CHAIR OF ECONOMICS

APPLIED ECONOMICS

Our Chair-member Mohamad Alhussein Saoud has presented his latest work about "The 2015/2016 New Year´s Eve Cologne Event and Anti-refugee Crimes" as a poster in a two-days workshop at Freie Universität Berlin.

Here you can find the entire publication, which has been published as a FEMM working paper.

As part of our research colloquium, the next CEPA-Talk will take place on 14th May 2025. Prof. Dr. Markus Ludwig from the Technical University of Braunschweig will be a guest at our faculty and will speak on the topic “Gender bias in the aftermath of fraud: Evidence from the Theranos case”.

All interested parties are cordially invited!

When: Wednesday, 14th May 2025, 3 pm s.t.

Where: Campus, building 22, room A-225 (Fakultätszentrum)

This is what it´s all about:

The gender gap in start-ups is an important source of inefficiency. We show that negative, gender-specific, spillovers resulting from fraudulent behaviour of women entrepreneurs can exacerbate this gap. Our study focuses on the fraud committed by one of the world's most promising biotech start-ups, Theranos, and its female founder Elizabeth Holmes. We find that the average investment volume in female-led start-ups drops by 18\% after the uncovering of the fraud. This represents a doubling of the gender gap in financing. Evidence further indicates that female entrepreneurs are turning to government grants in response to the increasingly adverse conditions in the private capital market. As the average value of grants is orders of magnitude smaller than the average investment raised in the private market, this implies that the spillovers generate substantial welfare losses. We further find that negative gender-specific effects extend beyond start-ups. The share prices of companies led by female CEOs drop following the exposure of the Theranos fraud.

Here you find all upcoming CEPA-Talks.

What? Who? When: Find the upcoming events concerning the Faculty colloquium and the Faculty Reasearch Seminar.

On Wednesday, April 16 2025, exam inspections will be offered for the exams "Statistical Methods III", "Macroeconomics", "Introduction to Econometrics II" and "Evidence-Based Policy Analysis" at our chair. Please register until April 13 2025 by email (pia.scholz@ovgu.de) if you want to inspect an exam (indicate in your email which exam you want to inspect). Timeslots will be allocated and communicated via email.

The publication "The 2015/2016 New Year’s Eve Cologne Event and Anti-refugee Crimes in Germany" by Mohamad Saoud has been published as a FEMM-Working Paper!

For their outstanding commitment to teaching in the summer semester 2024, M.Sc. Mohamad Alhussein Saoud and Prof. Dr. Michael Kvasnicka were awarded with the Faculty of Economics' teaching prizes. Faculty Dean Prof. Dr. Abdolkarim Sadrieh presented the certificates to the teachers during the graduation ceremony.

M.Sc. Mohamad Alhussein Saoud (l.) and Prof. Dr. Michael Kvasnicka (2nd from the left).

All teaching Awards of the last terms can be found here.