Institute for Applied Microeconomics

The research conducted at the Institute for Applied Micro­economics (IAME) covers a broad range of topics, including

• labor economics, the economics of education, and human develop­ment,
• preference formation, evolution of social norms, and cognitive and affective deter­minants of decision-making,
• health and environ­mental economics,
• industrial organization, managerial economics, and per­sonnel eco­nomics.

In our research, we

• apply micro­economic theory,
• we conduct lab and field experi­ments,
• we analyze survey and admin­is­trative data using state-of-the-art econo­metric methods, and
• we col­laborate with psy­cholo­gists and neuro­scien­tists.