Welcome to the homepage of the doctoral research training group (RTG) 2484 – “Regional Disparities and Economic Policy”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and jointly instituted in 2019 by the TU Dortmund, the University of Duisburg-Essen, and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
The overarching goal of the RTG “Regional Disparities and Economic Policy” is to provide an outstanding education for doctoral students while at the same time contributing to frontier research in the exciting and dynamic field of regional economics. Combining the expertise of scholars from distinct economic backgrounds (e.g. labor, public, health, macro) and thus different methodological skills, institutional knowledge, and data access, we establish a graduate program that promises internationally visible scientific output and an excellent academic training environment for PhD candidates.