Chairs
Chair of Agricultural Economics and Policy
The main objective of the Agricultural Economics and Policy Group is to improve the understanding of interactions between policies and production and risk management decisions in the agricultural and food sector.
Chair of Applied Macroeconomics
Members of the Chair of Applied Macroeconomics conduct mainly empirical and policy-relevant research in the broad field of macroeconomics and political economy.
Chair of Economics / Resource Economics
The Chairs research covers a broad range of aspects regarding the relationship between exhaustible and renewable natural resources and pollution on the one hand and long-term economic development on the other.
Chair of Integrative Risk Management and Economics
The Chair aims at achieving research in the economics of risk management, with a particular interest for approaches that look at various sources of risk with an integrative point of view.
Chair of Political Economy and eDemocracy
The group's goal is to understand and, in turn, improve democratic decision making. We analyse the behaviour of political actors and the role of political institutions in shaping policy. I
Chair of Applied Economics: Innovation and Internationalization
Innovation and internationalisation pursue research mainly in the areas of applied international and public economics and in applied econometrics.
Chair of Energy and Climate Economics
The research of the group focus on the macroeconomic and social consequences of ecological developments and environmental policy decisions.
Chair of Energy and Public Economics
The Chair improves the understanding of issues in energy economics and makes critical contributions in the design and evaluation of energy policy instruments by providing analysis based on the rigorous application of econometric methods.
Chair of Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy
The Chair developes theoretical models to understand short- and long-term economic and political problems, and contributes to improvements of these issues.
Chair of Public Economics
Members of the Chair of Public Economics focus on theoretical, empirical and experimental research in areas of public economics, such as corporate taxation, social security, fiscal federalism and behavioral public economics. The research strategy involves both normative and political economy analyses.