On July 7th, 2020, Di Lu successfully defended her thesis and obtained a doctoral degree. Her dissertation is titled ‘Three empirical essays on family economics and corporate governance’. Her research interests cover a wide range of topics including matching in the marriage market, board gender diversity, and director style effects. She presented her research projects … Continued

Our former external doctoral student, Dr. Eva Erhardt, has won the Alfred-Teves-Foundation Prize for her PhD-thesis entitled “Employment growth of firms: Three empirical investigations into microfinance, high-growth, and institutions based on evidence from Bulgaria”. She obtained the award at the DIES ACADEMICUS 2020 of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. Detailed information on the vita and the thesis of Dr. … Continued

Manuel Denzer selected to participate in the 7th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences Our chair member, Manuel Denzer, has been selected to participate in the 7th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences as one of 373 young economists from 60 different countries. The Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences is held every three years and convenes 30-40 … Continued

On the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Law, Management and Economics in November 2019, our team member Johannes Carow received the Gutenberg Lehrkolleg Award for an excellent Master’s Thesis. In his dissertation entitled “The effect of women on supervisory boards on the employees´ gender wage gap. Evidence from German linked employee-plant-firm data” he combined … Continued

Between August and October 2019 our team member Manuel Denzer stays at the UC Berkeley. The director of the Center of Labor Economics Prof. David Card (elected American Economic Association president) has invited him for a research visit at his institution. According to several rankings, UC Berkeley belongs to the top five research institutions worldwide. … Continued

Tewodros A. Dessie has successfully defended his thesis on June, 19th 2019 and obtained his Doctorate degree in Economics. In his dissertation entitled “The Role of Market Structure, Trade Reform, and Mobile Phones in Price Transmission: Evidence from the Coffee Supply Chain” Tewodros investigates the mechanisms behind incomplete and asymmetric price transmission across the coffee … Continued

Faculty Seminar, 8 July 2019Christina Gathmann, University of Heidelberg Job Loss and Health Spillovers in the Family Abstract:A large literature has documented that displaced workers suffer substantial losses in the labormarket. Economic theory suggests that these costs may not be confined to the displaced worker butalso affect other family members. We use administrative data of … Continued

On June 4, 2019 Eva Erhardt successfully defended her thesis and obtained the doctoral degree. Her dissertation is titled ‘Employment growth of firms: Three empirical investigations into microfinance, high-growth, and institutions based on evidence from Bulgaria’. In three single-authored empirical chapters, she investigated different policy approaches for promoting job creation such as access to finance for … Continued