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Panel at VfS annual conference: „Women, Men and Taxes“: On the discrimination of women by the tax and transfer system
The Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy and the Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Cologne (iwp) cordially invite you to the panel: “Women, Men and Taxes“: On the discrimination of women by the tax and transfer system at this year’s VfS virtual annual conference. The German tax system is superficially […]
Finanzbranche beschäftigt häufig vertrauensunwürdige Mitarbeiter
Wissenschaftler machen einen möglichen Grund für die vielen Skandale in der Finanzwelt aus: Arbeitnehmer in dieser Branche sind häufig weniger vertrauenswürdig und weniger sozial eingestellt. Ob Cum-Ex-Geschäfte oder Wirecard – in regelmäßigen Abständen erschüttert ein Skandal die Finanzindustrie. Das ohnehin bereits gebeutelte Image sinkt nach jeder neuen Enthüllung und Kunden, Politik und Gesellschaft verlieren zunehmend […]
Three Starting Grants in economics: Economists receive coveted European Research Council funding
Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) are highly coveted, because they provide young researchers with funding of up to 1.5 million euros over five years. In economics, three researchers from the University of Bonn and the Behavior and Inequality Research Institute (briq) will now benefit from this funding. The successful candidates are also […]
Christine Laudenbach expands the Cluster of Excellence as new professor
As of September 1, 2020, Christine Laudenbach will be new Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bonn and in the Cologne-Bonn Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute. Laudenbach received her PhD from the University of Mannheim in 2012 and then moved to the Goethe University in Frankfurt, where until now […]
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Nobel Prize in Economics 2019
The Reinhard Selten Institute (RSI) and the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute congratulate Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo (both Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Michael Kremer (Harvard University) for being awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. The Nobel Laureate’s research focuses […]
Selten Lecture 2019 – Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University)
Selten Lecture 2019: “Applications of Networks in Economics” by Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University). Date: October 9 , 2019. Time: 4:30 – 5:45 pm Location: University of Bonn, Juridicum, Lecture Hall C. Poster Selten Lecture More information
Young ECONtribute Program Fellow receives IIPF best paper award
Congratulations to our Young ECONtribute Program (YEP) Fellow Jonas Löbbing! Jonas has been awarded the Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize 2019 of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) for his paper “Redistributive Income Taxation with Directed Technical Change”. The prestigious IIPF Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize is awarded annually since 2003 to honor and […]
Isabel Schnabel becomes member of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts
Isabel Schnabel becomes member of the newly founded Franco-German Council of Economic Experts Paris, September 19, 2019 Isabel Schnabel, Spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute and Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Bonn, has been appointed as member of the newly launched Franco-German Council of Economic Experts. On September 19, 2019 during […]
Selten Salon – Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University)
Selten Salon 2019: Kindererziehung aus ökonomischer Sicht: Von Ungleichheit, Helikoptereltern und Tiger-Mamas Matthias Doepke, Ökonom und Autor von “Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids” belegt in seiner Forschung, dass die wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen unterschiedliche Erziehungsstile fördern. Doepke ist überzeugt: „Die zunehmende wirtschaftliche Ungleichheit seit den 70er Jahren hat das […]
Setting Out for a New Climate Policy
On July 12, ECONtribute spokesperson Isabel Schnabel and the German Council of Economic Experts handed their special report on climate policy to Chancellor Angela Merkel. “The current debate offers a historic opportunity to change Germany’s fragmented, expensive and inefficient climate policy” says Christoph M. Schmidt, chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts. The Council calls for […]