Regulations concerning Cumulative Dissertations Economics

The following rules apply for cumulative dissertations for Economics:

  • In case of cumulative dissertations, it is allowed for the supervisor  to be an be an evaluator provided that he/she did not take part as co-author in more than one third of a main chapter OR if at least one of the main chapters is written in sole authorship.
  • In case of cumulative dissertations, it is allowed for the second evaluator to to be a co-author, provided that the first consultant is not a co-author. The rule stated above is analog to the full extent of the co-authorship.
  • If it is the case that the coauthors contributed different amounts of parts in the article, it must be stated, which part of work was performed by the doctoral candidate. Here, it is necessary for the co-author to deliver a signed sheet declaring the partitioning of the papers.