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24 March, 2020
Certified Coronavirus Immunity as a Resource and Strategy to Cope with Pandemic Costs

Prof. Dr. Rainer Hegselmann

A pandemic is not only a biological event and a public health disaster, but it also generates impacts that are worth understanding from economic, societal, historical, and cultural perspectives. In this contribution, we argue that as the disease spreads, we are able to harness a valuable key resource: people who have immunity to coronavirus.
20 April, 2020
Low-Carbon Investment and Credit Rationing
Dr. Karol Kempa
Limiting global warming to well below 2°C, as agreed under the Paris Agreement, will require substantial low-carbon investments. Next to typically discussed market frictions, such environmental and knowledge externalities, also market failures on financial markets are potential issues for these investments.
Behavioral economics, along with the subfield of behavioral finance, argues that many economic phenomena may be better understand when taking into account that humans sometimes behave less than fully rationally.
12 June, 2019
Behavioral Economics at Frankfurt School
Sebastian Ebert
8 August, 2019
Measuring Political Risk and its Effects on Firms

Prof. Dr. Laurence van Lent

Laurence van Lent and three colleagues have analyzed corporate conference calls in which companies discuss their financial results, to measure how much time executives spent talking about political risk and how this correlates to future actions of the company.
Certified Coronavirus Immunity as a Resource and Strategy to Cope with Pandemic Costs
24 March, 2020
Prof. Dr. Rainer Hegselmann
Low-Carbon Investment and Credit Rationing
20 April, 2020
Dr. Karol Kempa
Behavioral Economics at Frankfurt School
12 June, 2019
Sebastian Ebert
Measuring Political Risk and its Effects on Firms
8 August, 2019
Prof. Dr. Laurence van Lent