December 2015

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08DEC 2015
Teaching
Modifications for the preparatory courses for the state examination as free elective module (Teaching degree)
Starting with the winter term 2016/17, it will no longer be possible to gather credits for the free elective modules from the preparatory courses. For the free elective modules, you might choose from the courses offered as elective module in Economics (if you do not use them as such) and for the teaching degree “Realschule” […]
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03DEC 2015
Economics
New publication: “Reservation wages: still differences between East and West”
Christoph Weber and Philipp Dees have investigated the differences in reservation wages for Western and Eastern Germany, published in WSI-Mitteilungen (68 (8), pp. 593-603. The abstract: “Almost twenty-five years after German reunification there is still a significant difference between the minimum wages that East and West Germans expect when applying for a job. That means […]
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01DEC 2015
Economics
New publication: “Theories of decision-making under uncertainty”
Jürgen Kähler and Christoph Weber published a paper on the theory of decisions under uncertainty. This paper is published in Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WiSt) 44 (10), pp. 572-578. From the abstract: “Decisions of individuals are at the center of many economic theories, like the micro-economic theory of consumption or the financial portfolio theory. These decisions depend […]
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