Seminars in summer term 2023
The following seminars will be offered in the summer term 2023:
Bachelor: Seminar on Media Bias
Master: Topics in Digital Economics
All information and especially the seminar topics can be found on Learnweb.
Research group seeks methods to protect consumers
Research funds in the millions approved
Companies use a variety of hurdles to bind consumers to contracts. Misleading contract clauses, incorrect product information, hidden additional costs often spell doom for older, less educated or poorer people.
Research network strives for better design of sustainable financial products
Prof. Dr. Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and his team jointly develop ecolabels to make climate-related information more available for investment decisions
To achieve the goal of climate neutrality by 2050, the financial sector plays a central role alongside the scaling of "green" economic activities. The universities of Bochum and Münster, the sustainable finance think tank Climate & Company and the Leibniz Institute SAFE are working together with experts to develop ecolabels to help investors make decisions about investments that support the transformation of the economy.
New study on the effect of gas and electricity price brakes
In order to support German households and companies in the face of skyrocketing energy costs, the so-called gas and electricity price brakes are to come into force from January 1, 2023. The new feature of these relief measures is that both households and industry will receive a transfer, which will increase in contracted gas and electricity prices. Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt of WWU Münster and Christian Wey of HHU Düsseldorf show in a formal model that such transfers create incentives to inflate contracted gas and electricity prices.
Summer academy
Currently, Prof. Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt is teaching at the Summer Academy of the German National Academic Foundation on the topic of "From Rational Agents and Actual Decisions - Cooperation and Sustainability between Economics and Psychology".
"No risk, no fun"
Interview in Harvard Business manager 10/2022 with Prof. Dr. Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt on a study conducted together with Johannes Kasinger and Dimitrij Schneider. The analysis of 4.5 million poker games allows conclusions to be drawn about entrepreneurial decisions.
Guest article by Prof. Dertwinkel-Kalt in the "WELT
On the Importance of the Celebrity Effect in Coverage of the Pandemic and the War.
DFG project started
New method for defining (digital) markets
A central prerequisite for deciding antitrust cases is market definition, i.e., determining which products are in competition with each other. Conventional methods of market delineation have a number of weaknesses and are in particular not suitable to delineate markets of digital goods. In this project, a new survey method for market delineation will be developed, tested and applied to current cases in competition economics. The survey method presented here is based on insights from other economic disciplines, in particular decision theory and experimental economics.
Prof. Dertwinkel-Kalt on a visit to Stern TV
Prof. Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt was invited to Stern TV on 17.07.2022 as a scientific expert on the topic of inflation.
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