Teaching

• decision theory
• dynamic economic analysis
• introductory economics
• macroeconomics
• mathematical economics
• microeconomics
• monetary economics
• social choice theory
• economic policy
• taxation

Courses taught in summer term 2025

• Principles of Economics
  This course forms part of the introductory and orientation period (STEOP) for the Bachelor programs in Business Administration, International Business Administration, and Economics. It is also a compulsory course for the Bachelor program in Business Informatics and for the extension curricula Principles of Economics, Quantitative Principles of Economics, and Economic Processes in Social and Political Context. Students will become familiar with some basic economic terminology as well as with a number of concepts, methods, and applications of economics. The primary goal of the course is to introduce students to a range of problems of economic relevance and to illustrate how economists approach these problems.
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• Economic Growth
  This course is an elective for students of the Bachelor program Economics. It familiarizes students with some stylized facts of economic growth and introduces the Solow-Swan model as well as various extensions of the latter. These extensions address technological progress, human capital formation, non-renewable resources, climate change, production externalities, and research and development.
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• Social Choice
  This is an elective course for the Master Program in Economics and for the Master Program in Philosophy & Economics. It introduces students to selected topics in social choice theory. Social choice theory deals with the aggregation of individual preferences into a social preference. The course covers in particular the representation of preferences through binary relations and choice functions, Arrow's impossibility theorem, majority voting, scoring functions and the Borda rule, individual rights and power, and the manipulability of preference aggregation mechanisms.
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• Macroeconomics
  This is a compulsory course for the Master Program International Business Administration (curriculum 2016). Students who have taken a course in macroeconomics during the Bachelor studies refresh their knowledge, those who have no previous experience with macroeconomic analysis get a first introduction. The course introduces important macroeconomic variables, develops a standard model for business cycle analysis, explains the key ideas behind the study of long-run growth and development, and presents some aspects of international macroeconomics.
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