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In cooperation with the IFRS Foundation, the German Standard-Setter DRSC, Goethe University Frankfurt and the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE are inviting you to the Sustainability Standards Conference 2024. With further support from the House of Finance and Deutsche Börse Group, the conference will address topics related to the current standard-setting activities of the ISSB both...[more]

Since February 2024, Philipp Boeing is Professor for Empirical Innovation Research with Focus on China at the Department of Economic Policy and Quantitative Methods. He received his doctorate from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, was Assistant Professor at Peking University and is Senior Researcher at the ZEW - Leibniz Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim. His...[more]

Should companies using AI chatbots be transparent about the involvement of human employees working behind the scenes? Do customer interactions change when human involvement is disclosed? If so, how and why? A recent paper published in Information Systems Research written by Oliver Hinz and other researchers offers some answers to these questions. The findings suggest that disclosing potential...[more]

Researchers conducted a globally representative survey and showed broad support for climate protection for the first time / However, the willingness of others to do something about climate protection is systematically underestimated.[more]

Prof. Rainer Haselmann, Chair of Finance, Accounting and Taxation at Goethe Universität, now forms part of the IMFS Executive Board. In December 2023, he joined as a Research Professor. In this capacity, he essentially supports the new Financial Stability Initiative at the IMFS.[more]

On November 20, an outstanding, practice-relevant doctoral thesis from the Department of Economics was awarded the IHK Dissertation Prize in a festive ceremony: Dr. Konstantin Bräuer receives the IHK Dissertation Prize 2023, endowed with 6,000 euros, for his work "Essays on Household Finance". Congratulations to him! Information on the prize can be found here. [more]

These days, news articles about current events seem to be available everywhere and at any time. However, which content do we choose? Do we tend to read and like articles that confirm our prior beliefs and convictions? And how are these beliefs and convictions affected by what we read? A new paper by Ester Faia and co-authors, which will be published in the journal Review of Economics and...[more]