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Faculty of Management, Economics and Social SciencesChair of Microeconomics

Summer term

  • Advanced Microeconomics II ("research track"), Prof. Dr. Schottmüller, KLIPS: 14289.0201, course material
  • Seminar Competition Policy, Mr. Gramb, KLIPS: 14289.0202. Further information will be published in the Ilias-folder of the course.
  • Projektkurs Bachelor Economics, Prof. Dr. Schottmüller

Please note that seminars are allocated to students centrally. The chair is not involved in this process and cannot help you if you did not get a place.

Winter term

  • Imperfect Information in Health Care Markets, Prof. Dr. Schottmüller and Mr. Gramb, siehe KLIPS: 14289.0202; course material 
  • Information and Strategy (in module SM Topics in Markets and Institutions C), Prof. Dr. Schottmüller; course material
  • Microeconomics, Prof. Dr. Schottmüller; course material

Thesis supervision

  • To write a thesis supervised by this chair, you first have to successfully complete 
    • one of our seminars or the course "Information and Strategy" if you are in the MSc Economics,
    • the seminar "Competition Policy" if you are in the BSc Economics,
    • "Imperfect information in health care markets" if you are in the MSc Health Economics,
    • "Advanced Microeconomics II" if you are in the Master Economic Research.
  • Read these guidelines for thesis supervision and follow them.

  • We created a template for students who want to get started with LaTeX. Read the "Getting Started" part of the wikibook first. Then have a look at the following files: .tex (with explanations of common usage), .bib (bibliography), example graphic, .pdf (the compiled output), plain .tex template. If the use of BibTeX for citations is unclear, check Martin Osborne's guide.

  • We created some jupyter notebooks that explain how you can make professionally looking plots, numerically solve maximization problems and numerically solve (systems of) equations. I think all of this can be extremely helpful when writing a seminar paper or a thesis. The backend for all this is the julia programming language but no prior knowledge of programming is required. The notebooks can be found here. If you write your thesis in LaTeX, you can also use the tikz package for making graphs. Jacques Crémer has written an excellent mini-introduction to tikz.

For further inquiries concerning thesis writing (not covered in the guidelines above), please contact Mr. Marius Gramb.

Resources for students

  • A guide on how to write a literature based seminar paper.
  • A template for students who want to get started with LaTeX. Read the "Getting Started" part of the wikibook first. Then have a look at the following files: .tex (with explanations of common usage), .bib (bibliography), example graphic, .pdf (the compiled output), plain .tex template. If the use of BibTeX for citations is unclear, check Martin Osborne's guide.
  • Jupyter notebooks that explain how you can make professionally looking plots, numerically solve maximization problems and numerically solve (systems of) equations. We think all of this can be extremely helpful when writing a seminar paper or a thesis. The backend for all this is the julia programming language but no prior knowledge of programming is required. The notebooks can be found here. If you want to learn programming in julia from scratch, you may want to check out this tutorial. (For, more examples where Julia is used to solve problems in (macro)economics, see here.)
  • Microeconomic theory makes heavy use of mathematics. The following books are recommended background reading in mathematics:
    • for Bachelor students in economics: Simon and Blume, "Mathematics for Economists", W.W. Norton & Company, 1994
    • for Master students in economics: (part I and II in) de la Fuente, "Mathematical Methods and Models in Economics", Cambridge University Press, 2000
    • for students who find Simon and Blume's book too hard: Sydsæter, Hammond, Strøm and Carvajal, "Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis", Pearson Education Limited, 2016
    • for PhD students in economics: Ok, "Real Analysis with Economic Applications", Princeton University Press, 2007