Project Details
Projekt
GSC 26: Graduate School of Economic & Social Sciences: Empirical and Quantitative Methods (GESS)
Subject Area
Economics
Psychology
Social Sciences
Psychology
Social Sciences
Term
from 2006 to 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24101130
The graduate school GESS provides graduate training in empirical and quantitative methods and their application to business, economics, and the social sciences. Its mission is to train young academics according to best international practice with a strong focus on excellence in research.
The goal of the GESS is to establish itself as a leading centre of excellence in doctoral training in empirical and quantitative methods in the economic and social sciences.
The GESS is the first of its kind in Germany and is among very few in the world to integrate these disciplines into a coherent curriculum. It is organised into the Center for Doctoral Studies in Business, the Center for Doctoral Studies in Economics, and the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences. The school's premise is that excellence in research can only be achieved through excellence in a given discipline. Therefore, each centre focusses primarily on achieving excellence in research in its own discipline. Teaching and research in the GESS are concentrated in those central building blocks of modern economic and social sciences that are common among the participating disciplines. This enables to create a coherent structure without compromising on quality in specialised research. The school fosters the exchange of ideas across the boundary of disciplines by coordinating graduate curricula and by encouraging students to benefit from advanced teaching in empirical and quantitative methods in neighboring fields.
The graduate programmes are structured such that all students receive a thorough training in empirical and quantitative methods first and can then decide either to continue to work on more methodologically oriented questions or to work on selected empirical applications that build directly on the more methodologically oriented research areas.
The academic environment in Mannheim is ideally suited to give students a broad view and an in-depth understanding of both the economy and society. All three faculties and departments participating in the graduate school are among the best in Germany and are internationally highly recognised. They are imbedded in a wide-ranging set of distinguished international research collaborations. In Mannheim they cooperate with large research institutes, such as the ZEW, MEA, MZES, ZUMA, and the ZI, which participate in the graduate school by contributing doctoral training and research positions.
The goal of the GESS is to establish itself as a leading centre of excellence in doctoral training in empirical and quantitative methods in the economic and social sciences.
The GESS is the first of its kind in Germany and is among very few in the world to integrate these disciplines into a coherent curriculum. It is organised into the Center for Doctoral Studies in Business, the Center for Doctoral Studies in Economics, and the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences. The school's premise is that excellence in research can only be achieved through excellence in a given discipline. Therefore, each centre focusses primarily on achieving excellence in research in its own discipline. Teaching and research in the GESS are concentrated in those central building blocks of modern economic and social sciences that are common among the participating disciplines. This enables to create a coherent structure without compromising on quality in specialised research. The school fosters the exchange of ideas across the boundary of disciplines by coordinating graduate curricula and by encouraging students to benefit from advanced teaching in empirical and quantitative methods in neighboring fields.
The graduate programmes are structured such that all students receive a thorough training in empirical and quantitative methods first and can then decide either to continue to work on more methodologically oriented questions or to work on selected empirical applications that build directly on the more methodologically oriented research areas.
The academic environment in Mannheim is ideally suited to give students a broad view and an in-depth understanding of both the economy and society. All three faculties and departments participating in the graduate school are among the best in Germany and are internationally highly recognised. They are imbedded in a wide-ranging set of distinguished international research collaborations. In Mannheim they cooperate with large research institutes, such as the ZEW, MEA, MZES, ZUMA, and the ZI, which participate in the graduate school by contributing doctoral training and research positions.
DFG Programme
Graduate Schools
Applicant Institution
Universität Mannheim
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Klaus Adam; Professor Dr. Gerard J. van den Berg; Professor Dr. Thomas Bräuninger; Professorin Sabine Carey, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Holger Daske; Professor Dr. Bernhard Ebbinghaus; Professor Dr. Edgar Erdfelder; Professorin Dr. Susanne Goldlücke; Professor Thomas Gschwend, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Armin Heinzl; Professor Dr. Christian Homburg; Professorin Irena Kogan, Ph.D.; Professor Tom Krebs, Ph.D.; Professorin Dr. Sabine Kuester; Professor Dr. Ulrich Lichtenthaler; Professor Dr. Enno Mammen; Professor Dr. Ernst Maug; Professor Dr. Thorsten Meiser; Professor Dr. Volker Nocke; Professor Dr. Dirk Simons; Professorin Dr. Sabine Sonnentag; Professorin Dr. Michèle Tertilt; Professor Dr. Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden; Professorin Dr. Andrea Weber; Professor Dr. Martin Weber
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Stefan Ruenzi, since 2/2019
