Sarah Auster Elected to EEA Management Council
Professor Sarah Auster has been elected to the Management Council of the European Economic Association (EEA) for a five-year term starting in 2027.
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2026
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday in Stockholm that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences goes to the American economists Robert E. Hall (Stanford University) and Michael Woodford (Columbia University). The prize is awarded "for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation".
Mengshan Xu joins the Department of Economics
Mengshan Xu joined the Department of Economics at the University of Bonn in October 2026 as a substitute professor of econometrics.
Presentation of the First Cläre Tisch Prize at the Manchot Lecture 2026
On 10 November 2026, the Department of Economics and the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) will present for the first time the newly established Cläre Tisch Prize for an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Economics. The prize recognizes outstanding doctoral dissertations completed at the University of Bonn’s Department of Economics. The award ceremony will take place as part of the 19th Manchot Lecture and will honor Christina Brinkmann.
Manchot Lecture 2026 - Featuring Melissa Dell
The Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) invites you to the 19th Manchot Lecture, featuring Melissa Dell. It takes place on November 10, 2026, starting at 16:30 at the Universitätsclub Bonn. This event, open to the public, welcomes all individuals interested in contemporary economics research.
Armin Falk on the Hypothese podcast
In the latest episode of the University of Bonn's Hypothese podcast, Prof.Dr. Armin Falk talks about cooperation among people. Together with Prof. Dr. Peter Andre (Goethe University Frankfurt), Prof. Dr. Teodora Boneva (University of Bonn), and Prof. Dr. Felix Chopra (Frankfurt School of Finance), he recently published the worldwide study "Homo cooperans: Understanding the nature of human cooperation", which produced surprising results.
Call for papers: 7th Annual Workshop for Women in Macroeconomics and Finance in Europe
DIW Berlin and the University of Bonn are pleased to host the 7th Workshop for Women in Macroeconomics and Finance in Europe (WIMFE) at DIW Berlin on April 22–23, 2027, in cooperation with the Bank of England. The event is co-organized by Stefanie J. Huber (University of Bonn) together with Sonja Dobkowitz, Pia Hüttl, and Teresa Schildmann (all DIW Berlin).
Benjamin Born Awarded the Carl Menger Prize
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Born, professor of macroeconomics at the Institute for Macroeconomics and Econometrics in the Department of Economics at the University of Bonn, has been awarded the Carl Menger Prize by the Verein für Socialpolitik. The award ceremony took place on September 14 at the University of Innsbruck as part of the Verein für Socialpolitik’s annual conference.