WuW Award "Future of Competition" for Johannes Kruse
A jury made up of members of the Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb (Competition Law and Economics) editorial and advisory board (including Prof. Daniel Zimmer, University of Bonn, and Prof. Andreas Heinemann, University of Zurich) has presented Johannes Kruse with the WuW Award "Future of Competition". The award recognizes antitrust scholars under the age of 35 who have made an outstanding contribution to antitrust law or competition economics...
Podcast with Pascal Langenbach: Can machines make fair decisions?
An artificial intelligence that checks university admissions, distributes refugees among municipalities or gives the go-ahead for police operations? Pascal Langenbach is researching how fair we think it is when machines make important decisions. (Podcast is in German)
Wirtschaftswoche publishes Ranking of Economists 2023 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
In the latest ranking of economists in Wirtschaftswoche, researchers from our MPI perform excellently. In the ranking of the strongest researchers under the age of 40, Christopher Roth is in 1st place. In the ranking of the economists currently conducting the most research (2019-2023), Christoph Roth is in 7th place, Matthias Sutter in 27th place and Axel Ockenfels in 92nd place. ...
Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Economics for Sebastian Tonke and Sebastian Riedmiller
Sebastian Tonke and Sebastian Riedmiller have been awarded Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Economics by the Joachim Herz Stiftung.
The Joachim Herz Stiftung supports young scientists whose economic research questions are interdisciplinary and highly relevant to society, and who thus contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The institute welcomes its new director Axel Ockenfels
As of 1 August, Axel Ockenfels, professor at the University of Cologne, is a new director at the MPI. He will establish a new department called "Economic Design & Behavior". Its aim will be to design market, incentive, and decision architectures, based on modern behavioral research. Prof. Ockenfels will continue to teach and conduct research at the University of Cologne...
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