Teaching

The course teaches the basics of public finance. To this end, state activity is justified with the help of market failure theory and analyzed with a focus on public budget expenditure. The objectives and means of budget policy are considered against the background of collective decision-making mechanisms in democracy and taking into account the distribution of tasks in federally organized states.

Further information on the course can be found in the current module table.

Lecture: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Fritz SöllnerExercise: Dr. Sebastian JaenichenMoodle course: https://moodle.tu-ilmenau.de/course/view.php?id=3515

The event highlights the interdependencies between the economic system and the natural environment. The focus is on problems of natural resources such as overexploitation, optimal use and sustainability. The performance of the market in providing efficient exploitation of natural resources and the necessity of state intervention in connection with their use will be assessed.Further information on the course can be found in the current module table.

Lecture: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Fritz SöllnerExercise: Dr. Sebastian JaenichenMoodle course: https://moodle.tu-ilmenau.de/course/view.php?id=3514

The lecture course studies the underlying operating mode of the economy as a whole making use of microeconomic theory. The analysis goes into the derivation of demand and supply given individual preferences and scarcity of resources and is deepend with respect to the efficiency of markets, the role of competition and the role of the state shaping the framework of economic acitivity.

Lecture: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Fritz Söllner
Exercise:Dr. Sebastian Jaenichen

Modle-Kurs: https://moodle.tu-ilmenau.de/course/view.php?id=2707

Public Finance 2 is a lecture course on tax theory. Starting with taxation techniques i.e. shaping of tax rates and tax bases the inquiry is extended to aspects oft he equity and efficiency of taxation using concepts thus allowing to evaluate the allocative and distributive effects of tax raising. The analysis of taxation is amplified with aspects of taxation in a federal state such as competion of tax raising jurisdictions eager to gain revenues from the same tax base.

Lecture: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Fritz Söllner
Exercise: Dr. Sebastian Jaenichen

Moodle-Kurs: https://moodle.tu-ilmenau.de/course/view.php?id=2705

Environmental Economics inquires the causes, consequences and remedies of environmental pollution from an economic point of view. Environmental pollution is considered as the result of inadequate prices misleading household- and business decisions regarding the use of the environment. The problem of market failure in the realm of the environment is approached with tools of microeconomic analysis.

Lecture: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Fritz Söllner
Exercise: Dr. Sebastian Jaenichen

Moodle-Kurs: https://moodle.tu-ilmenau.de/course/view.php?id=2706

The course deals with the structure, behavior and performance of a nations entire economy. Macroeconomic indicators such as GDP, rates of unemployment and inflation are presented and explained considering their changes in the short, middle and long run and with recourse to macroeconomic models.

Lecture/Exercise: Dr. Sebastian Jaenichen

Moodle-Kurs: https://moodle.tu-ilmenau.de/course/view.php?id=2709

You will find all information on the main and proseminar papers in the courses "Hauptseminar Finanzwissenschaft und Umweltökonomie" and "Proseminar Finanzwissenschaft" on Moodle.

You can find all information about the proseminar on finance in the course "Proseminar Finanzwissenschaft" on Moodle.

You can find all information on the advanced seminar in finance in the course "Advanced Seminar in Finance and Environmental Economics" on Moodle.

You can find all information on the advanced seminar in environmental economics in the course "Advanced Seminar in Finance and Environmental Economics" on Moodle.

Diploma, Bachelor's and Master's thesis topics from the Department of Finance are assigned by arrangement. A prerequisite for the supervision of a diploma, bachelor's or master's thesis is the successful completion of an economics seminar.

If you are interested, please contact the staff of the chair.

Note: Please refer to the guidelines for the preparation of written academic papers.