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Courses taught in EnglishWinter term 2009/2010

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Faculty of Economic Sciences

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Economics

Name of Module: Advanced Development Economics 800543 3

Name of Module: Behavioral Game Theory 800534 4

Name of Module: Economic Development of Africa 800448 5

Name of Module: Development Aid 800463 6

Name of Module: The Political Economy of the IMF and the World Bank 800465 7

Name of Module: Developing Country Issues in Public Finance 800580 8

Name of Module: Globalisation, Inequality and Growth 800560 9

Name of Module: Globalisation and Labour Markets 800551 10

Name of Module: Ökonometrie I (Econometrics I) 800040 11

Statistics

Name of Module: Undergraduate Seminar in Applied Statistics 800033 12

Business Administration

Name of Module: Change & Run IT 800389, 800390 13

Name of Module: Seminar for Information Management 800146 14

Law

Name of Module: Introduction to EU Law 430140 15

Agricultural Policy and Rural Development

Name of Module: Microeconomic Theory of Agricultural Production 740121 16

Name of Module: Socioeconomics of Rural Development and Food Security 740116 17

Name of Module: Seminar on Agricultural Policy Analysis 740142 18

Graduate Seminar

Name of Module: Applied Statistics and Econometrics 800169 19

Name of module: Advanced Development Economics (800543)

Time: lecture: 08.00 am – 06.00 pm, 28th September – 2th October 2009seminar: Thursday 02.00 pm – 04.00 pm

Room: lecture: Oeconomicum – OEC 1.164seminar: VG 1.108

Lecturer: Prof Dr. Axel Dreher, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Carola Grün, Prof. Stephan Klasen, PhD

Credits: 6

Examinations: will be announced

Type of module: lecture, seminar

Contents: This course provides an overview over critical issues in developmenteconomics at the graduate level. The course will first focus on conceptualising and measuring development, after which macro -economic perspectives will be considered. Thereafter the course willshift to microeconomic perspectives and will investigate issues ofhealth, education, credit, and insurance. The last part of the course will then examine the political economy of development.

Economics

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Name of module: Behavioral Game Theory (800534)

Time: Thursday 10.00 am – 12.00 pm

Room: Oeconomicum – OEC 1.162

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Claudia Keser

Credits: 6

Examinations: written exam, paper

Type of module: lecture

Economics

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Name of module: Economic Development of Africa (800448)

Time: lecture: Thursday 08.00 am – 10.00 am seminar: Friday 10.00 am – 12.00 am


Lecturer: Junior-Prof. Dr. Carola Grün

Credits: 6



Contents: This course considers development issues in Sub Saharan Africa. In particular, the course seeks to explore the factors accounting for Africa’s high poverty and poor growth performance.

Economics

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Name of module: Development Aid (800463)

Time: Monday02.00 pm – 04.00 pm


Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher

Credits: 6



Economics

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Name of module: The Political Economy of the IMF and the World Bank (800465)

Time: Tuesday, 20th October 10.00 am – 12.00 pm Friday, 15th January 08.00 am – 06.00 pmSaturday, 16th January 08.00 am – 06.00 pm

Room: Universitätsverwaltung HDW 2.111

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher

Credits: 6


Type of module: seminar

Contents: This seminar applies economic principles and political-economy approaches to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.The politics of the Bretton Woods Institutions affect an ever-increasingnumber of people. To understand these effects, we need to study thedecision-making processes and patterns of policy making of these organizations in a systematic and detailed fashion.

Economics

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Name of module: Developing Country Issues in Public Finance (800580)

Time: 16th October – 12th November

Room: various rooms

Lecturer: Prof. Estian Calitz, PhD

Credits: 6



Module Methodology The aim of this module is to explore a number of issues in the field and outcomes: of public finance from the perspective of developing countries.

The experience of South Africa, an upper middle-income developing country, recently democratised, will occasionally serve as case study. The module covers the five broad fields indicated below. Some of the issues to be addressed are listed in brackets.

– The role of government (e. g. changing views on the role of government in the economy; privatization fiscal implications of economic globalisation; growth / roll-back of government; types of government intervention)

– Public expenditure issues (e.g. incidence of public expenditure; investment in infrastructure; efficiency in delivery)

– Tax reform issues (e.g. choosing an appropriate tax base; tax incidence; trade-offs between efficiency and equity; taxing small business; tax incentives, tax evasion; tax compliance; efficiency in tax collection)

– Fiscal policy and public debt (reconciling fiscal sustainability with pro-poor expendi-ture; trends in public debt; debt crises; debt forgiveness; South African case study)

– Fiscal relations (tax and expenditure assignment, transfers versus own revenue and the implications of sub-national borrowing powers in inter-governmental fiscal relations; global and regional fiscal issues)

Reading material: The reading material consists of articles in economic journals, reportsand chapters in books. The exam paper will be based on the prescribedliterature. Also provided is a list of recommended literature, which students are advised to read in order to further enrich theirunderstanding of the issues.

Economics

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Name of module: Globalisation, Inequality and Growth (800560)

Time: 15th December 08.00 am – 05.00 pm16th December 08.00 am – 05.00 pm

Room:

Lecturer: Prof. Noel Gaston, PhD

Credits: 6



Economics

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Name of module: Globalisation and Labour Markets (800551)

Time: lecture: Monday 02.00 pm – 04.00 pmseminar: Wednesday 12.00 am – 02.00 pm

Room: lecture: VG 4.107seminar: OEC 1.164

Lecturer: Prof. Noel Gaston, PhD

Credits: 6



Economics

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Name of module: Ökonometrie I (Econometrics I) (800040)

Time: Wednesday 12.00 am – 02.00 pm

Room: ZHG 004

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Stefan Sperlich, Dr. Oleg Nenadic, Meike Dickel

Credits: 6

Examinations: written exam


Contents: This lecture provides a detailed introduction to the theory of severaltopics of econometrics. The topics discussed in this lecture can befound here. It is recommended that you have already attended an introductory econometrics course. In addition to the lecture, a practicalcourse and a tutorial are offered. In the practical course, the methodsdiscussed will be applied to real economic data using the statisticalsoftware package STATA.

Economics

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Name of module: Undergraduate Seminar in Applied Statistics (800033)

Time: Tuesday10.00 am – 12.00 pm

Room: MZG 8.136

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Walter Zucchini

Credits: 6


Type of module: Seminar

Content: Titel: Bad data, good estimates? Towards sensible microdata analysis, with a particular focus on South African labour markets and poverty.

Statistics

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Name of module: Change & Run IT (800389, 800390) (tutorial)

Time: Thursday 08.00 am – 10.00 am

Room: will be announced

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Kolbe

Credits: 6



Scope of curriculum: 1st – 2th sem. MA

Contents: Learning targetsGet to know the factors that make up successful IT-project manage-ment, as well as the Dos and Donts for project managers. Learn aboutbest practice cases, e.g. PMI. Become familiar with the basic elementsof IT- service-management at the operative level of information management and reflect these concepts. Understand, classify andevaluate processes according to the ITIL model.

Overview of the module contentsGuest lectures about practical experiences in projects and researchThe first part will deal with the essential basics for managing big IT- projects (Change IT). Thereupon the part of operative designing will be presented on the basis of IT-service-management (Run IT).

Within the exercise courses (from summer term 2008 on) ITIL-processes will be demonstrated on the basis of a simulation of theApollo 13-flight (www.gamingworks.nl).

1. Fundamentals of IT-Project Management (PMI-Handbook)2. ITIL Fundamentals3. IT Service Support (Incident Management, Problem Management,

Change Management, Release Management, Configuration Management)

4. IT Service Delivery (Service Level Management, Capacity Management, Availability Management, Continuity Management, Financial Management

Literature: – Rüdiger Zarnekow, Axel Hochstein, Walter Brenner (2005): Service-orientiertes IT-Management. ITILBest-Practices und -Fallstudien, Springer-Verlag, Berlin

– Zarnekow R. (2007): Produktionsmanagement von IT-Dienstleistungen, Springer-Verlag, Berlin– Office of Government Commerce (OGC) (2000): Service Support, The Stationery Office, London– Office of Government Commerce (OGC) (2004): Business Perspective:

The IS View on Delivering Services to the Business, The Stationery Office, London– Bieger, T. (2002): Dienstleistungsmanagement. 3. Aufl., Haupt, Bern


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Name of module: Seminar for Information Management (800146)

Time: will be announced


Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Kolbe

Credits: 6

Examination: paper, presentation


Scope of curriculum: 1st – 4th sem. MSc

Contents: Marketing of IT products –An empirical analysis of customer satisfaction

Marketing of IT services – An empirical analysis of customer satisfaction

Factors influencing productivity of IT Service Providers with an IT Service Management (ITSM) – Expert Interviews (2 teams)

Identifying financial indicators in IT projects. Top executive view.

Driving profitability and benefits from joint-venture partnerships in IT projects.

Barriers to the implementation of multi-party IT projects.

Impact of ITSM on Innovation Management –An empirical analysis of IT Service Providers (2 teams)

Adoption factors for IT Service Providers of an ITSM – Expert Interviews


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Name of module: Introduction to EU Law – Selected Cases (430140)

Time: Monday 04.00 pm – 06.00 pm

Room: ZHG 006

Lecturer: Dr. Christiane Trüe LL.M. (Norwich)

Credits: 4



Scope of curriculum: 1st – 4th semester MA

Description: The course “Introduction to EU Law – Selected Cases” introduces thestudents to EU law, using English as the teaching language. It aims at enabling students to study an international subject in English. The course will focus on the basics of EU law (fundamental freedoms,general principles, institutional law of the EU), discussing the leadingcases decided by the European Court of Justice. As well as communi-cating the legal aspects the course is designed to train students in theEnglish legal terminology relevant to EU law, thus enabling them to include the writings of legal scholars and practitioners in Englishlanguage in their study and research, and to overcome the nationalboundaries of the discussion of a law common to all EU MemberStates. The German legal scholars’ “herrschende Meinung” may notnecessarily take all relevant points into account, nor will it always bethe one to convince the ECJ in a case before it. The course will thusprovide students with essential knowledge for the legal professions,which increasingly demands both the ability to communicate on legalsubjects in English, and knowledge of the views on EU law held in“Brussels” and in the other Member States.

Law

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Name of module: Microeconomic Theory of Agricultural Production(740121)

Time: Wednesday04.00 pm – 05.30 pm

Room: MZG 1141

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Matin Qaim

Credits:



Scope of curriculum: 1st – 4th sem. MA

Description: (1) Microeconomic Theory of Agricultural Production (2) Quantitative Methods in Agricultural Business Economics


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Name of module: Socioeconomics of Rural Development and Food Security (740116)

Time: Monday 08.30 am – 10.00 pmWednesday 02.15 pm – 03.45 pm

Room: ZHG 003 (Monday)Philosophische Fakultät, Institutsgebäude PH 20 (Wednesday)

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Matin Qaim

Credits:

Examinations: oral exam (25 minutes)



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Name of module: Seminar on Agricultural Policy Analysis (740142)

Time: will be announced


Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel

Credits:

Examinations: paper, presentation


There will be a first meeting (attendance is compulsory!) in October to give an introduction and answer questions. The exact date will bepublished on the homepage / notice board! The seminar with the presentation of the seminar papers will take place at the end of the semester.


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Name of module: Applied Statistics and Econometrics (800169)

Time: Tuesday 02.00 pm – 04.00 pm

Room: MZG 8.136

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Walter Zucchini

Examinations: presentation


Description: This seminar is intended to provide non-statistics graduates the opportunity to study a number of selected topics in applied statistics,and to practice how to go about understanding unfamiliar statisticalmethodology that they may encounter in the course of their research.

The specific research interests of participants will be taken into accountin determining the choice of topics to be covered and could includethemes in, for example, advanced time series modelling, resamplingtechniques, Bayesian methodology, the analysis of discrete data, generalized linear models, multivariate analysis, etc.

This will be a supervised reading course in which participants will be given material to read and to present to the class (in German and in English).

Graduate Seminar

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