RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-
UNIVERSITÄT BONN

 

 

I. Course Offerings

1. Preliminary Level Courses
2. Advanced Level Courses

II. Degree Requirements

Admission

III. Research Activities

IV. Finance and Fees

V. Members of the Program Committee

 

 

 

 

 

 

I. Course Offerings

Students coming to Bonn for their preliminary year will normally be enrolled in the courses of the Bonn Graduate School of Economics. Founded in the Fall of 1998, the School offers a full set of courses on microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, as well as applied econometrics. Basic courses in each of these fields are taught during the Winter term. During the Summer term, the program includes advanced-level courses on specialised topics such as international macroeconomics, labour economics and contract theory. It also includes a seminar on research strategy, and compact courses, some of which are taught by visiting professors.

During 2000-2001, the following graduate courses were offered to the students of the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (a similar program will be offered in the years to come):

Winter Term:

Summer Term:

Students coming to Bonn are also given the opportunity to enroll in courses which are offered by the Economics Department and which lead to the degree “Diplom-Volkswirt”. These courses cover the following subjects:

1. Preliminary Level Courses

3 Std. + 1 Übungsstunde
Theorie der öffentlichen Einnahmen (Gyárfás) 3 Std.
Umweltökonomie II (Gyárfás) 2 Std.
Betriebliche Lohntheorien (Kräkel) 3 Std.
Konjunkturpolitik (Neumann) 3 Std.
Inflationstheorie (Neumann) 2 Std.
Ökonometrie I: Das lineare Modell (Schönfeld)
3 Std. + 2 Übungsstunden
Ökonometrie II: Dynamische stochastische Modelle
und simultane Gleichungssysteme (Schönfeld)
3 Std. + 2 Übungsstunden
Probability Theory (Schürger) 3 Std. + 1 Übungsstunde
Wettbewerbspolitik (Schweizer) 4 Std.
Spieltheorie (Shaked) 3 Std. + 1 Übungsstunde
Stochastics of Financial Markets (Sondermann)
3 Std. + 1 Übungsstunde

2. Advanced Level Courses

Public Enterprise Economics and Privatisation
(Bös) 2 Std.
Public Expenditures (Bös) 3 Std. + 1 Übungsstunde
Environmental Economics II (Gyárfás) 2 Std.
Ökonometrie III: Special Topics (incl. Advanced ML-Theory) (Schönfeld) 3 Std. + 2 Übungsstunden
Asymptotic Sampling Theory (Schönfeld) 3 Std.
An Introduction to Stochastic Integration (Schürger) 3 Std.
Nonparametric Statistical Methods (Schürger) 3 Std.
Probability Theory (Schürger) 3 Std. + 1 Übungsstunde
Stochastic Processes (incl. Markov Chains, Martingale Theory, Optimal Stopping) (Schürger) 3 Std.
Contract Theory (Schweizer) 4 Std.
Political Economy and Social Choice (Schweizer) 4 Std.
Advanced Game Theory (Shaked) 3 Std. + classes
Stochastic Calculus with Applications to Financial Markets (Sondermann) 3 Std. + 1 Übungsstunde
Mathematical Statistics (Sondermann, Schürger)
3 Std. + 1 Übungsstunde
Time Series Analysis (Sondermann, Schürger)
3 Std. + 1 Übungsstunde
Mathematical Risk Theory (Sondermann, Schürger)
3 Std. + 1 Übungsstunde

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II. Degree Requirements

Highly qualified students with a German Diploma or a foreign Masters Degree in economics or related fields, such as mathematics, statistics, business administration, accounting and finance, are encouraged to submit their applications to the Bonn Graduate School of Economics at the following address:

Prof. Urs Schweizer
Department of Economics
University of Bonn
Adenauerallee 24
D-53113 Bonn, Germany

Applications must arrive by May 15 for entry into the program starting the following October. The application must include:

· the application form (downloadable from http://www.bgse.uni-bonn.de),
· the acknowledgement of receipt, completed with the applicant's address,
· a short curriculum vitae,
· academic transcripts,
· two confidential letters of recommendation from academic teachers.

This material cannot be returned to the applicant.

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III. Research Activities

The Department of Economics is part of the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bonn. Its faculty consists of 18 full professors and numerous lecturers and assistants. More than 2000 students are currently enrolled in its courses. The Department’s outstanding research program has been aided by large grants from the German National Science Foundation (DFG), specifically from the Sonderforschungsbereich program (Economic Forecasting, Decision and Equilibrium Models, chairperson 1970-1984: Prof. Dr. W. Krelle; SFB 303: Information and the Coordination of Economic Activities, chairperson 1985-1999: Prof. Dr. W. Hildenbrand).

The Department’s research has gained high regard in the national and international scientific community and is in the forefront of modern economic science. In 1994, Professor Reinhard Selten of the Department was awarded the Nobel Prize for fundamental discoveries that led to the expansion of game theory into many branches of economics.

The research program as designed for doctoral students of the Bonn Graduate School of Economics covers the following subjects (among others):

· incomplete contracts in public finance
· public expenditures and tax systems
· social choice theory
· welfare state and labour market
· political economy
· international macroeconomics
· international competition of institutional arrangements
· economic growth
· market microstructure
· econometric analysis of financial data
· risk management
· theory and stochastics of financial markets
· options, futures and financial derivatives
· credit risk and credit risk derivatives
· aggregation
· contract theory and incomplete contracts
· economic theory of organisations
· mobility in social networks

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IV. Finance and Fees

Except for a contribution to the social services provided by the university (DM188,00 per semester, including a seasonal ticket on local public transportation), there are no fees at the Universität Bonn.

There are good chances that a foreign student on the European Doctoral Program can obtain fellowships from DAAD or Humboldt Foundation. Moreover, a limited number of grants for highly qualified students are available directly from the Bonn Graduate School of Economics.

V. Members of the Program Committee

Dieter Bös,
Professor of Public Economics

Jürgen von Hagen,
Professor of Economics

Werner Hildenbrand,
Professor Emeritus of Economics

Robert Kollmann,
Professor of Economics

Matthias Kräkel,
Professor of Business Administration

Monika Merz,
Professor of Economics

Manfred J.M. Neumann,
Professor of Economics

Georg Nöldeke,
Professor of Economics

Jörg Oechssler,
Professor of Economics

Clemens Puppe,
Professor of Economics

Peter Schönfeld,
Professor of Econometrics

Klaus Schürger,
Professor of Statistics

Urs Schweizer,
Professor of Economics

Reinhard Selten,
Professor Emeritus of Economics

Avner Shaked,
Professor of Economics

Dieter Sondermann,
Professor of Economics

Erik Theissen,
Professor of Business Administration

Klaus F. Zimmermann,
Professor of Economics

 

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