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 microeconometric methods, and we collaborate with psychologists and neuroscientists.
News
May 2023
The article “A note on salience of own preferences and the consensus effect” by Thomas Dohmen and coauthors was published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
April 2023
The article “The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences” by Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, and coauthors was published in Management Science.
May 2023
The article “Shifting Punishment onto Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating” by Jana Cahlíková and coauthors was published in the Economic Journal.
March 2023
The article “Conducting interactive experiments on Toloka” by Philipp Chapkovski was published in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.
January 2023
The article “The value of sick pay” by Teodora Boneva and coauthors was published in the European Economic Review.
January 2023
The article “Perceived returns to job search” by Teodora Boneva and coauthors was published in Labour Economics.
How to find us
Our offices are located at
- Lennéstraße 43 (Professors Dohmen, Kube, and von Gaudecker: +49 228 73-9238, Professor Mink: -9240);
- Juridicum/Adenauerallee 24–42 (Professors Hoppe-Fischer and Kräkel: +49 228 73-9211, Professor Budde: -9247);
- ECONtribute, Niebuhrstraße 5 (Professors Boneva and Schiprowski: +49 228 73-7910);
- briq, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 9 (Professors Falk and Zimmermann: +49 228 3894-701); and
- BGSE, Kaiserstraße 1 (Professor emeritus Schweizer: +49 228 73-7931).