PhD Courses

PhD Courses

We offer courses in accounting and auditing, administration, finance, economics, management, marketing, methodology, and quantitative and qualitative methods.

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Internal candidates must register for courses, exams and re-take exams in Studentweb. External candidates must apply to take courses and re-take exams in Søknadsweb. The deadline is 1 February (spring semester) and 1 September (autumn semester), please note that some courses may have individual deadlines.

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Phd course portfolio

PhD courses spring 2026

Code Name Stp Semester
ECS507 ECS507 PhD Macroeconomics II 7,5 Spring
ECS509 ECS509 PhD Econometrics II 7,5 Spring
ECS565 ECS565 PhD Microeconomics II 7,5 Spring
EEU511 EEU511 The Real and Reporting Effects of Business Taxation 5,0 Autumn
FIN521 FIN521 Topics in Empirical Corporate Finance 7,5
FIN543 FIN543 Scientific Methods in Finance 5,0
FIN545A FIN545A Asset Pricing II 5,0
FIN545B FIN545B Asset Pricing II 5,0
MET504 MET504 Theory and Research Evaluation 5,0 Spring
MET522A MET522A Multivariate Data Analysis 5,0 Spring
MET524 MET524 Research Ethics for the Social Sciences 2,5
MET532 MET532 Advanced Qualitative Methods 5,0 Spring
ORG521 ORG521 Entrepreneurship and Strategy 5,0 Spring
MET528 MET528 Scientific Methods 7,5 Spring

PhD courses autumn 2025

Code Name Stp Semester
FIN504A FIN504A Corporate Finance I 7,5
MET501A MET501A Research Designs and Methodological Choices 5,0 Autumn
BEA511 BEA511 Topics in Dynamic Modeling and Optimal Controls 5,0 Autumn
BEA512 BEA512 Modeling Decision Problems under Uncertainty 5,0
ECS504 ECS504 PhD Microeconomics I 7,5 Autumn
ECS506 ECS506 PhD Macroeconomics I 7,5 Autumn
ECS508 ECS508 PhD Econometrics I 7,5 Autumn
ECS578 ECS578 Incorporating Psychology into Economic Models 5,0
EEU512 EEU512 Engage.EU Workshop on Linking Theory and Empirics 6,0
FIN501A FIN501A Asset Pricing I 5,0
FIN501B FIN501B Asset Pricing I 5,0
FIN504B FIN504B Corporate Finance I 2,5
FIN538 FIN538 Financial Econometrics 7,5
MET530 MET530 Introduction to Research Designs and Methodological Choices: Accounting track 5,0 Autumn
MET531 MET531 Introduction to research methods 2,5 Autumn
MET533 MET533 Academic Writing and Research Communication 5,0
MET534 MET534 Applied Business Analytics 5,0
ORG522 ORG522 Social Entrepreneurship 2,5

PhD course portfolio

Code Name Stp Semester
BEA514 BEA514 Topics in Numerical Optimization 5,0 Spring
BEA521 BEA521 Tax policy and multinational firms 5,0
BEA522 BEA522 Rural Logistics 5,0
BEA523 BEA523 Causes and Effects in Economics and Management Science (not offered) 5,0
BEA524 BEA524 Taxes and Labor Mobility 5,0
BEA527 BEA527 Long-term asset pricing and sustainability 5,0
BEA528 BEA528 Open Shop Scheduling Problems 2,5 Autumn
ECS573 ECS573 Confronting decision theory with experimental data and vice versa 5,0
ECS575 ECS575 A Crash Course in Design-Based Econometrics 5,0 Autumn
ECS576 ECS576 Electricity Market Design 5,0 Autumn
ETI504 ETI504 Corporate Sustainability 2,5 Autumn
FIN534 FIN534 Workshop in Advanced Empirical Asset Pricing (not offered) 4,0
FIN539A FIN539A Research Seminar in Finance 2,5
FIN539B FIN539B Research Seminar in Finance 2,5
FIN540 FIN540 Empirical Corporate Finance II 4,0 Spring
FIN544 FIN544 Econometric programming in finance 2,5 Autumn
FIN546 FIN546 Structural models of credit risk 2,5 Autumn
FIN548 FIN548 Advanced Empirical Market Microstructure 2,5
FIN550 FIN550 A Practical Guide to Instruments using Stata 2,5
FIN551 FIN551 Advanced Data Analysis in Empirical Asset Pricing 2,5 Spring
MET512 MET512 Advanced Qualitative Methods 7,5
MET522 MET522 Multivariate Data Analysis 7,5
MET522B MET522B Advanced Structural Equation Modeling 2,5 Spring
MET527 MET527 Scientific Methods: Research Design and Meth. Choices for Accounting and Business and Management Science 5,0 Spring
REG510 REG510 Management Accounting: Incentive Mechanism (not offered) 7,5
REG511 REG511 Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting Research 7,5
REG522 REG522 Economic Analysis of corporate misconduct 5,0
REG523 REG523 Behavioral and Archival Auditing Research 5,0
REG524 REG524 Business Crime: U.S. Enforcement Against Multinational Corporations for Corruption and Fraud (not offered) 5,0
REG525 REG525 Digitalization and Accounting (not offered) 5,0
REG526 REG526 Financial Accounting Research I (not offered) 5,0

Expired courses

Code Name Stp Semester
BEA513 BEA513 Topics in Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes 5,0 Autumn
BEA525 BEA525Financial Engineering in Energy Markets using Real Options (Expired) 5,0
BSRS918 BSRS918Socio-economic Inequality and intergenerational mobility 0,0
BSRS919 BSRS919Corruption: Research, Regulation and Governance 0,0
BSRS920 BSRS920Economic Experiments in Developing Countries 0,0
BSRS921 BSRS921 Stress and mental health in education 0,0
ECS502 ECS502Advanced Macroeconomics (Expired) 7,5
ECS503 ECS503Advanced Econometrics (Expired) 7,5
ECS505 ECS505PhD Microeconomics II (expired) 4,0
ECS530 ECS530 Analysing Spatial Data 7,5
ECS558 ECS558 Productivity: Firms, Markets, and Economies 5,0
ECS559 ECS559Field Experiments in Education (expired) 5,0
ECS560 ECS560Introduction to Behavioural Economics (expired) 5,0
ECS561 ECS561 Dynamic Theories of Price and Investment in Markets with Imperfect Competition 4,0
ECS563 ECS563European Economic History (expired) 5,0
ECS564 ECS564Identification Through Experiments (Expired) 7,5
ECS566 ECS566 Exclusive Contracts and Digital Platforms 7,5
ECS567 ECS567Monetary Policy and Business Cycles (expired) 3,5
ECS568 ECS568 Economic Theory and Experimental Economics: Confronting Theory with Experimental Data and vice versa 7,5
ECS569 ECS569 The Theory of Institutions 7,5
ECS570 ECS570 Empirical IO: Dynamic Structural Models 7,5
ECS571 ECS571 Labor Economics 5,0
ECS572 ECS572 Topics in behavioral theory 5,0
ECS574 ECS574 Expectations and Macroeconomics 5,0
FIN501 FIN501Asset Pricing I (expired, replaced by FIN501A and FIN501B) 7,5
FIN502 FIN502Corporate Finance Theory (expired - replaced by FIN504) 7,5
FIN504 FIN504Corporate Finance I (expired, replaced by FIN504A and FIN504B) 10,0
FIN511 FIN511Empirical Asset Pricing I (expired) 4,0
FIN512 FIN512Empirical Asset Pricing II (expired) 4,0
FIN513 FIN513Asset Pricing Theory II (expired) 7,5
FIN530 FIN530Empirical Research in Corporate Finance (expired) 5,0
FIN535 FIN535Special Topics in Corporate Finance 2,5
FIN536 FIN536Scientific Methods in Finance (Expired - replaced by FIN543) 7,5
FIN537 FIN537Workshop in Recent Evidence on CEO Incentives (expired) 2,5
FIN539 FIN539Research Seminar in Finance (expired, replaced by FIN539A/B) 2,5
FIN545 FIN545Asset Pricing (Expired) 10,0
FIN547 FIN547 Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization 5,0
FIN549 FIN549 Corporate finance and industrial organization 2,5
FIN552 FIN552 Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance 2,5
FIN553 FIN553 Boosting empirics with theory 2,5 Spring
FSK502 FSK502 Current issues in phraseology 2,5
FSK503 FSK503Language Management in Theory and Practice (expired) 3,0
FSK504 FSK504 The Multilingual Workplace and Multilingual Society: Access, Communication & Participation 2,5
MAR528 MAR528Marketing Topics: Marketing Thought and Theories (expired) 7,5
MAR529 MAR529 Front Lines on Adoption of Digital and AI-Based Services 5,0
MET501B MET501B Research Designs and Methodological Choices: Research Proposal 2,5
MET501C MET501C Research Designs and Methodological Choices: Research Proposal (Accounting track) 2,5
MET510 MET510Scientific Methods (Expired - replaced by MET528) 5,0
MET513 MET513 Academic Writing in a Research Setting 2,5 Autumn
MET529 MET529Applied Business Analytics 2,5 Autumn
ORG520 ORG520 Foundations and Frontiers of Management 7,5
REG503 REG503 Financial Accounting Research I (expired, replaced by REG526) 4,0
REG514 REG514 Argumentation and Research Design in Accounting 7,5