Economic Behavior & Governance (EB&Go)

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Participation of the department in scientific centers, associations and programs

  • International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel (INCHER): Here, behavioral economics, governance research and their interplay play an important role in the work areas of governance and organization as well as innovation and transfer. Examples are the projects "Regional Returns to Education through Employment of University Graduates" and "Academic Career Dynamics in Germany over Time" as well as the interdisciplinary INCHER graduate program "Elitereproduktion im Wandel?". The departments "Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship" and "Public Management" are involved.

  • Scientific Center for Information Technology Design (ITeG): Here, for example, participation in the LOEWE priority "Social Link" ("Always Online?" - a new communication paradigm for the communication society), in which a new social communication paradigm for an optimized design of the work of knowledge workers as well as the support of their work-life balance is being researched and designed on an interdisciplinary basis. In addition to legal and technical perspectives, approaches from business psychology are also included for a holistic treatment of the issues. The department of "Business Psychology" is involved.

  • Competence Center Empirical Research Methods: Here, the expertise in econometric methods and approaches is brought in. The departments "Statistics" and "Empirical Economic Research" are involved.

  • Competence Center for Climate Protection and Adaptation (CliMA): Economic approaches and instruments play an important role in this competence center, which is closely linked to the research focus Sustainable, Energy and Environment (NEU). The departments "Environmental and Behavioral Economics", "Economic Psychology", "Fundamentals of Law, Private Law and Economics of Civil Law", "Decentralized Energy Management" and "Empirical Economic Research" are involved.

  • Competence Center for University Didactics in Mathematics (khdm): Here, among other things, research- and practice-oriented questions of learning and teaching mathematics in economic contexts are discussed against the background of behavioral scientific findings of educational economics and empirical educational research. The department "Quantitative Methods" is involved.

  • Research Network for Social Law and Social Policy (FoSS): In this network, which is supported by participants from the departments of Human Sciences, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Kassel as well as from the University of Applied Sciences Fulda, research is conducted on topics of social law and social policy in a disciplinary and interdisciplinary manner as well as from a legal and social science perspective. Topics with a particular connection to the Department of Economics are, in particular, labor market policy and health care professions. The department of "Economic, Labor and Social Law" is involved.