The Annual Congress of the German Economic Association has become one of the largest national meetings of professional economists. The contributed papers at the Congress undergo a rigorous and competitive selection procedure where only about one half of all submissions are accepted for...

'Es ist mir egal, wer die Gesetze einer Nation schreibt - solange ich ihre Volkswirtschaftslehrbücher schreiben kann.' Der Ausspruch des Ökonomie-Nobelpreisträgers und Lehrbuchautors Paul A. Samuelson gilt als symptomatisch für den Einfluss von Ökonom_innen in der modernen Gesellschaft und...

Economists have become very influential intellectuals in our contemporary society. The scientific knowledge produced by the discipline and the academic status of economists can be considered as a decisive power resource in media debates and politics. The current state of economics has been...

This paper investigates the determinants of tenure decisions in Germany, Austria and the German‐speaking part of Switzerland for professorships in economics, business administration and related fields. Our data set comprises candidates who were awarded tenure as well as those who were eligible...

About seven years after the outbreak of the financial crisis, followed by a series of economic crises there are hardly any signs for a crisis of economics. After a short period of public, political and self-criticism of economics and distinct economists the dominant crisis narratives brought...

Studierende interdisziplinärer Studienrichtungen wie dem Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, die im Zuge wissenschaftlicher Abschlussarbeiten (Bachelor-, Master- bzw. Diplomarbeiten sowie vor allem Dissertationen) mit der Herausforderung konfrontiert sind, sich im Forschungsfeld „Techno-Ökonomie“...