Economics,
Department
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät




General remarks
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Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses
Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses
Degree courses with details
Further information provided by the department
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Special features regarding teachingEconomics in Passau is particularly strong in research. Publications in A+ and A- journals and frequency of citation are of a particularly high level. This sound research level is integrated into the Master's courses. As a result, an especially large number of Master IEB graduates move on to doctoral studies. The link to practice is influential thanks to the empirical approach of research and teaching.
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Special features regarding the international orientationEconomics in Passau is international renowned and well-networked where research is concerned. This opens Master IEB students doors to work placements and semesters abroad. International professors regularly visit for seminar presentations that Master IEB students attend.
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Common partner universities for exchangeLunds Universitet, Sweden; Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto/Lisboa, Portugal; Università degli Studi di Firenze; Università degli Studi di Torino; University of Oulu, Finland; Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, France; University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic; Türk-Alman Üniversitesi; Ege University, Izmir, Turkey; Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary
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Special features regarding the equipmentAccess to experimental research laboratory. Special software "classEx" allows for the realisation of lab-in-the-field experiments and integrates interactive modules into teaching. Contact with German economic research institutes allows access to multiple databases.
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Special features regarding research activitiesIn development economics, education economics, family economics, corruption research and globalisation, there is diverse integration into current national and international research projects.
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Research topics reflected in teachingMeasuring Corruption by Help of Experiment; United Nations Convention Against Corruption; Exports and FDI with Heterogeneous Firms; Experimental Ethics; Market Size, Trade, and Productivity; Global Sourcing; The Euro Crisis; Brexit; Original Sin; Child care, fertility and employment of mothers; Strikes in public transport; Air pollution/health of cities; Education, risk aversion and culture in migration decisions; Insurance and Development; Solar Electricity in Rural Rwanda; Employability in Tunisia.
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Website with further information on research activitieswww.wiwi.uni-passau.de/forschung/
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Support for foundersFounders' Café: Goal: Potential founders, investors and start-up experts meet regularly; Forum for questions related to one's own start-up; Start-up promotion of the transfer centre; Events for students and young scientists (5-Euro-Business competition, Founders' Week Germany, Founders' Workshop); Start-up leave: Students who want to establish their own business while studying can take a leave of absence for two semesters if supervised by the transfer centre.
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Characteristics of assistance to differently abled personsIndividual counselling sessions; Possibly longer exam time; Possibly oral exam.
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Characteristics of diversity advancementCompliance with the university-wide standards on equality (scientific and non-scientific staff) and implementation of appropriate targets at the faculty (annual reporting).




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Last update 2017: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education, Germany.
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