Econometric Society DSE summer school is annual short course in dynamic structural econometrics and computational methods more generally, paired with an associated two day conference in the same general area. DSE conference and summer school have a special theme that varies from year to year. Similarly, hosting institutions and program committees change in correspondence with the annual themes.

YouTube videos

We have recorded the summer school lectures and conference talks from the last several DSE events. You can watch these videos on the DSE YouTube channel.

Watch DSE recordings

GitHub repositories

The DSE teaching materials since 2019 are available in the public repositories on GitHub. You can find there teaching slides, lecture notes, readings, as well as code run in the lectures.

Browse DSE teaching materials

DSE Alumni

Over 200 students around the world have participated in the DSE summer schools over the years.

Check the list of DSE alumni

Other notable events:

Summer School and Conference on AI in Economics and Finance

University of Turin, Italy — August 24–28, 2026

We recommend the summer school on Deep Learning for Solving and Estimating Dynamic Stochastic Models and Large Language Models and Sequence Modeling for Economics and Finance, followed by a two-day conference.

Lecturers:

  • Markus Leippold (University of Zurich & Google DeepMind)
  • Simon Scheidegger (University of Lausanne)
  • Fabio Trojani (University of Geneva)
  • Yucheng Yang (University of Zurich)

The program is suited for both early-career and established academics.

Further details and application form

Recent announcements:

DSE 2026 preliminary lecture program published

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The preliminary lecture program for the DSE 2026 summer school “Dynamic Finance and Banking” at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor on August 3-8, 2026 is ...

Video recordings from DSE2025 HKU posted

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Video recordings from the DSE2025 Winter School and Conference “Combining Structural Estimation with RCTs and Quasi-Experiments” held at The University of Ho...

DSE 2025 HKU conference program posted

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DSE 2025 at The University of Hong Kong conference on December 10-11, 2025 is in full swing with the conference program now available!

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