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BEST PAPER AWARD
The award for the best paper published in the journal Environmental and Resource Economics in 2011 goes to Heidelberg – almost. While the affiliation of the lead author of the paper is Heidelberg, Travis Warziniack, junior professor at the Dept. of Economics from 2009 to 2011, has since moved on. The paper titled “Stepping stones for biological invasion: A bioeconomic model of transferable risk” (Environmental and Resource Economics 50(4), 605-627, DOI: 10.1007/s10640-011-9485-7) was cited as “a superb paper uniting a diversity of insights drawn from multiple disciplines to show how economics can address a major environmental issue in a sophisticated manner” by the Award Committee.
DFG ROUNDTABLE ON ECONOMICS AND ECOLOGY
On June 14-15, 2012 Timo Goeschl and Gerd Graf (Rostock) organized a DFG Roundtable on Ecology and Economics at the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg. Ten researchers from economics and ecology discussed common methodological challenges and applications to advance our scientific toolboxes and address major environmental problems.
DFG PIORITY PROGRAM ON CLIMATE ENGINEERING
An Inception Meeting on June 25-26 in Hildesheim heralded the start of the new DFG Priority Program on “Climate Engineering: Risks, Challenges, Opportunities?” in Hildesheim on June 25-26. Heidelberg has had a major role in spearheading the proposal. For more information please click here .
HCE - KOLLOQUIUM "HEIDELBERGER BRÜCKE"
Das neue Programm der öffentlichen Reihe "Heidelberger Brücke" des HCE für das Sommersemester 2013 ist da. Sie finden das Programm hier.
FZU-ZEW EnvEcon Monthly Brownbag
The next FZU-ZEW EnvEcon Monthly Brownbag takes place on March 19, 12.30 to 14.00 hours at the ZEW, Raum Luxemburg, L7, 1, 68161 Mannheim.
Title: Costly Monitoring and the Emergence of Blind Trust
Presented by: Johannes Jarke (FZU)
Abstract:
"We study finite horizon modified trust games with endogenous information structures. At the end of each period, the first mover may acquire information about the second mover's action in that period. We exogenously vary the cost of monitoring. We find that the introduction of information costs results in less monitoring and an emergence of blind trust as a new behavior type, where (i) blind trust is the dominant behavior under costly monitoring, (ii) first mover cooperation is more frequent, and (iii) payoffs are higher if information is costly. Furthermore, neither did the average first mover in the costly monitoring condition worse than in the costless monitoring condition, nor did the average blind trustor worse than the average monitor or defector. We find that this static differences between conditions stem from differences in the respective dynamic patterns. Our preferred interpretation is a «second-order reputation building» hypothesis, according to which some second movers try to strategically exploit the costliness of monitoring by investing in a sufficiently favorable reputation in the initial periods in which they are likely to be monitored in order induce blind trust and reap larger gains from exploitation in later periods. We provide further results that support this interpretation."
All interested persons are welcome!
The next FZU-ZEW Brownbag will take place on April 16 12.30 to 14.00 hours at the FZU in Heidelberg.
Lehre
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Sprechstunde Prof. Goeschl: Dienstags 17.00 - 18.00 Uhr. Bitte einen Termin per Email (office@eco.uni-heidelberg.de) vereinbaren.
- Offene Themen für Abschlussarbeiten (Bachelor/Master) finden Sie hier
- Klausur Law & Economics, 2. Termin: 18.04.2013, 14.00 - 16.15 Uhr, Bergheimer Str. 20, R 215
- Klausur Experiments in Economics and Environmental Economics, 2. Termin: 09.04.2013, 10.00 - 12.15, Bergheimer Str. 20, R 215
- Informationen zum Thema "Klausureinsicht" finden Sie hier
Jobs
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Der Ruhrverband sucht im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojekts zur Bearbeitung ökonomischer und technischer Fragestellungen im Zusammenhang mit einer möglichen Badegewässernutzung der Ruhr eine/n Diplom-Ingenieur/in. Nähere Informationen finden sie hier
- Die ETH Zürich bietet eine PhD-Position in Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomik. Infos hier
- Das ZEW in Mannheim bietet eine Praktikumsstelle an. Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier
