graduate Economics

Qualification goals:
Students are familiar with selected areas of application of empirical economics.
They understand relevant methods, models and identification strategies of
current international research. They will be able to work independently on
selected issues empirically using various approaches and reflect on and
discuss underlying assumptions. In doing so, they can include institutional, legal
and social framework conditions as well as gender and diversity-specific aspects
of the research area in their analysis.

Contents:
Areas of application of modern econometric analysis, e.g. labor market policy,
tax policy, inequality research, education and family policy, demographic
and migration research, gender economics, development research,
environmental economics, health economics, social policy, fiscal policy,
monetary policy, economic policy, growth policy.