Welcome to the Chair in International Economics!

Peter Eppinger is the newly appointed Professor of International Economics. For more information, see his personal website: www.petereppinger.com

Our research and teaching activities lie in the field of international economics, with a focus on international trade, global production networks, and multinational enterprises.

In the Winter semester 2025/26 we are offering new courses. You can find preliminary information here:

• European Economic Integration: Lecture and exercises for the Bachelor programs (wir420)
• Multinational Firms: Lecture and seminar for die Master programs (wir823)

Just published: Firm Exports, Foreign Ownership, and the Global Financial Crisis (by Peter Eppinger and Marcel Smolka) is forthcoming in the IMF Economic Review: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41308-025-00282-1

Research Update: Slice to Protect (Peter Eppinger, Bohdan Kukharskyy, Alireza Naghavi and Gianmarco Ottaviano) received the Best Paper Award at the INFER Annual Conference and is now available as INFER Working Paper 16, 2025.

Global Economic Networks (GEN) Workshop 2025: On July 30/31, 2025, Peter Eppinger has organized for the fourth time the GEN Workshop, this time at Villa Vigoni at the shore of Lake Como. The program can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/petereppinger/gen-workshop