Our PhD student Alexander Guggenberger had the opportunity to visit the Department of Applied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam from October to December 2024. During his stay, Alexander focused on advancing his research on human-AI decision-making as well as presenting and dicussing his current work papers. “Read more” about his research stay.

The Language Centre is offering an attractive program once again for the coming summer semester with courses in 12 different languages and many courses with a specific language focus, such as academic German and English and Business English. A new addition to the programme is language learning consultation, which is integrated into the course “Learning languages: individual and diverse “. There are also many extras such as the Language Meetup or the Tandem Language Learning Partnership. The course program is available on the Language Center’s homepage. Course brochures are also available at the Language Centre.

On November 20-22, the Department of Economics hosted the first PLUS Econ workshop, a forum for presenting and discussing current research in text analysis, survey experiments, and human-algorithm interactions related to policy making in the EU. Presentations by international researchers from the Ifo Institute, U Bocconi, U Cambridge, U Tor Vergata of Rome, and U Ulm made this workshop a great success!