Institute for Applied Microeconomics
The research conducted at the Institute for Applied Microeconomics (IAME) covers a broad range of topics, including
- labor economics, the economics of education, and human development,
- preference formation, evolution of social norms, and cognitive and affective determinants of decision-making,
- health and environmental economics,
- industrial organization, managerial economics, and personnel economics.
In our research, we apply microeconomic theory, we conduct lab and field experiments, we analyze survey and administrative data using state-of-the-art microeconometric methods, and we collaborate with psychologists and neuroscientists.
News
March 2024
The article “The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses After Job Displacement” by Hannah Illing and coauthors was published in the Journal of the European Economic Association.
February 2024
The article “A representative survey experiment of motivated climate change denial” by Lasse S. Stötzer and Florian Zimmermann was published in Nature Climate Change.
January 2024
The article “Intertemporal Altruism” by Armin Falk and coauthors was published in American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
December 2023
The article “Attention and Dread: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information” by Armin Falk and Florian Zimmermann was published in Management Science.
December 2023
The article “Nastiness in Groups” by Jana Cahlíková and coauthos was published in the Journal of the European Economic Association.
November 2023
The article “Religion and Cooperation across the Globe” by Thomas Dohmen and coauthors was published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
How to find us
Our offices are located at
- Lennéstraße 43 (Professors Dohmen, Kube, and von Gaudecker: +49 228 73-9238, Professor Mink: -9240);
- Juridicum/Adenauerallee 24–42 (Professor Budde: -9247, Professors Fetzer, Hoppe-Fischer, and Kräkel: +49 228 73-9211);
- ECONtribute, Niebuhrstraße 5 (Professors Boneva, Kőszegi, and Schiprowski, and Schwank: +49 228 73-7910);
- IZA, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5–9 (Professors Falk, and Zimmermann); and
- BGSE, Kaiserstraße 1 (Professor emeritus Schweizer: +49 228 73-7931).