Ingo Böbel

DBA Program Information

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IUM-MBA is ranked number 42 worldwide in 2009!! See THE ECONOMIST's "WHICH MBA" ranking:

http://www.economist.com/business-education/whichmba/

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General Information on IUM's Doctoral Program can be found here: http://doctoral.monaco.edu/

Useful information for DBA students:

Important points for dissertation writing.doc

American Economic Association 2009: http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/articles/2009/econ_phd_five_years.pdf

Writing hints for PhD students.pdf - This link directs you to an interesting paper written by John H. Cochrane, Graduate School of Business,University of Chicago,5807 S. Woodlawn,Chicago IL 60637.john.cochrane@gsb.uchicago.edu

Another useful note on writing economics papers: howtobuildmodel.pdf (by Hal Varian)

The next course "Applied Business Ethics" that I will teach in IUM's Doctoral Program in Taipei, Taiwan will take place from May 8 to 10, 2009.

For further information contact the program coordinator, Ms. Susan Lopez: slopez@monaco.edu

Applied Business Ethics

Important reading: http://www.econtalk.org/bookclub.html (Re.: A. Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments)

Information on IUM DBA Committee activities

We shall have presentations of dissertation proposals by Cohort 3 students of the Doctoral Program.

The presentations will take place on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at IUM in Room MBA 2.

The day’s schedule is as follows:

10:00 am: Svetlana ASTAKHOVA

10:45 am: Philip BOIGNER

12 noon-1:00 pm: Lunch

1:00 pm: Diego BONAVENTURA

1:45 pm: Mingyue ZENG

2:30 pm: General Proposal Committee Meeting

4:00 pm: Close

Here you find a list of my favorite statistical resources on the Web:

Penn World Table, index.mht

Census Bureau Home Page.mht

Economagic Economic Time Series Page.mht

Asian Development Bank (ADB).mht

Economic Report of the President Main Page.mht

Emerging Markets Industry Stats.mht

Inter-American Development Bank.mht

National Bureau of Economic Research.mht

OAS - Organization of American States.mht

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.mht

The World Bank.mht

The World Factbook.mht

U_S_ Agency for International Development.mht

United Nations.mht

US Bureau of Labor Statistics.mht

World Tables of Economic and Social Indicators.mht

WTO website.mht

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