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 2023
The article “Accounting for Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits” by Thomas Dohmen and Tomáš Jagelka was published in Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.
September 2023
The article “Learning through period and physical time” by Teresa Backhaus and coauthors was published in Games and Economic Behavior.
August 2023
The article “Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability” by Jana Cahlíková and coauthors was published in the Journal of Development Economics.
August 2023
The article “Causal misperceptions of the part-time pay gap” by Teresa Backhaus and coauthos was published in Labour Economics.
July 2023
The article “Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach” by Tomáš Jagelka was published in the Journal of Political Economy.
July 2023
The article “Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology” by Florian Zimmermann and coauthors was published in the Review of Economic Studies.
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 (Professor Budde: -9247, Professors Fetzer, Hoppe-Fischer, and Kräkel: +49 228 73-9211);
- ECONtribute, Niebuhrstraße 5 (Professors Boneva, and Schiprowski, and Schwank: +49 228 73-7910);
- briq, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 9 (Professors Falk, Kőszegi, and Zimmermann: +49 228 3894-701); and
- BGSE, Kaiserstraße 1 (Professor emeritus Schweizer: +49 228 73-7931).