Microeconomics and Management: Design and Behavior
Track Coordinator: Dirk Sliwka
Participating Professors: Oliver Gürtler, Bernd Irlenbusch, Axel Ockenfels, Susanne Prantl, Bettina Rockenbach, Patrick Schmitz, Dirk Sliwka, Ulrich Thonemann, Achim Wambach.
The key aim of the track “Microeconomics and Management: Design and Behavior” is to train PhD students in the emerging field of Behavioral Economic Design, i.e. the science of designing real-world institutions, rules, and mechanisms applying fundamental insights and methods from (behavioral) Microeconomics. The central research challenge is to design mechanisms that align individual behavior within and across firms to create economic and social value. Students receive an in depth training in Microeconomic theory, Experimental and Behavioral Economics, and Applied Econometrics. Participating professors present their own research strategy in a core course on “Design and Behavior”.
Mandatory Courses | Cycle | ECTS | Responsible Person |
Advanced Microeconomics I | WT | 6 | Oliver Gürtler |
Advanced Applied Econometrics | WT | 6 | Oleg Badunenko |
Economic Engineering | WT | 6 | Axel Ockenfels |
Elective Courses | Cycle | ECTS | Responsible Person |
Behavioral Ethics | ST | 6 | Bernd Irlenbusch |
The Economics of Incentives in Organizations | ST | 6 | Dirk Sliwka |
Experimental Economics for PhDs | WT | 6 | Bettina Rockenbach |
Behavioral Operations Management | tba | 6 | Michael Becker-Peth |
Empirical Innovation Economics | ST | 6 | Susanne Prantl |
Advanced Microeconomics II | WT | 6 | Achim Wambach |
Contract Theory | 6 | Patrick Schmitz | |
Experimental Methods | WT | 6 | Bettina Rockenbach |
Research Seminars | Requirements |
Research Seminar "Design and Behavior" |
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Prerequisites: | We expect that participants have a Master in Economics, Business, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field. In particular we expect the students to have a sufficient background in probability and statistical interference, econometrics, and mathematical methods of economics.
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