Welcome
How is the wealth of nations created? And how can this prosperity be secured in the long term in times of multiple crises that do not stop at national borders?
These are the questions addressed by the team of the Chair of Economic Policy. Innovations and the wise use and the further development of technologies play an important role in this context. However, it is also important how the interactions between the state, the economy and society are organized. This institutional setting can and must also be shaped and evaluated on a regular basis. Innovations and the rules we give ourselves must be consistently developed together to address the global challenges and secure prosperity in the long term.
We work quantitatively within the framework of theoretical models (dynamic macro theory, game theory). In addition, we apply modern methods of data analysis (natural language processing, time series analysis, synthetic control).
Publications
Based on over 3800 newspaper articles, Martha Loewe and Ingrid Ott study by means if Structural Topic Modeling how media reports on Roboticts/AI and Real World Labs. A list of all publications at the chair can be found here.
Research
We collaborate with colleagues on the following projects: Real Lab Robotic AI and Clean Circles - Iron as an Energy Source for a Climate-Neutral Circular Economy.
Resul Zoroğlu,research associate at the Chair of Economic Policy, is spending a research stay at Boston College in den USA. in the USA from September to December 2024. He will be working there in particular with Professors Utku Ünver, Hideo Konishi and Tayfun Sönmez.
We wish Resul Zoroğlu a successful and productive stay in Boston!
On 08.08.2024, the chair team visited the Waldseilpark Karlsruhe in Durlach together and had an interesting and varied afternoon in nature.
During the Dialogue Day of the Department of Economics and Management, the Dean Prof. Marc Wouters honored Fenja. She was awarded the prize for the best doctorate in economics. The topic of her thesis is "Trademarks and Textual Data - A Broader Perspective on Innovation". Fenja completed her dissertation as part of the first cotutelle process of our department together with the University of Strasbourg.
We welcome Ms. Daniela Goth to the Chair of Economic Policy. Ms. Daniela Goth already worked at the chair for several years during her studies of industrial engineering and now joins our team as a research assistant. Her main areas of responsibility are IT administration, teaching and participation in the Geothermal Energy & Lithium project.
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Nikas Scheidt, research assistant at the Chair of Economic Policy will participate in the upcoming 37th International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems (ECOS). As part of the session "Energy Market / Policies", our team will present our latest research on Monday, July 3, 2024.
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We would like to welcome Ms. Menna Ghoniem to the Chair of Economic Policy. Menna received her Master of Economics degree in Innovation Economics from the University of Hohenheim. Subsequently, she worked as a research assistant at the Department of Corporate Finance at the University of Mannheim. She is interested in contributing to research on the main drivers of innovation diffusion and the adoption of new technologies in the digital age. We are thrilled to have her as a research assistant and Ph.D. student.