Research

The guest lecture will take place on Wednesday, 19.10.2022, 17:00 - 18:30, at Großer Hörsaal (Bismarckstr. 1a). South Asia is home to an estimated 90% of the global smokeless tobacco (mostly chewing or sniffing) users. The speaker, Dr. Zohaib Khan, a trained dentist and a public health expert, ha...

The Institute of Economics offers one half-time positions as research assistant, starting on October 1 for Economy and Society of the Middle East (Prof. Dr. Christine Binzel). Pursuing academic promotion (PhD) is possible in one of the chair's subject areas (development economics, economic histor...

Category: Economics, Research, Teaching

Georgeta Auktor contributed to the IASS Policy Brief 4/2016, discussing recommendations to enhance Germany’s approach to supporting international energy transitions in North Africa and beyond. Sybille Roehrkasten, Rainer Quitzow, Georgeta Auktor, Kirsten Westphal (2016): Advancing an International Energy Transition Policy in North Africa and Beyond. IASS Policy Brief 4/2016. Potsdam: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies.

Category: Economics, Research

In some urban agglomerations in Germany, housing rents increased significantly during the last years. In a contribution for ifo Schnelldienst, Andreas Mense shows with the examples of Cologne, Munich and Hamburg that the current price increases are mainly caused by low construction activity in the p...

Category: Economics, Research