Strong Partners

GSEFM is part of a strong research network in economics, finance, and management. Our close links with research institutions and centers in Frankfurt and beyond promote academic exchange and interdisciplinary cooperation. These partnerships give our students access to a broad research community, seminars, events, and opportunities for academic exchange.

Set up at Goethe University in 2005, the IMFS is a scientific center engaging in research at the intersection of monetary economics, public law and financial markets. It is home to the Macroeconomic Modelling Database and the CEPR networks on "Household Finance" and on "Macroeconomic Modelling and Model Comparison". Its research-based policy advice centers around issues in central banking, empirical macroeconomic modelling and financial market intermediation. As part of this, it also organizes the annual "The ECB and Its Watchers" conference. The center puts strong emphasis on the training of young economists, and many of its alumni now hold positions at international institutions and central banks.

The IPP is an interdisciplinary research unit at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. It pursues research in the broad field of public policy, involving many sub-fields such as applied microeconomics, behavioral economics, economics of education, international economics, macroeconomics and public economics. The IPP also runs a new state-of-the art experimental laboratory and regularly offers summer schools and workshops with instructors and participants from all over the world.

The CFS is a research institute affiliated with Goethe University. Its sponsoring body, the Gesellschaft für Kapitalmarktforschung, counts amongst its members more than 90 banks, insurance companies, consulting firms and commercial enterprises. The CFS conducts research on the digitalization of the financial industry, sustainable/green finance as well as financial literacy. It also publishes the CFS financial market index.

EFL is a research institute affiliated to Goethe University. It is the result of a partnership between Goethe University and Technische Universität Darmstadt on the one hand as well as industry partners, including American Express, Deutsche Börse, Deutsche Leasing, DZ Bank, FactSet and Finanz Informatik, on the other hand. The mission of EFL is to contribute to the evolution of traditional industries towards "digitized and high-performance industries" on the basis of insights from data science.

FLEX is a research center that takes up a long tradition in research on experimental economics at Goethe University that dates back to the pioneering work of Nobel laureate Reinhard Selten. Researchers at FLEX study human behavior and decision making in social and economic contexts employing experimental methods. Current research conducted at FLEX covers different issues in behavioral economics, development economics, organizational economics and finance.

In cooperation with the House of Finance, GSEFM students have the opportunity to broaden their academic experience through international research and Ph.D. exchange programs. Detailed information on partner institutions, application procedures, and eligibility can be found on the House of Finance's Research and Ph.D. Exchange page.