Am 28. Juni 2017 fand die 68. Jahresversammlung des ifo Instituts in der Großen Aula der Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität München (LMU) statt. Der öffentliche Teil der ifo Jahresversammlung stand dieses Jahr ganz im Zeichen des Wechsels von ifo-Vorstand Meinhard Knoche in den Ruhestand. In...

Vortrag von Prof. Eytan Sheshinski Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor of Public Finance Depart-ment of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Vortrag von Nikolaus Piper Leitender Redakteur bei der Süddeutschen Zeitung mit dem Schwerpunkt volkswirtschaftliche und weltwirtschaftliche Themen

The aim of this paper is to systematically enquire into the relationship Robbins sets in his writings - prior to the Essay and further brought out in several subsequent works - between 'economic science' and 'political economy' in order to understand the role of each in the work of the...

Im September 2015 veröffentlichten das Handelsblatt und die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung nahezu gleichzeitig ihre Ökonomen-Rankings. In dem Artikel werden neben einer Betrachtung von Methodik und Ansatz die drei Rankings verglichen und einer Kritik unterzogen.

The quantitative evaluation of research performance in business administration has recently gained some attention in German-speaking countries. This holds especially for rankings of persons, which are discussed controversially. Rankings of academics can be constructed in two different ways,...

We analyze the drivers of presence (size of audience) and participation (number of questions asked) in parallel sessions at a large economics conference, using the annual meeting of the German Economics Association in 2012 as a case study. We find that the location of the presentation is at...

This is paper analyses the interrelationship between perceived journal relevance and reputation. Based on a survey of 705 members of the German Economic Association, we find a strong interrelationship between journal reputation and relevance where a journal's perceived relevance has a stronger...

This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well being. Based on a survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields on individual life satisfaction. Controling for personal...