Economics knows no borders

The Department of Economics stands for internationality on many levels: in our course content on global markets, multinational companies and international organisations, with our students and lecturers from all over the world and through our internationally relevant research.

„Our aim is to equip national and international students for the economic challenges and to publish our research findings in international journals.”

Prof. Dr. Thomas Gries,
Department spokesperson

Latest News

23.08.2022

Publication in the Journal of Regulatory Economics

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02.08.2022

33rd Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory

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22.07.2022

Evaluationen SS22

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07.07.2022

Successful 21st European Health Economics Workshop 2022

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04.07.2022

Job advertisement for the project A:RT-D Grids (Africa: Research and Teaching for Development Grids)

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28.06.2022

Microeconomics on Tour: Paderborn in Padova

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22.06.2022

New date for our 50 mosaics event

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02.06.2022

Start of the central allocation procedure for theses

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24.05.2022

Abschlussarbeiten WS 22/23

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09.05.2022

Teaching Summer Term 2022

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05.05.2022

Celebrating 50 years of Paderborn University!

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03.05.2022

Special Issue “Decentralized Mechanisms” website

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07.04.2022

Seminar on Game Theory - first meeting!

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14.03.2022

The Chair of Microeconomics in the 2020/2021 annual report

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14.03.2022

New Publication in Economic Journal

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International research

We offer fundamental and internationally high-quality research in the fields of economics, international economics and econometrics and focus on socially relevant issues based on the latest scientific methods and high-quality research data.

Research projects

The members of the department contribute their expertise to larger research networks as well as to work on relevant, more specific issues. Our collaborations transcend faculty and university boundaries.

Publications

Within the department, we create a lively scientific exchange through joint research projects or cross-chair semi
exchange - a good basis for publishing our results in high-ranking journals.

Research focus

Our research focuses on four main topics: Globalisation and Global Markets, Cooperation and Competition, Data Science in Economics, Sustainable and Inclusive Development.

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Research Centre Center for International Economics (CIE)

The CIE stands for independent and well-founded economic research of high quality and political relevance. With their research topics, the academics cover a broad spectrum of economic and international economic issues, both at the macro and micro level.

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Scientific career

Become part of our team and take the opportunity to develop personally and work on exciting research projects.

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Study & Teaching

In teaching, the department organises the "International Economics and Management" course, which can be studied in English and provides students from many different countries with the relevant specialist knowledge of economic processes and methodological skills that equip them for the regional, national and international labour market.

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Study and teaching program at the Department Economics

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M. Sc. International Economics and Management

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Get in touch with us!

Prof. Dr. Thomas Gries

Makroökonomik, Internationale Wachstums- und Konjunkturtheorie

Room Q4.146
Paderborn University
Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn

Office hours

Thursday 13:00-14:00