57 clusters of excellence, 1 podcast. On a regular basis, "Exzellent erklärt" reports from one of the research clusters that receive funding under the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. In the current episode, part of the work of the Cluster of Excellence "ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy" is presented.
COVID-19 has particularly negative effects on people who come from economically weaker and less educated backgrounds, especially when we look at health, job security and education – this is shown by figures and studies from recent months. How the coronavirus pandemic affects prosocial behaviour, on the other hand, is still largely unknown. A group of economic researchers led by Matthias Sutter has now been able to show that prosocial behavior is also negatively affected ...
Maj-Britt joined the MPI for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in January 2017 as a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Oliver Kirchkamp and Prof. Christoph Engel, within the IMPRS Uncertainty. Before, she had received a B.A. in Philosophy & Economics at the University of Bayreuth and an M.Sc. in Economics at the University of Amsterdam...
Cornelius started his PhD studies at our institute within the joint program of the Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World (IMPRS Uncertainty) and the University of Cologne (Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences, CGS) in October 2016...
The European Academy of Sociology (EAS) awards Michael Seebauer and his co-authors the 2021 EAS Prize for Best Article for their publication "The Role of Reciprocity in the Creation of Reputation."