Titel für - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Contents:
Entrepreneurship: theories and empirical methods in entrepreneurship research, characteristics of founders,
financing ventures, success factors and reasons for failure of newly-founded companies
Industrial Economics: The course deals predominantly with the competition in the fields of product and process
innovation, i.e. patent races, horizontal and vertical product differentiation, etc.
Growth Theory: Endogeneous growth, empirical analysis of convergence of growth rates, structural change,
different forms of technical progress.
Empirical Growth: stylized facts of growth, basic growth models, growth accounting, growth regressions, convergence,
growth determinants, world income distribution
International Trade and Investment: Heckscher-Ohlin model, new trade theory, transport costs and the gravity
model, exporters and multinational firms, trade policy
Financial Innovations and Economic Development: Causes and benefits of financial innovations, influence of
financial innovations on long-run economic development, causes and costs of financial crises
Productivity and Efficiency Analysis: production decisions, stochastic frontier functions, data envelopment
analysis, size effects, allocative efficiency, dynamic analysis
Lernergebnisse:
Die Studierenden sind nach den Veranstaltungen in der Lage,
• Grundlagen der Gründungsforschung wiederzugeben und deren Methoden anzuwenden.
• Strategische Wettbewerbssituationen einzuschätzen und Handlungsoptionen zu entwerfen.
• Die realen Wachstums- und Entwicklungsprozesse in der Welt zu beschreiben und Chancen und Risiken von
Wachstumsprozessen zu benennen.
• Modelle des internationalen Handels zu verstehen und empirische Ergebnisse zu interpretieren.
• die Ursachen, Vor- und Nachteile von Finanzinnovationen sowie ihren Einfluss auf die Wirtschaftsentwicklung
zu benennen.
• Methoden der Produktivitäts- und Effizienzanalyse korrekt anzuwenden.
• die zentralen Ergebnisse der empirischen Wachstumsforschung zu kennen und einzuschätzen.
Learning Outcomes:
After the courses the students are able to
• reflect the basic foundations of entrepreneurship research and apply their methods.
• analyze strategic situations of firms and to design strategic options.
• describe and analyze growth processes in the real world and are able to identify chances and risks of growth
and development processes.
• comprehend models of international trade and interpret empirical findings.
• reflect the causes, benefits and costs of financial innovations and analyse their influence on long-run economic
development.
• apply methods of productivity and efficiency analysis correctly.
• to know and evaluate the central results of empirical growth research.
Medienformen:
Beamerpräsentation, Folien, Tafel, Beispielprogramme, Übungsblätter
Literatur:
Aghion, P., Howitt, P. : The Economics of Growth
Cantner, U., Krüger, J., Hanusch, H.: Produktivitäts- und Effizienzanalyse
Feenstra, R.: Advanced International Trade
Goetzmann, W. N., Rouwenhorst, K. G.: The Origins of Value. The Financial Innovations that Created Modern
Financial Markets
Hemmer, H.-R., Lorenz, A.: Grundlagen der Wachstumsempirie
Kindleberger, C. P., Aliber, R.: Manias, Panics, and Crashes. A History of Financial Crises
Parker, S.C.: The Economics of Entrepreneurship
Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften | Wirtschaftsinformatik | M.Sc. | Modulhandbuch 115