Faculty of Economics (Würzburg)

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The Economics Faculty of the Julius Maximilians University is an organizational unit of the Julius Maximilians University. Founded in 1968, around 3,000 students now study at the New University on Sanderring. The Faculty of Business and Economics represents around 10% of the students at the University of Würzburg.

history

The Economics Faculty of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg has been an independent unit since 1968 and is therefore a comparatively young part of the university. On August 1, 1968, the economics and social sciences separated from the law faculty law and political sciences and became an independent faculty of the university. The Faculty of Business and Economics is mainly housed in the New University on Sanderring. Around 3000 students in the bachelor's and master’s degree courses study at the 18 chairs, four junior professorships and one endowed chair in business administration and economics.

Associate professors of the law faculty:

Education

New University foyer
New University foyer

At the Economics Faculty of the University of Würzburg, the bachelor's degree programs (180 ECTS, 1 major):

  • Economics
  • business Informatics
  • Business Mathematics

offered. The desired degree is the Bachelor of Science. Economics can also be taken as a minor (120 ECTS).

The following courses are offered in the master’s program:

  • Business management
  • International Economic Policy
  • business Informatics
  • Business Mathematics
  • China Business and Economics

Teaching

Business Institute (BWL):

  • Chair for Business Administration and Marketing - Margit Meyer
  • Chair of Business Administration and Industrial Management - Ronald Bogaschewsky
  • Chair of Business Administration, Auditing and Consulting - Hansrudi Lenz
  • Chair of Business Administration and Corporate Finance - Daniela Lorenz
  • Chair for Business Administration and Business Taxation - Dirk Kiesewetter
  • Chair for Business Administration and Information Systems - Axel Winkelmann & Senior Professor Rainer Thome
  • Chair for Business Administration, Human Resources and Organization - Thomas Zwick
  • Chair of Business Administration, Business Creation and Management - Sascha Walter
  • Chair for Business Administration, Controlling and Internal Accounting - Andrea Szczesny
  • Chair of Information Systems and Systems Development - Frédéric Thiesse
  • Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods in Business Administration - Richard Pibernik
  • Chair of Information Systems and Information Management - Christoph M. Flath
  • Junior Professorship for Information Management Christian Janiesch

Economics Institute (VWL):

  • Chair for Economics, Money and International Economic Relations - Peter Bofinger
  • Chair for Economics - International Economics - Michael Pflüger
  • Chair of Economics, especially Industrial Economics - Toker Doganoglu
  • Chair for Economics, in particular Economic System and Social Policy - Norbert Berthold
  • Chair of Public Finance - Hans Fehr
  • Chair of Econometrics - Martin Kukuk
  • Chair for Economics, Contract and Information Economics - Daniel Müller
  • Professorship for Business Journalism - Kim Otto
  • Junior Professorship for Empirical Regional and Foreign Trade Research - Wolfgang Dauth
  • Junior Professorship for Competition Policy - Xingyi Liu
  • Empirical Economic Research Working Group - Eric Mayer

research

The Faculty of Business and Economics pursues independent, cooperative research.

Research Center Risk Management (FZRM)

The Risk Management Research Center deals with basic and application-oriented research in the area of ​​integrated opportunity and risk management. Cooperation with companies and organizations is sought in various projects. This is intended to both advance research and improve teaching through current content.

Furthermore, the FZRM is a recognized training provider for public institutions.

Center for Regional Research (ZfR)

The Center for Regional Research cooperates primarily with municipal partners in the field of rural development. The research sheds light on the effects of social developments on rural areas v. a. in Lower Franconia.

Research and teaching are networked within the framework of student project seminars.

Furthermore, there are other collaborations u. a. with the Bertelsmann Foundation.

Research projects of the chairs

In addition to the research groups, each chair has its own research topics. The following projects are exemplary:

  • Peter Bofinger , Chair of Economics, Money and International Economic Relations:

As a member (since 2004) of the Federal Government's Advisory Council, Bofinger mainly researches European monetary policy. Its findings flow into the annual reports of the council, in which it describes the economic development and illuminates current economic policy issues. In addition, the Expert Council prepares special reports and expert reports on selected topics.

  • Ronald Bogaschewsky, Chair for Business Administration and Industrial Management:

The chair researches the sustainability of shopping behavior in public institutions.

  • Richard Pibernik , Chair for Logistics and Quantitative Methods in Business Administration:

The chair has developed an ordering system for the resource coordination of drug procurement in developing countries and thus supports aid organizations.

  • Dirk Kiesewetter, Chair of Business Administration and Management:

The chair published a report on old-age poverty and company pension, which was presented to the federal government in 2016. In it he comes to the conclusion that there is still a lot of room for maneuver in small companies.

International cooperation

In addition to the European Erasmus program, the economics faculty has opened up its own network of universities and colleges around the world. This network is open to students to expand their academic and personal horizons during a semester abroad.

Conversely, it offers foreign students the opportunity to get to know the German educational landscape. This provides the basis for international collaboration in teaching and research.

Personalities

  • Georg von Schanz was appointed full professor in Würzburg in 1882 and founded the journal Finanzarchiv in the same year. From 1895 to 1911 he was the director of the university and in 1930 the dean of the then law and political science faculty of the University of Würzburg. Among other things, he received the Knight's Cross of the Bavarian Crown.
  • Günter Wöhe studied economics at the University of Würzburg in 1948 and received his doctorate in economics in 1954 on the subject of "Basic methodological problems in business administration". In 1960 his book “Introduction to General Business Administration” appears, which is still considered to be the basic literature in business administration. From 1960 to 1992 he taught at Saarland University.
  • Hans Ruchti was a full professor at the University of Würzburg from 1953 to 1971 . He became known through the Lohmann-Ruchti effect, which he described together with Martin Lohmann. The Lohmann-Ruchti effect describes the effect of consumption-related depreciation as a source of reinvestment for property, plant and equipment.
  • From 1955 Otmar Issing studied economics at the University of Würzburg. In 1962 he received his doctorate on the subject of "Monetary Problems of Economic Policy in the EEC". In 1973 he taught at the chair for economics, money and international economic relations at the University of Würzburg. From 1987 to 1990 he was a member of the Kroneberger Kreis and from 1988 to 1990 in the Advisory Council of the Federal Government. In 1990 he was appointed chief economist at the Deutsche Bundesbank. 1998–2006 Issing was on the board of directors of the European Central Bank. The honorary professor at the University of Würzburg has been since 1991.
  • Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut is doing her doctorate in 2001 at the University of Würzburg on the subject of “Business analysis in medium-sized industrial companies. Concepts - Methods - Instruments ”. She is currently the State Minister for Economics, Labor and Housing under Winfried Kretschmann in Baden-Württemberg.
  • Volker Wieland (born February 3, 1966 in Aalen) is Professor of Monetary Economics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and has been a member of the Advisory Council for the assessment of macroeconomic development since March 2013. Wieland studied economics at the University of Würzburg until he completed his intermediate diploma, before moving to the State University of New York at Albany.

Honorary doctorates from the faculty

Sources and literature

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