IAW Events and Seminars

The Tübingen-Hohenheim-Economics (THE) Association cordially invites you to this year’s THE (Christmas) Workshop combining a Young Researcher Workshop and a Mini Course.

Young Researcher Workshop: PhD students, post-docs, and assistant professors will present ongoing research from all areas of Economics, Econometrics, and Economic History and receive feedback from senior researchers. Presentation slots as well as poster sessions will be available. There will also be a Best Paper Award.

Mini Course: Philine Widmer, PhD (ETH Zurich), will give a short course (2 units á 90min) on "The Use of AI in Economic Research",

Program

Economic growth rates in Germany, as in most other western industrialized nations, have declined significantly in recent decades. This will not change significantly in the medium term, as calculations of so-called potential growth by the German Council of Economic Experts and others show.

This forms the background for a workshop held by the IAW and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on June 21, 2024 at the headquarters of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart. Around 20 participants from various scientific disciplines, administration, trade unions and associations discussed, among other things, how the consequences of climate change and the armed conflict continue to hamper growth and exacerbate distribution issues. Other contributions dealt with the relevance of alternative measures of prosperity and the effects on cities and regions.

Program (in German)

Award of the Norbert Kloten Prize for Applied Economic Research 2024

Carina Haller, M.Sc., Residential Energy Consumption of German Low-Income Households: The Influence of Social Benefit Transfers

Master's thesis with Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen at the Chair of Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Luis Huxel, M.Sc., Uncertainty Shocks in the Euro Area

Master's thesis with Prof. Dr. Gernot Müller at the Chair of Money and Currency at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Photo: Deutsche Bundesbank

From left to right: Dr. Patricia Staab, President of the Head Office of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Baden-Württemberg, Carina Haller, Luis Huxel, Professor Dr. Wilhelm Rall, Chairman of the Board of IAW e.V.

Lecture:

Gender equality in the labor market - scientific evidence and political options for action.

Photo: Deutsche Bundesbank

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Chair of Macroeconomics and Development at the Department of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

Panel discussion:

Gender equality in the labor market - Where do we stand and what options does politics have?

Photo: Deutsche Bundesbank

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.
Dr. Nicola Brandt, Head of the OECD Berlin Centre
Dr. Claudia Holtschlag, HR Analytics & Transformation Manager, Vodafone
Roland Wolf, Managing Director and Head of the Labor Law and Collective Bargaining Policy Department, BDA
Moderation: Johannes Pennekamp, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The Tübingen-Hohenheim-Economics (THE) Association cordially invites you to this year’s THE (Christmas) Workshop combining a Young Researcher Workshop and a Mini Course.

Young Researcher Workshop: PhD students, post-docs, and assistant professors will present ongoing research from all areas of Economics, Econometrics, and Economic History and receive feedback from senior researchers. Presentation slots as well as poster sessions will be available. There will also be a Best Paper Award.

Mini Course: Prof. Andreas Moxnes, PhD (University of Oslo), will give a short course (3 units á 90min) on "Production Networks",

Program

A number of developments are putting public administration under pressure to transform. Demographic change and the already noticeable shortage of skilled labour is just one of these developments. The requirements for the digitalisation of administration represent another challenge. The increasing flood of information requires suitable knowledge management. Experience with the provision of digital services is increasingly changing the expectations of citizens and companies. Fiscal consolidation following the coronavirus pandemic means less financial leeway. The administration is also faced with the task of shortening lengthy procedures and approval processes. The administration is also confronted with the challenges of the increasing polarisation of society and the shift in social preferences.