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
September 2024
The article “A note on motivated cognition and discriminatory beliefs” by Lasse Stötzer and Florian Zimmermann was published in Games and Economic Behavior.
September 2024
Tomáš Jagelka, postdoctoral researcher at IAME, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project “FELICITAS: What Matters for a Good Life? A Novel Approach to Essential Preferences, Skills, and Personal Attributes.” Congratulations, Tomáš!
July 2024
The article “Childhood migration and educational attainment: Evidence from Indonesia” by Hanna M. Schwank was published in the Journal of Development Economics.
June 2024
The article “Stories, Statistics, and Memory” by Florian Zimmermann and coauthors was published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
June 2024
The article “Misperceived Social Norms and Willingness to Act Against Climate Change” by Teodora Boneva, Armin Falk, and coauthors was published in the Review of Economics and Statistics.
May 2024
After having been on leave to serve as CEO of briq—Institute on Behavior and Inequality, Armin Falk has returned to the Institute for Applied Microeconomics as full professor. Welcome back, Armin!
How to find us
Our offices are located at
- Lennéstraße 43 (Professors Dohmen, Falk, Kube, Mink, and von Gaudecker);
- Juridicum/Adenauerallee 24–42 (Professor Budde, Fetzer, Hoppe-Fischer, and Kräkel);
- ECONtribute, Niebuhrstraße 5 (Professors Boneva, Kőszegi, Schiprowski, and Schwank);
- IZA, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5–9 (Professor Zimmermann);
- BGSE, Kaiserstraße 1 (Professor emeritus Schweizer).