Welcome

to the web pages of the Chair of Institutional Economics and Economic Policy.

Here you find information on us, our areas of interest in research and teaching, and on how to write your thesis with us.

In case you miss any information or have further comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us at wipo[at]wiwi.upb[dot]de. We will be pleased to hear from you!

Sincerely yours,
Burkhard Hehenkamp

Research

Research and teaching at our chair can best be described as applied microeconomic theory. Our main focus is on questions of competition and occasionally contract economics, which we analyse from different perspectives and in different application contexts.

Publications of the chair

Doctoral dissertations at the chair

Completed research projects

news

09.10.2017

[Translate to English:] Teaching in Winter Term 2017/2018

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24.07.2017

New publication in journal "Health Economics"

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14.06.2017

Vortrag "Optimal Favoritism in All-Pay Auctions and Lottery Contests" von Jörg Franke (TU Dortmund)

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27.02.2017

Teaching in Summer Term 2017

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15.12.2016

Lecture "The Dark Side of Reputation" by Eugen Dimant (University of Pennsylvania)

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03.11.2016

Lecture "Pharmaceutical Spending and Early-Stage Innovation in Pharmaceuticals in Europe: an Instrumental Variable Analysis" by Dimitrios Kourouklis…

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26.09.2016

Lecture "Coverage Bias on Wikipedia? Evidence from German Members of Parliament" by Anna Kerkhof (University of Cologne)

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21.09.2016

Lecture "The effect of game/loss framing on lying behaviour" by Franziska Heinicke (Utrecht University School of Economics)

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01.09.2016

Heinz-Sauermann-Prize for Eugen Dimant

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22.06.2016

Lecture "Hidden prices" by Tobias Wenzel (University of Bath)

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25.05.2016

Lecture "Grandparents Matter: Perspectives on Intergenerational Altruism. - An Experiment on Family Dynamic Spillovers in Public Goods Games." by…

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19.05.2016

Lecture "Labor market gift-exchange and output market competition" by Arno Riedl , Professor of Economics, Maastricht University

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23.02.2016

Teaching in Summer Term 2016

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08.12.2015

Vortrag "Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom" von Sander Onderstal, Professor an der…

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24.11.2015

Vortrag "Compare and despair: social comparison concerns in auctions" von Joyce Delnoij, Utrecht University School of Economics

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Teaching

Here you will find the current range of courses offered by Prof Dr Hehenkamp's professorship, the topics for your thesis, as well as information on scientific work.

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Range of topics

Information on scientific working

Team

Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hehenkamp

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Christiane Borghoff

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Dr. Angelika Endres-Fröhlich

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M.Sc. Tahmina Faizi

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Alexander Koch

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Lillian Donna Namujju

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Amirhossein Kiannik

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Henrietta Acquah-Swanzy

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Niklas Otto

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Nico Benjamin Boesler

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