Overview
The chair offers courses for the bachelor’s and master’s degree programs „Economics and Organizational Sciences“ and „Business Informatics“ on the basics and applications of microeconomics. On this page you will find basic information about courses offered by the chair in English. Course material is provided on the ILIAS teaching and learning platform.
Graduate-level courses
Economics of the European Union (fall trimester)
The course starts with an introduction to the history of the European Union. After that we deal with microeconomic aspects of European integration, especially considering the impact of the EU as a customs union and with the further integration to a common market. We then proceed to macroeconomic aspects, in particular the implications of the Euro as a joint currency. Based on this, we discuss the international financial crisis of 2008 and the following Euro crisis as well as other recent EU events as the unfolding of the Brexit.
You will find the timetable, as well as all lecture and exercise records on ILIAS.
Economic and Legal Analysis of the Information Society (fall trimester)
The course deals with economic and legal issues arising from the increasing importance of electronic marketplaces and markets for information goods (music, films, news, etc.). In this course, the characteristics of such information assets and markets with network effects as well as appropriate corporate strategies for competition in such markets will be discussed. Subsequently, electronic marketplaces for consumers (e.g. Ebay) and the use of e-commerce in business-to-business trade are examined in the context of intermediation and auction theory. The legal issues of e-commerce in terms of contract law and competition law as well as the particular legal problems of cross-border e-commerce and domain law are contents of this course. In addition, this course deals with intellectual property regulation relevant to information goods (e.g. copyright, software patents).
Requirements: Term paper and oral presentation.
You will find the timetable, as well as all lecture and exercise records on ILIAS.