Explore the basic concepts of international business. Learn about the international business environment, foreign direct investment, global governance, and home and host countries' influence on stakeholders at home and abroad. Become familiar with the increasingly multifaceted and interdependent nature of international business.

Get a thorough analysis of the most recent theory concerning international trade and movements towards regional trade integration. You will receive a quick refresher summary of the major classical and neoclassical trade theories, insights into trade policy, and a survey of the present state of the world economy.

Choose among business labs focusing on specific skills you seek to develop and business seminars on a variety of topics.

Explore how institutional, cultural, and regulatory environments shape internationalization strategies. Firms operating across borders must navigate diverse cultural norms, institutional frameworks, and regulatory systems. Key topics include political risk assessment, corporate governance, and the strategic implications of institutional and cultural differences in both advanced and emerging economies.

Study advanced topics in international financial and monetary relations, such as modern exchange rate theories including target zone models and speculative attack models; recent currency crises and ways to prevent them; exchange rate policies; international capital mobility, capital flight, management of and capital controls; the international spill-overs of unconventional monetary policy and the induced portfolio rebalancing.

This course is meant to support you as you develop the research proposal for your Master's thesis. During the course, you will learn how to change a general topic into a specific research proposal.

Explore tax issues in multinational firms and their impact on managerial decisions. During the course you will discuss several core topics such as transfer pricing, international treaties, and Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS).

Explore the trends, core concepts, theories, and approaches of business ethics and corporate sustainability. The course is divided into a general part and a track-specific part.

Examine the challenges that managers face in identifying strategies and tools to help their companies be successful abroad. This course will help you understand why, although MNEs like Toyota, IBM and Nestlé are extremely successful in their international operations, foreign ventures often flop, like Wal-Mart in Germany. Examples of questions you will address include: why do firms become multinational? How do they select host countries? What strategies can they follow to manage foreign operations?

Building on insights gathered during your Thesis Proposal course, you will be able to select from a variety of research topics presented by faculty from both International Business and Economics and develop your own research under the supervision of scholars that are experts in their respective fields.