The EMOS course in economic and financial statistics was jointly designed and developed by the University of Trier, Destatis, Eurostat, Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank in 2021. It covers 34 topics, presented in English, in 42 video lectures. The course was first taught in the spring 2021.
All video recordings can be viewed in four separate lecture blocks:
I. Economic and financial statistics - Introduction to official statistics
II. Economic and financial statistics – National accounts
III. Economic and financial statistics – External and financial statistics
IV. Economic and financial statistics – Microdata for financial statistics
| Economic and financial statistics - Introduction to official statistics | |
1. Introduction to European statistics and the European Statistical System | |
2. The role and function of official statistics | |
3. Structure and collaboration in European and international statistics | |
4. Statistical quality frameworks in the ESS and ESCB | |
5. Quality reporting and assessments |
| Economic and financial statistics – National accounts | |
1. Introduction to national accounts | |
2. Economic actors and transactions | |
3. Gross Domestic Product - Production approach | |
4. Expenditure and supply - use framework | |
5. Income and sequence of accounts | |
6. Financial accounts and government finance statistics | |
7. Price and volume measures in national accounts | |
8. Quarterly national accounts | |
9. National accounts - challenges and criticism Quarterly national accounts |
| Economic and financial statistics – External and financial statistics | |
1. Balance of payments (BoP) and international investment position (IIP) fundamentals | |
2. Balance of payments (BoP) - Current and capital accounts | |
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6. Effective exchange rates (EERs) and Harmonised competitiveness indicators (HCIs) | |
7. Introduction to Register of Institutions and Affiliates Data (RIAD) - Example of the German national hub | |
8. Statistics on investment funds | |
9. The transmission mechanism of monetary policy | |
10. insurance corporations and pension funds |
| Economic and financial statistics – Microdata for financial statistics | |
1. Financial microdata for statistics - Benefits, challenges and key aspects | |
2. Financial microdata for statistics - Security-by-Security databases | |
3. Financial microdata for statistics - Loan-by-loan data | |
4. Money Market Statistical Reporting (MMSR) | |
5. Euro short-term rate | |
6. Modelling of yield curves | |
7. Surveys - the distribution of wealth | |
8. Distributional financial accounts for Germany |