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

19.09.2018

41. Jahresta­gung der GfeW in Pader­born 2018

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12.09.2018

Suc­cess­fully passed doc­tor­ates at our chair

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07.02.2018

Ver­öf­fent­lichung in der Zeits­chrift "Ap­plied Eco­nom­ics Let­ters"

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22.01.2018

Teach­ing in Sum­mer Term 2018

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09.01.2018

Lec­ture "Pre­vent­ing the Tyranny of the Ma­jor­ity - Ex­per­i­ment on Choos­ing Vot­ing Thresholds be­hind the Veil of Ig­nor­ance" by Alex…

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27.11.2017

New pub­lic­a­tion in "Journ­al of Con­flict Res­ol­u­tion"

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30.10.2017

Lec­ture "GPs, Con­tracts and In­equal­it­ies" by Oddvar Kaar­bøe (Uni­ver­sity of Oslo)

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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…

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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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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.

Of­fice hours

Range of top­ics

In­form­a­tion on sci­entif­ic work­ing

Team

Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hehenkamp

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Christiane Borghoff

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Tahmina Faizi, , M.Sc.

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