Admission Guide

The Advanced Studies Program will provide

• personal contact and intensive discussion with internationally renowned university teachers and representatives from international organisations, policy institutions, and international corporations;
• compact, high-level coverage of important areas of international economics covering views from the academic, the political and the business perspective;
• profound training of skills pertinent to economic analysis, methods of empirical research and the evaluation of economic policies;
• special emphasis on participants' research activities through the preparation of a research paper under the supervision of economists from the Kiel Institute;
• practical teamwork experience through the joint preparation of seminars and research papers;
• proficiency in the use of English as working language; in addition, participants from non-German speaking countries can expect to acquire at least a basic knowledge of German during their stay;
• access to the ASP alumni network.

ASP Participants with Professor George Borjas (Harvard)