Seminar Goals: Students are able to independently apply core theoretical and empirical methods in the fields of international, monetary and macroeconomics to the solution of own practical research questions. They obtain and interpret empirical results, draw conclusions and derive recommendations about the consequences and effects of exogenous events or economic policy measures.

• Learning Outcome 2 (LO2): Students acquire structural thinking and presentation skills by preparing preliminary research pitches and a final presentation of their research question for the seminar.
• Learning Outcome 3 (LO3): Students critically read and understand the relevant literature and relate their own use case to the existing literature.
• Learning Outcome 4 (LO4): Students learn to independently adapt a theoretical model or collect data and apply a suitable empirical method to the research question at hand.
• Learning Outcome 5 (LO5): Students can present their theoretical or empirical results in a presentation and concisely summarize them in a seminar paper or another written form.