Study

General Information

• Registration for courses and exams
• Information on the preparation of a Bachelor or Master thesis
• Learning Agreements for overseas stay and accreditation of exams
• Obtaining a Letter of Reference

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Teaching

The Professorship for Economics, esp. Macroeconomics and International Financial Markets, regularly offers the following courses:

Bachelor programme

• Lecture: Monetary Policy in the Euro Area (winter semester)
• Lecture: Growth, Development & Sustainability (summer semester)
• Seminar: Current Topics in Growth, Development & Sustainability (winter semester)
• Seminar: Introduction to Python Programming (summer semester)

Master's programme

• Lecture: Advanced Macroeconomics (winter and summer semester)
• Lecture: Empirical Methods in Monetary Macroeconomics (summer semester)
• Lecture: Computational Methods for Economic Research (winter semester)
• Lecture: Financial Macroeconomics (summer semester)
• Seminar: Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics and International Finance (winter semester)

Proposed course sequence in the Master's programme (beginning of winter semester)

1. Semester (winter): Advanced Macroeconomics (lecture), Computational Methods for Economic Research (lecture)
2. Semester (summer): Empirical Methods in Monetary Macroeconomics (lecture), Financial Macroeconomics (lecture)
3. Semester (Winter): Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics and International Finance (seminar)
4. Semester (summer): Master's thesis

Proposed course sequence in the Master's programme (beginning of summer semester)

1. Semester (summer): Advanced Macroeconomics (Lecture)
2. Semester (Winter): Computational Methods for Economic Research (lecture)
3. Semester (summer): Empirical Methods in Monetary Macroeconomics (lecture), Financial Macroeconomics (lecture)
4. Semester (Winter): Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics and International Finance (seminar), Master's thesis

Students who wish to write their Master's thesis at our Chair should (in addition to Advanced Macroeconomics) have successfully passed the course "Empirical Methods in Monetary Macroeconomics" and at least one additional course (Computational Methods for Economic Research or Financial Macroeconomics) before starting to write their Master's thesis.

Further details on the courses of current term (UnivIS) you will find here!