Vorzeitig defekte bzw. nicht mehr voll funktionsfähige Produkte sind ein Ärgernis für Verbraucher. Ausgewiesene Experten aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Verbänden werden das vielschichtige Problem der Obsoleszenz aus dem Blickwinkel unterschiedlicher Disziplinen beleuchten. Ziel des...

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

Topics: - Patterns of asset allocation and debt behavior over the life cycle - Financing retirement and the demographic transition - Consumer indebtedness, financial distress and default decisions - Behavioral approaches to household finances - Financial literacy and financial education...

The Degrowth Conference questions the importance of growth for economic policy and seeks to promote social and sustainable alternatives. The 2014 conference will give room for scientific debates, exchange between activists and economic/cultural pioneers and also artistic approaches to the subject.

The theme for ICAR 2014 is Anti consumption and consumer wellbeing. In the last two decades of the new millennia, we have seen consumer wellbeing affected in two vastly opposing ways. On the one hand, we see an ever increasing conglomeration of corporations, leading to larger, more ubiquitous,...

In the spirit of pluralism characteristic of the EAEPE, many Research Areas are relevant: human development, environmental economics, methodology of economics, institutional history, comparative economics, transition economics, institutional change, innovation and technology, and labour...

Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political science, public health, psychology and sociology) who use the SOEP or the SOEP part of the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF) are invited to submit an abstract. We encourage in particular submissions of papers...

Die Veranstaltung richtet sich neben den Mitgliedern der Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) auch an alle anderen Studierenden, Doktoranden und Nachwuchswissenschaftler in den Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme sind solide Kenntnisse in...

This conference aims to identify the linkages between social stratification and mobility with social policy and welfare states. It looks for questions and answers that lie at the intersection of stratification and policy. For example: Does social policy enable or inhibit social mobility? Do...

The conference will cover various aspects of the question “how to promote growing prosperity that is socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable” and explore their interconnectedness. Topics: - Growth & Prosperity - Environmental Sustainability - Social inclusiveness & Inequality