CHAIR OF ECONOMICS

APPLIED ECONOMICS

For her outstanding dissertation, Prof. Dr. Kathleen Kürschner Rauck - former research assistant at the Chair of Applied Economics - has been awarded the faculty award in Economic Sciences as Best Doctoral Student 2021. The title of her dissertation, which was graded summa cum laude, is "Essays on Population and Housing Economics."

In the winter term 2021/2022 the courses "Introduction to Econometrics II" and "Macroeconomics" will be exclusively taught online.

The new dates for the faculty research seminars for the winter term 2021/2022 are now available.

New Publication: "Not in my Backyard!" - the 2015 refugee crisis in Germany" has been published as a FEMM Working Paper.

New Publication:  “Local labor markets and the persistence of population shocks: evidence from West Germany” has been published in the Journal of Economic Geography.

New Doctoral thesis "Essays on population and housing economics" by Kathlen Kürschner Rauck published in July 2020.