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• MACIE-Seminar on January 24 Jan Marcus, University of Hamburg
• Wiss.Mitarb.stelle
• MACIE research seminar May 24, 2018 MACIE research seminar May 24, 2018
• Reading group "The Price of Inequality" Reading group "The Price of Inequality"
• MACIE Research Seminar with Massimo d'Antoni postponed The MACIE Research Seminar with Massimo d'Antoni (University of Siena) that was planned for June 12 has to be postponed.
• MACIE research seminar June 7, 2018 MACIE research seminar June 7, 2018
• MACIE Research Seminar on June 14, 2018
• MACIE Research Seminar on June 21, 2018
• MACIE Research Seminar on June 28, 2018
• MACIE Research Seminar on July 5, 2018
• MACIE Research Seminar on Tuesday (!) July 10, 2018
• Welcome The research group Institutional Economics welcomes Johannes Zahner.
• MACIE Research Seminar on October 18, 2018 Carsten de Dreu, Leiden University/University of Amsterdam
• On consumer preferences for (partial) products liability Prof. Schulte has published a joint paper with Tim Friehe and Eric Langlais "On consumer preferences for (partial) products liability" in Economics Letters.
• MACIE Research Seminar on October 25, 2018 Pierre-Guillaume Mèon, Université Libre de Bruxelles "A Positive Effect of Political Dynasties: the case of France’s 1940 enabling act" The seminar will take place in the Dean's Office, "Dekanatssitzungszimmer", Universitätsstraße 25, at 4:30 pm.
• MACIE Research Seminar on November 1st, 2018 Volker Hahn, University of Konstanz "Committee Decision-Making under the Threat of Leaks" The seminar will take place in the Dean's Office, "Dekanatssitzungszimmer", Universitätsstraße 25, at 4:30 pm.
• MACIE-Seminar on November 22 Andreas Lange, Hamburg
• MACIE Research Seminar on December 6 Leonie Gerhards, University of Hamburg
• MACIE Talk The next MACIE Talk will be held by Prof. Dr. Bernd Hayo and Dr. Florian Neumeier. The talk titled "Gutbürger vs. Wutbürger: Die Einstellung der deutschen Bevölkerung zur Flüchtlingskrise" is organized in cooperation with the city of Marburg and takes place on January 30, 2019 in the City Hall, „Historischer Rathaussaal“, 17-20h. Interested participants are welcome.
• Rebecca Dietrich wins MACIE-Award 2018
• MACIE Research Seminar on January 17 Andreas Grunewald, University of Frankfurt/University of Bonn
• MACIE-Seminar on January 24 Jan Marcus, University of Hamburg: The Effects of Tuition Fees on Study Duration and Completion
• MACIE-Seminar on January 31 Nora Szech, Chair for Political Economy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: The (In)Elasticity of Moral Ignorance
• MACIE Talk The next MACIE Talk will be held by Prof. Dr. Bernd Hayo and Dr. Florian Neumeier. The talk titled "Gutbürger vs. Wutbürger: Die Einstellung der deutschen Bevölkerung zur Flüchtlingskrise" is organized in cooperation with the city of Marburg and takes place on January 30, 2019 in the City Hall, „Historischer Rathaussaal“, 17-20h. Interested participants are welcome.
• MACIE Talk on January 30 The next MACIE Talk will be held by Prof. Dr. Bernd Hayo and Dr. Florian Neumeier. The talk titled "Gutbürger vs. Wutbürger: Die Einstellung der deutschen Bevölkerung zur Flüchtlingskrise" is organized in cooperation with the city of Marburg and takes place on January 30, 2019 in the City Hall, „Historischer Rathaussaal“, 17-20h. Interested participants are welcome.
• MACIE-Seminar on February 14 Matthias Uhl (Deutsche Bundesbank) will present his research on cash demand analyses.
• MACIE-Seminar on April 18 Andreas Landmann (University of Göttingen) will present his research on "Gender Aspects in Low-Income Health Insurance: Evidence from Pakistan".
• MACIE-Seminar on April 25 Lydia Mechtenberg (University of Hamburg) will present her research on "Competition for Context-Sensitive Consumers".
• MACIE-Seminar on May 2nd Catherine Roux (University of Basel) will present her research on "Competition Policy for Exclusionary Pricing: Experimental Evidence".
• MACIE-Seminar on May 9 Stefan Ruenzi, University of Mannheim, will present his Research on "The Impact of Role Models on Women's Self-Selection in Competitive Environments".
• MACIE-Seminar on May 23 Hendrik Hakenes, University of Bonn, will present his Research on "Financial stability and the allocation of the deposit base in the banking system".
• MACIE-Seminar on Monday, May 27, 12.15h Yukio Koriyama, École Polytechnique-CREST, F-Palaiseau, will present his Research on "The Winner-Take-All Dilemma".
• MACIE-Seminar on June 6 On June 6, Lars Hornuf (University of Bremen) will present his research on "Paralyzed by shock: The portfolio formation behavior of peer-to-business lending investors"
• MACIE-Seminar on June 13 Johanna Gereke (University of Mannheim) will present her research on "Foreigners in hostile hinterlands: Local exposure to refugees and right-wing support in Eastern Germany after the 2015 refugee crisis"
• MACIE-Seminar with Nick Zubanov postponed to July 4 The MACIE Seminar with Nick Zubanov provided for June 27 has been postponed for one week to July 4th: Nick Zubanov (University of Konstanz) will present his research on "Skill dispersion, firm productivity, and production technology: new empirical evidence and implications".
• Award for outstanding dissertations in the field of Institutional Economics The Doris und Dr. Hagemann Stiftung awards a prize for outstanding dissertations in the field of Institutional Economics.
• MACIE-Seminar on October 17 Steffen Eibelshäuser (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) will present his research on "The Evolution of Price Cycles in the German Retail Gasoline Market".
• Research & Teaching Assistant wanted The Research Group Institutional Economics is looking for a Research & Teaching Assistant (PhD Candidate) to start on February 1st, 2020.
• MACIE-Seminar on November 7 Abu Bakker Siddique (TU Munich) will present his research on "Behavioral Consequences of Religious Education".
• Workshop on the "Design of Institutions for Science and the Credibility of Empirical Research" On Dec 6 & 7 2019, we will host an international workshop on the "Design of Institutions for Science and the Credibility of Empirical Research"
• MACIE-Seminar on December 5
• MACIE-Seminar on TUESDAY, January 14 Pierre Boyer (École Polytechnique–CREST) will present his research on "Politically feasible reforms of non-linear tax systems".
• MACIE-Seminar on January 16 Menusch Khadjavi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) will present his research on "Do Scientists Tell the Truth? Evidence from a Field Experiment".
• MACIE-Seminar on January 23 Bernhard Ganglmair (ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research) will present his research on "The Effect of Patent Litigation Insurance: Theory and Evidence from NPEs".
• MACIE-Seminar on January 30 Andreas Pondorfer (University of Bonn) will present his research on "Animal Spirits: The natural geography of economic behavior ".
• MACIE-Seminar on TUESDAY, February 4 Tomomi Miyazaki (Kobe University, Japan) will present his research on "Stock Market Response to Public Investment under the Zero Lower Bound: Cross-industry Evidence from Japan"
• MACIE-Seminar on February 06 Martin Rohleder (University of Augsburg) will present his research on "The Effect of Unobservable Constraints on Portfolio Management: Evidence from Separate Account-Mutual Fund Twins ".
• Re-start MACIE Research Seminar
• MACIE-Seminar online on November 19 On November 19, Hanna Hottenrott (TU München) will present her research on "Public Subsidies and the Sources of Venture Capital"
• 2020 MACIE award ceremony online on December 3rd The Marburg Centre for Institutional Economics and the Marburger Gesellschaft für Ordnungsfragen der Wirtschaft e.V. jointly award a prize for outstanding theses (Bachelor or Master) with regard to a topic in Institutional Economics, submitted at the School for Business & Economics of the University of Marburg.
• Marinell Falcón and Pierre Lauscher win MACIE Award of MGOW 2020 The Marburg Centre for Institutional Economics awards a prize for outstanding theses (Bachelor or Master) with regard to a topic in Institutional Economics, submitted at the School for Business & Economics of the University of Marburg.
• MACIE-Seminar online on February 4 On February 4, Claudia Herresthal (Universität Bonn) will present her research on "Hidden Testing and Selective Disclosure of Evidence".
• MACIE-Seminar online on January 21 On January 21, Marek Giebel (Copenhagen Business School) will present his research on "Patent Enforcement and Innovation".
• Publication on ECB policy in the 'Journal of Macroeconomics' Jonas Gross and Johannes Zahner publish their paper "What's on the ECB's mind - Monetary policy before and after the global financial crisis" in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Macroeconomics. In the paper, they provide evidence that after the global financial crisis, the ECB has reduced the weight of economic activity compared to the inflation target in their monetary policy.
• MACIE-Seminar online on May 20 On May 20, Peter Tillmann (Universität Gießen) will present his research on "Financial Markets and Dissent in the ECB's Governing Council".
• MACIE-Seminar online on April 22 On April 22 Gerald Eisenkopf (Universität Vechta) will present his research on "Leadership and Cooperation in Growing Teams".
• MACIE-Seminar (online) with Navid Sabet postponed to July 1st This week's MACIE-Seminar with Navid Sabet (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) has to be postponed to July 1st. He will present his research on "Legal Status, Local Spending and Political Empowerment: The Distributional Consequences of the 1986 IRCA".
• MACIE-Seminar on Nov. 25 Hannes Rusch (Maastricht University) will present his research "On the effectiveness of democratic institutions in preventing ethnic conflict: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment".
• MACIE-Seminar on Dec 2nd Grischa Perino (University of Hamburg) will present his research on "The effect of regulatory complexity on individual voluntary climate action behavior: A representative online field experiment in Germany". The seminar will start at 16.30h and will be held in a hybrid format.
• MACIE-Seminar on April 21st Lino Wehrheim (Universität Regensburg) will present his research on "Intimate or detached? The relationship between Economic History and Economics from a Topic Modelling Perspective".
• MACIE-Seminar on April 28
• MACIE-Seminar on May 5 Dr. Bernardo Moreno Jiménez (Universidad de Alicante) will present his research on "Pairwise justifiable changes in collective choices". The seminar will take place in the Dean's Office, "Dekanatssitzungszimmer", Universitätsstraße 25, at 4:30 pm.
• MACIE Seminar with Bernardo Moreno Jiménez postponed to May 12 The MACIE Seminar with Bernardo Moreno Jiménez (Universidad de Alicante) had to be postponed to May 12, 4.30 pm, and will be conducted online using a Zoom meeting (see the link below). He will present his research on "Pairwise justifiable changes in collective choices".
• MACIE-Seminar with Deszö Szalay on May 19 On May 19, Deszö Szalay (University of Bonn) will present his research on "Communication in the shadow of catastrophe". The seminar will take place in the Dean's Office, "Dekanatssitzungszimmer", Universitätsstraße 25, at 4:30 pm.
• MACIE-Seminar with Efi Adamopoulou on June 2nd On June 2nd, Efi Adamopoulou (University of Mannheim) will present her research on "Eating Habits: The Role of Early Life Experiences and Intergenerational Transmission". The seminar will take place in the Dean's Office, "Dekanatssitzungszimmer", Universitätsstraße 25, at 4:30 pm.
• Call for applications: Student Assistants The research group Institutional Economics is looking for student assistants to support the project "KNEU on the MO:VE“
• MACIE-Seminar with Malte Lierl on June 23rd On June 23rd, Malte Lierl (GIGA Hamburg) will present his research on "Giving Community-Based Organizations a Stake in Local Government Performance: A Field Experiment in Burkina Faso". The MACIE-Seminar will be in Seminar Room +1026 (AP1), Am Plan 1, at 4:30 pm.
• MACIE-Seminar with Kevin Rich on June 30 On June 30, Kevin Rich (Marquette University) will present his research on "A streetcar undesired? Determinants and consequences of abnormal investment in the government setting" .
• MACIE-Seminar with Helmut Herwartz on July 14 On July 14, Helmut Herwartz (Universität Göttingen) will present his research on "A streetcar undesired? Determinants and consequences of abnormal investment in the government setting" .
• Call for applications: Student Assistants The research group Institutional Economics is looking for student assistants to support the project "KNEU on the MO:VE“
• MACIE-Seminar with Joshua Teitelbaum on October 20 On Thursday October 20, Joshua Teitelbaum (Georgetown University) will present his research on "Tort Liability and Unawareness".
• MACIE-Seminar with Denys Lifintsev on November 10, 2022 On Thursday November 10, Denys Lifintsev (Kyiv National Economic University) will present his research on "Digital tools in teaching cross-cultural management and communication".
• MACIE-Seminar with Roee Sarel on November 17 On Thursday, November 17, Roee Sarel (University of Hamburg) will present his research on "Regulating Cryptocurrencies: A Law & Economics Perspective".
• MACIE-Seminar with Matthias Neuenkirch on December 15 On Thursday, December 15, Matthias Neuenkirch (University of Trier) will present his research on "Do China and Russia Undermine US Sanctions? Evidence from DiD and Event Study Estimation".
• MACIE-Seminar with Charles Palmer on January 12 On Thursday, January 12, Charles Palmer (London School of Economics) will present his research on "Forest co-management, food security and poverty traps in Malawi".
• MACIE-Seminar with Luigi Franzoni on January 26 On Thursday, January 26, Luigi Franzoni (University of Bologna) will present his research on "Lost Profits and Unjust Enrichment damages for the misappropriation of trade secrets".
• MACIE-Seminar with Kjetil Bjorvatn on February 2nd On Thursday, February 2nd, Kjetil Bjorvatn (NHH) will present his research on "Promises to promote honesty: Causal evidence from Norway and the United States".
• MACIE-Seminar with Duncan Roth on April 13 On Thursday, April 13, Duncan Roth (Institute for Employment Research, IAD) will present his research on "Optimal minimum wages in spatial economics".
• MACIE-Seminar with Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani on April 20 On Thursday, April 20, Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, IAMO) will present his research on "The stability of global wheat trade network in the post-Soviet era; trade duration approach".
• MACIE-Seminar with Daniel Meierrieks on April 27 On Thursday, April 27, Daniel Meierrieks (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) will present his research on "Terrorism and Child Mortality".
• MACIE-Seminar with Claude Fluet on May 4 On Thursday, May 4, Claude Fluet (Université Laval) will present his research on "Consumer Protection in Retail Investments: Are Market Adjusted Damages Efficient?".
• MACIE-Seminar with Till Requate on May 11 On Thursday May 11, Till Requate (Universität Kiel) will present his research on "Are two networks one too many? Optimal network sizes under uncertain technological progress".
• Dr. Johannes Zahner awarded the Karl Paul Hensel Prize 2022 On May 22, 2023, Johannes Zahner was awarded the Karl Paul Hensel Prize for his dissertation "Essays in Natural Language Processing and Central Banking".
• MACIE-Seminar with Joachim Schleich, June 1st On Thursday June 1st, Joachim Schleich (Grenoble Ecole de Management & Fraunhofer ISI Karlsruhe) will present his research on "The Moral Cost of Carbon".
• Research & Teaching Assistant wanted The Research Group Institutional Economics is looking for a Research & Teaching Assistant (PhD Candidate) to start asap.
• MACIE-Seminar with Olivia Yates, June 13 On TUESDAY (!) June 13, at 12h, Olivia Yates (University of Auckland) will present her research on "'There’s so Much More to that Sinking Island': Victimhood and Justice in New Zealanders’ Attitudes Towards Climate Mobility"
• MACIE-Seminar with Maiva Ropaul postponed The MACIE-Seminar with Maiva Ropaul that had been scheduled for June 15 has to be postponed to winter term 2023/24.
• MACIE-Seminar with Tim Krieger on June 29 On Thursday June 29, Tim Krieger (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) will present his research on "On the effect of religiosity on pre-Enlightenment warfare".
• MACIE-Seminar with Pierre-Guillaume Méon on July 6 On Thursday July 6, Pierre-Guillaume Méon (Université libre de Bruxelles) will present his research on "From connections to persistence: Evidence from Political Purges in post-World War II France".
• MACIE-Seminar with Johannes Zahner on July 13 On Thursday July 13, Johannes Zahner (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) will present his research on "Whose Inflation Rates Matter Most? A DSGE Model and Machine Learning Approach to Monetary Policy in the Euro Area".
• MACIE-Seminar with Emanuela Carbonara on October 26 On Thursday October 26, Emanuela Carbonara (Universitá di Bologna) will present her research on "Mitigating the Labor Displacing Effects of Automation through a Robot Tax: Evidence from a Survey Experiment".
• MACIE-Seminar with Philipp Lergetporer on November 9 On Thursday November 9, Philipp Lergetporer (TUM School of Management) will present his research on "Early Child Care, Maternal Labor Supply, and Gender Equality: A Randomized Controlled Trial".
• MACIE-Seminar with Maite Lameris on November 2nd On Thursday November 2nd, Maite Lameris (University of Groningen) will present her research on "National Identification and Voting Behaviour".
• MACIE-Seminar with Andreas Ziegler on November 16 On Thursday November 16, Andreas Ziegler (University of Kassel) will present his research on "The expressive effect of legal norms".
• MACIE-Seminar with Petra Nieken on November 23
• MACIE-Seminar with Petra Nieken postponed The MACIE-Seminar with Petra Nieken that had been scheduled for November 23rd has to be postponed to summer term 2024.
• MACIE-Seminar with Adel Karaa on November 30
• MACIE-Seminar with Friedrich Heinemann on December 14 On Thursday December 14,  Friedrich Heinemann (ZEW Mannheim & University of Heidelberg) will present his research on "Europe‘s Fiscal Constitution and its Pandemic Transformation".
• MACIE-Seminar with Jerg Gutmann on December 21st On Thursday December 21st,  Jerg Gutmann (University of Hamburg) will present his research on "The Impact of Economic Sanctions on International Migration".
• Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We wish you a nice holiday! We will be back in the office on Jan. 8.
• MACIE-Seminar with Irina Panovska on January 11 On Thursday January 11, Irina Panovska (University of Texas at Dallas) will present her research on "Business Cycle Synchronization and Asymmetry in the European Union".
• MACIE-Seminar with Giang Nghiem on January 18 On Thursday January 18, Giang Nghiem (Leibniz University Hannover) will present his research on "Inflation Literacy, Inflation Expectations, and Trust in the Central Bank: A Survey Experiment".
• MACIE-Seminar with Stefan Voigt on February 1st On Thursday February 1st, Stefan Voigt (University of Hamburg) will present his research on "Eliciting Values and Social Norms from Folktales – Introducing the Historical Values Survey".
• MACIE-Seminar with Waldemar Marz on April 18
• MACIE-Seminar with Petra Nieken on May 2nd On Thursday May 2nd 2024, Petra Nieken (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) will present her research on "The Gender of Opportunity: How Gendered Job Titles Affect Job Seeker Attention".
• MACIE-Seminar with Mara Buhmann on May 16 On Thursday May 16, 2024, Mara Buhmann (Institute for Employment Research, IAB) will present her research on "Economic Shocks and worker careers: how has the Covid-19 pandemic affected transitions out of unemployment?".
• MACIE-Seminar with Jeffrey Reuer on Tuesday (!) May 21 - time changed: 4.30pm! On Tuesday (!) May 21st, Jeffrey Reuer (University of Colorado) will present his research on "Alliance Design".
• MACIE-Seminar with Levent Yilmaz on May 23rd On Thursday May 23rd, Levent Yilmaz (Turkish German University Istanbul) will present his research on "Immigrants’ Personality Characteristics and Return Intentions".
• MACIE-Seminar (online) with Julia Blasch on June 13 On Thursday June 13, Julia Blasch (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt) will present her research on "Energy transition at home: Understanding citizens' preferences and biases regarding energy efficient renovations".
• MACIE-Seminar with Luisa Braunschweig on June 20 On Thursday June 20, 2024, Luisa Braunschweig (Institute for Employment Research, IAB) will present her research on "Assortative Worker-Firm Matching over the Career".
• MACIE-Seminar with Mike Felgenhauer on July 4 On Thursday July 4, Mike Felgenhauer (Brunel University London) will present his research on "Creativity and Scientific Misconduct".
• MACIE-Seminar with Simon Hess on July 11 On Thursday July 11, Simon Hess (University of Vienna) will present his research on "Social networks, local elections, and female representation: Evidence from Nepali voter registration data".
• MACIE-Seminar with Anna Ressi on October 24 On Thursday October 24, 2024 Anna Ressi (WHU) will present her research on "Fake News and the Problem of Disregarding True Messages: Theory and Experimental Evidence".
• MACIE-Seminar with Juliane Koch on October 31
• MACIE-Seminar with Igor Asanov on December 5 On Thursday December 5, Igor Asanov (University of Kassel) will present his research on "Showing Life Opportunities: Online Education to Boost Opportunity-driven Entrepreneurship and Science Careers."
• MACIE-Seminar with Özer Karagedikli on December 12 On Thursday December 12, Özer Karagedikli (Asia School of Business) will present his research on "Beyond the Aggregate: Heterogenous Effects of Monetary Policy on Credit Allocation."
• MACIE-Seminar with Mark Andor on February 6 On Thursday February 6, Mark Andor (RWI – Leibniz-Institute for Economic Research) will present his research on "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Sustainable Transport Alternatives in Reducing Car Use: A Large-Scale Field Test".
• MACIE-Seminar with Sarah Necker on February 13 On Thursday February 13, Sarah Necker (ifo Institute and University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) will present her research on "Does information on tax shifting shift tax preferences?".
• MACIE-Seminar with Tomomi Miyazaki on April 24 On Thursday April 24, Tomomi Miyazaki (Kobe University) will present his research on "Effects of Fiscal Policy on Regional Employment under the Zero Lower Bound: Evidence from Japan".
• MACIE-Seminar with Danisz Okulicz on May 8 On Thursday May 8, Danisz Okulicz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) will present his research on "Incentivizing Public Lawyers and Enhancing Fairness via Sorting in Adversarial Systems".
• MACIE-Seminar with Mohsen Shaeyan on May 15 On Thursday May 15, Mohsen Shaeyan (University of Mainz) will present his research on "Persian Qanats and the Cooperation Culture".
• MACIE-Seminar with Raphael Franck on May 22nd On Thursday May 22nd, Raphael Franck (University of Stuttgart) will present his research on "Safety Last? Political Supervision of Bureaucratic Performance and Worker Safety in French Mines during the Industrial Revolution".