Economics and Finance
PhD Program in Economics
Vienna Graduate School of Economics (VGSE)
The next program starts in autumn 2010!
For further details, please visit the University of Vienna.
The Vienna Graduate School of Economics (VGSE) is a newly founded graduate school in economics focusing on the training of PhD candidates in economics in Vienna. The school is a collaboration of the University of Vienna and the Institute of Advanced Studies and it is financed by a research grant of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF). The school will take in a first batch of students in the autumn semester of 2010. The program is run in English.
Aim and Scope
VGSE offers a broad three-year graduate PhD education in economics focussing on specialized field courses, research seminars, and intensively supervised research time. Applicants for the VGSE should therefore have completed a very good research masters program with advanced courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics.
Students graduating from the VGSE should be able to carry out independent research of the highest academic standards, and they should therefore be able to obtain international academic positions or research positions within policy institutions such as the ECB, IMF, World Bank, OECD, etc.
Philosophy behind the program
The common standard for graduate education in economics around the world is a broad economics PhD program with microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics as the three pillars. The reason for such a broad program is that across the different subfields, economists nowadays use the same tools and methodology, especially game theory, information economics, dynamic optimization techniques, and econometric and statistical techniques. A proper understanding of these tools and the way they are applied in different subfields is the key to modern research. Knowing these techniques, researchers are able to move relatively smoothly between different subfields.
The VGSE here takes this philosophy as a starting point. The faculty members of the Vienna Graduate School of Economics either specialize in developing the techniques needed in modern economic research, or they apply these techniques in their fields of specialization. Modern research uses more and more often a combination of techniques to study economic issues.
Prospective students will be able to spend most of the three years that are envisaged for the program on research for their dissertation and attending research seminars, where students learn and see how research is started up, how it is conducted, and finally reported.
Information about the faculty involved
The best researchers in economics that are working in Vienna participate in VGSE. The faculty members of VGSE are recognized by the international research community as experts in their respective fields and are well connected to the international research community. They are specialists in one of the three areas of economic research (microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics) and either contribute to developing the techniques needed in modern economic research, or they apply these techniques in their fields of expertise.
Each individual member of the VGSE has an extensive network of international collaborators. The VGSE will build on these relationships for inviting guest professors, for organizing small workshops at which students can present their results, and for initiating student exchange. These relations will in particular be used for organizing research visits of a couple of months at a suitable international research institution for students who are close to the final stage of their dissertation work.
Alphabetical list of participating faculty members
Ulrich Berger
Evolutionary game theory
Klaus Gugler
Empirical Industrial organization
Christian Haefke
Macro- and labour economics
Josef Hofbauer
Evolutionary game theory
Maarten Janssen
Theory of Industrial Organization, Auctions
Hannes Leeb
Econometrics
Martin Meier
Foundations of Game Theory
Benedikt Pötscher
Econometrics
Michael Reiter
Computational macroeconomics
Gerhard Sorger
Macroeconomic Theory
Franz Wirl
Environmental Economics
Besim Yurtoglu
Empirical Industrial organization
The next program starts in autumn 2010!
For further details, please visit the University of Vienna.
The Vienna Graduate School of Economics (VGSE) is a newly founded graduate school in economics focusing on the training of PhD candidates in economics in Vienna. The school is a collaboration of the University of Vienna and the Institute of Advanced Studies and it is financed by a research grant of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF). The school will take in a first batch of students in the autumn semester of 2010. The program is run in English.
Aim and Scope
VGSE offers a broad three-year graduate PhD education in economics focussing on specialized field courses, research seminars, and intensively supervised research time. Applicants for the VGSE should therefore have completed a very good research masters program with advanced courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics.
Students graduating from the VGSE should be able to carry out independent research of the highest academic standards, and they should therefore be able to obtain international academic positions or research positions within policy institutions such as the ECB, IMF, World Bank, OECD, etc.
Philosophy behind the program
The common standard for graduate education in economics around the world is a broad economics PhD program with microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics as the three pillars. The reason for such a broad program is that across the different subfields, economists nowadays use the same tools and methodology, especially game theory, information economics, dynamic optimization techniques, and econometric and statistical techniques. A proper understanding of these tools and the way they are applied in different subfields is the key to modern research. Knowing these techniques, researchers are able to move relatively smoothly between different subfields.
The VGSE here takes this philosophy as a starting point. The faculty members of the Vienna Graduate School of Economics either specialize in developing the techniques needed in modern economic research, or they apply these techniques in their fields of specialization. Modern research uses more and more often a combination of techniques to study economic issues.
Prospective students will be able to spend most of the three years that are envisaged for the program on research for their dissertation and attending research seminars, where students learn and see how research is started up, how it is conducted, and finally reported.
Information about the faculty involved
The best researchers in economics that are working in Vienna participate in VGSE. The faculty members of VGSE are recognized by the international research community as experts in their respective fields and are well connected to the international research community. They are specialists in one of the three areas of economic research (microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics) and either contribute to developing the techniques needed in modern economic research, or they apply these techniques in their fields of expertise.
Each individual member of the VGSE has an extensive network of international collaborators. The VGSE will build on these relationships for inviting guest professors, for organizing small workshops at which students can present their results, and for initiating student exchange. These relations will in particular be used for organizing research visits of a couple of months at a suitable international research institution for students who are close to the final stage of their dissertation work.
Alphabetical list of participating faculty members
Ulrich Berger
Evolutionary game theory
Klaus Gugler
Empirical Industrial organization
Christian Haefke
Macro- and labour economics
Josef Hofbauer
Evolutionary game theory
Maarten Janssen
Theory of Industrial Organization, Auctions
Hannes Leeb
Econometrics
Martin Meier
Foundations of Game Theory
Benedikt Pötscher
Econometrics
Michael Reiter
Computational macroeconomics
Gerhard Sorger
Macroeconomic Theory
Franz Wirl
Environmental Economics
Besim Yurtoglu
Empirical Industrial organization
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