On Thursday, June 2, Prof. Eyüp Dogan from the Abdullah Gül University, Kayseri, Turkey gives a talk about “Environmental Policy in Turkey”. The lecture takes place from 10.15 to 12.45 at Kochstraße 4, room 05.054.
Prof. Martin Romero-Morett from the Universidad de Guadelajara offers a seminar “Introduction to Latin American Economy” in summer term 2016. You may choose this seminar particularly as regional module, elective module or elective complementary module for the program DEIS. The class is held on sever...
In a recent article, Katrin Wölfel and Christoph Weber analysed the behaviour of the Federal Reserve System (Fed). The article will later be published in “Empirical Economics”. The online version of this article is already available under http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-016-1076-6. T...
The Institute offers for the summer term 2016 an additional proseminar “Microeconomics”, scheduled as block course. Registration is open from April 18 to 24, the assignment of topics takes place at the first meeting. You may find the list of topics here (in German). In addition, please note the gene...
Katrin Wölfel discusses in an article the intuitive idea behind Bayes' theorem from a historical perspective and explains how problems from various disciplines can be solved “Bayesian”. “Bayes' theorem is one of the best known theorems of probability theory. If one derives it primarily formally, the...
The cooperation in teaching and research between the Universidad de Guadalajara and the FAU in "Development Economics and International Economic Relations" is funded in 2016 by the Bavarian Academic Center for Latin America (BAYLAT). An essential part of this cooperation is the subproject “volatilit...
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 ...
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-eco...