Research

In some urban agglomerations in Germany, housing rents increased significantly during the last years. In a contribution for ifo Schnelldienst, Andreas Mense shows with the examples of Cologne, Munich and Hamburg that the current price increases are mainly caused by low construction activity in the p...

The cooperation in teaching and research between the Universidad de Guadalajara and the FAU in "Development Economics and International Economic Relations" is funded in 2016 by the Bavarian Academic Center for Latin America (BAYLAT). An essential part of this cooperation is the subproject “volatilit...

The aim of the well-known study “Who leads in(to) the future – Men and women in leadership positions of the German Economy”, published for the sixth time since 1986, is to get deeper knowledge about the situation of women and men in management positions. Topics are challenges and hurdles in daily pr...

Christoph Weber and Philipp Dees have investigated the differences in reservation wages for Western and Eastern Germany, published in WSI-Mitteilungen (68 (8), pp. 593-603. The abstract: “Almost twenty-five years after German reunification there is still a significant difference between the minimum ...

Jürgen Kähler and Christoph Weber published a paper on the theory of decisions under uncertainty. This paper is published in Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WiSt) 44 (10), pp. 572-578. From the abstract: “Decisions of individuals are at the center of many economic theories, like the micro-eco...