Die folgenden Dissertationen wurden seit 2006 an dem Lehrstuhl für Politische Ökonomie und Entwicklung abgeschlossen:

• Sebastian Fehrler (2010) – Social preferences, sorting, and signaling - An experimental analysis of labor market processes
• Anke Weber (2010) – Ethnic diversity, clientelistic resource distribution, and politicization: The impact of ethnicity on education in Africa
• Florens Flues (2011) – The political economy of the Clean Development Mechanism: Econometric evidence on Executive Board decisions, project supply, and political support for carbon credit imports
• Alain Patrick Nkengne Nkengne (2011) – De l’information à la prise de décision, analyse du processus de politique publique en Afrique Francophone: Le cas de la politique des enseignants contractuels de l’état
• Paula Castro (2011) – The Clean Development Mechanism and incentives for climate change mitigation in developing countries
• Martin Stadelmann (2013) – The effectiveness of international climate finance in enabling low-carbon development: Comparing public finance and carbon markets
• Nadim Schumann (2015) – Human capital, labor markets and remittances in francophone sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of education and its impact in Senegal
• Linda Maduz (2015) – Protest during regime change: Comparing three democratizing countries in (South-) East Asia, 1985-2005
• Aliya Khawari (2015) – The political economy of microfinance
• Bernhard Reinsberg (2016) - The rise of multi-bi aid