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Thünen Lecture 2025: Ulrike Malmendier (University of California in Berkeley): "Homo Experiens" Thünen Lecture 2024: Ottmar Edenhofer (Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung): "The (Missing) Third Pillar – Why…
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Hermann-Heinrich-Gossen-Preis 2025: Claudia Steinwender (LMU München) Claudia Steinwender hat herausragende Beiträge zur empirischen Handels- und Innovationsökonomie geleistet, insbesondere zu den Auswirkungen…
Reinhard-Selten-Preisträger 2025: Kai Fischer und Honghao Zheng for their paper “Demand (Un)certainty and Productivity: Evidence from the German Coal Mining Industry“. The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual…