The Department of Economics and Business is part of School of Business and Social Sciences and is headed by Allan Würtz. The department employs approximately 140 academic staff and 70 PhD students.

The faculty teaches and carries out research into microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, finance and accounting, as well as operations research. The department has a strong international focus in its research and degree programmes.

Communication with the business community, political decision-makers and society in general is of crucial importance for the department. The knowledge available at the department is therefore shared with a wide audience at seminars and workshops, and in the Danish media.

In addition, the department focuses to an increasing extent on attracting external funds, so that it will be possible to house centres of excellence and research centres spanning different departments and main academic areas.

Education

The department has the main responsibility for the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree (cand.oecon.) programmes in Economics and the International Master of Science in Quantitative Economics (cand.oecon. – IMSQE).

The department also shares the main responsibility with the Department of Business Administration for the BSc and MSc in Economics and Business Administration (cand.merc.), Bachelor’s and Master’s degree (cand.soc.) programmes in Business Administration, the MBA in Business Administration and the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration.

At the Master’s level within Economics and Business Administration (cand.merc.), the department is responsible for the MSc in Business Economics and Auditing degree (cand.merc.aud.), the management account and control programme, the finance programme, the logistics/SCM programme, the finance and international business programme, and the international economic consulting programme. Finally, the department shares the main responsibility with the Department of Mathematics at Science and Technology for the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree (cand.scient. oecon.) programmes in Mathematics–Economics.

Research

The department carries out research into accounting, finance, logistics and operations research, microeconomics, macroeconomics, business administration, and econometrics.