The degree courses of the Faculty of Economics teach methodological knowledge and skills that enable students to deal with current research questions. At the Bachelor's and Master's level, the compulsory courses in the basic stage serve this purpose. In the compulsory elective subjects that build on this, students are introduced to the research topics of the academics working in the faculty: Behavioural and experimental economics, money and banking, urban and real estate economics, European integration, environmental economics, machine learning, etc.

The Faculty of Economics offers two Master's programmes taught in English that bring together an international student body. The research seminars of the faculty regularly feature presentations by international academics, some of whom are connected to the Faculty of Economics through research collaborations or as visiting academics. The faculty and the university run exchange programmes with universities all over the world, which are open to Economics students in addition to Erasmus+. The International Office of the faculty is the point of contact for students.

Karlstad Universitet, Karlstad, Schweden Universität Graz, Graz, Österreich Charles University, Prague, Tschechien Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, Frankreich University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finnland Freie Universität Bozen, Bozen, Italien University of Bologna, Bologna, Italien Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Numerous relevant databases are available, such as EconLit with Fulltext/Ebsco, Bloomberg Terminal and others. The faculty has an excellently equipped research lab with a high level of expertise in planning, designing and conducting experiments and surveys. Databases and research labs are used in teaching and in final theses.

The research of the members of the Faculty of Economics is broadly based in terms of content and methodology, e.g. research on the environment, work, health, institutions and law, competition, financial markets, media, economic policy. The faculty is involved in the research focus areas and research centres of the University of Hamburg and the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, e.g. within the framework of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Training Group "Collective Decision-Making" and collaboration in the Excellence Cluster "Climate, Climate Change and Society" (CLICCS), the "Centre for Sustainable Society Research" (CSS) and the "Hamburg Centre for Health Economics" (HCHE).

The university's start-up service and transfer centre support start-up projects from the idea to the start-up. The university participates in the "Startup Port", an association of seven universities in the metropolitan region that gives students the exclusive opportunity to take part in courses on the topics of start-up and entrepreneurship.

The academics in the Faculty of Economics work on interdisciplinary research projects, for example in cooperation with Philosophy and Political Science on "collective decision making" (German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Training Groups), with the Natural Sciences and other Social Sciences on climate research (Excellence Cluster CLICCS) and with Medicine and Business Administration on health research (HCHE). The faculty contributes to the university’s mission statement as part of its excellence strategy: “Innovating and cooperating for a sustainable future” from an economic perspective.