Können kleine verhaltensökonomische Impulse („Nudges“) private Haushalte in der Energiekrise zu mehr Einsparungen beim Gasverbrauch bewegen? Eine aktuelle Studie der Universität Paderborn, der Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam und des ZEW Mannheim, hat diese Frage untersucht. In einem Feldexperiment mit knapp 2.600 Haushalten während der Energiekrise 2022/23 zeigte sich: Soziale Vergleiche und schriftliche Erinnerungen an geplante Sparmaßnahmen…
On Monday, the 19th of January, the central thesis allocation process of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics for the coming summer semester 2026 will start. The deadline for applications is the 30th of January. Further information can be found here.
On the 15th of November, 2025, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hehenkamp will give a presentation on "Sustainable hospital regulation: On the welfare implications of digital treatments" at the XVI Workshop of the dggö committee Allocation and Distribution.
The article "Prudence and prevention - empirical evidence" by Thomas Mayrhofer and Hendrik Schmitz has been accepted for publication by the Journal Economics Letters.
On the 13th of September, 2025, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hehenkamp will give a presentation on "Sustainable hospital regulation - On the welfare implications of digital treatment" at the 4th APHEC Workshop of the University of Genoa.
