Peter Andre (BGSE) and Armin Falk (Briq) asked 10,000 economists worldwide what they think economics should be working on and what its objectives should be? Many would like to see more policy relevance, interdisciplinarity, topic diversity, and risk-taking research for their discipline.

Transdisciplinary project: Philipp Eisenhauer and Lena Janys of the Department of Economics and other researchers at the University of Bonn are linking computer-based models from economics, epidemiology, and financial research.