Teaching Activities (Spring 2025)
International Macroeconomics
for M.Sc. in Economics, University of Mannheim
[Syllabus]
Syllabus: The course offers an introduction to international macroeconomics at the graduate level, emphasizing theory and the use of formal dynamic macroeconomic models.
Models are used to tackle concrete policy problems. Students are provided with a toolkit and are encouraged to think independently. Topics include:
current accounts and global imbalances, open-economy real business cycle models, nominal and real exchange rates, nominal rigidities and monetary policy in open economies,
financial and exchange rate crises, sovereign debt crises.
Organizational Economics
for B.Sc. in Economics, University of Mannheim
[Syllabus]
Syllabus: Part A Within Organizations:
(i) Empirics of management,
(ii) Moral hazard and incentive contracts: the risk-incentives trade-off,
(iii) Moral hazard and incentive contracts: motivation versus rent extraction,
(iv) The economics of working from home,
(v) Decision-making in organizations,
(vi) Hierarchies,
(vii) Corporate governance,
Part B Between Organizations:
(i) Productivity measurement and misallocation,
(ii) Agency frictions and cryptocurrencies,
(iii) Theory of the firm: transaction costs,
(iv) Theory of the firm: property rights,
(v) Venture capital
Previous Teaching
International Economics (Fall 2024)
for B.Sc. in Economics, University of Mannheim
[Syllabus]
Syllabus: The course gives an introduction to international economics. The covered material corresponds to the international standard for a course in international economics.
The first half of the course covers core models of international trade, such as classical theories of comparative advantage (Ricardo and Heckscher-Ohlin)
and trade models with scale economies (Krugman), and fundamentals of trade policy and the World Trade Organization.
The second half of the course covers international macroeconomics. We will discuss the intertemporal approach to the current account, international capital flows,
exchange rates, fiscal and monetary policy in open economies.
Seminar in International Macroeconomics (Fall 2024)
for M.Sc. in Economics, University of Mannheim
[Syllabus]
Syllabus:
(i) European topics in macroeconomics,
(ii) The map of global capital flows,
(iii) The macroeconomics of global pandemics,
(iv) Currency, exchange rates and the real economy,
(v) Financial crises and the global financial cycle
Seminar on Firms in the Aggregate Economy (Fall 2024)
for B.Sc. in Economics, University of Mannheim
[Syllabus]
Syllabus: The seminar covers topics around the implications of firms on aggregate economic activity.
In particular, the seminar focuses on firm-level determinants of globalization, growth, inequality, and productivity.
Theses Supervision
I am supervising Bachelor and Master theses on topics related to International Trade, International Macroeconomics, and Firm Organization, but also other topics.
If you are interested in writing under my supervision, you should contact me well in advance (months) of your planned start date.
Currently, all spots for FSS 2025 are taken.
The number of supervision spots is limited, and I generally award these on a first-come, first-serve basis. Students typically have attended one of my seminars or lectures.
Here you can find a guideline on how to get started with your thesis:
Guideline.