The subject of Economics is divided into the following centres:

• Münster Center for Economic Policy (MEP)

  The Münster Center for Economic Policy (MEP) was founded in 2002 as the Center for Applied Research in Economics. The MEP’s research projects cover a broad range of economics issues, focusing on traffic and regional economics, housing economics, cooperative management, finance, energy economics as well as the economic situation and the labour market. Within the scope of extensive research funded by third parties, the MEP continuously provides theoretically and empirically sound analyses for ministries, enterprises, foundations and associations. In addition, the professors and staff of the MEP are strongly committed to teaching in the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree courses, and they offer their students events that follow the highest teaching standards and that implement innovative teaching methods.

  Institute of Cooperative Research (Prof. Dr. Theurl)
  Institute of Transport Economics (Prof. Dr. Sieg)
  Institute for Public and Regional Economics (Prof. Dr. Riedel)
  Chair of sustainable Market Design (Prof. Gretschko)
  Institute of Public Economics (Prof. Dr. Becker)
  Institute of Public Economics II (Prof. Dr. Prinz)
  Chair of Innovation Economics and Entrepreneurship (Prof. Dr. Watzinger)
  Professor for Behavioral and Digital Economics (Prof. Dr. Dertwinkel-Kalt)
  Assistant Professor of Economics, esp. Regulatory Economics and Industrial Organization (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Klein)

• Center for Quantitative Economics (CQE)

  The Center for Quantitative Economics (CQE) was founded in 2008. The research of the CQE members focuses on a large variety of theoretical and quantitative problems from economics. These include, among others, the areas of “international economic relations”, “monetary economics”, “theory and empiricism of international financial markets” and the development of econometric methods for financial markets. At the CQE, research has an international orientation and is aimed at publication in renowned academic journals. The CQE’s professors also convey international research standards in teaching. Thus, the students receive a high quality scientific education which includes all aspects of modern economics.

  Chair of Monetary Economics (Prof. Dr. Bohl)
  Insitute of International Economics (Prof. Dr. Kempa)
  Institute for Economic and Social History (Prof. Dr. Pfister)
  Institute of Econometrics and Economic Statistics (Prof. Dr. Trede)
  Chair of Empirical Economics (Prof. Dr. Wilfling)