MAGKS doctoral program

Starting point and motivation

The program has a special model character, because existing inter-university organized doctoral programs in Germany typically take place within the framework of a graduate college, i.e. the participants concentrate entirely on the doctoral studies.

In contrast, structured support for research assistants and external doctoral students outside the chairs has rarely taken place.

The starting point for the urgency of improving teaching is the experience that the course content taught in graduate programs typically has a large gap with the research literature.

This gap is being reduced by the introduction of research-oriented master's programs, but it is unlikely to disappear completely. Therefore, it makes sense to offer Ph.D. students special courses that provide compact and methodologically rigorous in-depth coverage of essential core topics in economics. It is important here to guarantee, on the one hand, a thorough education in core areas of economics and, on the other hand, to make it possible to focus on special research topics.

• Further, current information, such as the current course schedule and an overview of the active MAGKS teachers and participants, can be found on the MAGKS homepage.

• The discussion and working papers of the MAGKS members can be found here.
• Prof. Dr. Bernd Hayo (Uni Marburg) coordinates the MAGKS Discussion Paper Series.