The workshop brings together many economists from around the African continent and globally fulfilling one of our major mandates – to strengthen local capacity for conducting independent, rigorous inquiry into problems facing the management of economies in sub-Saharan Africa. The five...

Ziel des internationalen Erfahrungsaustausches zwischen Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft ist, Handlungsempfehlungen für die Herausforderungen der Energiewende zu geben. Dazu zählen neben Markt- und Technologieanalysen insbesondere mustergültige Praxisbeispiele der Gegenwart. Das Energieseminar ist...

Topic: new research in environmental and natural resource economics.

Die Arbeit mit administrativen Daten auf Mikro-Ebene gewinnt im umweltökonomischen Bereich zunehmend an Bedeutung. Mithilfe solcher Daten können vielfältige Fragen zur Expost-Evaluation unterschiedlicher Umwelt- und Energiepolitiken untersucht werden sowie Analysen der Treiber von...

In the SET-Nav project, we push the state-of-the-art of energy-economic-engineering models. Several work packages within the project are dedicated to improve, extend and customize models to better reflect relevant energy system aspects to address the research questions arising from the SET Plan....

Die Energiewende hat neben der Veränderung des Energiemix auch erhebliche Auswirkungen auf den Bedarf an mineralischen und metallischen Rohstoffen, die wie die fossilen Rohstoffe nicht regenerierbar sind. Durch den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien und die Produktion von Batterien für...

The seminar focuses on research related to the bioeconomy in Europe and its interaction with agriculture and related sectors. It emphasizes how sectoral policies and strategies for the bioeconomy are aligned, with particular attention to the Common Agricultural Policy.

The optional Ph.D. seminar will be held on the 12 September 2018 for doctoral candidates. The aim of the workshop is to promote an understanding of new research opportunities in logistics and supply chain management that arise due to digitization. These opportunities relate, for example, to...

The main objective of this seminar is to bring together researchers and policy makers and establish the relation between agro-food chains and the preservation and provision of ecosystem services. In addition, environmental, methodological and societal issues will be tackled from a transaction...

Theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome, including, but not limited to, coalition formation, dynamic models and games, bargaining models, general equilibrium models, behavioral economics and experimental economics. A non-exhaustive list of relevant topics would include: the impact of...