The overall grade will primarily indicate the ability of the students to handle the core concepts and questions in the literature on political regime changes with special focus on political economy. The learning outcomes of the PhD program are supported and measured by the present course in the following ways: The ability to critically assess scholarly arguments, which are based on empirical research; to write an academic paper using an appropriate scholarly tone. The skill of formulating researchable questions is primarily measured by the second, bigger, presentation. The ability to orally present an academic argument is assessed through the two in-class presentations and the in-class participation. The skills to analyze contemporary events related to political regime change and to employ cutting-edge methods are reflected by the bigger presentation. Students will also be exposed to, and expect to critically reflect on, general issues in doing comparative social research, such as concept formation (i.e. how to define, conceptualize, and measure the phenomenon under study) and different strategies of drawing inference from observational data. More in course description: https://courses.ceu.edu/courses/2021-2022/political-economy-regime-change
Teachers:

• Laszlo Bruszt (Central European University)
• Carsten Q. Schneider (Central European University)

Assessment: The course meets twice a week. Most meetings will be a mix between lecture and seminar. The grading will be composed of the following items: (1) You are expected to be actively present at all sessions. In case you are unable to attend, you need to inform us via email prior to our class. Unexcused missed classes are graded with zero points. You are expected to reflect critically on the mandatory readings and to show such reflection by active and stimulating interaction in class. Activity in the classroom can be complemented with questions, suggestions, and comments to be sent to us prior to our next meeting. (2) Each student will have to do two presentations in class. The first one is shorter (not more than 15-20 minutes) and it must be on one of the topics that we are dealing with in sessions 1 – 10 and 13 - 22. These short presentations must be single-authored. The goal of the presentation is to get the in-class discussion going. (3) The second presentation is more extensive (around 50 minutes). You are free to choose the topic of the presentation, but it needs to be confirmed by us prior to week 8 the latest. The presentation should contain empirical data based on which you try to make analytically plausible and substantively interesting points. At least one week prior to your presentation, you are asked to distribute a list of one (!) required and minimum two recommended readings to all course participants. After your presentation you remain in the role of the leader and moderator of the follow-up discussion in class. (4) You are expected to review two books. You can either write two separate book reviews (900-1000 words each, reference list not included), or one single paper that reviews two books together (1700-1900 words, reference list not included). You are free to choose the books, but your choice needs to be approved by us. You can choose books that are on the same topic as your (long) presentation. Edited volumes and books older than five years should be chosen based on well-argued reasons. The precise deadline for the paper will be communicated in due time. Evaluation of Requirements (1) In-class participation: 15% (2) Smaller first presentation: 15% (3) Second bigger presentation: 35% (4) Book review: 35% For MA-level students, the following evaluation criteria apply: (1) In-class participation: 25% (2) Smaller first presentation: 30% (3) Book review: 45% According to policies of the Department of Political Science, late submissions of written assignments will be downgraded in the following manner: - 1 minute to 24 hours late: 1 grading point - 24.1 hours to 48 hours: 2 grading points - etc. A violation of the word limit leads to the following downgrading: - each 5 percent deviation from word limit: 1 grading point The grading follows the standard scale adopted by Central European University: A: 100-96; A-: 95-88; B+: 87-80; B: 79-71; B-: 70-63; C+: 62-58; F: 57-

The main aim of these two courses is to provide students with an advanced training in econometric theory. Students successfully completing this course should be able to apply most of the modern econometric tools in empirical studies and, also, to understand and evaluate new research results in many important areas of econometrics. Learning Outcomes: i) Development of analytical skills to a level where students can evaluate critically any econometrics research output and design and carry out themselves such research projects. ii) Development of technical skills which enable students to understand and apply highly sophisticated econometric tools. iii) Development of computer programming skills in order to be able to implement their technical knowledge in practice and, finally, iv) Development of individual time management of learning, through frequent and individualized assessment. Assessment: There will be 2-3 individualized assignments during the term (frequently involving programing in Matlab or similar) in each course, with a total of 50% weight in the assessment, and a final examination with also 50% weight. In order to get the minimum pass grade for the course, at least 50% of the marks must be obtained in both components of the assessment (assignments and final exam). Exam on the last session/class of each course. Prerequisites: Pre-requisites: For doctoral students compulsory core course. For second year MA students A, or A- grade in Econometrics 2 to enroll in this course. Upon the agreement of the Lecturer, in special cases and limited numbers, students can enroll with a B+. Syllabus link: https://courses.ceu.edu/sites/courses.ceu.hu/files/attachment/course/2451/advancedeconometrics1.pdf
Teachers:

• Matyas Laszlo (Central European University)
• Ádám Reiff (Central European University)

Entry requirements: compulsory core course
Assessment: There will be 2-3 individualized assignments during the term (frequently involving programing in Matlab or similar) in each course, with a total of 50% weight in the assessment, and a final examination with also 50% weight. In order to get the minimum pass grade for the course, at least 50% of the marks must be obtained in both components of the assessment (assignments and final exam). Exam on the last session/class of each course.

The situation of women in the labour market still suffers from various gaps, including their underrepresentation, and the increasing burden of unpaid domestic responsibilities that still lay on their backs. In many European countries, women still struggle to find similar opportunities to men in terms of jobs and salary, even so despite holding similar qualifications. While there have declarative measures to facilitate the fair inclusion of women in the labour market, several countries still exhibit inherited historical legacies rendering their roles to that of ‘caregivers’. The present panel discusses the challenges and opportunities in fostering more equal market inclusion of women in Europe. Presenters Tabea Naujoks, PhD researcher at the Hertie School Position vacant, please apply. Discussants Prof. Dr. Anke Hassel, Professor of Public Policy at the Hertie School Prof. Dr. Anja Plomein, Professor of Gender and Social Science at the L

This workshop combines best practice thinking with tips and exercises to provide a quick primer on academic writing We explore the broad principles underlying academic writing – what makes academic writing distinctive, how to situate your argument within a broader literature, and how to structure a coherent argument. The workshop unfolds over two, 90- minute sessions. In Part One, we look at how to approach academic writing "as a conversation." Part Two walks students through the five steps to writing a killer introduction and how to think about - and write - literature reviews. While you do not need to attend both sessions of the workshop, it is strongly advised.
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Risk Analysis is a crucial research area that serves as a background to many scientific fields such as actuarial, financial, operational, engineering and en- vironmental. The quantification of risks that a community, infrastructure or asset is exposed to as a consequence of adverse events, is of vital impor- tance for governments and insurance companies to protect themselves from potential losses. The literature for risk analysis proposes a large amount of sophisticated methodologies to deal with this complex topic, both from the theoretical and quantitative point of view. One part of this literature is devote to the study of rare or extreme events. The aim of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the basic approaches to modelling extreme events and a foundation for understanding the most recent research topics in this field. In the course we introduce basic concepts of extreme or rare events. These events occur with low frequency but can have a large impact on real life. Therefore studying their stochastic behaviour is a crucial step for risk anal- ysis. We discuss two basic models that are the cornerstones for modelling univariate extremes: the Generalised Extreme value and the Pareto dis- tributions. We describe some basic techniques to estimate one-dimensional extreme events. Then, we introduce some approaches for modelling extreme events in high (finite) dimensions which are useful for describing multiple extreme observations. We describe different types of representations of the extremal dependence structure. Finally, we discuss some inferential methods to estimate high-dimensional extreme events. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/ae670186-4c41-4d7e-a6c9-4701d380459e/40390+Statistics+for+extremes+Padoan+21-22.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nHSpZBy ----- All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40390.
Teachers:

• Simone Padoan (Bocconi University)

Entry requirements: In order to profitable participation to the course, it is advisable that students have already attended to at least a basic university course in mathematics, statistics and probability.
Assessment: Students have two options, take a written exam or alternatively to investigate a specific topic and make a presentation of it to the participants of the course.

In the recent years media platforms and social networks have become central elements through which democratic deliberation takes place worldwide. While these platforms have greatly contributed fostering debate, democratic participation, and raising awareness about democratisation processes, observers also claim that they have contributed to the polarisation of political debate further contributing to the construction of vitriolic discussions that represent a significant challenge to democracy. This panel addresses the developments of the impact of media platforms in contributing and/or polarising democratic public discussions. Presenters Philip Darius, PhD researcher at the Hertie School Position vacant, please apply. Discussants Prof. Dr. Simon Munzert, Assistant Professor of Data Science and Public Policy at the Hertie School Second discussant TBC

This practical and pragmatic 4 x 2 hour module programme will help you make the best start on your PhD While starting your PhD can be really exciting – perhaps the fresh start of pursuing a life-long dream; taking a deep-dive exploration into something that fascinates you; or taking a step towards your career – you might also feel a bit of pressure to make the best start you can in this long process. This practical and pragmatic 4 x 2 hour module programme helps you do so, based around the 4 steps of successful project management: Module 1: Hit the ground running: defining and planning the PhD; Module 2: Starting with the end in mind: the literature review and 1st year ‘registration report’; Module 3: Making the most of your supervisor; Module 4: Strategies for implementing the project. Bonus sessions include an open, hour-long ‘Making the most of your Supervisor’ Q & A after Module 2 and a ‘Writing Workout’ later in the term to help you get started on a large piece of writing, which may be part of your 1st year registration report.
Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Strategic thinking means to think about the future. However, future is unknown and the lack of knowledge generates uncertainty. Thus, strategic thinking is different than thinking for the present time and present business activities. It is important to understand this difference and how can we develop the power of thinking for the future under the pressure of uncertainty. The present course aims at explaining the main features of strategic thinking and how people can develop specific competencies for dealing with uncertainty. Also, the course is very useful for Ph.D. students in designing their research programs and in identifying some specific difficulties in dealing with uncertainty and complexity of their problems. Strategic thinking is fundamental in understanding strategic management. The second part of this course focuses on the features of strategic management which become more important in this business environment characterized by many and unpredictable changes. Also, we discuss about business strategies and how they can be designed to be useful and successful. We will discuss about deliberate strategies and emergent strategies, like those needed in times of crises.
Teachers:

• Constantin Bratianu (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)

Entry requirements: Prior knowledge about management is a plus, but it is not mandatory.
Assessment: There will be 3 Homeworks, each of them evaluated with max. 10 points. There will be a written exam evaluated to max. 70 points. The condition to pass is to obtain minimum 50 points out of the total 100 points.

This short course will introduce participants to the art of survey design. This includes understanding the logic of survey design, learn how to develop a multidimensional survey, ethical implications of survey research and tips and tricks on how to implement it. The target group for this course is PhD researchers at the start of their doctoral research. No prior experience in survey methodology is required to take this course. Instructor: Dr. Jessica Breaugh. Dates and times: Wednesday October 13th – 9:30 am until 12:30 pm, Friday October 15th - 9:30 am until 12:30 pm, Feedback sessions on October 22nd 10 am until 12 pm. Please register in case of interest. The deadline for registrations is 4 October 2021. You will learn by 6 October whether there is a spot for you in the course or not. You will receive an email from the Hertie School's PhD Team.

The course will combine methods, applications, theory and computational aspects in Statistical and Machine Learning. More specifically, the methods will be motivated and evaluated with a focus on applied problems, but the overarching goal will be on the general methodological framework, including theoretical results and properties. Most of the topics will be presented via a careful discussion of the original papers. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/84260505-51c6-44df-ab13-de1f25da728f/41003+Statistics+Machine+Learning+ex+40334+SML+Durante+20-21.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nHJgTJF ----- All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 41003.
Teachers:

• Daniele Durante (Bocconi University)

Assessment: The evaluation is based on an individual project in which the student is asked to provide a critical and thoughtful discussion of an interesting topic considered during the course.

The course analyzes the response of economic systems (firms, consumers, society) to processes of increasing economic integration, also referred to as globalization. The first part of the course will look at the channels through which global processes are able to affect the economic growth of countries, comparing evidence from the European Union with those from other relevant players such as the US and China. We will analyse in particular some micro-foundations of growth based on the actions of heterogeneous firms; the extent to which processes of selection and reallocation of economic activities are able to shape the competitiveness of countries; the relationship between globalization and economic growth; the behavioural response of agents to economic shocks. The second part of the course is dedicated to the analysis of the interplay between globalization and social and political outcomes in the European Union. In particular, we will be looking at the causal effects of globalization on the well-being of workers, as well as on political dynamics across the EU. The courses will cover these key debates drawing primarily from economics and econometrics, but also employing insights from sociology and political science. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/5481508b-ff7f-4922-91ee-29a9e3db24b3/40353_European+Policy_2021-22.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nHz8JKh ----- All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40353.
Teachers:

• Carlo Altomonte (Bocconi University)
• Italo Colantone (Bocconi University)

Assessment: Students will be requested to develop a Referee Report’s style paper discussing the strengths and limitations of an academic paper and providing suggestions for improvements.

This workshop combines best practice thinking with tips and exercises to provide a quick primer on academic writing We explore the broad principles underlying academic writing – what makes academic writing distinctive, how to situate your argument within a broader literature, and how to structure a coherent argument. The workshop unfolds over two, 90- minute sessions. In Part One, we look at how to approach academic writing "as a conversation." Part Two walks students through the five steps to writing a killer introduction and how to think about - and write - literature reviews. While you do not need to attend both sessions of the workshop, it is strongly advised.
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

Why you should consider LaTeX and how it will make your life as a PhD candidate easier: LaTeX is a typesetting software that can be used in the preparation of all kinds of high-quality documents, presentations and posters. This workshop will provide participants with an overview of what LaTeX is, what it is capable of, and what it can be used for. We will then proceed to take a closer look at the functionality and commands that enable participants to use the system on their own. The workshop is primarily intended for PhD researchers interested in using LaTeX for preparing documents. The workshop will provide participants with an overview of the system. For those who want to pursue integrating LaTeX into their academic workflow, the workshop provides a good basis for getting started and independently exploring further options. Participants will also receive tips and tricks on how to pragmatically organise work with the system, how to learn about the tools for collaboration with non-LaTeX users, as well as how to expand their knowledge and skills. The online session will take place on 20 October 2021 from 2-6 pm. Instructors: Dr. Alexander Haarmann & Allison Koh (Hertie School). Please find more detailed information on this website: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/docgov/phd-workshops/a-gentle-introduction-to-latex
Entry requirements: none

During the workshop the attendees will learn more about the numerous challenges that the doctoral pursuit raises, and receive practical tools that would help them navigate the research and academic environments. Some of the topics that are going to be covered are: the development of research skills (intellectual skills, knowledge, self-management), the rigors of working with the doctoral coordinator and with the members of the supervisory committee, essentials regarding time management, fundamentals of research impact, as well as the steps to be taken from coming with a research paper idea to having your paper published. The workshop is hosted as part of the preconference Strategica; more details here: http://www.facultateademanagement.ro/making-it-happen-opportunities-and-challenges-of-the-phd-journey/ and here: http://strategica-conference.ro/2017/09/27/2020rt/
Teachers:

• Brătianu Constantin (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)
• Dan-Cristian Dabija (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)
• Pinzaru Florina (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)

Deontology, integrity and research ethics: as a researcher: How are you concerned? Why is it important? This course aims to introduce researchers to fundamentals of research ethics and protection of personal data, risk assessment of a research project, general principles of anonymization / pseudonymization in research projects, recommendations for the use of general public services in research. By Marion Lehmans, Data Protection Officer at Sciences Po.
Teachers:

• Marion Lehmans (Sciences Po)

Entry requirements: None
Assessment: None

This workshop closes the series of events organized under the STRATEGICA International Conference 2021. Attendance is open to experienced researchers, STRATEGICA participants, and to PhD students of CIVICA. The discussions will cover the relationships among different terms such as interdisciplinary research, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches; the challenges and benefits of interdisciplinary collaborations; the drivers of research achievements, and some of the main challenges and aspects determining vivid debates among passionate researchers. More info here: http://www.facultateademanagement.ro/bridging-diversity-interdisciplinary-collaborations-in-management-studies/
Teachers:

• Adriana Zaiț
• Elena-Mădălina Vătămănescu (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)
• Živilė Stankevičiūtė

How do Open Science principles fit together with those of scientific integrity? The course will address the following issues: Ethics, integrity and method of documenting data. Administrative constraints and pressure on sensitive data. By Sophie Forcadell and Cyril Heude from the Sciences Po Library.
Entry requirements: None
Assessment: None

The implementation of public administration reforms in European countries have been diverse. While initial reform waves aimed at introducing new managerial practices and policy instruments such as setting clear targets and the intensive use of performance management instruments; in recent years, European public administrations have turned to recent reform trends including the introduction of ‘agile methods’, policy labs, and the general transition towards e-government. Considering those trends, this panel addresses the challenges, opportunities, and advancements in pursuing public administration reforms in European countries and beyond. Presenters Maximilian Kupi, PhD researcher at the Hertie School Position vacant, please apply. Discussants Prof. Dr. Kai Wegrich, Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy at the Hertie School Prof. Dr. Patrick Dunleavy, Professor of Public Policy at the EU

The course will discuss which values and why the EU needs to protect against member states, who systematically violate EU values; what should be the aim of the EU: to protect individual rights within the Member States or preventing systemic violations of the values; are the current tools appropriate; should the EU consider serious economic sanctions against and exclusion of non-complying Member States or to enhance the possibilities for NGOs, equality bodies and/or interest groups to bring collective legal action; is it at all possible for the EU to secure ROL, democracy and fundamental rights without a national constitutional culture, education, media freedom.
Teachers:

• Gabor Halmai (European University Institute)

Over the last decades, the economic approach to the study of law has become an important part of the canon in Anglo-American scholarship. In Europe, though still far from being widely accepted, it is progressively gaining theoretical interest and exercising practical influence in legal thought and discourse. The aim of this course is to present some basic theoretical tools of the economic approach to law, and discuss two major pictures of law and economics: the conventional and the behavioral, the former being a standard view that has been challenged by the latter in the last years. We will also consider, to this purpose, the accounts that the two pictures give of some particular areas of law (such as contract and tort law). ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/916f293e-ff48-4297-82c9-c4abc8bc246c/tuzet+21-22-syllabus+L%26E.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nHyIYe7 ----- All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40041.
Teachers:

• Giovanni Tuzet (Bocconi University)

Assessment: Essay

Content. The course introduces tools for reproducible research computing and efficient collaboration. We will learn to use plain text and the command line, version control, write modular and readable code. Relevance. All empirical work involves significant amounts of computer coding. The time invested in coding is best leveraged if the code can be reused by coauthors, by our future selves, and future readers. Learning Outcomes: Key outcomes. By the end of the course, students will be able to - Understand folder structure. Perform operations in the command line on files in different folders. - Use a modular folder and file structure for empirical projects. - Automate repeating tasks with Stata scripts, using for loops and programs. - Read and write data in various formats in Stata. Explore data and fix common data quality errors. - Filter, aggregate, reshape, and combine data for analysis. - Automate and parametrize model estimation. - Combine different data cleaning and estimation tasks using Makefiles. Other outcomes. The course will also help develop skills in the following areas. Critical thinking Evaluate and compare different computing tools and methods. Quantitative reasoning Explore and analyze a large number of observations from potentially many different sources. Technology skills Write short programs in shell, make and Stata. Install and use packages in Stata. Use key programming tools in Stata: programs, loops. Interpersonal communication skills Convey technical concepts verbally. Collaborate with others on technical tasks. Management knowledge and skills Create software with many components. Organize work components effectively. Meet deadlines. Cultural sensitivity and diversity Work together with students of different backgrounds. Ethics and social responsibility Understand ethical and legal constraints of acquiring data. Apply good practices of data protection. Assessment: Grading will be based on the total score out of 100, in line with CEU’s standard grading guidelines. - Class participation (40 percent) - Take-home coding assignment (60 percent) Prerequisites: At least one PhD-level applied for microeconomics course. Can be taken concurrently with this course.
Teachers:

• Miklós Koren (Central European University)

Entry requirements: At least one PhD-level applied microeconomics course. Can be take concurrently with this course
Assessment: Grading will be based on the total score out of 100, in line with CEU’s standard grading guidelines. - Class participation (40 percent) - Take-home coding assignment (60 percent)

The main aim of these two courses is to provide students with an advanced training in econometric theory. Students successfully completing this course should be able to apply most of the modern econometric tools in empirical studies and, also, to understand and evaluate new research results in many important areas of econometrics. Learning Outcomes: i) Development of analytical skills to a level where students can evaluate critically any econometrics research output and design and carry out themselves such research projects. ii) Development of technical skills which enable students to understand and apply highly sophisticated econometric tools. iii) Development of computer programming skills in order to be able to implement their technical knowledge in practice and, finally, iv) Development of individual time management of learning, through frequent and individualized assessment. Assessment: There will be 2-3 individualized assignments during the term (frequently involving programing in Matlab or similar) in each course, with a total of 50% weight in the assessment, and a final examination with also 50% weight. In order to get the minimum pass grade for the course, at least 50% of the marks must be obtained in both components of the assessment (assignments and final exam). Exam on the last session/class of each course. Prerequisites: Pre-requisites: For doctoral students elective (but highly recommended) course. For second year MA students A, A- or B+ grade in Advanced Econometrics 1
Teachers:

• Matyas Laszlo (Central European University)
• Adam Reiff (Central European University)

Entry requirements: Pre-requisites: For doctoral students elective (but highly recommended) course
Assessment: There will be 2-3 individualized assignments during the term (frequently involving programing in Matlab or similar) in each course, with a total of 50% weight in the assessment, and a final examination with also 50% weight. In order to get the minimum pass grade for the course, at least 50% of the marks must be obtained in both components of the assessment (assignments and final exam). Exam on the last session/class of each course.

Course Overview: In this course you will learn about some commonly used methods in Computational Economics. These methods are being used in all fields of Economics. The course has a clear focus on applying what you learn. We will cover the theoretical concepts that underlie each topic, but you should expect a fair amount of hands on action required on your behalf. In the words of the great Che-Lin Su: Doing Computation is the only way to learn Computation. Doing Computation is the only way to learn Computation. Doing Computation is the only way to learn Computation. True to that motto, there will be homeworks for you to try out what you learned in class. There will also be a term paper. ----- Course Objective: To take the fear out of computation. In this course I want to help you to develop your computational skills. I will give you tools that are relatively easy to use, sometimes even fun (!) to use. Key to this endeavour is the julia programming language, which is both performant (you can use it for real work), and at the same time easier to use than more traditional languages like FORTRAN or C++. While we will spend a good amount of time on the usual suspects like Dynamic Programming and Optimization, I want to give a good overview of the available methods out there. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/c098d70d-c3bd-4fbb-9a3f-ed0ce53ec450/40407+Adv+Macro+2+Computation+Ecoonomics+VP+Oswald+21-22.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nHTo4MK -----All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40407.
Teachers:

• Florian Oswald

Assessment: Homeworks (60%), Final Project (40%)

The aim of the course is to provide students with contemporary tools for conducting state-of-the-art research on the main issues concerning international trade in the age of globalization and accelerated technological change. The focus is on the firm-level approach originated from “new trade theory”, in particular on the implications of market structure for the gains and losses from trade. The tools will be both theoretical and empirical with special emphasis on the analysis of firm-level data and new quantitative trade models. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/6342d5d6-825f-4468-917e-0123b8332336/40028+Intern+Trade+Ottaviano+19-20.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=mQvEtd ------ All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40028.
Teachers:

• Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University)
• Alessandro Sforza (Bocconi University)

Entry requirements: This is an advanced PhD course in international economics. Students are expected to have a strong background in microeconomics and macroeconomics at Master or PhD level.
Assessment: Take-home exam.

This course aims at introducing students to the understanding of the contemporary situation of multipolarity from the long-run, longitudinal perspective of the last two centuries, characterised by the alternation of several World Orders, a synonym of geopolitical equilibrium of powers over space. After a general review of the basic concepts of geopolitics, a first part will be therefore dedicated to the analysis of the transition from the nineteenth-century imperial architecture to the instable multipolarity of the interwar years, to the bipolar stable equilibrium of the Cold War years, and finally to the present high-level of instability and risk. Geopolitics is, however, not only concerned with the origins and dynamics of the shift in the control over geographic space of polities from a longitudinal perspective. It is also focusing on the multiple meanings of “space” as the arena of power. Meanings do change over time depending on technological changes, but also cultural shifts as well as economic imperatives. A second part of the course will therefore deal with different “spaces” and the dynamics with which political actors try to gain a stable control over them. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/00acd329-e670-4026-88f0-8b8dceb8d5bb/40960_Topics+in+Geopolitics_syllabus_Colli.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nHzdrhi ----- All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40960.
Teachers:

• Andrea Colli (Bocconi University)

Assessment: Students will be graded on the basis of a 3000 words paper on a topic to be decided with the instructor and a 20 minutes presentation.

This workshop will show you how to organize your presentation in a way that brings your audience along with you, step by step. Public engagement with academic research is more important than ever before. But scholars are rarely trained in how to present their work to a wider public. Successful academic presentations aimed at a wider audience need to do three things: 1) Communicate your arguments and evidence, 2) persuade your audience that they are compelling and 3) engage and entertain. This workshop will show you how to organize your presentation in a way that brings your audience along with you, step by step. It will also teach you how to communicate persuasively through a host of tips related to slide format, timing and delivery. Finally, this workshop will help you to introduce a bit of yourself into your public speaking, so that your presentations sparkle with wit and originality. The workshop unfolds over two, 90- minute sessions. In Part One, we look at strong starts, how to organise your key points, and what to keep in and what to keep out of your talk. In Part Two, we look at speaking from notes, how to use visual aids effectively, and how to prepare for the Q and A. While you do not need to attend both sessions of the workshop, it is strongly advised.
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This 90-minute, interactive workshop addresses the most typical challenges of the academic environment. Participants will learn to identify their personal skills and resources and to implement effective coping strategies to navigate these challenges. Time: 14:30-16:00
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What are the main challenges societies are facing? What policies can governments pursue in order to tackle them? What consequences do these policies determine? In this course we focus on inequality as a key challenge in modern societies: how has inequality evolved over time? How can we measure it? What are the cross-country differences in inequality? We will first document the changes observed in inequality, and then apply a mix of theoretical and empirical tools to develop a policy response to these changes and to understand the effectiveness of the policies implemented. We will look at three areas for policy responses: education and human capital accumulation; gender; tax policy. These three areas will provide us with different angles from which to look at the multi-faceted inequality challenge. The course is grounded in economics and will provide students with the ability to identify policy relevant questions, to find the appropriate data to perform empirical analysis on the impact of a given policy, while at the same time giving some tools to frame policy problems in theoretical terms. ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/bfb1ec61-82d6-462c-bc56-deb85a6d19e2/40274_syllabus+Casarico.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nHz7BiW ----- All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40274.
Teachers:

• Alessandra Casarico (Bocconi University)

Entry requirements: Knowledge of microeconomics and policy evaluation methods
Assessment: The assessment will be based on group presentations, group discussions and the development of an individual research proposal

Syllabus: https://courses.ceu.edu/sites/courses.ceu.hu/files/attachment/course/6425/empiricalindustrialorganization2oligopolisticcompetition.pdf Schedule: http://schedules.ceuecon.org/econ-phd This course gives an introduction into empirical methods used in modern industrial organization. It introduces students to models of market competition in the static and dynamic settings. There is no textbook in this course; we will discuss papers on the reading list spending approximately one class per paper. This course is a part of a two-course sequence in empirical IO. These two courses are not prerequisites to one another; they can be taken in any order, together or alone. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course, students will be able to Follow the latest academic literature on competition in concentrated industries Quantify simple static models of market entry with strategic interactions between firms Model and quantify dynamic competition among oligopolistic firms Assessment: Final assessment will consist of the following: A home assignment (contributing 30% to the final grade) Completing the assignment may require programming in Python or Matlab A presentation (35% of the final grade) Students will present recent applied papers using methods covered in class. The list of proposed papers will be announced on the first week of classes. A referee report (35% of the final grade) Each student will submit a referee report on a very recent unpublished paper. The paper must be of high quality; if you want to write on a paper of your own choice, make sure you talk to me before working on your report. Prerequisites: Programming skills (MATLAB or Python) and passing the first-year MA sequence in microeconomics and econometrics are the minimum requirements. Prior knowledge of advanced econometrics (ML and GMM) is recommended.
Teachers:

• Sergey Lychagin (Central European University)

Entry requirements: Programming skills (MATLAB or Python) and passing the first-year MA sequence in microeconomics and econometrics are the minimum requirements. Prior knowledge of advanced econometrics (ML and GMM) is recommended.
Assessment: Final assessment will consist of the following: A home assignment (contributing 30% to the final grade) Completing the assignment may require programming in Python or Matlab A presentation (35% of the final grade) Students will present recent applied papers using methods covered in class. The list of proposed papers will be announced on the first week of classes. A referee report (35% of the final grade) Each student will submit a referee report on a very recent unpublished paper. The paper must be of high quality; if you want to write on a paper of your own choice, make sure you talk to me before working on your report.

The course will cover some fundamental topics in Probability Theory, including conditional expectations and probabilities, weak convergence, characteristic functions and central limit theorems. Course Syllabus • Convergence of distributions. • Characteristic functions, inversion formulae, Lévy’s continuity theorem • Central limit theorems: independent and identically distributed summands, the Lindeberg and Lyapunov theorems • Infinitely divisible distributions • Conditional expectation, regular conditional probabilities, conditional independence ----- Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/104068ec-12f1-4096-a275-80e2bf596988/40972+PROBABILITY+THEORY+2+Lijoi+21-22.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nHEgQ5E ----- All CIVICA students are offered the possibility to attend Bocconi courses online. The possibility to attend Bocconi courses in person must be decided on a case-by-case basis (taking into account the pandemic restrictions and the classroom capacity). Please specify your preference during the application. After the application period is over, we will inform CIVICA students willing to come to Bocconi about the possibility of attending in person. ----- Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40972.
Teachers:

• Antonio Lijoi (Bocconi University)

Assessment: Written and oral exam

This course follows Wendy Laura Belcher's Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (Belcher’s book is required) quite closely. Over a period of 10 weeks we will try to get your article ready for submission to a peer-reviewed journal. To do this, we will discuss how to improve your writing strategies and habits, identify appropriate journals for your article, clarify arguments, write an interesting title and abstract and organise your material and arguments to meet the journal’s expectations. The course will also help you to fine-tune and polish your writing. Target group: PhDs who are working on something that they would like to submit to a journal for publication in the near future (for example, a thesis chapter to be turned into a journal article or an early draft of an article). As we will be working closely with your texts, this course is not designed for scholars who do not have any work in progress. Those interested should send a rough draft of what they are working on before classes begin. PhD researchers in their second year will be given priority. The online course will start on Thursday, 4 November 2021; it will run over 10 weeks. The weekly course date and time is Thursdays, 4:30 pm. There will be a longer break over the festive season. For more information on the workshop, please visit this web page: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/docgov/phd-workshops/publishing-your-research-getting-an-article-ready
Entry requirements: have a draft ready that you want to work on

This course, for PhDs, is designed to help with enhancing self-care around the research process. This course, for PhDs, is designed to help with enhancing self-care around the research process and within the research process . It focuses on developing resilience in research in two contexts: 1. Self-care around the research process 2. Self-care within the research process. • Group sharing about stress • Academic Dissociation: Reducing anxiety that causes academic writer’s block or procrastination • Mindfulness & the Body: Using the body as a way to reduce stress and facilitate enhanced confidence around the research process • Approaches to enhancing sleep which is important for concentration and emotional balance • Non-research approaches to reducing research anxiety • Mindfulness approaches to academic writing • Stress reducing approaches to the research process such as note-taking at early stage research and in other contexts • Mindfulness approaches to time-management • Mindfulness approaches to planning Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this course students will have an enhanced confidence in: • Reducing anxiety around the research process • Time management • Planning • Building resilience • Self-care around and within the research process
Teachers:

• Catriona Ryan

Entry requirements: N/A
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This 90-minute, interactive workshop addresses the most typical challenges of the academic environment. Participants will learn to identify their personal skills and resources and to implement effective coping strategies to navigate these challenges. Time: 14:30-16:00
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These two 90-minute workshops help you gain confidence when presenting your academic work online. You will have an opportunity to practise the above-mentioned skills in a safe environment, and to engage in feedback conversations with peers (both giving and receiving feedback) and communication specialists. There will be one session on 15/11 and one on 29/11. Time: 14:00-15:30.
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The seminar addresses the question what it means to have knowledge of EU law. It examines the epistemic and ontological assumptions underlying truth-claims made in the scholarly debates on EU law. During this seminar, we will consider the different kinds of knowledge claims that scholars make with regard to EU law (eg positivist, economic, empirical, normative, critical, historical, comparative) and will enquire how these diverse claims are epistemically grounded (what their truth conditions are). We will also explore how various understandings of the nature of the EU relate to these different kinds of truth claims concerning EU law. Finally, we will reflect upon the extent to which these various types of truth claims, and their underlying epistemic and ontological assumptions, are mutually compatible.
Teachers:

• Martijn Hesselink

This workshop will show you how to organize your presentation in a way that brings your audience along with you, step by step. Public engagement with academic research is more important than ever before. But scholars are rarely trained in how to present their work to a wider public. Successful academic presentations aimed at a wider audience need to do three things: 1) Communicate your arguments and evidence, 2) persuade your audience that they are compelling and 3) engage and entertain. This workshop will show you how to organize your presentation in a way that brings your audience along with you, step by step. It will also teach you how to communicate persuasively through a host of tips related to slide format, timing and delivery. Finally, this workshop will help you to introduce a bit of yourself into your public speaking, so that your presentations sparkle with wit and originality. The workshop unfolds over two, 90- minute sessions. In Part One, we look at strong starts, how to organise your key points, and what to keep in and what to keep out of your talk. In Part Two, we look at speaking from notes, how to use visual aids effectively, and how to prepare for the Q and A. While you do not need to attend both sessions of the workshop, it is strongly advised.
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd

Entry requirements: N/A
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The search for innovative solutions to existential, social, economic, and ecological problems have emerged as a central task for businesses at the global level in the last decades. Accordingly, changing societal values and emerging agendas such as climate change and the promotion of diversity have also led actors to embrace new forms of "social entrepreneurship" in both developed and developing countries. In this scenario, firms worldwide are internalising new form of organizational identity, culture, and sensemaking in the workplace more in line with global values. The present panel thus addresses how local actors, institutional arrangements, and state as well as non-state actors contribute to the emergence of new responsible managerial practices worldwide including the creation of social enterprises. Presenters • Lin Gao, PhD researcher at the Hertie School • Nenad Apostoloski, PhD researcher at the Central European University • Position Vacant Please apply Discussants • Prof. Dr. Sebastien Mena, Professor of Organisation and Governance at the Hertie School • Prof. Dr. Cedric Gutierrez Moreno, Assistant Professor of Management and Technology at Bocconi University • Dr. Mislav Radic, Research Fellow in Management at the LSE
Entry requirements: none

This workshop gives students practical tips for using an array of social media tools for advancing their careers. This workshop gives students practical tips for using an array of social media tools for advancing their careers. We will look first at social media as a tool for learning: a user-friendly technique for staying across relevant developments within our chosen sectors/policy debates. We will also examine how social media – and, in particular, Twitter and Linked In – can be used to cultivate professional connections. Finally, we will look at how students can use social media as a research tool. (1.5-2 hours)
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd

Assessment: N/A

This online workshop gives participants the opportunity to think about their approach to writing in a quiet and supported way This online workshop gives participants the opportunity to think about their approach to writing in a quiet, structured and supportive atmosphere. The workshop will be facilitated by Pam Lock from the University of Bristol, who has experience as a researcher and a retreat leader. The day is broken down in to carefully planned blocks of writing, some short, some long, so that participants can explore different approaches and discover which they prefer. The six-hour workshop enables participants to · set short term goals for a day’s writing and monitor their progress against the goals, · experience the value of short bursts of free writing, · experiment with different lengths of writing time, to see which suit them best, · get ahead with a writing project, particularly if this project has ‘got stuck’, and · discover the value of building stretching exercises into a normal daily work pattern. Participants need to arrive 'ready to write' and need to bring any materials (books, data). There will be some short discussions on good writing practice and how to approach your writing as a professional task but the vast majority of the day will be devoted to writing without distraction. To this end, there will be no internet, no mobile phones, during the writing periods.
Teachers:

• Pam Lock

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

This workshop focuses on getting you comfortable with virtual meetings so that you can maximize your virtual presence. We explore some of the technical aspects of virtual delivery, including lighting, backgrounds, and how to make the camera your friend. We also look at how to use other tools at your disposal - such as your voice and your words - to help ensure that you come across as confident and engaging.
Teachers:

• Delia Lloyd

Entry requirements: N/A
Assessment: N/A

In the last years, China has become Europe’s major trading partner. The rise of China has generated important challenges to EU’s commercial and diplomatic approach with the Asian country. One the one hand, critics argue that the EU has made insufficient steps to ensure a level playing field with China’s Digital Silk Road initiative, in a time when major EU’s economics (like Germany) are still lagging behind. On the other hand, observers argue that EU’s commercial initiative is increasingly disconnected from ensuring the promotion of human rights, and/or promoting online freedom of speech with its trade partners. Considering these challenges, the present panel aims at reflecting on tensions between China and the EU commercial and diplomatic relationships. Presenters • Nora Kürzdörfer, PhD researcher at the Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies • Felix Garten, PhD candidate at the Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies • Position Discussants • Dr. Elisa Gambino, Fellow in International Relations at the LSE • TBC

Regulatory competition and harmonisation are key points of discussion in many areas of commercial law. The debate in regulatory competition often takes the situation in company law as a starting point (notably, the ‘Delaware effect’ in the US and the situation following the ‘Centros’ case in the EU); yet, degrees of regulatory competition are also prevalent in many other areas of commercial law, such as contract, insolvency and securities law. The alternative approach seems to be to propose the harmonisation (or unification) of the law; yet, there is also the further complication that some harmonisation (notably, on topics of conflict of laws) may actually stimulate regulation competition. This seminar will discuss the main arguments in favour and against regulatory competition and harmonisation in commercial law (broadly understood). This may appeal (i) to researchers in areas of law such as contract, company, insolvency and securities law and (ii) to researchers in other fields with an interest in regulatory competition and harmonisation. The seminar consists of ten teaching hours, five on 6 December and five on 14 December. Further details on the format and substance of the seminar can be found in the seminar guide which can be requested by sending an email to mathias.siems@eui.eu.
Teachers:

• Mathias Siems (European University Institute)

The security order of the political West is increasingly tested, both internally and externally. Illiberal tendencies within member states of important institutions of this order, such as NATO and the European Union, make it more and more difficult to strive for a common goal. Domestic and international terrorist threats and the challenges stemming from global migration flows add to the uncertainty. In addition, Europe has seen multiple crises erupt in its immediate neighbourhood, while the U.S. prepares for great power competition with China. All these developments take place against the backdrop of a decreased willingness to intervene abroad after the highly contested missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. This panel will discuss the challenges and prospects of the Western security order pertaining to the EU, NATO, and transatlantic cooperation. Presenters • Alexander Sorg, PhD researcher at the Hertie School • Position vacant, please apply Discussants • Dr. Emmanuelle Blanc, Fellow in International Relations at the LSE • TBC
Entry requirements: none

The course introduces participants to the theory and practice of teaching in higher education. They can apply what they have learned in practical exercises, for example through individual teaching sessions. You will receive a certificate of attendance upon successful completion of all course requirements. Please only register if you are certain to be able to attend all sessions! To participate, you will have to attend all sessions of the course and at least one micro-teaching day. Course: Monday 1o January to Friday 14 January 2022, from 2pm- 6pm. Micro-teaching sessions: Tuesday 18 January and/ or Wednesday 19 January 2022, 9am – 5pm (with lunch and coffee breaks). A small pre-course task has to be sent by 7 January 2022 noon. The course requires participants to submit a course design - which you will start to work on already during the course - by 13 February 2022. For any questions, please write to phd-team@hertie-school.org. Please find more info on contents and target group on this website: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/docgov/phd-workshops/introduction-to-teaching-in-higher-education

This seminar studies the post-1989 political and constitutional transformations in East Central Europe (ECE). It pursues the three main objectives. First, the seminar aims to understand and assess the transformations’ outcomes. Through the lenses of the aspirations from the early 1990s, what have been the successes of the transformations, and which are the failures? What factors have contributed to the different paths taken within the region? What has been the role of historical legacies? The seminar’s second objective is to identify the potential specificities and idiosyncrasies of political processes in ECE. Is party competition structured by the same conflicts as in the West? What explains the high levels of party volatility? Do ECE citizens stand out in terms of their political participation? Finally, the seminar seeks to investigate the causes of the democratic erosion that ECE has experienced in recent years. Why is the liberal democratic constitutional order increasingly being challenged in the region? Do citizens in ECE value democracy less than their Western counterparts? Is there a way back to the original ideals of the constitutional transformation? And what could be the role of the internal and external supporters of a liberal democratic order?
Teachers:

• Gabor Halmai (European University Institute)
• Filip Kostelka (European University Institute)

Aims and Objectives The aim of this course is to provide students from the 2nd year of their studies onwards with the skills necessary for completing a successful Gender dissertation in a timely fashion and to help students develop writing skills that they can use after the completion of their studies. Learning Outcomes: After participating in class discussions and completing their assignments, students will be able to: Plan and manage their research more smoothly Anticipate possible obstacles in the writing process Refine their Title, Abstract and Table of Contents Critically reflect on their own and others’ writing and provide constructive criticism on their peers’ dissertation projects Produce and maintain their Rolling Synopsis Structure their whole dissertation and individual chapters in a logical and coherent manner Write a coherent Dissertation Chapter Produce clear and concise texts Assessment: This course is for pass/fail and yields a total of 2 credits as a PhD elective in the Gender Studies program upon its completion. To receive a pass, students are required to attend sessions, complete and submit home assignments, participate in writing groups, work on drafts of their chapters and attend 2-3 consultations with their course instructor. During the course students are expected to complete tasks designed to help them improve their text and at the end of the course submit a fully revised version of it to their supervisors. In order to receive individual help, students are required to attend 2-3 consultations with their course instructor on their papers and make changes to their texts based on the outcomes of the consultations. Syllabus link: https://courses.ceu.edu/sites/courses.ceu.hu/files/attachment/course/2878/kirchknopfaadvancedphdwritingseminarforgenderstudieswinter2021-22.docx
Teachers:

• Andrea Kirchknopf (Central European University)

Entry requirements: Student should be working on their dissertation or publication, we shall work with their drafts
Assessment: See syllabus

Syllabus: https://courses.ceu.edu/sites/courses.ceu.hu/files/attachment/course/6428/beliefsinpsychologyandeconomics.pdf Content. This course will explore ways to integrate insights from psychology into economics, formalizing these insights by extending existing economic models, and reviewing the evidence in the lab or field for these models. In terms of methodology, the course focuses on formal models: how to turn evidence from psychology into formal models and deriving their implications in economic settings. In terms of content, the course focuses on beliefs: how to measure people’s beliefs; how people update their beliefs; and situations where people may derive direct utility from their beliefs, not just from the actions they take based on those beliefs. Moreover, the beliefs we study include beliefs over the outside world as well as about one’s own past and future behavior. How dangerous is smoking? How much time did I spend on YouTube last week? How much will I work out next week? In addition to formal analysis, students will collect measurements on beliefs, starting with their own beliefs Relevance. The course covers the same topics and questions as Behavioral Economics and Beliefs, but aims to prepare students for research in economics, and as such focuses on formal rigour in modeling and statistical analysis. Therefore the course can only be taken for credit for students who have taken (at least) a graduate course in microeconomics (although everyone is welcome to audit the course and participate actively in the classes). Due to more time spent on formal modeling, there is less time for applications. Students interested in doing research in economics should take this class rather than Behavioral Economics and Beliefs. Learning Outcomes: Key outcomes. By the end of the course, students will learn how to extend the classical economic framework by formally modeling insights from psychology, especially regarding beliefs; learn how to apply these models to specific contexts to draw out new implications and make (falsifiable and often falsified) predictions; be exposed to (a small subset of) the frontier of research on beliefs in behavioral economics; and gather research ideas. Assessment: Assessment may change by Winter 2022. Grading will be based on the total score out of 100, in line with CEU’s standard grading guidelines. 1 One Problem Set (30%): 25% for each problem set, 5% extra for problem 0 and for self-grading of each problem set. See problem-set-policy.pdf on Moodle. 2 Research Ideas (20%): see research-ideas.pdf on Moodle. 3 Exam (50%): The exam will be an exam in the last class. Prerequisites: A graduate course in microeconomic theory.
Teachers:

• Marc Kaufmann (Central European University)

Entry requirements: A graduate course in microeconomic theory.
Assessment: Assessment may change by Winter 2022. Grading will be based on the total score out of 100, in line with CEU’s standard grading guidelines. 1 One Problem Set (30%): 25% for each problem set, 5% extra for problem 0 and for self-grading of each problem set. See problem-set-policy.pdf on Moodle. 2 Research Ideas (20%): see research-ideas.pdf on Moodle. 3 Exam (50%): The exam will be an exam in the last class.

Syllabus: https://courses.ceu.edu/sites/courses.ceu.hu/files/attachment/course/6427/governingthroughfinancialmarketssyllabuswinteray2021-2022.pdf Schedule: http://schedules.ceuecon.org/econ-phd This course brings students to the current research frontier in corporate governance and financial markets. While motivated by empirical patterns and stylized facts, the course will deal with the theory of corporate governance. The course prepares you to understand and critically evaluate research in the area and provides guidance to develop first ideas for contributions to the corporate governance literature. The course will draw a particular focus on the interaction of financial markets and corporate governance. Covered topics include but are not limited to takeovers, private equity, shareholder voting and vote trading, and the role of institutional investors. The course contains a mix of lectures, paper discussions, and student presentations. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course, students will be able to: · understand the governance challenges modern firms face · know how financial markets can mitigate but also aggravate these challenges · be able to critically evaluate new governance regulation · understand the development of corporate governance and the impact of financial markets · know the different governance channels as well as their pros and cons Assessment: The assessment will be passed on participation, the student presentation and the term paper (research proposal). Letter grades will be assigned following departmental guidelines. The weights on different parts of the class are: Participation 10% Term paper 50% Presentation 40%
Teachers:

• Paul Voss (Central European University)

Entry requirements: Financial Economics
Assessment: The assessment will be passed on participation, the student presentation and the term paper (research proposal). Letter grades will be assigned following departmental guidelines. The weights on different parts of the class are: Participation 10% Term paper 50% Presentation 40%

Les 11, 13, 18, 20 et 25 janvier 2022 de 15h30 à 17h30. Les sciences comportementales occupent une place croissante dans le monde de la recherche en sciences sociales au sens large. Et pour cause, ces nouvelles méthodes, issues notamment de la psychologie expérimentale et des neurosciences, en font des outils particulièrement pertinents pour apporter de nouveaux éclairages sur les questions étudiées en sciences humaines. Néanmoins, comme tout champ de recherche, les sciences cognitives et comportementales ont également leurs limites. Aussi est-il important pour les chercheurs en sciences humaines d’acquérir un regard critique éclairé sur les sciences comportementales mais également de pouvoir s’approprier ces méthodes pour leurs propres recherches. L’objectif de ce séminaire est d’initier les participant·e·s aux méthodes utilisées en sciences comportementales afin de les rendre autonomes dans l’analyse et la mise en place de protocoles expérimentaux en sciences comportementales. Plus précisément, à la fin de ce séminaire, les participant.e.s seront capables d’effectuer une lecture critique d’articles scientifiques issus des sciences comportementales, et de construire leurs propres protocoles de recherche. Le cours sera structuré pour laisser le plus d’espace possible à la réflexion personnelle. Des séances hebdomadaires de 1h30 auront lieu sur Zoom, combinant présentations théoriques et pratiques, et discussion en groupe. En plus des séances hebdomadaires, une salle Zoom sera ouverte une heure par semaine pour offrir aux participant·e·s un espace d’échange supplémentaire avec l’enseignante. Afin que les participant·e·s puissent mobiliser le plus rapidement et facilement possible les connaissances acquises lors de ce séminaire, le contenu des séances sera organisé autour de leurs thèmes de recherche (sujet de mémoire ou de thèse).
Teachers:

• Lou SAFRA (Sciences Po)

Entry requirements: None
Assessment: None

Romani is a worldwide used language which has logical grammar structures and more than 6000 vocabulary. Though it possesses many dialects, it does not mean that Romani speakers from different countries cannot understand each other. With one session per week, the three-term course aims to introduce the basic grammar and vocabulary of Romani. By the end of the academic year students are expected to be familiar with the grammar structures, have approximately 1000-1200 vocabulary used in A2 level. Please note that this is a non-degree course ( the course credit cannot be counted for BA or MA level studies) Assessment: attendance and participation-30% assignments (homework, reading, presentation)-20% Tests-50%
Teachers:

• Melinda Vajda (Central European University)

Entry requirements: None
Assessment: attendance and participation-30% assignments (homework, reading, presentation)-20% Tests-50%

Course Description: The course explores, from a global-historical perspective, the social mechanisms of political radicalism since the French Revolution. Lectures will introduce different interdisciplinary perspectives, employing approaches from the fields of social and intellectual history, social anthropology, sociology, and political science. The topics addressed include social origins, contexts, ideologies, leaderships, mobilization, policies, class composition, electoral results, etc. We will also explore the connection between radical political phenomena and antisemitism, racism and anti-Roma attitudes. The main aim of the course is to generate a global, and historical view of phases and paradigms of radicalization in the modern world. The course is organized as a series of interdisciplinary lectures delivered by CEU faculty as well as distinguished visitors. The course is open to MA and Ph.D. students from various departments and from the OSUN and CIVICA networks. The syllabus is organized chronologically but mostly geographically, on a world regional basis, concentrating on the history of the short twentieth century to present times. Learning Outcomes: The course aims at familiarizing students with the aims, scope, and methodology of conceptual history, comparative, and transnational history. First, the course encourages students to reflect on the different meanings with which the concept of radicalism was invested during the time, to refer to liberal reforms of the franchise, but also to opposing ideologies such as socialism and fascism, or—more recently—to Islamic fundamentalism. Second, the course exposes students to the advantages and limitations of employing the comparative method in order to grasp similarities and differences among various historical case studies. In view of the case studies covered during the course, students are encouraged to engage in synchronic as well as diachronic forms of comparison. Third, students are stimulated to reflect on the methodology of transnational history, by thinking of creative ways in which to link local, national, and regional or global levels of analysis. Finally, it is expected that, by engaging in transnational dialogues and interacting with lecturers coming from various disciplines and academic traditions, students will hone their debating and presentation skills, will broaden their theoretical and historical horizon, and will acquire the ability to engage with various types of historical, anthropological or political science sources. · -Students should be able to identify and evaluate extremist rhetoric and mobilization across different historical and geographical contexts. · -Students should be able to understand and critically engage with the scholarly debates over the causes and consequences of radicalism and extremism. · -Students should have acquired a basic knowledge of the different methodological approaches that can be used to study radicalism. · -Students should be able to devise a research strategy to investigate a particular aspect of radicalism.
Teachers:

• Constantin Iordachi (Central European University)

Two sessions of 1,5 hours each, 2-3,30 pm https://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/Academic-and-Professional-Development/Upcoming-Events/Presenting-Your-Work-Online
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Assessment: n.a.

This is a PhD seminar on the politics of representation in contemporary democracies. We begin the course with a discussion of different forms, and contending models, of political representation. In the remainder of the course, we examine how electoral, legislative, and executive institutions affect the quality of representation, specifically in terms of how well they fulfill two objectives: (1) producing representatives who act in accordance with the preferences and interests of the citizens who elected them, and (2) providing mechanisms for citizens to sanction representatives who fail them. A critical component of the course is the production of a final paper. The ultimate goal of writing the paper is to produce a publication for you in an academic journal or a chapter in your dissertation. In the middle of the course, you will present a prospectus for your project, which consists of the research question and motivation for it, the basic theoretical argument, and a research design and plan of action. At that point, you will receive feedback and suggestions from your peers. Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/e6a285c8-67eb-4d63-8751-13c2ec96b584/40955_Advanced+Political+Science_Martin_21-22.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nTCNKzE --- Schedule: go to https://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni/ and search by code 40955
Teachers:

• Lanny Martin (Bocconi University)

Assessment: The course grade will be a function of the research project (67%) and class participation (33%)

One session, 2.30-4 pm. This workshop is for researchers who are considering their options for future employment. This may be in an academic or non-academic role in Higher Education, or in another sector. By the end of this workshop participants will be able to: Recognise the importance of self-awareness in early careers planning and understand which tools and resources they can use to inform their own career choices.
Entry requirements: n.a.
Assessment: n.a.

Cooperation is fundamental to the human species and trust makes for better societies. Yet why do we so often fail to cooperate and why is there so much distrust between various individuals and social groups? This course proposes an evolutionary-cognitive perspective upon these phenomena, from theoretical models to interdisciplinary methodological approaches. What is cooperation, and what is special about human cooperation? How do certain social contexts and individual inclinations create the conditions for reciprocity or mutualism? How do people think and act about others as partners in social interactions? What methods can we use to study trust and cooperation in real life or experimental settings? Classes will be held online each Tuesday and Thursday, starting 4pm, CET time.
Teachers:

• Lou Safra (Sciences Po)
• Mia Karabegovic (Central European University)
• Radu Umbres (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)

Entry requirements: The course is open to PhD students and postdoc researchers in sociology, anthropology, psychology, political sciences, administration, public policy, economics.
Assessment: written project

The course introduces students to foundational, modeling and computational aspects of the Bayesian approach to statistical inference. The presentation moves from the classi- cal Bayes-Lalpace paradigm to the discussion of the case of sequences of exchangeable observations and some noteworthy examples of priors. Some asymptotic issues related to Bayesian procedures will also be addressed. Finally, the most popular algorithms for posterior convergence will be introduced and discussed. Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/e948132b-f459-4fad-9276-eae3f6c41a16/40025+BAYESIAN+STATISTICAL+TH+1+Lijoi-Zanella+20-21.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=napD7p0 --- Schedule: go to https://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni/index.php and search by code 40025
Teachers:

• Antonio Lijoi (Bocconi University)
• Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University)

Entry requirements: Familiarity with the notions of convergence, conditional expectation and conditional distributions and related properties, as presented in a measure-theoretic probability course, is a useful prerequisite.
Assessment: Written test

This is a topics course spanning themes in monetary and financial macroeconomics. Syllabus:https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/72a5f862-6b21-4819-8667-6d8e42465742/40308+Advanced+Macro+4+Monacelli+21-22.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nTnn9yk --- Schedule: go to. https://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni/index.php and search by code 40308
Teachers:

• Tommaso Monacelli (Bocconi University)

Assessment: 1/3 Paper presentation 2/3 Research paper proposal: abstract/intro/research outline

PLEASE NOTE: CEU affiliated students need to register for the workshop by sending an email to skalarm@ceu.edu by the deadline of January 19, 2022. How do statistical techniques deal with crossnational surveys? This is not a simple question and there are many different responses, from very simple ones to very complex ones. The course level is introductory: it offers an introduction to the main statistical techniques used to analyze cross-national comparative surveys data. The main goal is to teach how different statistical methods treat the ‘country effect’: how statistical models (linear regression, logit models, loglinear models, multilevel regression models), scaling techniques or data reduction methods (factor and PCA analysis) test for the ‘invariance’ of the relationship between variables across countries. The objective is to clarify the main methodological issues and to help you to identify what to pay attention to, what are the main potential traps in comparing things like regression/logit coefficients, factor loadings or scales scores across countries. The course offers a reasonable level of formalization, as much as needed to understand the method. It makes links between the different methods and the learning of complementarities between methods. About the course format: Please note that the workshop's mode of delivery is hybrid including a self-guided component. You are asked to start working through the course materials a week in advance of the January 28 Zoom meeting. These materials include pre-recorded videos and readings you are asked to discuss as part of the course. Plan on spending 1-2 full working days on this material prior to the January 28 meeting (and another 1-2 days in between the two meetings). You are expected to come to Zoom prepared on January 28.
Teachers:

• Bruno Cautres (Sciences Po)

The seminar examines the responsibility of the EU as an agent of justice and the kind(s) of justice the EU ought to deliver. It discusses the main theories of EU justice (including Rawlsian justice, justice as solidarity, access justice and the right to justification) in connection to salient contexts of (in)justice shaped by EU law, such as citizenship, internal market, consumer protection, competition, climate).
Teachers:

• Martijn Hesselink (European University Institute)

This course will give students an overview of the applied text analysis methods for social science scholars. The goal of the course is to introduce participants into the research field of data science and text analysis. This involves the study of applied methods, models, and algorithms in natural language processing and machine learning research. Participants will familiarize themselves with programming in Python, and learn to be able to code as well as read and understand simple scripts. The course is structured in two parts, where the first part focuses on the fundamentals of working in Python. The second part looks at working with text, including basic concepts and data handling, to uncover hidden structures to understand large amounts of text, and predictive modeling, i.e., the use of patterns in the data in order to predict characteristics of the text (e.g., sentiment) or the author (e.g., age and gender).This advanced course is organized as an interactive seminar, rather than a traditional lecture course, to give students the tools and practical understanding of the matter. Therefore, substantial in-class participation is expected and required. This class will use a flipped-classroom format. What does that mean? Before the lessons, students will get access to a notebook that implements and explains the core concepts. Students are expected to read and work through this notebook before class at their own pace, and write down any questions they have. Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/64f4d939-3fd7-4afd-8f0e-70cbdda3698c/HOVY+Text+analysis+syllbus+ay+2021_2022.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nRrO-LA. Schedule: go to http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni and search by code 40962
Teachers:

• Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University)

Entry requirements: Working installation of Python 3.6+ (preferably through Anaconda) and knowledge of how to use Jupyter notebooks.
Assessment: Individual project (due after 2 weeks) where students apply what they have learned practically.

The PhD seminar aims to equip students with the skills necessary to design, conduct and write up empirical studies in the social sciences. We will critically discuss what constitutes ‘good’ research questions (i.e., important, interesting, novel and answerable), and consider examples from an array of fields and methodological traditions. Our overarching focus will be on the key issues that come up when pursuing any kind of empirical research: identifying a ‘puzzle’ in the literature, theory building and testing, and considering causality, measurement, sampling, generalizability and research ethics. Finally, we will examine how these elements of research design come together in a single manuscript that stands a reasonable chance of publication in a reputable journal. By the end of the course, students will develop a clear understanding of what kind of social-scientific puzzles they wish to solve over the medium-term, and how this ambition fits with designing their independent research projects. Note: This is not a course on research methods. There are several courses on a range of methods offered across the university, and students are encouraged to receive such training as appropriate. Syllabus:https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/210cf0cf-e9ca-4f29-a158-a63f3e51dd3d/40439_Kentikelenis_ResearchColloquium_2022.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nTozsnp --- Schedule: Go to https://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni/index.php and search by code 40439
Teachers:

• Alexander Kentikelenis (Bocconi University)

Assessment: Assignments

This course covers the most prominent theories and arguments in international relations and broader globalization scholarship. It places special emphasis on the evolution of social-scientific thinking over international affairs, in order to situate contemporary debates into their historical and geographical context. The varied material presented here is intended to go to first principles, rather than expose you to contemporary cutting-edge empirical research. Nonetheless, based on the material covered in this class, you will be able to situate more recent studies into the traditions from which they emerged and become a more sophisticated consumer—and possibly producer!—of international affairs scholarship. Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/e0fa2e31-c5c0-4a8f-944d-0292a4c9b411/40994_Kentikelenis_IntPolSoc_2022.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nTCu4Y4 --- Schedule: Go to https://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni/index.php and search by code 40994.
Teachers:

• Alexander Kentikelenis (Bocconi University)

Assessment: Response and Review Papers

The course explores qualitative methodologies and their application to research in the social sciences. The course exposes students to the theoretical principles underlying qualitative approaches and discusses the questions that can be addressed with these methodologies. At the same time, it aims at familiarizing the students with the concrete application of qualitative methodologies, giving them the opportunity to experience for themselves the strengths and weaknesses of such approaches. The course, therefore, will entail traditional lectures, the discussion of scholarly papers built upon qualitative approaches, and examples of policy evaluations conducted with these methodologies. It will confront students with the methods for analysing text data, derived from public speeches, conversations, or interviews, field notes and visual data. The course has been designed as a working seminar. During the course, students will complete 4 non – assessed assignments whereby students will collect their own data for the purpose of qualitative analysis and will carry out the analysis themselves. The evaluation is composed of a 100% "research proposal-type" paper. Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/c79fc0e9-9aef-4a75-9d56-19ade4f03abc/40061_Qualitative+Methods_21-22_Cappellaro.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nTn39uh -- N.B. It is not possible to enrol in the course as auditors. Students will need to produce assignments and the final paper.
Teachers:

• GIULIA CAPPELLARO (Bocconi University)

Assessment: 100% a “research proposal-type” paper. The paper should incorporate (i) a literature review and research question to be investigated with qualitative methods; (ii) the description of the qualitative research design (iii) the description of the data collection tools and analysis to be undertaken. The assignment will be submitted to the instructor after the end of the course.

The main objective of the course is to provide an introduction to public administration as an interdisciplinary field of study with a primary emphasis on public management and public policy. After the successful completion of the course, candidates are expected to understand the variety of explanations of structure and behavior in public organizations and to be able to identify, analyze, criticize and formulate arguments about public administration. Through the course, candidates will be exposed to key areas of public administration with reference to different institutional contexts, including traditional public agencies and international organizations. Topics include different approaches to public administration and governance, public sector reforms, the interaction between politics and administration, public decision making and policy making. Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/dbb57927-91b6-4788-a3a5-bf8008bbdc57/40293+Public+Administration_Jugl_2022_draft+syllabus.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nK7dhmU --- Schedule: go to https://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni/ and search by code 40293
Teachers:

• Marlene Jugl (Bocconi University)
• Greta Nasi (Bocconi University)

This course is about algorithms and analytical techniques to study networks, particularly random networks sampled from interesting generative models. The course assumes basic familiarity with directed and undirected graphs, the notions of connectivity and strong connectivity, and of BFS and DFS visits of graphs and their properties. We will study applications of linear algebraic techniques to graphs, various results about spectral graph theory and spectral algorithms, and we will analyze spectral algorithms for community detection in the stochastic block model and to find planted cliques in random graphs. Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/2bd747b0-f58f-4241-a003-a838e8e0dccf/41000+Graph+Theory++Trevisan+21-22.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nTnaoUH
Teachers:

• Luca Trevisan (Bocconi University)

This course provides a survey of the field of public economics. The course covers several of the most important public policy questions modern governments face, including tax policy, transfer policy, social insurance, pensions, minimum wages, child care provision, parental leave policy, and migration policy. The course material will be motivated by current policy questions, and then discuss important empirical and theoretical insights on that question from the economics literature. At the end of the course, the participants will have a clearer understanding of the economic insights on key policy questions, as well as an understanding of the methodologies used to produce these insights. Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/9929ec92-a7f3-423a-a09c-8db8e41e142c/40993-Policy+Process-syllabus_2021-2022.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nTCryPd --- Schedule: go to https://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni/index.php and search by code 40993
Teachers:

• Giulia Giupponi (Bocconi University)
• Massimo Anelli (Bocconi University)

Entry requirements: Students should have Masters or PhD level knowledge of quantitative methods for causal analysis. The capacity to read and understand simple microeconomic models is desirable
Assessment: The assessment for this course will be a take-home assignment. Students will be asked to develop a critical literature review on a topic of their choice (among those covered in the course). Detailed instructions will be provided separately.

This course presents current discussions in public administration and public management research. It discusses what is “new” in public management: which innovations are currently debated and implemented, why and to which effect? The topics range from the macro level of states and administrative systems to meso levels of organizations and micro levels of individual bureaucrats to offer a broad overview of current debates in the field. The first part addresses macro-level societal and paradigmatic changes such as global crises, new governance processes involving citizens and the rise of populism. How do the state and public administration react to these challenges? How far are their roles changing, and in which direction? We also discuss the role of political and cultural context and which methods are appropriate to incorporate such topics in public administration research. A second part focuses on the micro and meso level and it addresses some key topics of public management research. Why do government organizations innovate? How do they adopt innovation? What are the outcomes of innovation. We will also address the relationship between innovation, transparency and competitiveness as outcomes of innovation. At the end of the course, students should be able to understand current debates and discuss current research in public management. They should also understand the diversity and the multidisciplinary character of public management research. Syllabus: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/cb07b560-4637-49f0-a921-124a31f968c6/40345_ATPM_Jugl_Nasi_draft22.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=nTn2NIn --- Schedule: go to https://didattica.unibocconi.eu/lezioni/# and search by code 40345
Teachers:

• Greta Nasi (Bocconi University)
• Marlene Jugl (Bocconi University)

Assessment: In-class discussion (10%); class seminars (40%); take-home assignment (50%).

This course follows Wendy Laura Belcher's Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (Belcher’s book is required) quite closely. Over a period of 10 weeks we will try to get your article ready for submission to a peer-reviewed journal. To do this, we will discuss how to improve your writing strategies and habits, identify appropriate journals for your article, clarify arguments, write an interesting title and abstract and organise your material and arguments to meet the journal’s expectations. The course will also help you fine-tune and polish your writing. This online course starts on Thursday, 17 February 2022 and runs for 10 weeks, Thursdays from 4-5;30 pm. Please register only if you are sure you wish to complete this course, can attend all sessions, and have a draft ready that you will work on during the course. If your registration is confirmed by the Hertie School's PhD Team, you will have to send your draft to the instructor before classes begin. To earn 5 ECTS: 1. You will need to do at least 2/3ds of the weekly reading and weekly assignments such as filling out the forms in the workbook. The instructor will not collect these, but he will note that you didn’t do them if that is clear from the class discussions. 2. You will need to prepare an elevator talk on your article for week 2. 3. You will need to write an abstract of your article 4. You will need to choose 3 - 5 good articles that can serve as a model for your writing. 5. You will need to identify at least 3 appropriate journals for where to submit your article. 6. You will need to identify three claims for significance in your article. 7. You will need to prepare a very short power-point presentation of your whole article. 8. You will need to submit a draft of your article to the instructor and your peers for review. 9. You will need to review two of your peers’ articles. Please find more information on target group, goals and contents on this website: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/phd/news-and-trainings/trainings/publishing-your-research-getting-an-article-ready
Entry requirements: a draft to work on