Seminar lecture by Nobel Laureate Paul Milgrom

Seminar lecture by Nobel Laureate Paul Milgrom

On 18 March 2025, Paul Milgrom of Stanford University gave a lecture entitled ‘Auction Theory at Work: Internet Display Advertising’. Paul Milgrom shared his extensive experience in designing online advertising space allocation, addressing real-world challenges in auction theory. He explored key issues such as bid aggregation by demand-side platforms, refined ad targeting, leveraging past auctions to optimize future designs, and strategic bidding across multiple exchanges.

Matthias Sutter elected member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)

Matthias Sutter elected member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)

The institute warmly congratulates Matthias Sutter.

University of Copenhagen Awards Christoph Engel an Honorary Doctorate

University of Copenhagen Awards Christoph Engel an Honorary Doctorate

The University of Copenhagen has awarded Christoph Engel an honorary doctorate in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of law & economics.
The institute warmly congratulates Christoph Engel! 

Bettina Rockenbach elected President of the Leopoldina

Bettina Rockenbach elected President of the Leopoldina

The economist from the University of Cologne and senior research fellow of the institute will be the first woman to head the German National Academy of Sciences. During her term of office, she will strive to increase the impact of academic discussions on policy and society and enhance cooperation with national and international partners.

SEEDEC Conference 2025: Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries takes place in Bonn

SEEDEC Conference 2025: Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries takes place in Bonn

The institute – namely Matthias Sutter’s research group on Experimental Economics – organizes the next Seedec Conference 2025 in Bonn with the Norwegian School of Economics.
The Symposium will take place from 12–13 June 2025 at the Collegium Leoninum.

Upcoming Research Seminars

Solon Barocas (Cornell University and Microsoft)

Technology for legal applications of LLMs
Apr 28, 2025 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Zoom Meeting

Henrik P. Olsen (University of Copenhagen)

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Apr 28, 2025 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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Katherine L. Milkman (Wharton OID - University of Pennsylvania)

The Power and Pitfalls of Megastudies for Advancing Applied Behavioral Science
Apr 30, 2025 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Zoom meeting, please contact Zita Green for Zoom link: green@coll.mpg.de.

External Events

Keynote Speaker: Axel Ockenfels

10th Maastricht Behavioral Economic Policy Symposium
Jun 11, 2025 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
Maastricht

Keynote Speaker: Axel Ockenfels

Computational Social Choice (COMSOC) at TU Wien, https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/comsoc2025/
Sep 17, 2025 - Sep 19, 2025
TU Wien, Institute of Logic and Computation

Recent Articles

Engel, C., & Simon, D.
Sabotaging competitors, both real and illusory.
Judgement and Decision Making, forthcoming

Engel, C., & Bechtold, S.
The valuation of moral rights: A field experiment.
American Law and Economics Review, forthcoming

Ambuehl, S., Ockenfels, A., & Stewart, C.
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 107(1), 78-94

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Discussion Papers

Felix Rusche
Broadcasting Change: India’s Community Radio Policy and Women’s Empowerment

Antonio Ciccone; Felix Rusche
Reporting Big News, Missing the Big Picture? Stock Market Performance in the Media

Christoph Engel; Yoan Hermstrüwer; Alison Kim
Human Realignment: An Empirical Study of LLMs as Legal Decision-Aids in Moral Dilemmas

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