The online application phase for theses for the winter semester 2021/2022 starts today. Here you can find more information about writing a thesis at the Chair of Microeconomics and the clearinghouse at the Department of Business Administration and Economics.

Simon Hoof published the paper "Dynamic Monopolistic Competition" in the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-021-01843-w). Abstract: I study a dynamic variant of the Dixit–Stiglitz (Am Econ Rev 67(3), 1977) model of monopolistic competition by introducing price stickiness à la Fershtman and Kamien (Econometrica 55(5), 1987). The analysis is restricted to bounded quantity and price paths that…

A Special Issue on "Bargaining", guest-edited by Claus-Jochen Haake and Walter Trockel, has been published in the Springer journal Homo Oeconomicus. You can read the whole issue here: bit.ly/3r0cJod The introduction refers to the different topics on bargaining theory covered in the issue and emphasizes the cross-links between them. You can read the editorial here: https://bit.ly/34lBlOh If you would like to read more publications of the Chair…