Doctoral Course Program

The goal of this course is to present and discuss current state-of-the-art research in finance. Therefore, renowned researchers from various European universities will present their latest research in the fields of asset pricing, corporate finance, and financial intermediation. Extensive discussion in class is encouraged. Thereby, students will learn to know and discuss critically current topics in finance. They will also learn more about state-of-the-art research methodologies.

The target audience are doctoral candidates and post-docs in finance. A requisite for participation is a specialization in finance and/or accounting.

Syllabus: Advanced Topics in Finance Research (Methods/Theory)

Registration: Please send an email to aida.cehajic@tum.de by October 10, 2023. In your email, please state your department and specify the topic and state of your dissertation or research area (post-docs).
Strict preference will be given to individuals with a specialization in finance and/or accounting.

Lecturer: Dr. Aida Cehajic (TUM)

Course dates: See https://www.fa.mgt.tum.de/fm/research-seminar/

Location: The course will mainly take place at TUM Campus Munich.

The goal of the seminar is to foster a vibrant academic environment where doctoral candidates engage in stimulating discussions with peers and senior researchers (professors) that would help advancing their research. Focused on the advances in energy economics, the seminar is designed for doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers with an interest in related fields..

Syllabus: Advances in Energy Economics

Registration: To register for the course please email cem@wi.tum.de by Sep 15th, 2023. Spaces limited to 10 participants.

Lecturer: Prof. Svetlana Ikonnikova (TUM) & Prof. Sebastian Schwennen (TUM)

Course dates: From Oct 15 2023 to Mar 2024 (14 sessions, 2 SWS)

Location: The course will mainly take place at TUM Campus Munich.

This course is designed to help (in particular) junior scholars in the field of management gain exposure and experience with techniques on the written communication of academic work, specifically, how to write interesting and important introductions. The course requires reading and the discussion of readings, but it is fundamentally a “learning-by-doing” course. I hope to have you undergo an iterative process where you a) communicate your research, b) receive feedback, c) revise your communication, and then cycle through this process again in your own journey. The goal of this course is to start you on the path of being a great communicator of your research and increase the odds of publishing in a top journal. Here, top journal implies primarily the “Top 6” (AMJ, AMR, ASQ, ManSci, OrgSci, SMJ), the leading journals in other disciplines (e.g., AJS, ASR, MISQ, Nature, Science…), and also, though to a lesser degree, top field journals that are often part of the “FT 50” – a list of 50 strong management journals listed by the Financial Times. The central question for publishing in these top journals is, usually, how can I make a “theoretical contribution?” Therefore, this course aims to help you clarify your core ideas and craft the introduction so that you articulate the contribution.

Syllabus: Communicating Management Research: (Re)writing Introductions

Registration: Please sign up for the course via email to amy.zhaoding@tum.de by January 9, 2024, with your up-to-date academic resume and and the full manuscript you wish to discuss during the course. Your paper needs to be empirical. Also email me if you have any questions regarding the course.

Lecturer: Prof. Amy Zhao-Ding, Ph.D. (TUM)

Course dates: 

All courses take place online, from 9:30am-5:45pm (changes subject to the number of students enrolled). Below are the dates and topics for the sessions, please see “Course Outline” for details on each session’s content and required preparations.

31.01.2024 - What makes good theory? The clarification of ideas
02.02.2024 - How to make a contribution? The craft of introduction: I
07.02.2024 - How to make a contribution? The craft of introduction: II

Location: online

The doctoral course in Contemporary Topics in Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise provides an overview of the broad research field of entrepreneurship and family enterprises, and gives insights into a selected number of contemporary topics. The seminar is targeted at doctoral students, who intend to strengthen their theoretical knowledge in topics related to entrepreneurship and family enterprises.

Syllabus: Contemporary Topics in Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise Research

Registration: Since the seminar is very interactive in nature, it is limited to 15 participants. If you are interested in the seminar, send a short letter of motivation and CV until February 24, 2024 to office.gcfe@wi.tum.de

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Miriam Bird (TUM)

Course dates:

Day 1: Monday, March 11, 2024 - over Zoom
Day 2: Monday, March 18, 2024 - onsite TUM Campus Heilbronn
Day 3: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - onsite TUM Campus Heilbronn
Day 4: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - onsite TUM Campus Heilbronn
Day 4: Monday, April 22, 2024 (Zoom Meetings) (08:30-17:00) - over Zoom
 

Location: The course will mainly take place at TUM Campus Heilbronn and via Zoom.

We will begin with the foundational issues in strategy and see how the field made substantial progress by relaxing and addressing head-on a number of restrictive assumptions in mainstream economics about information, decision-making, and behavior in organizations. We will start with the early progress made by using the theories and approaches of industrial organizational economics, in addition to a number of very important (and controversial) insights that strategic management provided. We will cover a family of theories that make up so-called “organizational economics” that address key questions related to the organizational and geographic scope of the firm, and we will cover a series of competence-based, evolutionary, and learning perspectives on competitive advantage and firm dynamics. Finally, some attention will also be given to theories that are newer and have been used less often in different streams of strategy research but hold considerable promise, including information economics and real options theory. By design and necessity, breadth will be prioritized over depth, but by the end of the course you will have familiarity with a considerable body of theoretical material that has provided the bedrock for strategic management research over the past few decades. Equally important to you, all of the theories we will cover are topical and provide the basis for scholars’ research programs today.

Syllabus: Doctoral Seminar on Strategic Management (I): Theoretical Foundations of Strategy

Registration: Please register for the course via self-registration in Moodle (https://www.moodle.tum.de/course/view.php?id=95847)

Lecturer: Professor Jeffrey J. Reuer, PhD (University of Colorado)

Course dates:

Theoretical Foundations of Strategy (week of March 4, 2024)
1. Foundational Issues in Strategy (Monday, March 4, 09:00-12:30)
2. Industrial Organization Economics (Tuesday, March 5, 09:00-12:30)
3. Resource-Based View (Wednesday, March 6, 09:00-13:00)
4. Knowledge-Based View and Dynamic Capabilities (Wednesday, March 6, 09:00-13:00)
5. Transaction Cost Economics (Thursday, March 7, 09:00-12:30)
6. Information Economics (Thursday, March 7, 13:30-16:30)
7. Real Options Theory (Friday, March 8, 09:00-12:30)

Location: The course will mainly take place at TUM Campus Munich.

This doctoral course aims at giving doctoral students at the School of Management an overview of the essentials quantitative methods. We will not focus on the econometrics, but aim at developing the students’ understanding of what the methods are all about and how they work in practice.

Syllabus: Econometrics I: Research Design and Estimation Methods

Registration: Apply via Email to the instructor until December 20^th 2023.

Lecturer: Prof. Hanna Hottenrott (TUM)

Course dates: 09.01.2024, 10.01.2024, 11.01.2024, 17.01.2024 and 18.01.2024

The first session in a day will start at approx. 9am and last to about noon, after a short lunch break it will continue from about 1pm to 2:30pm. The second session in a day will last from 2:45pm to about 4pm.

Location: The course will mainly take place at TUM Campus Munich.

The course is part of a series of econometrics courses at TUM School of Management that also comprises “Econometrics I: Research Design and Estimation Methods” by Prof. Dr. Hanna Hottenrott and “Econometrics II: Causal Inference” by Prof. Dr. Joachim Henkel.

The course covers a selection of state-of-the-art methods in econometrics. It aims to provide students with a sound understanding of the methods discussed, such that they are able to do research using modern econometric techniques, as well as critically assess existing studies.

In particular, the course will cover the following topics:

• Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) Estimation
• Potential Outcomes and Treatment Effects
• Panel Data Estimation
• Regression Shrinkage Methods (Ridge, Lasso, Elastic Net)
• Advanced Identification Strategies (e.g. Double Machine Learning and Causal Forests)

In the morning, we will briefly discuss the econometric methods (including some applications to illustrate them). Students will then apply these methods and will replicate recent research papers in economics. 
I will also assign a (replication) project to each student. You can also come up with an own application and/or dataset you are interested in.

Syllabus: Econometrics III: Advanced Econometrics & Statistical Learning

Registration: Until end of February, via email.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Helmut Farbmacher (TUM)

Course dates: March 11-15, 2024 (10am to 5pm, room 2544)

Location: The course will mainly take place at TUM Campus Munich (room 2544).

Knowledge Objectives

• Students will have a good understanding of academic writing and the structure of the different chapters in a scientific paper.
• Students will know efficient publication strategies

Skills Objectives

• Students will have improved their skills in research as well as in writing their dissertations or papers.
• Students will have a solid draft of one of their dissertation paper.
• Students will have utilized the processes of revision by positive, constructive peer reviews of the documents by fellow students on their writing and by revising their documents.

Learning Objectives

• Students will have learned about how to start and finish writing a scientific paper in the context of writing a Ph.D. thesis.
• Students will have identified standard elements of research papers and used this knowledge to work on their dissertations or papers.

Syllabus: Efficient Academic Writing for Empirical Research

Registration: Please apply until 31st January 2024 to Theresa Treffers, theresa.treffers@tum.de, via email containing:

• Your CV with contact information and chair of your dissertation
• Dissertation topic (1 sentence)
• Problem statement (3 sentences)
• Data description (3 sentences)
• Target journal (possibly call for papers) and/or conference with deadline

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (TUM), Dr. Theresa Treffers (TUM), Nadja Born (TUM)

Course dates: 12.03.2024, 08.04.2024, 09.04.2024, 16.04.2024 - 02.07.2024 (every Tuesday)

Location: Campus Munich for one session, all other sessions are online

The seminar mainly targets doctoral students from the TUM School of Management (including Munich, Garching, Weihenstephan, Straubing, and Heilbronn) with a special focus on entrepreneurship. Doctoral students from other TUM schools and universities interested in entrepreneurship for sustainable development are also welcome. Due to its interactive nature, the seminar is limited to 15 participants.

Syllabus: Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development

Registration: If you are interested in the seminar, please send a short letter of motivation and CV as one pdf file to Prof. Dr. Frank-Martin Belz (frank.belz@tum.de), Prof. Dr. Claudia Doblinger (claudia.doblinger@tum.de) and Prof. Siddharth Vedula Ph.D. (siddharth.vedula@tum.de) by 31 October 2023.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank-Martin Belz (TUM), Prof. Dr. Claudia Doblinger (TUM) & Prof. Siddharth Vedula, PhD. (TUM)

Course dates: 

Session 1: Introduction to Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development
Main facilitators: Frank-Martin Belz, Claudia Doblinger, Siddharth Vedula
Date and location: Monday, 4 December 2023 (9:15-12:45), TUM main campus in Munich

Session 2: Governmental Policy and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development
Main facilitator: Claudia Doblinger
Date and location: Monday, 4 December 2023 (13:45-17:45), TUM main campus in Munich

Session 3: Communities and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development
Main facilitator: Siddharth Vedula
Date and location: Tuesday, 5 December 2023 (9:15-12:45), TUM main campus in Munich

Session 4: Process of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Main facilitator: Frank-Martin Belz
Date and location: Tuesday, 5 December 2023 (13:45-17:45), TUM main campus in Munich

Session 5: Impacts of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Main facilitator: Frank-Martin Belz
Date and location: Wednesday, 6 December 2023 (9:15-13:00), TUM main campus in Munich

Session 6: Future Research - Presentation and Discussion of Paper Proposals
Main facilitators: Frank-Martin Belz, Claudia Doblinger, Siddharth Vedula
Date and location: Friday, 8 December 2023 (9:15-13:00), TUM main campus in Munich

Location: The course will mainly take place at TUM Campus Munich.

This course aims to provide doctoral canidates at the School of Management with a practical introduction to conducting field experiments, with a particular focus on field experiments in economics.

Syllabus: Field Experiments: Start to Finish

Registration: Doctoral candidates send an email to Prof. Lergetporer philipp.lergetporer@tum.de 

Lecturer: Prof. Philipp Lergetporer, PhD

Course dates: Each day (09.10.2023-13.10.2023), the lecture starts at 9 am and ends at 4 pm. There will be a lunch break and coffee breaks.

Location: The course will mainly take place at TUM Campus Heilbronn.

The course is offered for doctoral candidates and post-docs at TUM, who conduct research in the field of business, economics, psychology, political science, sociology, or adjacent fields. Participants of other universities can be accepted for the course if capacity permits.

Each participant requires a working paper for participation, which will be peer-reviewed by another course participant.

FAQ: Which paper should I submit for the course?

• You should be interested in developing your paper. This is given if your paper is part of you dissertation, or if you intend to publish it in a scientific journal or in the proceedings of a conference.
• All types of papers are welcome – including literature reviews, theoretical papers, and empirical papers.
• It is not necessary to submit a fully complete paper. Nevertheless, it must be at least 5,000 words long. Empirical papers must at least report some (early) findings.
• There are no formatting requirements for the working paper.
• It is not possible to submit your paper after the first course day. This is because your paper will be distributed on the first course day for peer-review.

Syllabus: Mastering the Review Process: Writing and Responding to Peer-Reviews

Registration: Application deadline: October 6, 2023

• Please send an e-mail to the above email address with a registration request that (1) includes your name, (2) the title of your paper (see Assessment), and (3) your TUM-eMail-Address.
• No late enrollment: Registration after the deadline is not possible.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jens Förderer (TUM)

Course dates: Course will be held online-only via Zoom. Login details will be distributed after registration.
06.10.2023, 23:59:59: Registration deadline
12.10.2023, 09:00-16:00: Presentation by instructor
30.11.2023, 09:00-16:30: Presentation day 1
01.12.2023, 09:00-16:30: Presentation day 2

Location: The course will take place online.

The course is intended for doctoral candidates in Strategic Management, International Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. The goal is to develop ideas and working manuscripts with the aim of later submission for review in top management journals.

Syllabus: Paper and Proposal Development in Strategic Management: Meet the Editors at HEC Paris

Registration: The application process will take place on the TUM online platform. Participation is by application only. Interested scholars should register and submit an extended abstract (between 5 and 10 pages of text) of their project proposal to chengguang.li@tum.de. Submitted abstracts should describe the project, the intended theoretical contribution, the research design, the empirical approach, and the status of the project idea to date. Please note that submission of an abstract does not guarantee acceptance. The quality of the proposal will be taken into consideration.

Lecturer: Prof. Chengguang Li (TUM) and Prof. Joachim Henkel (TUM)

Course dates: The course will start on the 16 October 2023. It will end with a roundtable discussion at the HEC in Paris 08./09. November 2023.

Location: HEC in Paris

This course gives doctoral students an introduction to the psychological theories and concepts that have been most influential for management research and practice. At the end of the course, participants will be familiar with the key concepts, respective empirical findings, and their application to management practice. To this end, each participant will be asked to present in class recent research pertaining to the theory s/he chooses, and to conduct an interactive exercise to facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of the theory's relevance for management research and practice.

Syllabus: Psychological Theories

Registration: By email to martin.fladerer@tum.de (Dr. Martin Fladerer) until December 1, 2023. Participants will be admitted on a first come, first served basis.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Claudia Peus (TUM) and Dr. Martin Fladerer (TUM)

Course dates: Course will be held in person at the TUM main campus in Munich (Arcisstr. 21, Building 0505, Room Z577) – except for the Group Feedback, which is online.

Friday, 15 December 2023, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm

Friday, 9 February 2024, 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm, online (Group Feedback)

Thursday, 22 February 2024, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm (Presentation Day 1)

Friday, 23 February 2024, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm (Presentation Day 2)

Location: Campus Munich, room Z577

Qualitative research has become an established method of inquiry in human and social sciences, including management and related fields. Qualitative papers are published in leading management journals (e.g. Academy of Management Journal). In this seminar, you will learn about: the notion of methodological fit; ontological and epistemological assumptions; qualitative research designs; research methods for qualitative data collection; and research methods for qualitative data analysis.

Syllabus: Qualitative Research

Registration: Since the doctoral seminar is interactive, it is limited to 15 participants. If you are interested, send a short letter of motivation and CV to Prof. Dr. Frank-Martin Belz by 26 November 2023 (email: frank.belz@tum.de). 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank-Martin Belz (TUM)

Course dates: 15.01.2024, 16.01.2024, 17.01.2024, 19.01.2024

Location: Campus Munich

The doctoral seminar will be held in person at the TUM School of Management in Munich (seminar room to be assigned). Note that is required to read all papers before class to allow group work and in-depth discussions.

Doctoral candidates in accounting will be familiarized with recent research in empirical financial and sustainability accounting.

It is a readings course in which we critically discuss recent working papers or published papers in empirical financial and sustainability accounting.

Syllabus: Readings in Empirical Accounting Research

Registration: Please write an e-mail to Mario.keiling@tum.de by October 9th, 2023 at the latest.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ernstberger (TUM)

Course dates: The kick-off meeting is on October, 17^th at 4 p.m. This first session provides an overview of important criteria for assessing the quality of empirical accounting research papers. In the following sessions, we discuss overview papers, seminal papers on specific topics, or state-of-the-art papers. Students can make suggestions for suitable papers which are related to their dissertation topics. In the following sessions, we discuss current working papers which are presented in research seminars, and we participate in these seminars to learn how to present and discuss a paper.

Location: Campus Munich, room 3546 + excursions

This seminar is open for all doctoral candidates at TUM School of Management who are interested in learning more about how to read, analyze, comprehend, and evaluate published studies systematically.

Syllabus: Seminal Research in Operations and Supply Chain Management

Registration: Please write an email to michela.carraro@tum.de until 15 October

Lecturer: Michela Carraro (TUM)

Course dates: The course will be held hybrid. The preliminary course dates for the WS 23/24 are

Thursday, 26 October 2023, 9.00 am to 6.00 pm
Thursday, 2 November 2023, 9.00 am to 6.00 pm
Thursday, 9 November 2023, 9.00 am to 6.00 pm
Thursday, 16 November 2023, 9.00 am to 6.00 pm
Thursday, 23 November 2023, 9.00 am to 6.00 pm
Thursday, 30 November 2023, 9.00 am to 6.00 pm
Thursday, 7 December 2023, 9.00 am to 6.00 pm

The course is offered for doctoral candidates and post-docs at TUM. Participants of any research field are welcome.

Participants of other universities are accepted only if capacity permits.
 

Syllabus: Web Scraping for Scientists: An Introduction with Python

Registration: Please send an email to the above stated address with a registration request that includes your name (see below) and your TUM eMail-address. Please do not sign up using your private email address.

Registration deadline: 12.10.2023

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jens Förderer (TUM)

Course dates: Course will be held online-only via Zoom. Login details will be distributed after registration.
12.10.2023, 23:59:59: Registration Deadline
19.10.2023, 09:00-17:00: Day 1 (Fundamentals, HTML, Crawling, Fetching, Parsing)
20.10.2023, 09:00-17:00: Day 2 (Advanced Scraping, Methodological and Ethical Issues)
27.10.2023, 09:00-14:00: Q&A (Questions by Participants, Individual Consultation)
09.11.2023, 23:59:59: Submission Deadline for the Group Exercise

Location: The course will take place online.

Doctoral candidates and post-docs in business/management with particular interest in Sustainable Finance including ESG investing, green finance, and impact investing.

Syllabus: Workshop on Current Research Trends in Sustainable Finance

Registration: Doctoral candidates and post-docs may apply using a registration form 

Registration will open on 1 July 2023.
Deadline for registration is the 15 September 2023.

The course is limited to 12 participants (first come, first served).

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Müller (TUM) & Dr. Karoline Bax (TUM)

Course dates: The presentation day will take place via Zoom approximately two weeks after the workshop. Login details will be  distributed after registration.

The schedule of the 15 November 2023:

9.30-10.00 Opening and administration
10.00-11.30 Literature review part 1
11.30-13.00 Literature review part 2
13.30-16.30 Empirical analysis of prominent issues in sustainable finance
16.30-18.00 Presentation of results and possible discussion on future research directions

The schedule of the 16 -17 November 2023:
09.00 – 17.30 Presentations and Panel Discussions

Location: The course will mainly take place at TUM Campus Heilbronn.