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

December 2023
The article “Nastiness in Groups” by Jana Cahlíková and coauthos was published in the Journal of the European Economic Association.

November 2023
The article “Religion and Cooperation across the Globe” by Thomas Dohmen and coauthors was published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

September 2023
Hanna M. Schwank, Assistant Professor of Economic History, has received the Reinhard Selten Award of the Verein für Socialpolitik for her research paper “Disruptive Effects of Natural Disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire.”

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.
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).