The Bonn Graduate School of Economics is an institution of the Economics Department within the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Bonn. The department’s research program has been aided by the grants from the German National Science Foundation (DFG), specifically in the range of the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) and the Graduierendenkollegs (GRK). The BGSE is a member of the EDP (European Doctoral Program in Qantitative Economics). Students benefit from the collaborative research activities of the BGSE with the Institute for the Study of Labor

Institute for the Study of Labor

The Institute for the Study of Labor is a private, independent economic research institute. It was founded under the legal form of a limited liability company. Its German name is Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit hence the abbreviation IZA...

 (IZA) and the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

The Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods is located in Bonn, Germany. It was founded 1997 as temporary project and transformed into a permanent institute 2003...

 (MPI).

Exchange Program / EDP

Students have the opportunity to spend one year abroad at one of the partner institutions of the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics (EDP). The coordinated curriculum of Bonn, Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Pompeu Fabra University

Pompeu Fabra University is a university in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is widely considered to be one of the best universities in Spain and in Europe, and was ranked 1st in scientific productivity in Spain in 2009. Founded in 1990, it is named after the Catalan philologist Pompeu Fabra...

), Florence (European University Institute), London (London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

), Louvain-la-Neuve (Université catholique), Paris (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), and Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

 provides the opportunity for stundents to specialize in almost any area of quantitative economics. Moreover, the EDP offers unique access to the traditions and current research of the EDP institutions.

Notable graduates

The following award winners are part of the BGSE faculty:

• Nobel Prize
  Nobel Prize
  The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
  
   for Reinhard Selten
  Reinhard Selten
  -Life and career:Selten was born in Breslau in Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father, Adolf Selten, and Protestant mother, Käthe Luther. For his work in game theory, Selten won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences...
  
   (1994)
• Leibniz Prize
  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 2.5 million euro, to be used within seven years...
  
   and Max Planck
  Max Planck
  Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, ForMemRS, was a German physicist who actualized the quantum physics, initiating a revolution in natural science and philosophy. He is regarded as the founder of the quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.-Life and career:Planck came...
  
  Research Award for Werner Hildenbrand (1988 and 1994)
• Max Planck Research Award for and Gossen Prize for Benny Moldovanu (2001 and 2004)
• Leibniz Prize and Gossen Prize for Armin Falk (2009)
• Gossen Prize for Juergen von Hagen (1997)

External links

• European Doctoral Program
• Sonderforschungsbereich TR 15
• CHE-Forschungsranking 2008
• German Economic Review
• Exzellenzwettbewerb des Bundes und der Länder
• http://www.bgse.uni-bonn.de
• http://www.uni-bonn.de