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.
In February 2025 our research associate Narek Mirzoyan participated in the third Financial Geography Winter School (24-25 February 2025) and Conference (26-28 February 2025) at the National University of Singapore. Narek's participation in the events was made possible by a travel grant from the Singapore Journal of Tropic Geography and financial support from the graduate school CuKnow.
More details in the dedicated article
Narek Mirzoyan, research assistant at the Chair of Economic Policy, took part in the ‘Regional Revitalisation and Well-being’ conference in Tokyo on 7 and 8 December 2024. He presented his research paper on the effectiveness of diesel driving bans in Germany and received valuable feedback from the other participants. Narek: ‘The conference was a great opportunity to connect with fellow researchers from around the world, exchange ideas and foster collaboration within the economic policy research community’.
The conference participation was possible thanks to the support of the KIT Graduate School CuKnow.
Dienstag, 20. Mai 16 bis 17 Uhr, MobiLab am Kronenplatz: Kaiserstraße 93
Die KIT-Graduiertenschule Cultures of Knowledge (CuKnow) am KIT-Zentrum Mensch und
Technik bietet einen Ort für interdisziplinären Austausch, Lernen und Forschen. Am MobiLab stellte Prof. Dr. Ingrid Ott, Sprecherin von CuKnow, die Graduiertenschule vor. Bingzhu Qi berichteten von Erfahrungen als Promovierender der Graduiertenschule. Alle
Besucherinnen und Besucher waren herzlich eingeladen, sich an den Diskussionen über
„Wissenskulturen“ zu beteiligen.
Mehr Informationen auf der Seite des Effekt-Festivals
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.