Bettina Rockenbach elected President of the Leopoldina

Bettina Rockenbach elected President of the Leopoldina

The economist from the University of Cologne and senior research fellow of the institute will be the first woman to head the German National Academy of Sciences. During her term of office, she will strive to increase the impact of academic discussions on policy and society and enhance cooperation with national and international partners.

SEEDEC Conference 2025: Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries takes place in Bonn

SEEDEC Conference 2025: Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries takes place in Bonn

The institute – namely Matthias Sutter’s research group on Experimental Economics – organizes the next Seedec Conference 2025 in Bonn with the Norwegian School of Economics.
The Symposium will take place from 12–13 June 2025 at the Collegium Leoninum.

Christoph Engel receives lifetime award by the European Association of Law and Economics

Christoph Engel receives lifetime award by the European Association of Law and Economics

At its annual conference in Torino, the European Association for Law and Economics has bestowed its lifetime award to Christoph Engel

New publication by C.C. von Weizsäcker: "Freedom and Adaptive Preferences"

New publication by C.C. von Weizsäcker: "Freedom and Adaptive Preferences"

Traditional welfare economics works with the assumption of the fully rational economic agent (homo economicus) whose preferences are fixed: that is, they are not influenced by their economic environment. To the contrary, Carl Christian von Weizsäcker presents a theory of welfare economics that maintains the principles of normative individualism while allowing for adaptive or changeable preferences.

Forthcoming at Mohr Siebeck: Public Law as a Behavioral System (in German)

Forthcoming at Mohr Siebeck: Public Law as a Behavioral System (in German)

Joint project from the Engel research group systematizes the behavioral approach to public law. Behavioral law has evolved from singular refinements within economic analysis into a theory of assumptions for the whole of jurisprudence. Making knowledge about individual behavior accessible to doctrine and regulatory practice requires digesting empirical literature for the purposes of the law.

Upcoming Research Seminars

Daniel Nagin (Carnegie Mellon University)

COp-Ed: Measuring Criticism of the Police in Local Media Coverage Using Large Language Models
Oct 14, 2024 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hybrid: If you would like to attend this seminar from UG, please notify IT by Friday EOB!, Room: Basement

Dorothea Kübler (WZB Berlin)

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Oct 23, 2024 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
MPI, Room: Ground Floor

Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick)

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Oct 24, 2024 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
MPI, Room: Ground Floor

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Recent Articles

Alysandratos, T., Georganas, S., & Sutter, M.
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024

Kaba, M., Koyuncu, M., Schneider, S. O., & Sutter, M.
European Economic Review, 2024, 168, 104818

Opitz, S., Sliwka, D., Vogelsang, T., & Zimmermann, T.
Management Science, 2024


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Discussion Papers

Zvonimir Bašić, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
One size fits all? The interplay of incentives, effort provision, and personality

Christoph Engel
Experimental comparative law 2.0? Large language models as a novel empirical tool

Arian Henning; Pascal Langenbach
Bridging the human-automation fairness gap: How providing reasons enhances the perceived fairness of public decision-making


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