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Together with Prof. Lars P. Feld and Prof. Christoph M. Schmidt, Prof. Volker Wieland has received the 2023 Regulatory Policy Award from the German Business Association of Family Companies. The three former members of the German Council of Economic Experts were honored for their joint opinion piece "Time has come for supply-oriented fiscal policy," which was published in the "Frankfurter...[more]

New research sheds light on the reasons for co-housing situations in both countries[more]

Apply until September 30, 2023: The Dr. Mihael Foit und Elfriede Stich-Foit Foundation wants to promote junior reseachers (master and doctoral students) in the areas finance, risk research, and business informatics by donating prizes for the best master thesis (500 €) und the best dissertation (1000 €) completed at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Goethe University in one of these fields...[more]

Banks increasingly manage customer relations through automated letters or online notifications. However, a personal conversation with bank employees can positively influence the behavior of defaulting borrowers A telephone conversation between bank employees and defaulting debtors is crucial for the latter to clear their arrears more quickly than defaulting borrowers who simply receive an...[more]

As we browse the internet, we often leave traces of our online activities. These traces are frequently used to target us with advertising, but they can also be used for purposes that are more problematic in terms of personal rights and, in the worst case, for criminal activities. In response to this, the European Union enacted the GDPR in 2018 to help protect users' online privacy. However, have...[more]

When you think about the topics of ESG and sustainability, images of nature and the environment probably come immediately to mind. However, what is often overlooked here: ESG consists not only of "E" for "Environment" but also of "S" for "Social" and "G" for "Governance". Even though the climate crisis is currently a highly urgent...[more]

In his dissertation, Lukas Jürgensmeier proposes how to measure whether competition is fair, especially on digital platforms such as Amazon. For this work, the Informs Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) awarded Lukas Jürgensmeier the 2023 ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Award at this year’s Marketing Science Conference in Miami, Florida. The award comes with US$ 5,000 prize money and is considered...[more]