The Vienna Graduate School of Economics (VGSE) is a newly founded graduate school of economics in Vienna. It focuses on the training of PhD candidates in economics. The school is a collaboration between the University of Vienna and the Institute for Advanced Studies. It is financed by a research grant of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF). The three-year PhD program is run entirely in English. The school started with an international group of students in October 2010.
VGSE offers a broad three-year PhD education in economics focusing on specialized field courses, research seminars where students and professors present ongoing research, and intensively supervised research time.
Applicants at VGSE have completed a high quality research master program with advanced courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics.
Graduates from VGSE will be able to carry out independent research of the highest academic standards. Furthermore they are able to obtain international academic or research positions within policy making institutions such as the ECB, IMF, World Bank, OECD, etc.
Egbert Dierker (IHS):
"Multiperiod production economies with incomplete markets and the inefficiency of price taking behavior"
VGSE and the OeNB are hosting the 2012 edition of the European Workshop in Macroeconomics on 14.6. and 15.6. in Vienna.
The six PhD students of the 2011 cohort will hold the presentations of their doctoral thesis projects on 25.5. in Seminarroom 1 at VGSE. Click [more] for the schedule.
John Hassler from Stockholm University will speak on "Public Finance" during his visit beginning of June. Yossef Spiegel from Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration in Tel Aviv will join VGSE for a guest...
