Organisation profile

In research and teaching, the Institute of Economics deals with economic issues covering a wide range of topics.
The Institute's thematic focuses include applied microeconomics, macroeconomics, empirical economic research, economic policy, economic theory and financial markets. The following pages provide a detailed insight into the research and teaching activities of the institute.

Main research areas

The main research areas of the Institute of Economics are:

  • Microeconometric studies on international firm activity, firm demography and workplace dynamics, and industrial relations
  • Economic analyses of regulation and deregulation
  • Economic analyses of insurance markets
  • Applied microeconomics with empirical focus (e.g. labour, health, education).
  • Macroeconomic research questions in areas such as labour market research, inequality research, monetary policy, fiscal policy, foreign trade theory and growth theory.
  1. 2011
  2. International Workshop of the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center and Institut for Employment Research - LASER/IAB 2011

    Hirsch, B. (Speaker)

    03.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  3. Einführung in die WissenschaftsPraxis

    Schmidt, D. (Participant) & Gärtner, J. (Participant)

    21.02.201124.02.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  4. 14th Colloquium in Personnel Economics

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    09.02.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. 9. Personalökonomisches Kolloquium 2011

    Humpert, S. (Speaker)

    09.02.201112.02.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. The effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions in an internal labor market

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    09.02.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Faculty of Economics and Management University Paderborn - 2011

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    17.01.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Workshop of Institute of Economics 2011

    Humpert, S. (Speaker)

    12.01.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  9. Peter Lang (Publisher)

    Pape, A. (Editor)

    2011 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of unfinished anthology/collectionResearch

  10. Verein für Socialpolitik e.V. (External organisation)

    Enkelmann, S. (Member)

    2011 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  11. Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungskolloquium in Lüneburg - 2011

    El Masri, T. M. (Speaker)

    2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  12. 2010
  13. 4. Workshop on Political Economy - 2010

    Enkelmann, S. (Participant)

    19.11.201020.11.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  14. 5. Workshop Makroökonomik und Konjunktur - 2010

    Enkelmann, S. (Speaker)

    18.11.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Heinemann, M. (Full member)

    01.10.2010 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  16. School of Management and Technology (Organisational unit)

    Pfeifer, C. (Full member)

    01.10.20102020

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  17. School of Management and Technology (Organisational unit)

    Wein, T. (Deputy member)

    01.10.2010 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  18. School of Management and Technology (Organisational unit)

    Heinemann, M. (Deputy member)

    01.10.2010 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  19. Co-determination Workshop Lüneburg 2010

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    23.09.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  20. Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik - 2009

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    09.09.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  21. 10. Jahrestagung Verein für Socialpolitik - 2010

    Hirsch, B. (Speaker)

    09.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  22. Mercator School of Management

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    19.07.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  23. The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review (Journal)

    Wein, T. (Reviewer)

    30.06.201030.12.2100

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  24. School of Management and Technology (Organisational unit)

    Pape, A. (Member)

    28.06.201018.12.2010

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  25. Wissenschaftstheorie

    Schmidt, D. (Participant)

    19.06.201026.06.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  26. Forschungsseminar, Universität Augsburg 2010

    Hirsch, B. (Speaker)

    06.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  27. Applied Econometrics with Stata for PhD Students

    Schmidt, D. (Participant)

    23.04.201009.07.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  28. Annual Meeting of Population Association of America - 2010

    Karaman Örsal, D. (Speaker)

    15.04.201017.04.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  29. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Pape, A. (Deputy member)

    2010 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  30. School of Management and Technology (Organisational unit)

    Pfeifer, C. (Member)

    20102016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  31. Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungskolloquium in Lüneburg - 2011

    El Masri, T. M. (Speaker)

    2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  32. 2009
  33. The Increasing Importance of Economic Conditions on Fertility

    Karaman Örsal, D. (Oral presentation)

    10.12.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  34. 4. Workshop Makroökonomik und Konjunktur - 2009

    Enkelmann, S. (Speaker)

    19.11.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  35. Effective working hours and wages: the case of downward adjustment via paid absenteeism

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    04.11.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  36. Managing Turnover

    Pfeifer, C. (Lecturer)

    27.10.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  37. Universität Zürich

    Pfeifer, C. (Visiting researcher)

    26.10.200929.10.2009

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  38. SOEPcampus@Universität Bielefeld - 2009

    Humpert, S. (Speaker)

    28.09.200902.10.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  39. Antrittsvorlesung, Leuphana University Lüneburg

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    18.09.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  40. Deferred Compensation Schemes, Fairness Concerns, and Employment of Older Workers

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    09.09.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  41. Deferred Compensation Schemes, Fairness Concerns, and Employment of Older Workers

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    09.09.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  42. Works councils and separations: Voice, monopoly, and insurance effects

    Hirsch, B. (Speaker)

    09.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  43. School of Management and Technology (Organisational unit)

    Pape, A. (Member)

    10.08.200929.01.2010

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  44. 15th International Conference on Panel Data 2009

    Karaman Örsal, D. (presenter)

    03.07.200905.07.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  45. Summer School in Law and Economics - 2009

    Pape, A. (Participant)

    02.06.200906.06.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  46. 12th Colloquium in Personnel Economics - COPE 2009

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    05.05.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  47. School of Management and Technology (Organisational unit)

    Pape, A. (Member)

    05.2009 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  48. Humboldt-Copenhagen Conference 2009

    Karaman Örsal, D. (Participant)

    20.03.200921.03.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  49. Institutionen ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit, Evangelische Akademie Tutzing (Keynote) 2009

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    10.03.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  50. Hejnice (Haindorf) Seminar - 2009

    Karaman Örsal, D. (Speaker)

    12.02.200915.02.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  51. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Pape, A. (Coordinator)

    01.02.2009 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  52. An intra-firm perspective on wage profiles and employment of older workers

    Pfeifer, C. (Speaker)

    08.01.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  53. School of Management and Technology (Organisational unit)

    Pfeifer, C. (Member)

    2009 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees