We offer the following courses in our Bachelor's programs:

E371 International Trade

Offered in the summer term.

E342 Bachelor Thesis Seminar

Offered each term (winter and summer) on selected topics in economics. Please register via the Examination Office.

The seminar will deal with selected topics in international and applied economics. Students are expected to write an essay (Bachelor thesis, not longer than 20 pages) and to present their findings (both in English). The thesis will deal with a specific topic in international or applied economics, and it is expected that you will critically discuss a recent research paper. Students are expected to submit a draft after about 7 weeks and do the presentation during the seminar that will take place about two weeks before the submission deadline.

Here is a selection of topics of the past years:

The Digital Markets Act

Transfer Pricing and Customs Duties

Financial Frictions and Foreign Direct Investment

The Economics of International Environmental Agreements

Shallow vs. Deep Trade Liberalization - An Analysis of Multilateral Trade Agreements

Multinational Enterprises and Foreign Direct Investment

We offer the following courses in our Master's programs:

E441 Advanced Microeonomics II

Offered in the summer term. 

E440 Multinational Enterprises

Offered in the winter term 2025/26 by Frank Stähler. For the course outline, see here. Registration on ILIAS will be open on October 3, for the registration process see course outline.

E410 Fiscal Federalism

Offered in the winter term 2025/26 by Andrea Tulli, for details see here.

E540 Master Seminar on Public Procurement

Offered in the winter term 2025/26, for more information see here. Please not that you will have to register on Alma.

E442 Mathematical Methods in Advanced Microeconomics

This is an online course, accessible via ILIAS, available to students in the winter term without support and without an exam.

Master's thesis

We supervise Master's thesis on the topics reated to our research agenda: International trade, foreign direct investment, multinational enterprises, public economics, public procurement, applied microeconomics.

You may contact us in advance if you are interested in writing your Master's thesis with us. You should indicate your preference for our chair in the survey on Master's thesis preferences, which is conducted (by the department) twice a year.

You can find an up-to-date list on all currently offered courses in Economics here on the department website.