Projekttitel: International Graduate Program “Evidence-Based Economics”
Kürzel/Kurztitel: Evidence-Based Economics
Kurzbeschreibung: The international graduate program “Evidence-Based Economics” (EBE) is a joint undertaking of the Universities of Munich, Erlangen-Nuremberg and Regensburg. It is generously funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria.
Successful economic policy requires a solid understanding of the causal effects of policy interventions. Traditional empirical analysis, however, provides mainly correlational evidence that does not allow for a causal interpretation. In the past two decades, experimental economists and econometricians have developed new tools to identify causal effects. These tools include laboratory experiments, (quasi-)natural and field experiments, and sophisticated identification strategies in field studies.
The international graduate program Evidence-Based Economics aims to apply and further develop these methods in order to better understand the mechanisms that govern economic decision making and to properly evaluate the costs and benefits of policy interventions. Integrating theory, empirical methods, and policy analysis in both training and research of doctoral students is the main innovation of this graduate program. The program allows for substantive applications from different fields in economics while closely cooperating with firms, non-profit organizations, research institutions, and leading scholars worldwide, both in training and research supervision.
The aim of the graduate program is to provide doctoral students with the diverse methodological skills required to perform innovative, state-of-the art economics research within the EBE research agenda, and to apply these skills to important real-world problems. The ultimate goal is to train doctoral students so that they can work at the frontier of theory-guided, evidence-based economics.
URL: http://www.evidence-based-economics.de
Projektleitung (Scientific Board): Prof. Dr. Joachim Winter (LMU Munich), Prof. Dr. Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich), Prof. Dr. Andreas Roider (University of Regensburg)
Laufzeit von-bis: 2013 - 2021
Fördereinrichtung: Elitenetzwerk Bayern