Teaching
Lectures
Microeconomic Analysis, Winter 2022/2023
Masters course at Freie Universität Berlin
Classical demand theory, production, (non-)existence of general equilibrium, fundamental Welfare Theorems, welfare analysis in partial equilibrium models (incl. e.g., externalities and public goods), non-cooperative game theory (e.g., extensive/normal form representation, dominated strategies and backward induction, Nash-equilibrium and equilibrium refinements).
Industrial Organization, Winter 2022/2023
Bachelors course at Freie Universität Berlin
Competitive markets, monopoly (e.g., pricing, product selection, vertical integration and associated welfare effects), oligopoly and strategic interaction (e.g., quantity/price competiton, product differentiation, collusion).
Public Economics, Summer 2022
Masters course at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Fundamental Welfare Theorems, market failure (due to e.g., externalities/public goods, increasing returns to scale/market power, asymmetric information), foundations of Social Choice Theory (incl. Arrow's (Im)possibility Theorem, Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem), taxation.
Advanced Microeconomic Theory, Winter 2021/2022 and 2022/2023
part of the Berlin School of Economics PhD Program
my part covered Cooperative Game Theory and Matching, including, e.g., Core Equivalence Theorem; Shapley Value; Stability, Efficiency and Strategy-Proofness in Matching Markets.
Political Economics, Spring 2018 & 2019
part of the Research Master and PhD Program at Université libre de Bruxelles
joint course with Micael Castanheira
my part included, e.g., foundations of Social Choice Theory (incl. Arrow's (Im)possibility Theorem, Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem), Median-Voter Theorems, Probabilistic Voting and Citizen-Candidate Models.
Financial Crises, Summer 2015 & 2016
Masters course at Technische Universität Berlin
joint with Steffen Ahrens and David Pothier
my part included, e.g., the canonical bank-run model of Diamond-Dybvig and applications of the theory of global games for modelling bank- and government debt crises.
International Economics, Winter 2013/14
Bachelors course at Technische Universität Berlin
substituted for Frank Heinemann (research semester)
Classical models of real trade theory , e.g., Ricardo, Heckscher-Ohlin, factor-prize equalization, optimal tariffs, trade policy. With respect to monetary economics the joint determination of exchange rates, interest rates and output in the short-, medium- and long-run.
Theories of Distributive Justice and Social Choice, Summer 2013
Masters course at Technische Universität Berlin
joint with Magnus Hoffmann
my part included, e.g., comparative analysis of various voting procedures, impossibility results (e.g., Arrow's Theorem) & axiomatizations of welfare functions (utiltiarian, Rawlsian).
Tutorials
Intermediate Microeconomics, Fall 2017, 2018
part of Advanced Masters in Political Economy at Université libre de Bruxelles and Georgetown University
lectures by Micael Castanheira and Georg Kirchsteiger
e.g. consumer demand and profit maximization, partial and general equilibrium, monopolistic competition, international trade, normal and extensive form games, various solution concepts.
Financial Crises and Coordination, Summer 2012 & 2014
Masters course at Technische Universität Berlin
lectures by Frank Heinemann
e.g. rational expectations and rational bubbles, currency crises and speculative attacks, Diamond-Dybvig's bank-run model, twin crises, global games, banking regulation
International Economics, Winter 2010/11 - 2014/15
Bachelors course at Technische Universität Berlin
lectures by Frank Heinemann (except 2013/14)
content, see above
Macroeconomics, frequently between Summer 2010 and Winter 2015/16
Bachelors course at Technische Universität Berlin
lectures by Frank Heinemann
e.g. national accounts, Solow-model, functional income distribution, aggregate consumption and paradox of thrift, IS-LM- and AS-AD-model