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Department of Economics

University of Cologne

Our research environment consists of almost 30 senior faculty in the Department of Economics and the closely associated Department of Econometrics and Statistics, with many more junior faculty, post-docs, and other doctoral students, and additional faculty in management, political science and sociology within the University of Cologne's Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences.

Via the Cluster of Excellence: "ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy" we cooperate with the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. Research centers involving our faculty are the Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB), the Cologne Laboratory for Economic Research (CLER), and the Key Research Initiatives Behavioural Management Science (BMS), and Sustainable Smart Energy & Mobility. Affiliated research centers are The Institute of Energy Economics and The Institute for Public Economics.

We are proud that the research of four of our professors is currently supported by the European Research Council (ERC) for excellent (early-career) researchers: OPPORTUNITY - Inequalities in decision-making at critical junctions in life: The role of ability signals for sorting and selection (Prof. Dr. Pia Pinger), Viral Narratives: The Role of Narratives for Economic Belief Formation (Prof. Dr. Christopher Roth), HIPPO - Housing, Inequality and Public Policies (Prof. Dr. Sebastian Siegloch), and  ENTRENCHED: Elite Capture and Social Mobility (Prof. Dr. Erik Hornung).

Our research strenghs are an integral focus of our teaching concept: in our Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD programmes in economics, in coss-disciplary programmes offerend by the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Science, and beyond. We establish a friendly, supportive, and open environment that enables discussion, collaboration, reflection and a hands-on engagement with research at the different stages of learning, while providing rigourous training in all areas of economics.

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