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Peter Andre receives the 2025 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for his research in behavioral economics.
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has awarded Peter Andre the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2025 in recognition of his significant contributions to the field of behavioral economics. The prize, endowed with €200,000, is intended to support Andre’s research activities over a period of three years.
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Peter Andre has been awarded a Modigliani Research Grant by the UniCredit Foundation. With this funding, he aims to advance his research on how households manage their finances and the broader impact on the macroeconomy.
His current research focuses on how individuals navigate economic challenges in daily life, especially their perceptions of stock market gains or responses to income shocks. Weiterlesen

Peter Andre has received the 2024 “Sturm & Drang Award” for his research in behavioral economics. The award, recognizing the best publication by a young researcher, was presented during the Dies Academicus at Goethe University on November 8. Peter Andre is an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Finance at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and Goethe University. Weiterlesen

For their research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), Kevin Bauer, Oliver Hinz, and Moritz von Zahn have been awarded the Information Systems Research 2023 Best Paper Award. Their paper, titled Expl(AI)ned: The Impact of Explainable Artificial Intelligence on Users’ Information Processing, published in 2023, investigates the influence of feature-based explanations provided by AI systems on users’ cognitive processing and decision-making. Weiterlesen

For his work on discrimination, Markus Eyting was awarded the Young Economist Award 2023 of the European Economic Association (EEA). The award is given to young researchers for outstanding contributions presented during the association’s annual congress. Weiterlesen

The paper „The Hidden Costs of Control” by Armin Falk and Michael Kosfeld is reviewed in the new book The Art of Experimental Economics – Twenty Top Papers Reviewed edited by Gary Charness and Mark Pingle. Weiterlesen

“We learn that where work has little to no meaning or purpose, recognition far exceeds material rewards ineffectiveness, but for work with high meaning and purpose, material rewards boost performance where simple recognition does not.” (IRF Quarterly Academic Review, 2019).
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Guido Friebel, Michael Kosfeld and Gerd Thielmann published a new study in the November issue of the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
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