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 the syllabi with more 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 2026: 

• The fifth edition of the GEN Workshop series co-organized by Peter Eppinger will take place at Baruch College (CUNY) on May 14-15, 2026. See the call for papers.
• The programs of previous editions of the GEN Workshop can be found here.