Seminar: Current Developments in Microeconomics (Master's)
Description
The seminar aims to make master's students aware of current specialist discussions in microeconomics and enable them to read and critically discuss current research papers and place them in a broader context.
Content
The seminar focuses on current research topics in economics with a microeconomic focus. Each semester, a different topic is selected and analyzed on the basis of current research papers.
Please refer to the subheading for the respective semester for the current focus and the topics to be assigned.
Requirements
Written term paper, active participation in discussions and, if planned for the specific semester, a co-presentation on the term papers of other participants.
The exact requirements will be discussed with the participants in the preliminary meeting.
The formal requirements for seminar papers can be found here. Find them here.
Grade weighting
- Term paper/essays: 70%
- Presentation (and co-presentation, if assigned): 15%
- Participation in discussions: 15%
Registration
The registration procedure can be found in the overview for the current semester.
target group
- Master's in Business Administration (university profile)
- Industrial Engineering and Management Master's (university profile) Civil Engineering
- Industrial Engineering and Management Master's (university profile) Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
- Industrial Engineering and Management Master's (university profile) Energy Systems
- Industrial Engineering and Management Master's (university profile) Production Engineering
- Industrial Engineering and Management Master's (university profile) Environmental Engineering