Hybrid
Systematic Literature Review (Seminar)
PhD / Advanced Research Course

This seminar introduces techniques of systematic literature review. It is taught by Prof. Montecchi. The course can take on a maximum of 30 students....

  • Fall Semester 2024/25
    Language: English
    2024-12-19
On Campus
Topics in Labour Economics
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The course will cover concepts and methods in labor economics.. Particular areas of focus are the roles played by supply and demand, the influence of workers’ (misspecified) beliefs, and the effects...

  • 2024/2025 - semester 1 of 2 (Fall/Winter)
    Language: English
    2024-11-18
On Campus
Scripture
PhD / Advanced Research Course

Validity and ReliabilityOperational ConceptualizationResearch QuestionHypotheses...

  • Language: English
    2024-11-15
Online
Applied Business Analytics
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The aim of the course is to empower the participants to integrate modern interpretation of analytical techniques, theory, and methodology in the analyses of socio-economic problems related to their re...

  • Fall semester 2024/25
    Language: English
    2024-11-11
On Campus
Epistemological Foundations
PhD / Advanced Research Course

Human Research and ScienceReality and ObjectivityParadigms of Basic and Applied ResearchResearch Ethics...

  • Language: English
    2024-11-08
Hybrid
Economics
PhD / Advanced Research Course

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and International economics...

  • Winter semester of 2024/2025
    Language: Bulgarian
    2024-11-01
On Campus
PhD journey and beyond
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The course provides some strategies for the PhD journeys and the period that follows after completion. The course is taught by Prof. Anatoli Colicev....

  • Fall Semester 2024/25
    Language: English
    2024-10-28
On Campus
Personnel Management
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The purpose of the seminar is to give PhD students the opportunity to present their HRM related dissertation research, receive feedback, and discuss their progress as well as theoretical and methodolo...

  • 2024/2025 - semester 1 of 2 (Fall/Winter)
    Language: English
    2024-10-24
On Campus
Topics in Macroeconomics
PhD / Advanced Research Course

This course offers a self-contained presentation of modern methods aimed at assessing specification uncertainty in econometrics, with a particular focus on applications to economic growth. The focus i...

  • 2024/2025 - semester 1 of 2 (Fall/Winter)
    Language: English
    2024-10-24
Online
Research Data Management (RDM) and Open Science Doctoral Course
PhD / Advanced Research Course

This course aims to offer hands-on training and support in Research data management (RDM) know-how. Effective and responsible RDM is an essential requirement of good scientific practices and research ...

  • 2024/2025 - Fall semester
    Language: English
    2024-10-18
On Campus
Epistemology for Management
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The course deals with core epistemological assumptions underlying the status of knowledge and research in management and the social sciences more widely. Epistemology is an intrinsic component of rese...

  • Fall Semester 2024/25
    Language: English
    2024-10-15
Hybrid
Developing Contributions: Paper Positioning and Research Design
PhD / Advanced Research Course

This research course aims to provide participants with insights on how to develop academic papers (positioning, theory, methods, findings, discussion) with relevance and rigor.The course includes thre...

  • 2024/2025 - semester 1 of 2 (Fall/Winter)
    Language: English
    2024-10-09
Hybrid
Qualitative research methods
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The course aims to acquaint with the basic methods of qualitative research; to create skills to develop methodology and tools of quality methods; for processing the empirical material created by quali...

  • Winter semester of 2024/2025
    Language: Bulgarian
    2024-10-01
On Campus
Electricity Market Design
PhD / Advanced Research Course

This course covers recent advances in the field of energy economics, with emphasis on the market design issues that arise in electricity markets as renewable energies become the dominant technology. T...

  • Fall semester 2024/25
    Language: English
    2024-09-30
On Campus
Mathematics for Social Scientists
PhD / Advanced Research Course

It is increasingly important for modern social scientists to have a level of mathematical literacy, as mathematical research methods such as statistics and formal modelling have entered the main strea...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-13
On Campus
Applied Data Science: Machine Learning for Economics and Business Data
PhD / Advanced Research Course

This course provides a gentle introductory and practical approach to understanding and analyzing data using machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques with applications for economics and ...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-13
Online
Data Science in Action - Lecture Series (ENGAGE.EU Signature Course)
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The Mannheim Center for Data Science (MCDS) offers a lecture series on “Data Science in Action” together with the European University ENGAGE.EU (Signature Course). Renowned researchers from the Univer...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-12
On Campus
Environmental Economics Reading Group
PhD / Advanced Research Course

In this seminar, internal and external speakers discuss their recent research in environmental economics. Students working on an empirical or theoretical project that is related to environmental econ...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-10
On Campus
CDSS Workshop: Research in Cognitive Psychology
PhD / Advanced Research Course

Research in Cognitive Psychology: Research projects in cognitive psychology and neuropsychology are planned, conducted, analyzed, and discussed....

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-09
On Campus
CDSS Workshop: Research in Social Cognition
PhD / Advanced Research Course

This seminar has a particular focus on research activities in social psychology. Unlike seminars that concentrate on one core thematic topic, this seminar will address a selected variety of different ...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-09
On Campus
Empirical Energy Economics
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The course will provide an overview of recent empirical research in energy economics. Most of the mandatory readings are journal articles that rigorously employ reduced-form methods for causal inferen...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-06
On Campus
Advanced Time Series Analysis
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The lecture will focus on multivariate time series models. After reviewing some fundamental theoretical time series concepts, we will first deal with stable VAR models and their use for forecasting, G...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-05
On Campus
Topics and Projects in Experimental Economics
PhD / Advanced Research Course

This module is intended to introduce students to current topics in experimental and behavioral economics and to familiarize them with recent advances in the field. The course will be delivered via a m...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-05
On Campus
Economic History
PhD / Advanced Research Course

Economic history is important for understanding long-run economic development and to study the question, why some countries became rich, while others remained poor. In this course, we focus on selecte...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-05
On Campus
CDSS Workshop: Research in Clinical Psychology
PhD / Advanced Research Course

Research in Clinical Psychology: We invite CDSS candidates to discuss their research with experts in the field. The chair of Clinical Psychology and Biological Psychology and Psychotherapy pursues a w...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-05
On Campus
CDSS Workshop: Political Science
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The goal of this course is to provide support and crucial feedback for CDSS doctoral candidates on their ongoing dissertation project. In this workshop CDSS students are expected to play two roles. Th...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-04
On Campus
Labor Markets and Heterogenity
PhD / Advanced Research Course

In this class, we discuss the existing literature that explores how heterogeneity across workers, firms, or locations affects labor market outcomes. The class starts with an introduction to search mod...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-03
On Campus
Research in Health and Labor Economics
PhD / Advanced Research Course

This course has two main objectives: (i) To teach PhD students the process of developing research ideas and carrying out research themselves. (ii) To provide a state-of-the-art overview of research to...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-03
On Campus
Corporate Sustainability
PhD / Advanced Research Course

This PhD seminar addresses key topics in corporate sustainability. It reviews the relevant academic literature, identifies research gaps, and discusses potential avenues for future research. In partic...

  • Fall semester 2024/25
    Language: English
    2024-09-02
On Campus
Institutional Economics and Economic Policy
PhD / Advanced Research Course

Introduction
Mechanism Design Theory: Basics
Mechanisms with lower informational requirements Robust mechanism design
Strategically simple mechanisms
The boundaries of institutions
Delay in infor...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-02
On Campus
Public Economics I
PhD / Advanced Research Course

This course is intended to be the first part of the two-semester PhD-level Public Economics sequence. The field is large, with significant theoretical and empirical components. The first course covers...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-02
On Campus
Financial Contract Theroy
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The course teaches contract theory at the level of the research frontier. It reviews a number of classic topics in contract theory and puts them in an abstract general framework that makes it possible...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-02
On Campus
CDSS Workshop: Sociology
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The goal of this course is to provide support and crucial feedback for CDSS doctoral candidates in sociology on their ongoing dissertation project. In this workshop CDSS students are expected to play ...

  • Fall 2024
    Language: English
    2024-09-02
Reading Course in Statistics
PhD / Advanced Research Course

The Reading Course is intended to fill the gaps in the knowledge of statistics and econometrics of beginning PhD students in statistics....

  • 2024/2025 - Fall semester
    Language: English
    2024-09-02
On Campus
A Crash Course in Design-Based Econometrics
PhD / Advanced Research Course

A recent econometric literature has clarified key conceptual differences between 'design-based' identification strategies, which leverage a specification of counterfactual exogenous shocks, and strate...

  • Fall semester 2024/25
    Language: English
    2024-08-20
On Campus
The Real and Reporting Effects of Business Taxation
PhD / Advanced Research Course

This course focuses on two major topics in empirical research on taxation: the real and the reporting effects of taxation. Tax policy changes are often intended to stimulate economic growth by motivat...

  • Fall semester 2024/25
    Language: English
    2024-08-19
On Campus
Theories and Research in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (KATAJA)
PhD / Advanced Research Course

Theories and Research in Logistics and Supply Chain Management is a doctoral course for logistics, supply chain management, and operations management students. Logistics and supply chain management ha...

  • 2024/2025 - Fall semester
    Language: English
    2024-08-12