On Campus
Productivity: Firms, Markets and Economies
PhD / Advanced Research Course
The first section of the course will lay the necessary conceptual groundwork by introducing students to productivity as a concept, how it is measured, and the basic patterns of firm-level productivity...
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2024-06-17Spring semester 2023/24Language: English
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...
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2024-08-20Fall semester 2024/25Language: English
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...
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2024-09-30Fall semester 2024/25Language: English
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...
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2024-08-19Fall semester 2024/25Language: English
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...
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2024-09-02Fall semester 2024/25Language: English
On Campus
SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS
PhD / Advanced Research Course
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2024-05-02Spring semester 2023/24Language: English
On Campus
RESEARCH SKILLS II
PhD / Advanced Research Course
credits earned only if all sessions are taken by the student...
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2024-02-27Spring semester 2023/24Language: English
On Campus
Advanced Qualitative Methods
PhD / Advanced Research Course
This course is designed to develop proficiency in collecting, analyzing, and reporting qualitative data, using a variety of qualitative tools and methods, including case studies, ethnography, and grou...
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2024-04-08Spring semester 2023/24Language: English
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...
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2024-11-11Fall semester 2024/25Language: English
Online
Entrepreneurship and Strategy
PhD / Advanced Research Course
The purpose of this course is to introduce PhD students to key theories and empirical findings regarding performance differences from entrepreneurship. It is located at the intersection of the entrepr...
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2024-06-10Spring semester 2023/24Language: English
Online
Next GESS
PhD / Advanced Research Course
The series aims to inform you about career opportunities and provide valuable insights about application processes and the day-to-day work life in different institutions. The speakers are from a varie...
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2024-02-15Spring 2024Language: English
On Campus
Seminar in empirical banking
PhD / Advanced Research Course
This seminar introduces students to research in banking and aims at enabling them to contribute to this field. The first part of the course consists of interactive lectures. These lectures introduce s...
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2024-03-14Spring 2024Language: English
On Campus
New perspectives on economics and politics
PhD / Advanced Research Course
We live in interesting times both, economically and politically. Many observers point to crises and uncertain developments in the economic and political world. Making sense of the nature of these chal...
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2024-03-04Spring 2024Language: English
Online
Analytical reading group
PhD / Advanced Research Course
The meetings discuss recent advances in analytical accounting, tax, or organizations research. The focus of the discussion is the academic rigor of the studies, the relevance of the topic, and the wri...
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2024-03-01Spring 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-13Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-03Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-05Fall 2024Language: English
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...
Mechanism Design Theory: Basics
Mechanisms with lower informational requirements Robust mechanism design
Strategically simple mechanisms
The boundaries of institutions
Delay in infor...
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2024-09-02Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-02Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-06Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-02Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-05Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-05Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-04Fall 2024Language: English
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 ...
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2024-09-02Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-05Fall 2024Language: English
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....
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2024-09-09Fall 2024Language: English
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 ...
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2024-09-09Fall 2024Language: English
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 ...
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2024-09-13Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-10Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-03Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-09-12Fall 2024Language: English
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...
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2024-10-092024/2025 - semester 1 of 2 (Fall/Winter)Language: English
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...
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2024-10-242024/2025 - semester 1 of 2 (Fall/Winter)Language: English
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...
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2024-10-242024/2025 - semester 1 of 2 (Fall/Winter)Language: English
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...
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2024-11-182024/2025 - semester 1 of 2 (Fall/Winter)Language: English
On Campus
Confident Communication – for PhD candidates
PhD / Advanced Research Course
Do you encounter challenging conversations in your PhD track? In this 2-day training course, you will learn to deal better with challenging conversations at work. You will practice communicating more ...
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2024-05-17Spring SemesterLanguage: English
On Campus
Confident Communication – for PhD candidates
PhD / Advanced Research Course
Do you encounter challenging conversations in your PhD track? In this 2-day training course, you will learn to deal better with challenging conversations at work. You will practice communicating more ...
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2024-10-17Fall SemesterLanguage: English
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....
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2024-09-022024/2025-1/2 - semester 1 of 2Language: English
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...
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2024-08-122024/2025-1/2 - semester 1 of 2Language: English
On Campus
Societal Logistics
PhD / Advanced Research Course
Societal Logistics is a doctoral course that emphasises the role logistics plays in society. The course highlights research, principles and practices that facilitate responsible supply chain managemen...
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2024-03-182023/2024-2/2 - semester 1 of 2Language: English
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 ...
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2024-10-182024/2025-1/2 - semester 1 of 2Language: English
On Campus
How to get published?
PhD / Advanced Research Course
The Purpose Of This Course Is To Introduce Phd Students To The Different Steps And Aspects Of The Paper Publication Process. In Order To Achieve This Objective The Course Will Provide Both An Author ...
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2025-02-27Spring Semester 2024/25Language: English
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...
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2024-10-15Fall Semester 2024/25Language: English
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....
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2024-12-19Fall Semester 2024/25Language: English
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....
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2024-10-28Fall Semester 2024/25Language: English
Hybrid
Academic Writing
PhD / Advanced Research Course
The course provides the necessary competences about the approach and leading principles of content creation of a scientific publication; the approach to academic content development; review of publish...
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2024-06-01Spring semester 2023/24Language: Bulgarian
Hybrid
Economics
PhD / Advanced Research Course
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and International economics...
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2024-11-01Winter semester of 2024/2025Language: Bulgarian
Hybrid
Methodology of Scientific Research
PhD / Advanced Research Course
The course familiarizes with basic concepts of scientific methodology and with three important methodological problems: about induction, demarcation and progress in science....
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2024-05-01Spring semester 2023/24Language: Bulgarian
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...
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2024-10-01Winter semester of 2024/2025Language: Bulgarian
Hybrid
Statistical data analysis
PhD / Advanced Research Course
The course aims in providing knowledge about the fundamental concept of of statistical studies involved in applied research work....
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2024-01-22Spring semester 2023/24Language: Bulgarian
Online
Open Science
PhD / Advanced Research Course
In this open science session, we will embark on a journey into the world of Open Science, gaining invaluable insights and skills that transcend traditional research paradigms. We will discuss open acc...
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2024-06-11Spring Semester 2023/24Language: English
Online
Introduction to experimental research
PhD / Advanced Research Course
This course introduce PhD students to the basics of experimental methods. It will present the main components of an experimental design and will offer examples of how to develop experimental studies t...
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2024-03-04Spring Semester 2023/24Language: English
Online
Writing, Reviewing and Publishing
PhD / Advanced Research Course
This course introduces students to the practical aspects of the publication process and the role that this process may play in their academic careers regarding empirical papers, literature review pape...
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2024-04-08Spring Semester 2023/24Language: English
Hybrid
Research Seminar 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...
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2024-04-22Summer semester 2024Language: English
On Campus
Academic Writing II
PhD / Advanced Research Course
The course introduces participants to key features of English academic writing....
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2024-04-17Summer semester 2024Language: English
On Campus
Seminar on Constitutional Identity
PhD / Advanced Research Course
The engage.eu EU doctoral seminar is dedicated to the subject “European Constitutional Identity”. Constitutional Identity is a vague and appealing notion subject to a multitude of understandings. We t...
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2025-05-152024/2025 - semester 2 of 2 (Spring/Summer)Language: English