Generate a tailored SOP for Dr. Carsten Eckel. Improve your application with a focused, well-structured draft.
Carsten Eckel is a professor at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, where he conducts research and teaches on the intersection of international economics, industrial organization, labor economics, and public finance. His research explores the consequences of globalization on workers, firms, and governments. He holds affiliations with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and CESifo, and serves on the scientific committee for the European Trade Study Group (ETSG). In addition, Eckel co-organizes the annual Göttingen Workshop on International Economics. His academic journey began at the University of Passau, where he earned his doctorate in 2000, followed by postdoctoral positions at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen and the University of Göttingen. He was appointed a tenured full professor at the University of Bamberg in 2007 before joining LMU Munich in 2010. At LMU, he has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Economics from 2015 to 2017 and currently directs the Munich Graduate School of Economics (MGSE).
Department of Economics. Includes an admissions test in Munich if the GPA is not better than 2.50 or equivalence is unclear.