The goal of the virtual conference is to connect the core community of researchers and policymakers with the best research being conducted across a wide range of disciplines and approaches that can inform the topic of consumer finance. For this year’s conference, we especially encourage...

We are interested in papers on households’ consumption, saving, housing decisions, investment and borrowing decisions, households’ reaction to uncertainty and expectations formation and disagreements about inflation, house price developments and labor income risks. The focus will be on...

The workshop will consider papers in all areas of finance, including Asset Pricing, Behavioral Finance, Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation, Household Finance, and International Finance.

The Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 crisis have, among many other things, also affected savings behaviour. Changes involve both aggregate household savings ratios, individual propensity to consume and to save, as well as portfolio choice. While the post-GFC and COVID-induced very low...

The objective of this workshop is to host presentations and foster interaction between Senior and Junior Researchers working in the area of household finance. The workshop will include state-of-the-art research on household financial behaviour and on how this is influenced by other choices,...

Topics of Interest: Digital Platforms - Media Markets – Advertising – Privacy – E-commerce – Digital Marketing – Regulation and Competition Policy of the Digital Economy – Economics of Big Data, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence – Intellectual Property Rights – ICT,...

Our annual training school provides advanced training to enhance the understanding of current economic issues. This year the school will explore the economics of media: political influence on the media, media bias, political accountability, advertising, social media and the impacts of...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect lives around the world, it is becoming clear that the pandemic and its economic fallout are having a regressive effect on gender equality. Sociologist Jutta Allmendinger recently claimed the pandemic will set Germany back 30 years in terms of the...

This years topic will be "Supply Chain Resilience – How do companies react to and recover from global disruptions?". In today’s dynamic and turbulent world, one where the supply chain plays an increasingly more important role, numerous events occur each day that threaten to disrupt...

Aufgrund der anhaltenden Unsicherheit bezüglich der Entwicklung der Corona-Pandemie haben wir uns dazu entschlossen, die Jahrestagung 2021 als verkürzte eintägige Online-Veranstaltung durchzuführen. Welche Herausforderungen die Corona-Pandemie aus demografischer Perspektive mit sich bringt...