The International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World (Uncertainty School) combines approaches from Economics, Law and Psychology to explain human decisions under uncertainty more effectively and to better design institutional responses.

The Summer School offers lectures with discussion, assignments and workshops given by European scholars from various disciplines such as sociology, social policy, political science, and economics. The programme will include a methods workshop on measuring social inclusion/exclusion. In addition,...

Courses: - Advanced Economics of Innovation - Advanced Theory of Institutions - Antitrust Law and Economics - Behavioral Labor Economics - Cooperative Game Theorys - Econometric Analysis of Experimental Data - Experiments and Models of Collective Behavior - Intra and Intergroup Decision Making -...

Courses for Postgraduates with a Background in Law & Economics

The importance of empirical methods applied to micro (household or firm) data, and the use of experimental methods to obtain new insights into micro behavior, has been emphasized most prominently by the Nobel Prizes in Economics to James Heckman and Daniel McFadden in 2000, and to Vernon Smith...