Teaching
  • Bachelor
    • “Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik”, summer term, 3 CP, in German
    • “Makroökonomie”, winter term, 5 CP, in German
  • Master
    • Modul “Economic Policy”, winter term, 6 CP, in English, consisting of lectures
      • “Political Economics”
      • “Public Economics”
    • Modul “Arbeit und Soziales”, summer term, 6 CP, in German, consisting of lectures
      • “Arbeitsmarkttheorie und Politik”
      • “Sozialpolitik”
  • Seminars for Bachelor and Master students, various topics, summer term, 5 CP

Course information

Exam reviews will be announced on our webpage (news) at the beginning of each semester.

Examination dates are published below and on TUCaN.

Registration for courses offered by our unit has to be done via TUCaN.

Teaching materials can be found on Moodle.

For office hours, please check the websites of the team members .

Winter Semester 2023/24

  • Module “Arbeit und Soziales”: Monday, 5th of February 2024, 8:30-10:00, Room S1|01 A4
  • Module “Economic Policy”: Wednesday, 7th of February 2024, 9:50-11:20, Room S1|01 A5
  • Makroökonomie: Wednesday, 28th of February 2024, 10:00-11:30, Rooms:
    • S101/A1 (A-Gül)
    • S206/030 (Gür-Lan)
    • S105/122 (Lar-P)
    • S103/221 (R-Schm)
    • S101/A04 (Schn-Th)
    • S103/226 (Ti-Z)
  • Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik: Friday, 8th of March 2024, 15:00-16:00, Room S1|03 175

Rooms in which the exams take place will be announced a few days before the exam dates, respectively.

Course very good good satisfactory sufficient insufficient
Political economics WS 22/23 36.4% 63.6% 0% 0% 0%
Sozialpolitik SS 2023 60% 30% 10% 0% 0%
Arbeitsmarkttheorie und Politik SS 2023 46.7% 46.7% 6.7% 0% 0%
Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik SS 2023 35.3% 52.9% 11.8% 0% 0%
Makroökonomie WS 22/23 27.9% 55.7% 13.1% 3.3% 0%
Course much better 1 2 3 4 5 much worse
Political economics WS 22/23 0% 90.9% 9.1% 0% 0%
Sozialpolitik SS 2023 35% 40% 25% 0% 0%
Arbeitsmarkttheorie und Politik SS 2023 20% 60% 20% 0% 0%
Public economics WS 19/20 12.5% 33.3% 45.8% 8.3% 0%
Makroökonomie WS 22/23 8.5% 50.8% 33.9% 6.8% 0%

Students looking for topics for their final theses may choose among the ones provided below or approach us with their own suggestions.
A short and concise guide on how to write a final thesis (or a seminar paper) can be found here (opens in new tab). We strongly recommend to study the brochure at the start of your final thesis project.

You may use the following templates (Word, Libre Open Office, or LaTeX) for your thesis.

  • Programming and analysing an agent-based computational model

    Master thesis, Master thesis (30 CP)

    Your task is to replicate the coding of an existing agent-based model using the platform Repast Simphony, or to code your model of choice using the platform Repast Simphony and analyse it. For the latter option, you may choose a textbook model you learned about during your studies, or a topic from another area of interest.

    If you are interested please contact Michael Neugart via .

    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Neugart

  • Replication study of an empirical research paper

    Master thesis, Master thesis (30 CP)

    Your task is to replicate an empirical research paper with the data used in the original publication and add further robustness analyses, or to replicate the research paper using similar data, e.g. from another country.

    Guide for replication studies (opens in new tab)

    If you are interested please contact Darius Griebenow via or Michael Neugart via

    Supervisor: Darius Griebenow (M. Sc.) or Prof. Dr. Michael Neugart