Each academic year VGSE invites at least three guest professors (one in microeconomics, one in macroeconomics, and one in econometrics) to hold an intensive course of approximately two weeks. The guest professors who visit in the academic year 2012/13 are Prof. Dale Mortensen, Prof. Shakeeb Kahn, Prof. Clemens Puppe, and Prof. Thomas Lubik. Information about themselves and their lectures is provided below.
Overview of all Guest Professors
Guest Professor | Affiliation | Course |
| Marcus Hagedorn | Institute for Advanced Studies | Macro-labor Economics |
| Thomas Lubik | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Empirical Macroeconomics: Models and Methods |
| Clemens Puppe | Karlsruhe Institute for Technology | Welfare Economics and Incentives |
| Shakeeb Khan | Duke University | Topics in Microeconometrics |
| Dale Mortensen | Northwestern University | Search and Matching Models of the Labor Market Allocation |
| Ingmar Prucha | Maryland | Topics in Microeconometrics |
| Yossef Spiegel | Tel Aviv University | Antitrust |
| John Hassler | Stockholm University | Public Finance |
| Ronald Harstad | University of Missouri - Columbia | Auction Theory / Auctions and Experiments |
Clemens Puppe visited VGSE for two weeks in December 2012 as a guest professor and gave a lecture on "Welfare Economics and Incentives". Clemens Puppe holds the Chair of Economic Theory at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology. He specializes in microeconomic theory, in particular decision theory and social choice theory.
The Department of Economics at the University of Vienna welcomed 2010 Nobel Prize winner Dale Mortensen in October 2012. He held a two week intensive course on "Search and Matching Models of the Labor Market Allocation"!
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Thomas Lubik is group vice president for macroeconomics and financial economics in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. His research interests focus on Monetary Policy, Search and Matching, Indeterminacy, Open Economy Macroeconomics, and Bayesian Estimation. He will give a lecture in the field of "Empirical Macroeconomics" in May 2013.
Shakeeb Khan is a professor in mathematical economics, statistics, and applied econometrics at Duke University. He specializes in mathematical and quantitative methods and statistics. He held a lecture on Microeconometrics in October 2012.
VGSE was glad to have Ingmar Prucha from the University of Maryland as a guest professor. He was teaching a course on "Topics in Microeconometrics" in January 2012.
VGSE was glad to host Yossef Spiegel from Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration in Tel Aviv. He held an interesting guest lecture on "Antitrust" for two weeks in June 2012.
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John Hassler from Stockholm University held an inspiring lecture on "Public Finance" during his visit as a guest professor at VGSE beginning of June 2012. During the welcome dinner with students of his class new research ideas were discussed and the personal network enlarged.
In 2011 VGSE welcomed Ronald Harstad from the University of Missouri - Columbia as their first guest professor. He held the two interesting lectures "Auction theory" and "Auctions and Experiments" as well as a presentation on his paper "Political economy field experiments become possible" in the Micro Research Seminar.
