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
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.
Christoph Engel receives lifetime award by the European Association of Law and Economics
At its annual conference in Torino, the European Association for Law and Economics has bestowed its lifetime award to Christoph Engel
New publication by C.C. von Weizsäcker: "Freedom and Adaptive Preferences"
Traditional welfare economics works with the assumption of the fully rational economic agent (homo economicus) whose preferences are fixed: that is, they are not influenced by their economic environment. To the contrary, Carl Christian von Weizsäcker presents a theory of welfare economics that maintains the principles of normative individualism while allowing for adaptive or changeable preferences.
Forthcoming at Mohr Siebeck: Public Law as a Behavioral System (in German)
Joint project from the Engel research group systematizes the behavioral approach to public law. Behavioral law has evolved from singular refinements within economic analysis into a theory of assumptions for the whole of jurisprudence. Making knowledge about individual behavior accessible to doctrine and regulatory practice requires digesting empirical literature for the purposes of the law.
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