Whether people invest in stocks depends on what they think about stockholders. This is what a team led by Luca Henkel, a member of the ECONtribute Cluster of Excellence: Markets & Public Policy at the University of Bonn, found out. The study has been published as an ECONtribute Discussion Paper.

Moritz Schularick will become the new president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in June 2023. The Department of Economics thanks Mr. Schularick for his work in research and teaching over the past 10 years and wishes him much success in his new task.

Moral universalism is defined as the extent to which people exhibit the same level of altruism and trust towards strangers as towards in-group members. Universalism focuses on how a person’s altruism or trust changes based on the distance between them and the group they are interacting with, rather than one individual’s overall level of altruism or trust. Therefore, a universalist places less emphasis on group- or place-based identities than communitarians do.

Zainab Iftikhar is new Associate Professor of Macroeconomics at the Department of Economics and ECONtribute.

New opening hours, new rules, hourly booking of workrooms.

As of now, the two study rooms on the 1st floor of the Juridicum can again be used by groups of up to 4 (room 0.013) or 6 (room 0.014) persons.

Young people would accept a lower salary for a job in a sustainable or socially oriented company. This is what a team led by Thomas Dohmen, professor at the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute at the University of Bonn, has discovered.