Each of the following modules grants 6 ECTS.
Modules in the summer semester
- Economic Geography, Regional and Urban Economics: provides an understanding of the uneven distribution of economic activity across regions, cities, and countries, focusing on its causes, the emergence of agglomerations, and the political and welfare implications.
- International Financial Markets: covers empirical methods and theoretical models like the efficiency of international capital markets or sustainability of sovereign debt and sovereign default
- International Macroeconomics: covers advanced concepts and methods in the field of open economy macroeconomics
- Recent Advances in International Trade: provides an overview over new research developments in the field of international trade, e.g. models with heterogenous firms
- Trade Policy: covers theory and empirical regularities in modern trade policy
Modules in the winter semester
- Global Imbalances and External Adjustments: provides insights into international financial economics, focusing on global imbalances, risk-sharing, and sovereign debt, while combining theoretical models with empirical analysis to equip students with key economic and econometric tools
- International Monetary Economics: covers determinants of exchange rates and their influence on economic activity, the role ofcentral banks and the effects of monetary policy, the key properties of the international financial system, and the origins and evolution of currency crises