Curriculum / Courses
Phase 1: PhD Coursework
To ensure all our PhD students are on the same starting level, we prescribe a set of seven courses for the first year of your PhD studies. These core courses will deepen your knowledge and understanding of research and are quite different from what you might have done on Master's level. At the end of the first year, you will prepare and present a research project which will help you transition into your own research.
Fall Term 2025
| Corporate Finance | Prof. Kjell Nyborg |
| Econometrics for Research Students | Prof. Damian Kozbur |
| Mathematical Finance | Prof. Pablo Koch Medina Prof. Markus Leippold |
| Microeconomics for Research Students | Prof. Nick Netzer |
Core Elective Modules Fall Term 2025
| Advances in Computational Economics and Finance | Prof. Felix Kübler |
| Brown Bag Lunch Seminar | Prof. Per Östberg |
| Colloquium for Doctoral Students | Prof. Thorsten Hens |
| Cultural Economics and Finance | Prof. Marc Oliver Rieger Prof. Mei Wang |
| Recursive Methods | Prof. Felix Kübler |
From the second year onwards, you will conduct your research in close collaboration with your advisory team and your colleagues at our department. You can supplement your own research activities by taking part in specialized PhD courses or summer schools of your choice, by presenting your work at conferences and through research stays abroad.
Phase 2: PhD Research
After the first year, as the course load lightens and the emphasis turns to research, PhD candidates are financed by teaching assistantships or research grants, providing a wide range of teaching and research experience.
Collaboration with guest faculty
In addition, PhD candidates have the opportunity to participate in advanced PhD courses and workshops with international guest faculty. Previous guests have included Prof. Xavier Giroud (Columbia), Prof. Harrison Hong (Columbia), Prof. Bruno Biais (HEC Paris), Prof. Yacine Ait-Sahalia (Princeton) and many others.
