The Department of Economics congratulates Jun.-Prof. Dr. Amelie Schiprowski: She has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth €1.5 million. The European Research Council (ERC) uses this funding line to support researchers at the beginning of their careers. The grant will enable her to carry out her own research projects on the topic of career entry in tight labor markets over the next five years.

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 edition of the European Doctoral Programme (EDP) Jamboree will be hosted by the Bonn Graduate School of Economics with support by ECONtribute. The event will take place in on September 11–12, 2025. The venue is the Reinhard Selten Room 0.017, Juridicum, Adenauer Allee 24–42, 53113 Bonn.

On September 1, 2025, Benjamin Born joined the University of Bonn as Professor of Macroeconomics. He has held faculty positions at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and at the Universities of Bonn and Mannheim, and earned his PhD from the Bonn Graduate School of Economics.

What effects does migration have on the German labor market? Can it help to close the skills gap? And why is Germany unpopular, especially among highly qualified workers?

Every year, the Rectorate of the University of Bonn and the Department of Economics award teaching awards to lecturers who have made outstanding achievements in teaching. The teaching awards recognize and highlight excellent teaching at the University of Bonn. There are four award categories for economics courses, which take into account the different framework conditions and requirements for teaching in terms of the number of participants, compulsory or elective courses. One teaching award is presented by the Rectorate, the other three by the Department of Economics.

Statement by the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Bonn on the awarding of an honorary doctorate to Paul von Hindenburg in 1926.

Ms. Paula Jacobs received the Bundesbank Science Prize 2025 for excellent theses for her Master's thesis “Above and Below Zero: Bank Lending in a Post-Negative Policy Rate Era.” The prize was awarded on June 24, 2025 by the President of the North Rhine-Westphalia Head Office of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Mr. Christian Otto, at the Juridicum in Bonn. This year's prize was endowed with 2,000 euros. We would like to congratulate the winner!  

Congratulations! Maximilian Grimm graduated from the Bonn Graduate School of Economics.