Institute of Economics
Organisational unit: Institute
- Junior Professorship for Economics, in particular Microeconomics
- Professorship for Economics, Applied Microeconomics
- Professorship for Economics, in Particular Economic Policy
- Professorship for Economics, in particular Empirical Microeconomics
- Professorship of Economics, in particular empirical Macroeconomics
- Professorship of Economics, in particular Microeconometrics and Policy Evaluation
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.
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The exporter productivity premium along the productivity distribution: Evidence from quantile regression with nonadditive firm fixed effects
Powell, D. & Wagner, J., 25.02.2021, Microeconometric Studies Of Firms Imports And Exports: Advanced Methods Of Analysis And Evidence From German Enterprises. Wagner, J. (ed.). World Scientific Publishing Co., p. 121-149 29 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Do outliers and unobserved heterogeneity explain the exporter productivity premium? Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Wagner, J. & Temouri, Y., 25.02.2021, Microeconometric Studies Of Firms Imports And Exports: Advanced Methods Of Analysis And Evidence From German Enterprises. Wagner, J. (ed.). World Scientific Publishing Co., p. 223-236 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Exports and firm characteristics-first evidence from fractional probit panel estimates
Wagner, J., 25.02.2021, Microeconometric Studies Of Firms Imports And Exports: Advanced Methods Of Analysis And Evidence From German Enterprises. Wagner, J. (ed.). World Scientific Publishing Co., p. 39-45 7 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Exports, foreign direct investments and productivity: Are services firms different?
Wagner, J., 25.02.2021, Microeconometric Studies Of Firms Imports And Exports: Advanced Methods Of Analysis And Evidence From German Enterprises. Wagner, J. (ed.). World Scientific Publishing Co., p. 295-314 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Export intensity and plant characteristics: What can we learn from quantile regression?
Wagner, J., 25.02.2021, Microeconometric Studies Of Firms Imports And Exports: Advanced Methods Of Analysis And Evidence From German Enterprises. Wagner, J. (ed.). World Scientific Publishing Co., p. 111-120 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Markups and Concentration in the Context of Digitization: Evidence from German Manufacturing Industries
Weche, J. P. & Wagner, J., 25.11.2021, In: Jahrbucher für Nationalokonomie und Statistik. 241, 5-6, p. 667-699 33 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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With a little help from my website. Firm survial and web presence in times of COVID-19 - Evidence from 10 European Countries
Wagner, J., 17.09.2021, In: Economics Bulletin. 41, 3, p. 1898-1906 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Growth and welfare effects of tax cuts: The case of a productive public input with technological risk
Ott, I. & Soretz, S., 06.2004, In: Empirica. 31, 2-3, p. 117-135 19 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Of housewives and feminists: Gender norms and intra-household division of labour
Görges, L., 10.2021, In: Labour Economics. 72, 17 p., 102044.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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How to make universal, voluntary testing for COVID-19 work? A behavioural economics perspective
Fallucchi, F., Görges, L., Machado, J., Pieters, A. & Suhrcke, M., 01.08.2021, In: Health Policy. 125, 8, p. 972-980 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review