Course Catalog
Module and Course Registration
Lectures:
Registration for lectures takes place in Portal2. Please follow the links below and register for the lectures you would like to attend. The registration period for lectures in fall 2025 begins on 18 August (18:00) and ends on 15 September (18:00). During this time you can register and deregister from most lectures on your own accord. A manual for course registrations can be found in Portal2 > User Manuals > For Students. Please note that elective modules offered by other departments may require a different registration procedure. For more information please check the Courses and Course Regulation section.
Seminars:
The information sessions for seminar courses will be offered online from 18 to 22 August (schedule tba). The registration and allocation of seminars takes place in Portal2. The registration module “Seminar Registration MSc Economics” can be accessed via Portal2. The registration period for seminars in fall 2025 begins on 22 August (18:00) and ends on 27 August (18:00). Please note that the timing of the submission of your preferences is not relevant as the seats are not allocated first-come first-served. Subsequently, every student will be allocated to one seminar according to her /his preferences. Once a topic is assigned to you, withdrawal requires a good reason. International exchange students: please contact Mr Sebastian Herdtweck (econgrad@uni-mannheim.de) in order to apply for a seminar.
Information for students from other departments, MMM students, and Business Mathematics students:
Please note that you can choose to study any of the elective modules available at the department as long as you fulfill the prerequisites. Please contact the teacher of the module you are interested in directly for more information on the prerequisites and to discuss your eligibility. Core courses E601–603 and E700–703 are not open to students from other programs.
Electives from other departments and internship:
Information on the course offer from other departments can be found here. Information on the recognition process for an internship can be found in the study guide section.
Core Modules (fall semester only)
(only available in the fall semester; schedule (PDF, 170 kB))
E600 Mathematics (on-campus & digitally live)
E601 Advanced Microeconomics (on-campus, exercise class)
E602 Advanced Macroeconomics (on-campus, exercise class)
E603 Advanced Econometrics (on-campus, exercise class)
Course Catalog for Spring 2025
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Compulsory Modules for the Competition and Regulation Economics Track
E505 Industrial Organization – Markets and Strategies
E5046 Empirical Industrial Organization
Elective Modules for the Economics, and Competition and Regulation Economics Tracks
Lectures
E505 Industrial Organization – Markets and Strategies (elective module for the Economics track)
E548 Empirical Political Economy
E588 International Macroeconomics
E5019 Advanced Microeconometrics
E5046 Empirical Industrial Organization (elective module for the Economics track)
E5068 Empirical Public Economics
E5127 Fintech and AI in Finance
E5128 Credit and Housing markets
Seminars
E586 Topics in Empirical Development Economics
E5004 Topics in Industrial Policy
E5006 Topics in Empirical Industrial Organization
E5009 Topics in Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics
E5016 Topics in International Finance
E5054 Topics in Environmental and Energy Economics
E5072 Topics in Business Cycles
Preliminary Course Catalog for Fall 2025
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Introductory Modules
E600 Mathematics (on-campus & digitally live)
E601 Advanced Microeconomics (on-campus, exercise classes)
E602 Advanced Macroeconomics (on-campus, exercise classes)
E603 Advanced Econometrics (on-campus, exercise classes)
Elective Modules for the study tracks Economics, and Competition and Regulation Economics
Lectures
E563 Game Theory (on-campus)
E577 Inequality and the Macroeconomy (on-campus)
E5008 Economic Policy and the Financial System (on-campus)
E5024 Poverty and Inequality (on-campus)
E5026 Programming in Stata (on-campus)
E5040 Impact Evaluation and Causal Inference (on-campus)
E5067 Behavioral Economics (on-campus)
E5087 Banking and Banking Regulation (on-campus)
E5090 Internet Economics (on-campus)
E5095 Nonparametric Econometrics (on-campus)
E5100 Topics in Economic History (on-campus)
E5119 Spatial Data Management and Analysis (on-campus)
E5xxx Environmental Macroeconomics (on-campus)
Seminars
E5060 Interdisciplinary Competition and Regulation Seminar (CaRE students only)
E568 Topics in International Macroeconomics (on campus)
E599 Empirical Environmental Economics (on-campus)
E5054 Topics in Environmental and Energy Economics (on-campus)
E5107 Topics in Financial Economics (on-campus)
E5120 Topics in Econometrics (on-campus)
E5xxx Behavioral Economics of Fairness Preferences and (Optimal) Redistributive Policies (on campus)
E5xxx Ethics and Market Design (on campus)
E5XXX Introduction to predictive analytics and machine learning (on campus)
Additional modules:
Previous Course Catalogs
- Course Catalog Spring 2025 (PDF, 377 kB)
- Course Catalog Fall 2024 (PDF, 396 kB)
- Course Catalog Spring 2024 (PDF, 474 kB)
- Course Catalog Fall 2023 (PDF, 511 kB)
- Course Catalog Spring 2023 (PDF, 432 kB)
- Course Catalog Fall 2022 (PDF, 464 kB)
- Course Catalog Spring 2022 (PDF, 457 kB)
- Course Catalog Fall 2021 (PDF, 488 kB)
- Course Catalog Spring 2021 (PDF, 558 kB)
- Course Catalog Fall 2020 (PDF, 507 kB)
- Course Catalog Spring 2020 (PDF, 552 kB)
- Course Catalog Fall 2019 (PDF, 807 kB)
- Course Catalog Spring 2019 (PDF, 813 kB)
- Course Catalog Fall 2018 (PDF, 550 kB)
- Course Catalog Spring 2018 (PDF, 573 kB)
- Course Catalog Fall 2017 (PDF, 737 kB)
- Course Catalog Spring 2017 (PDF, 270 kB)
- Course Catalog Fall 2016 (PDF, 567 kB)
- Course Catalog Spring 2016 (PDF, 575 kB)
- Course Catalog Fall 2015 (PDF, 592 kB)
- Course Catalog Spring 2015 (PDF, 341 kB)
- Course Catalog Fall 2014 (PDF, 54 kB)
- Course Catalog Spring 2014 (PDF, 47 kB)
- Course Catalog Fall 2013 (PDF, 46 kB)
- Course Catalog Spring 2013 (PDF, 44 kB)