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In the summer semester 2014, the Chair of Economic Theory, Prof. Dr. Grimm, and the Chair of Regulation and Energy Markets, Prof. Dr. Zöttl, will offer an interdisciplinary seminar on Energy Markets in cooperation with N-ERGIE Nuremberg. The seminar will be held as block course during the semester. ...

Seminar: Tax Avoidance and Corporate Tax Shelters Winter Semester 2013/2014 First mandatory meeting: 17th October 2013 at 16:45   In the winter semester 2013/2014 the Chair of Economic Theory (Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm) offers a Seminar on Corporate Tax Shelters. The seminar ...

Why obey the law? – Norms, rules and lows: Real world, theory and behavioral experiments Winter Semester 2013/2014 First Meeting & Preliminary Discussion: Friday October 18 at 3.00 p.m. - room 5.430 In the winter semester 2013/2014 the Chair of Economic Theory (Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm) hold...

In the winter semester 2013/2014 the Chair of Economic Theory (Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm) holds the annual Project Seminar on Experimental Economics. The seminar is open to Master and Doctoral Students. The objective of the seminar is the development, execution, and analysis of an experimental res...

Bavaria’s elite network promotes, beginning in 2013, the newly funded international graduate program “Evidence Based Economics” for a duration of (at first) 4 years. The cluster, led by the Munich-based Ludwig-Maximilian-University, engages the Universities of Regensburg, Würzburg, as well as the FA...

Nine outstanding and original projects were launched within the Emerging Fields Initiative in 2012. FAU hosts the Emerging Fields Lectures to introduce these cutting-edge research projects and offer participants the opportunity to ask questions and discuss EFI projects. Four lectures will be hel...

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences of 2012 goes to the two scientists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley. Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm, chair of Economics and Economic Theory explains why she thinks that this award for the two US-Americans is well-deserved, which relation she has to the award and to whic...

In the winter term of 2021/22, the Chair of Economic Theory will continue to offer the seminar on Behavioural Economics. This time, the general topic is related to political behaviours such as voting. We believe this is a timely topic as the 2021 Germany general election is approaching. We have upda...