Year: 2017

For several seminars in the master program, you have to register via MeinCampus or Studon. For the seminars “Business & Society in Latin America” and “Political Economy and Development of the Middle East”, registration has started on August 28, and for the seminar “Post-Arab Spring Development P...

Category: Studies, Teaching

The chair of Prof. Christine Binzel (Economy and Society of the Middle East) offers a position as student assistant with 20 hours/week for students enrolled in the Bachelor program, starting from December 15, 2017. The tasks are mainly assistance for teaching in the bachelor and master program. The ...

Category: Economics, General

We have published important information for freshmen on a webpage you may access by clicking on this post. If you have any questions, please contact the student advisory (for bachelor and teaching degree programs) or Mr. Weber (for the master program). We warmly invite you to join the introductory meeting for your respective program; you may find the dates on the page for freshmen.

Category: General, Studies

The Institute of Economics recently added a new partnership to its portfolio of international partnerships. An Agreement with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai, India) was signed. The agreement includes an exchange of students (3 per year in each direction) and teaching staff. Student...

Category: International, Studies

The graduation ceremony of the MA Development Economics and International Studies (DEIS) took place on 21th July 2017. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Sefik Alp Bahadir gave the keynote speech about “The Role of Leadership in Economic Development and Social Change”. Prof. Jürgen Kähler as the programme director ...

Category: Events, Studies

Registration for the Advanced seminar in Economics is carried out via MeinCampus, from Monday, July 17, 2017, 8.00pm to Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 8.00pm. After registration, a preliminary meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 10.15am at Kochstraße 6a, room 00.5 PSG, including the assignm...

Category: Economics, Teaching

On Wednesday, July 12, Dr. Annabelle Houdret from the German Development Institute will give a guest lecture on “Water management and conflict in North Africa”. The lecture is part of the course “Environmental Economics: Theory and Policy”. Students who are not taking the class but are interested to...

Category: Economics, Events

The results of the program evaluation for the Bachelor and the teaching degrees in Economics are now available. Those results will now be discussed within the Institute, particularly by the program committee with the participation of student’s representatives. This discussion result in decisions abo...

Category: Teaching