Offer Master in English, Winter Term Audit Service & Fraud Investigations Master Business Administration Comming soon Type of During the event, various testing services (in particular, special) are presented. Students deepen their understanding of the theoretical function of auditing and the auditing methods of practice (Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigations). To this end, participants will become familiar with agency and game theoretical modeling to capture the events and problem areas in the context of the special. Business Succession Management Master Business Administration Comming soon Type of Management of Family Business, management succession solutions, solving problems of succession (asymmetric information, Altruism, principal-agent situation, evaluation, etc.) Type of Introduction to Electronic Business Master Business Administration Basics of Internet economy; segments of e-business, electronic markets, and virtual marketplaces (foundations and structures, disintermediation and re-intermediation transactions); E-procurement business models (basic, examples of business-to-business market places); basic knowledge of the transaction cost theory, transmitting the transaction cost theoretical framework to electronically-assisted transactions of e-business and e-commerce, media competence and acceptance https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77351&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) & Intership : 5 ECTS Historical Overview of learning technologies; overview and introduction to the underlying theories of learning (behaviorism, cognitivism, socio-cultural and community oriented learning theories), introduction to e-learning concepts, introduction to concepts of authors and intelligent learning systems; presentation of selected constructionist learning software, introduction to evaluation methodologies of learning systems, basis for design of CSCL platforms; case studies on the use of CSCL platforms, presentation of special aspects of current research in CSCL
Offer Master in English, Winter Term Type of Industrial and Organizational Psychology : 2 ECTS Systematics of the subject experience and behavior in organizations; Taylorism, psychoanalysis technology, ergonomics; Human Relations, group work, DAY, QZ; New forms of work, action regulation; Job analysis and job design; Work and Health, GFA https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77619&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Integration of Organization and Technology Development Coming soon Type of & Internship 5 ECTS tbc Type of International Human Resources Management Special issues in trade- and monetary policy; Regional integration; Fiscal competition; Problems in international capital movements. Type of Service-oriented Architecture an Business Process Management tbc Modeling and implementing business processes is one of the key issues in an enterprises IT. The concepts of Serviceoriented Architectures (SOA) are currently assessed as the most promising approach to assure qualities like flexibility and agility in the support and management of business processes. This lecture gives an overview and introduction to fundamental issues from SOA and Business Process Management. Goal is to provide concepts for bridging the gap between "real life" business processes and their models (e.g. using Business Process Management Notation, Business Process Execution Language) and the actual application systems. Hence, practices focus on modeling and implementing services using Web Service technology and an Open Source SOA stack. https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=78234&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil
Offer Master in English, Winter Term Type of Advanced Mathematics for Business & Economics Optimization, constrained optimization; Envelope-theorem, implicit function theorem, comparative statics; Difference equations, differential equations; Dynamic optimization; Linearization of dynamic systems https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77332&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of Advanced Public Economics The course covers selected topics in the economics of the public sector. Public economics analyzes the impact of public policy on the allocation of resources and the distribution of income and wealth in the economy. We study various market failures as a justified cation for public action, and analyze how government policies can improve market outcomes. Finally we address the lancing side of government and consider key issues in tax policy. https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=76860&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of Development Economics The course aims at providing students with a basic understanding of the major development problems in the non-developed world and which instruments are discussed to solve these problems. The course hence focuses on the analysis of underdeveloped, developing and transition economies. A major topic is understanding underdevelopment and poverty, and how a positive economic development in these regions of the world might be generated, respectively which conditions may increase the probability of a successful development. Given the huge diversity of the problems and aspects, the lecture can only serve as an introduction to selected major topics in development economics. https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77536&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of Dynamic Macroeconomics Solution of stochastic difference and differential equations; Methods of dynamic optimization; Growth: Brock-Mirman model; growth in multi-sector-models; endogenous growth; Business cycle theory: Real business cycle theory, New neoclassical synthesis; new-keynesian models. https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77818&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil
Offer Master in English, Winter Term Type of Econometrics The econometrics lecture introduces the basics of empirical research in economics, with a special focus on the fundamental econometrics tool kit. You will learn the basic issues and methods in econometrics. Though the course can only perform an introductory course in econometrics, the aim of the course is that you will be in a position to understand and evaluate empirical research papers applying standard basic methods. We will apply the methods in practical tutorials with statistics software, so that you will be able to perform own empirical research projects, for instance, your master thesis. https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77490&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of Economic Growth Purpose and Methods, Regularity and Balance, Stability and Convergence; Old and New Growth Theory, The Neoclassical Theory, The AK Model, The Jones Modell, Accumulation of Human Capital and Growth, Product Differentiation and Growth, Change and Innovation within the meaning of Schumpeter, Political Economy and Growth, International Economic Relations and Growth, Environment and Growth https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77640&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of Economics of Information Types of Asymmetric Information Problems; The Base Model, Introduction, of the Model, Symmetric Information Contracts; Moral Hazard, Introduction, The Moral Hazard Problem, Some Comments on Simple Moral Hazard Models, Applications; Adverse Selection, Introduction, A Model of Adverse Selection, When Principals Compete for Agents, Applications; Signalling, Introduction, The Value of Private Information, Signalling, Applications https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=76842&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of Financial Markets and Regulation Microeconomic theory of banking; Asymmetric information model, structural weaknesses; Banking at a graduate level in economics and finance. https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77644&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil
Offer Master in English, Winter Term Type of Industrial Economics The IO paradigm, Consumer and producer surplus, Welfare; Oligopoly markets: Non Cooperative behavior, Cournotoligopoly, Bertrand duopoly, Welfare effects, Evidence; Oligopoly markets: Collusion, Non-cooperative collusion, welfare effects, Enforcement; Product Differentiation and Monopolistic Competition, Differentiated Products, The Representative Consumer Model, Hotelling's Location Model, Welfare Effects; Industry Structure and Performance, Structure-Conduct- Performance, Measuring Performance, Article 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty; Price Discrimination; Incentives and Conditions for Price Discrimination; Types of Price Discrimination; Welfare Effects; Information, Limited Information about Quality, Limited Information about Price; Market integration in the European Union, Market integration in theory, Market integration in practice, State aid and state aid policy https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77641&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of International Accounting/ International Accounting and Finance 9 ECTS This course provides comprehensive coverage of international accounting matters which students need for professional purposes. It includes up-to-date texts and vocabulary from the main areas of international accounting such as standardsetting and accounting principles, annual reports, financial statements and types of assets/liabilities. Furthermore, the course provides a variety of carefully structured exercises where students are encouraged to apply the language actively through case studies and group work. In addition, current CNN International Business TV News clips will be screened on a regular base in order to provide further opportunity for discussion. An introduction to the key components of the 'International Certificate of Financial English' (ICFE) by University of Cambridge will also be an essential part of the course. The cost-free Cambridge ICFE Pretest can be taken towards the end of the course upon request, original test papers will be ordered from Cambridge University, test correction and results also to be delivered by University of Cambridge. https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77379&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of International Accounting/ International Accounting and Finance 9 ECTS This course provides comprehensive coverage of international accounting matters which students need for professional purposes. It includes up-to-date texts and vocabulary from the main areas of international accounting such as standardsetting and accounting principles, annual reports, financial statements and types of assets/liabilities. Furthermore, the course provides a variety of carefully structured exercises where students are encouraged to apply the language actively through case studies and group work. In addition, current CNN International Business TV News clips will be screened on a regular base in order to provide further opportunity for discussion. An introduction to the key components of the 'International Certificate of Financial English' (ICFE) by University of Cambridge will also be an essential part of the course. The cost-free Cambridge ICFE Pretest can be taken towards the end of the course upon request, original test papers will be ordered from Cambridge University, test correction and results also to be delivered by University of Cambridge. https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77379&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of International Economic Policy Special issues in trade- and monetary policy; Regional integration; Fiscal competition; Problems in international capital movements. https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77539&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil
Offer Master in English, Winter Term Type of International Macroeconomics Foreign trade, trade policy and market structure; Foreign direct investments, international production and globalization; Nominal exchange rate determination: Mundell-Fleming model, monetary model, portfolio model, Dornbusch overshooting model, Obstfeld-Rogoff redux-model; Intertemporal approach to the current account; Exchange rate regimes and monetary integration; Currency crises. https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77740&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of International Trade Foreign trade, trade policy and market structure; Foreign direct investments, international production and globalization; Nominal exchange rate determination: Mundell-Fleming model, monetary model, portfolio model, Dornbusch overshooting model, Obstfeld-Rogoff redux-model; Intertemporal approach to the current account; Exchange rate regimes and monetary integration; Currency crises. https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77534&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of European Competition Policy Competition policy and economic policy theory; Workable competition; Competition policy concepts; Implementation; State aids and competition in the EU; Strategic alliances and competition in the European Union https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=76971&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of German Economic Constitution and European Integration The Basic Law and the question of German economic system, European integration: objectives, past performance and impact on the economic order; guarantee of freedom and economic aspects (German and European) Fundamental rights: Systematics and interpretation, constitutional and European law requirements for the central institutions of an economic system (companies, markets) and their social "advance" (family, education); application fields (in freedom of legal and institutional economics perspective): corporate and labor law firm "constitutional" labor market "constitutional" money "constitutional", etc. https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=77727&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil
Offer Master in English, Winter Term Type of International Economic Order and International Economic Law Economic order, international economic law and international economic law, international law principles of international economic law, legal sources of international economic law, basic principles of international economic law, international trade law, in particular WTO law; development of the GATT system, dispute resolution in international business law https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=80785&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of Private International Law and CISG Special features of the legal status of international issues in private law; General doctrines of private international law (well), international contract law (well), private international law the legal obligations (well), International Property Law (specialization) The international jurisdiction (well), The genesis of CISG, the applicability of the CISG, the contract in the CISG; Terms and CISG, in performance in the CISG https://lsf.zv.unisiegen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=76813&modulecall=webinfo&publishconffil Type of Regulatory Law I Definition of infrastructure regulation of other types of market and economic regulation; vs. State interest. Regulatory state, and the necessity of regulation for natural monopolies in infrastructure, legal sources of regulatory law; intersection of the regulatory law with other areas of law, especially the administrative and antitrust law, regulation methods, relevance and general antitrust conditions of the Third Party Access Type of Regulatory Law II Liberalization processes in the energy, telecommunications, railway and postal sectors; conditions for third party access in the energy, telecommunications, and railway sectors; regulation of network costs for natural monopolies with special reference to differences of electricity and gas; requirements of the individual in the sectors applied Regulatory and congestion management methods, trends in case law relating to price regulation with regard to 315 BGB; opportunities uniform European regulation, as the ACER