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

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…

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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…

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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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16.11.2015

Vor­trag „Dif­fer­ent Frames or dif­fer­ent Games? Com­par­ing Com­mon Pool and Pub­lic Good So­cial Di­lem­mas"von Fe­lix Kölle, Uni­versität zu Köln

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28.10.2015

Work­shop im Rah­men der Ver­an­stal­tung "Money, Money, Money - Re­giert Geld un­sere Welt?"

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29.09.2015

Vor­trag am Cen­ter and Labor­at­ory for Be­ha­vi­or­al Op­er­a­tions and Eco­nom­ics

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02.09.2015

Present­a­tion at the In­sti­tute for the World Eco­nomy & IN­ET Young Schol­ars Ini­ti­at­ive

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19.08.2015

Present­a­tion at the Cen­ter for Game The­ory in Stony Brook

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27.07.2015

Present­a­tion at the Kiel In­sti­tute for the World Eco­nomy

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09.07.2015

Vorträge bei der So­ci­ety of Eco­nom­ic Design Con­fer­ence in Istan­bul

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02.07.2015

Present­a­tion: "Com­pli­ance - From risk avoid­ance to in­creas­ing com­pany value"

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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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