Master of Science in International Economics and Public Policy

The Master's in International Economics and Public Policy (MIEPP) is a two-year Master’s programme. It focuses on how the global environment shapes decisions of individuals, firms, and policy institutions. It has an international outreach in terms of contents, structure, and student body. It fosters the application of economic know-how to questions emerging in economic policy and business. It encourages an interdisciplinary approach, reaching out to other social sciences. It conveys up-to-date economic theories as well as methods in statistics and data science. It encourages students to critically discuss modern academic literature. MIEPP students come from all over the world. This fosters students’ intercultural competence. The MIEPP faculty is actively and visibly engaged in academic and public discussions. The programme structure promotes a close interaction between faculty members and students. The campus at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz offers excellent research and teaching facilities as well as a diverse and lively study environment. The Master's in International Economics and Public Policy (MIEPP) has three components: mandatory core modules, elective modules, and the Master’s thesis, combined with a presentation (“research colloquium”). Students who enter the programme in the winter semester start by attending the core modules, which review and deepen basic concepts in international trade, development economics, public economics, and macroeconomics. In the second and third semesters, students choose elective modules from a wide range of subjects. Students who enter the programme in the summer semester start with elective modules in their first semester and attend the core modules in the second semester. The final semester is dedicated to the Master’s thesis and the research colloquium. In this phase, students demonstrate their ability to analyse a specific research question in depth and to communicate their results. PDF Download