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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Jarko Fidrmuc; Florian Horky
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Corporate Management & Economics
Displayed in timetable as:
ResearchDes.
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
3,0
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
5 | 6
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
While most economics seminars and lectures are based on a strictly disciplinary or methodological focus, the module "Science" is designed to take a research-oriented perspective and to address very different facets of an overall economic topic via an explicitly interdisciplinary focus. Within the framework of the interdisciplinary research project, an economic research question is worked on in a research group.
The work on the research project is flanked by the seminar "Research Design", which represents the second part of this module. In this course, participants are introduced to scientific models and methods of economics in order to enable them to apply them to their research questions. At the end of the course, participants will first be asked to motivate their research question based on the literature (scientific relevance, practical implications), identify the research gap, and explain the proposed research design (methodology) in a "Research Proposal". Based on this "research proposal", the actual, detailed elaboration of the research question within the framework of the (group) research project then takes place. The findings of the respective analyses are first to be prepared by the students as presentations and, after intensive discussion, submitted in the form of written elaborations.
Educational objective:
Students,
will acquire the ability to formulate a research question in economics with interdisciplinary connections and to work on it independently using scientific methods and findings;
will be able to design and implement an interdisciplinary research project;
will be able to document their own research results in a term paper and to discuss them critically in a colloquium.
Mandatory literature:
Scientific papers and methodological inputs provided during the course
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