Courses

In order to make the 8th International Genç Ekonomistler® Congress more productive for the participants and to have a qualified competition, optional courses will be shown. You can follow the basic contents of the courses from the sections below. It will be able to update the content according to the general knowledge of the participants.

A. Course Content

  • Course 1 : LaTeX Fundamentals and Document Structure: Classes, Title Page, Sections and Numbering
  • Course 2 : Formatting Commands: Sentence and Paragraph Formatting, Lists, Footnotes and Headings, Multiple Columns and Tables
  • Course 3 : Mathematical Formulas: Mathematical Mode and Components, Environments such as Theorem, Proposition etc., Symbols
  • Course 4 : Table of Contents, References and Indexing: Table of Contents, Writing References and Using Citations, Creating an Index, Creating a References Index with BibTeX
  • Course 5 : Beamer : Presentation Preparation

B. Course Duration

  • 5 Days / 3 Hours / Total 15 Hours

C. Course Date

  • Course 1 | June 30, 2025 – Monday / 01:30 PM
  • Course 2 | July 7, 2025 – Monday / 01:30 PM
  • Course 3 | July 14, 2025 – Monday / 01:30 PM (Offline)
  • Course 4 | July 21, 2025 – Monday / 01:30 PM
  • Course 5 | July 28, 2025 – Monday / 01:30 PM (Offline)

D. Language of Education / Teaching System

  • Turkish & English / Online  

E. References

  • Tobias Oetiker, The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2, A Simplified Introduction to LaTeX,2016
  • Dilip Datta,LATEX in 24 Hours: A Practical Guide for Scientific Writing,Springer, (2016)

A. Course Content

  • Course 1 : Academic Literature, Literature Search, Writing Process, Referencing & Citation, Presentation

B. Course Duration 

  • 1 Day / 3 Hours / Total 3 Hours

C. Course Date

  • Course 1 : July 5, 2025 – Saturday / 17:30

D. Language of Education / Teaching System

  • Turkish & English / Online  

E. References

  • Sekaran, Uma and Bougie, Roger. (2012). Research Methods for Business: A Skill Building Approach. 5. Basım
  • Zikmund, W.G. (2003). Business Research Methods. 7. Ed. Thomson (South Western) Publications

A. Course Content

  • Course 1 : Unit Root Concept and Random Walk, Pure Random Walk, Random Walk with Constant, Random Walk with Constant and Trend
  • Course 2 : Unit Root Tests PDF/ADF Test, Phillips and Perron Test KPSS Test, DF-GLS Test, Unit Root Tests Under Structural Break
  • Course 3 : Cointegration Concept, Error Correction Model (ECM), Adaptation Coefficient, Engle Granger Cointegration Test, Cointegration Test Under Structural Break, Cointegration Applications
  • Course 4 : Autoregression (AR), Moving Average (MA) and ARMA Models, Box-Jenkins ARIMA Modeling
  • Course 5 : VAR Models, Impulse Response Functions, Variance Decomposition, Granger Causality Test

B. Course Duration

  • 5 Days / 3 Hours / Total 15 Hours

C. Course Date

  • Course 1 | July 5, 2025 – Saturday / 13:30
  • Course 2 | July 12, 2025 – Saturday / 13:30
  • Course 3 | July 19, 2025 – Saturday / 13:30
  • Course 4 | July 26, 2025 – Saturday / 13:30
  • Course 5 | August 5, 2025 – Saturday / 13:30

D. Language of Education / Teaching System

  • Turkish & English / Online

E. References

  • Enders, W., Applied Econometric Time Series, John Wiley, 2004.
  • Franses, P.H., ve Dick van Dijk, Non-linear Time Series Models in Empirical Finance, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000.
  • Franses, P.H., Time Series Models for Business and Economic Forecasting, Camb.Uni.Press, 1998.
  • Hamilton, J., Time Series Analysis, Princeton Uni. Press, 2020.
  • Patterson, K., Introduction to Econometrics, A Time series Approach, 2001.
  • Tsay, R.S., Analysis of Financial Time Series, John Wiley, 2010.

A. Course Content

  • Course 1 : Introduction to Panel Data, Static Homogeneous Data Models, Their Comparisons and Testing of Deviations from Assumptions; Estimation Methods of Static Homogeneous Panel Data Models Involving Time-Invariant Variables
  • Course 2 : Dynamic Homogeneous Panel Data Models and Estimation Methods; Heterogeneous Panel Data Models, Comparison with Homogeneous Panel Data Models, Estimation Methods of Heterogeneous Panel Data Models
  • Course 3 : Cross-Section Dependency and Testing, Estimation Methods in Case of Cross-Section Dependency; Panel Unit Root Tests
  • Course 4 : Panel Cointegration Tests; Panel Causality Tests

B. Course Duration

  • 4 Days / 4 Hours / Total 16 Hours

C. Course Date

  • Course 1 | August 16, 2025 – Saturday / 10:30
  • Course 2 | August 23, 2025 – Saturday / 10:30
  • Course 3 | August 30, 2025 – Saturday / 10:30
  • Course 4 | September 6, 2025 – Saturday / 10:30

D. Language of Education / Teaching System

  • Turkish & English / Online

E. References

  • Arellano, Manuel., 2004, “Panel Data Econometrics” (1st Ed.), Oxford University Press
  • Asteriou D., &; Hall S., 2021, “Applied Econometrics” (4th Ed.), Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Baltagi B. H., 2013, “Econometric Analysis of Panel Data” (5th Ed.), Chichester: John Wiley&Sons.
  • Biørn, Erik., 2016, “Econometrics of Panel Data: Methods and Applications” (1st Ed.),Oxford Academic.
  • Hsiao, Cheng., 2014, “Analysis of Panel Data” (3rd Edition), Cambridge University Press, New York.
  • Wooldridge J. M., 2011, “Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data” (2nd Ed.), Cambridge, MIT Press.