The 8th Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences takes place from 26–30 August 2025 and welcomes around 20 Economics Nobel Laureates in Lindau to exchange ideas with the next generation of leading Young Scientists from all over the world. BGSE students Lina Uhe and Moritz May have been selected and will have the opportunity to join the event.

The international ranking provider Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published this year's subject ranking. In the ranking of economics/econometrics, the Department of Economics is in 61st place. In a Germany-wide comparison, the University of Bonn's Department of Economics has improved to 2nd place compared to the previous year.

The annual Manchot Lecture, featuring Dirk Bergemann, takes place on May 06, 2025, starting at 16:00 at the Universitätsclub Bonn. This event, open to the public, welcomes all individuals interested in contemporary economics research.

Why are all parties ignoring the future of the statutory pension system? What has the changeover from HartzIV to a citizen's income achieved economically? And which economic reforms are really realistic?

Prof. Anne Hannusch completed her Ph.D. at Emory University in 2018. During her Ph.D., she visited the University of Pennsylvania and the Research Department of the European Central Bank. Prior to joining the University of Bonn, Hannusch was a junior professor at the University of Mannheim.

Can a new federal government save the economy? Should the debt brake be suspended? And are the announced tax reforms realistic or just the usual election campaign rhetoric?

Does the regulation of artificial intelligence inhibit economic potential in Europe? How is the technology changing the law? And can the AI Regulation even be implemented in practice?

"Philipp Strack from Bonn is one of the world's most research-oriented economists. Some even consider the young Yale professor a candidate for the Nobel Prize” is how WirtschaftsWoche explains its choice. With the “Deutschlands 30 bis 2030” initiative, WirtschaftsWoche honors people from Germany who “encourage others with their ideas, projects or companies, create innovations and breakthroughs and are exemplary in their field”. Economist Philipp Strack, who graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Bonn and completed his doctorate at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics, is one of the 30 award winners in 2024.