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Information Economics and Game Theory
Level: Undergraduate (economics)
EconomicsUndergrad
An introduction to game theory and the economics of information. The course develops the tools of strategic decision-making — equilibrium reasoning, signaling, and incentives under private information — and applies them to markets, bargaining, and competition. It builds both intuition and formal rigor, so that students can reason through strategic situations rather than memorize results.

Business Economics
Level: MBA and M.Sc. Finance (professional-school students)
BusinessMBA
Managerial micro- and macroeconomics for students who use economics to make decisions rather than to become economists. The course uses a problem-solving approach, with weekly assignments drawn from the business press, so that students connect the concepts to the decisions firms and managers actually face. The design is MBA-tested and approved.

Regulation and Antitrust
Level: Master's (economics)
EconomicsMaster's
A topics course in law and economics and economic policy. It covers market power, merger and conduct analysis, and the regulation of firms and industries, drawing on current competition cases so that students see how economic arguments enter real regulatory decisions.

Economics of Innovation
Level: Master's and Ph.D. (economics)
EconomicsMaster'sPh.D.
A course on the economics of innovation covering both theory and empirics. Topics include the incentives to invest in research and development, patents and other means of protecting inventions, the disclosure and diffusion of knowledge, and the two-way relationship between competition and innovation. The Ph.D. version of the course uses lectures to cover theory and short student presentations for the empirical implementations.

Text Analysis in R
Level: Master's (economics); suitable as a doctoral methods course
EconomicsMaster'sPh.D.
A hands-on methods course that turns unstructured text into evidence. Students learn to acquire, clean, and measure text data in R, and to build indicators from documents that were not created for research, such as patents, corporate filings, and policy records. I teach the course online.

Competition Economics
Level: LL.M. (Master's Program in Competition Law and Regulation)
LawMaster's
An introduction to competition economics for lawyers, taught through cases and class discussion with little or no mathematics. The course covers topics such as market power and welfare, collusion and cartels, (horizontal and vertical) mergers, abuse of dominance, the innovation theory of harm, and digital markets from an economic perspective, so that students can read and understand economic reasoning and expert reports in competition cases.

Quantitative Methods for Lawyers
Level: LL.M. (Master's Program in Competition Law and Regulation)
LawMaster's
An introduction to quantitative and empirical reasoning for lawyers. The course builds the skills needed to read, interpret, and question data and statistical and economic evidence in legal and regulatory settings, without assuming a technical background. In Mannheim, it is a prerequisite for Competition Economics.

Competition and Policy in the Food Retail Sector
Level: Seminar (advanced Master's)
EconomicsLawMaster's
The course asks how economic theory connects to competition policy in food retail, combining a four-lecture sequence with a seminar organized as a structured debate. The lectures cover the structural features of grocery markets — what distinguishes retail from the standard models of industrial organization, the relevant theory, empirical methods, and current policy debates in the EU, U.S., and UK. Each student then writes an independent balanced economic analysis (10–15 pages) of a specific claim drawn from a leading regulatory decision by a court or competition agency and defends a position on it in a structured debate against another student.

Topics in Industrial Organization
Level: Ph.D. (economics and management)
EconomicsBusinessPh.D.
A methods course on the workhorse models of industrial organization with attention to how these models are used in current research. Assignments include writing referee reports on unpublished work.

Topics in Law and Economics
Level: Ph.D. (economics)
EconomicsLawPh.D.
A reading course on recent developments in the theory of law and economics. Students read the current literature closely and rotate in leading and moderating the in-class discussions.