Course Overview

Teaching Plan December 2023

E: In English, X: ends before Christmas, H: Hybrid digital and in person; W2024: planned sabbatical of Prof. Kis-Katos

Courses in Summer 2024


  • Unternehmen und Märkte
  • 3 lectures for bachelor students in German (Kis-Katos, BWL)
  • Urban Economics
  • Lecture plus tutorial for bachelor students in English (Kis-Katos, Jantos)
  • Migration Economics: Replication course
  • Lecture plus tutorial for master students in English (Kis-Katos, Barros, Gasten)
  • Internal Research Seminar
  • Seminar for master and doctoral students writing a thesis (Kis-Katos)
  • Development Economics Seminar
  • Research seminar for doctoral students (Fuchs, Ibanez, Kis-Katos, Barros, Jantos)
  • Topics in Urban Economics
  • Seminar for master students (Schlüter)
  • Advanced Topics in Urban Economics
  • Seminar (with double course-load) for master students (Schlüter)
  • Current Developments in Central Banking and Capital Markets
  • Seminar for master students (Gehringer)


Bachelor and master theses

We supervise bachelor and master theses in German and English language on a range of issues related to international economic policy, development economics, environmental economics, political economy and applied labor economics.

Bachelor theses:
Here you find a list of suggested topics. All topics refer to current empirical literature in economics and require students to read, replicate, and discuss empirical papers (in the area of expertise of our team members). If you have a very specific topic in mind and are convinced that our team would be the best fit for supervising it, do not hesitate to contact us.

Master theses: We mainly supervise empirical (data) projects on selected issues. All master students are expected to present their research results in the Internal Research Seminar. (We only consider literature studies as an exception and only on topics that are directly commissioned by us and are relevant for our research.) If you are interested in working with us, please approach us directly. The topics for bachelor theses give you a good first overview of our areas of interest (plus of course our teaching and publications). Additionally, a few pre-defined topics from mostly external collaborations can be found here.


Past courses


  • Winter 2023/24

    • Labor Economics
    • Lecture plus tutorial for bachelor students in English (Kis-Katos, Gasten)
    • International Economic Policy
    • Lecture plus tutorial for bachelor students in English (Kis-Katos, Jantos)
    • Empirical Political Economy
    • Lecture plus tutorial for master students in English (Kis-Katos, Barros)
    • Internal Research Seminar
    • Seminar for master and doctoral students writing a thesis (Kis-Katos)
    • Development Economics Seminar
    • Research seminar for doctoral students (Fuchs, Ibanez, Kis-Katos)
    • Topics in Urban Economics
    • Seminar for master students (Schlüter)
    • Advanced Topics in Urban Economics
    • Seminar (with double course-load) for master students (Schlüter)
    • Advanced Development Economics
    • Lecture plus tutorial for PhD students, open for master students (Fuchs, Hartwig, Ibanez, Kis-Katos, Langlotz, Strulik)

  • Summer 2023

    • Urban Economics
    • Lecture plus tutorial for bachelor students in English (Kis-Katos, Gasten)
    • Migration Economics: Replication Course
    • Lecture plus tutorial for master students in English (Kis-Katos, Gasten)
    • Internal Research Seminar
    • Seminar for master and doctoral students writing a thesis (Kis-Katos)
    • Development Economics Seminar
    • Research seminar for doctoral students (Fuchs, Ibanez, Kis-Katos)
    • Topics in Urban Economics
    • Seminar for master students (Schlüter)
    • Advanced Topics in Urban Economics
    • Seminar (with double course-load) for master students (Schlüter)
    • Current Developments in Central Banking and Capital Markets
    • Seminar for master students (Gehringer)

  • Winter 2022/23

    • Makroökonomik II
    • Lecture plus tutorial for bachelor students in English (Kis-Katos, Hellmundt)
    • Labor Economics
    • Lecture plus tutorial for bachelor students in English (Kis-Katos, Gasten)
    • Empirical Political Economy
    • Lecture plus tutorial for master students in English (Kis-Katos, Barros)
    • Internal Research Seminar
    • Seminar for master and doctoral students writing a thesis (Kis-Katos)
    • Topics in Urban Economics
    • Seminar for master students (Schlüter)
    • Advanced Topics in Urban Economics
    • Seminar (with double course-load) for master students (Schlüter)
    • Advanced Development Economics
    • Blocked doctoral course open to master students (Fuchs, Hartwig, Ibanez, Kis-Katos, Langlotz, Strulik)
    • Development Economics Seminar
    • Research seminar for doctoral students (Fuchs, Ibanez, Kis-Katos)
    • Micro-Macro Linkages in Development Economics
    • Blocked doctoral course (Kis-Katos)