Outstanding professors
A unique mix of external and own lecturers
The Kiel Advanced Studies Program PhD is unique due to its mix of external and internal professors. Our external lecturers are leaders in their field and work on exciting, relevant research. By taking courses with them, our PhD students can get feedback from the very best and experience the research frontier in international economics first-hand. In our curriculum, we aim for a mix of world-renown senior professors and young, innovative “rising stars” who teach the newest ideas and methods in their field. During the 5 years of your PhD, you will thus have access to a steady-stream of excellent visiting scholars and teachers from the best economics departments around the world.
External Lecturers in the spring/summer 2025:
- Treb Allen, Dartmouth (Modern Spatial Economics)
- Christoph Böhm and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, UT Austin (International Macroeconomics and Trade)
- Ernest Liu, Princeton (International Production Networks)
- Kalina Manova, UCL (Global Firms: Finance, Networks and Innovation)
- Dmitry Mukhin, LSE (International Macroeconomics)
External Lecturers in the fall 2025 and spring/summer 2026:
- Laura Alfaro (Harvard)
- Adrien Bilal (Stanford)
- Sergio de Ferra (Oxford)
- Andrea Ferrero (Oxford)
- Federica Romei (Oxford)
- Emil Verner (MIT)
- Christian Wolf (MIT)
Own Lecturers
At the same time, you will be taught by and interact with our own very good faculty at Kiel University and the Kiel Institute, e.g. Jens Boysen-Hogrefe, Dirk Dohse, Lena Dräger, Jana Friedrichsen, Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley, Tobias Heidland, Julian Hinz, Sebastian Horn, Sebastian Köhne, Stefan Kooths, Wilfried Rickels, Jens Ruhose, Ulrich Schmidt, Moritz Schularick, Rainer Thiele, Christoph Trebesch, Horst Raff or Maik Wolters (a full list is here).
Highlights of previous years (past ASP lecturers)
- Pol Antràs (Harvard)
- Ufuk Akcigit (Chicago)
- Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)
- Paul Bergin (Davis)
- George Borjas (Harvard)
- Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern)
- Arnaud Costinot (MIT)
- Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford)
- Robert Feenstra (California, Davis)
- Jordi Gali (Barcelona)
- Oded Galor (Brown)
- Simon Gilchrist (New York)
- Gene Grossman (Princeton)
- Pinelope Goldberg (Yale)
- Gordon Hanson (Harvard)
- Sam Kortum (Yale)
- John List (Chicago)
- Matteo Maggiori (Harvard)
- Marc Melitz (Harvard)
- Enrique Mendoza (Pennsylvania)
- Atif Mian (Princeton)
- Kaivan Munschi (Yale)
- Rhaguran Rajan (Chicago)
- Carmen Reinhart (Harvard)
- Roberto Rigobon (MIT)
- Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard)
- Chris Udry (Northwestern)
- Harald Uhlig (Chicago)
- David Weil (Brown)
- Fabrizio Zilibotti (Yale)