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8 April 2026|Wissenschaft und Forschung

Welcome Aboard: Prof. Dr. Anca Balietti joins the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences

Every year, numerous new researchers join the University of Hamburg. In this series, we introduce them and their fields of research. This time: economist Anca Balietti.

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1 April 2026|VWL Aktuelles

Herzlich willkommen! Frau Prof. Dr. Anca Balietti ist neue Professorin am Fachbereich VWL!

Ab dem 01.04.2026 tritt Prof. Dr. Anca Balietti ihre Stelle als neue Professorin am Fachbereich Volkwirtschaftslehre der Fakultät für Writschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Hamburg an.

Anca Balietti studierte Finance an der Academy of Economic Studies Bukarest sowie an der University of Lausanne. Im Jahr 2015...

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1 April 2026|VWL Aktuelles

Herzlich willkommen! Herr Prof. Dr. Ole Wilms tritt die Professur „VWL, insb. Finanzmarktökonomie“ im Fachbereich VWL an!

Ab dem 01.04.2026 besetzt Prof. Dr. Ole Wilms, welcher bereits am Fachbereich Volkswirtschaftslehre der Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften an der Universität Hamburg als Juniorprofessor für Makroökonomik und Fiskalpolitik tätig war, die Professur „VWL, insb. Finanzmarktökonomie“ im Fachbereich VWL an.

Ole...

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9 February 2026|VWL Aktuelles

Stellenanzeige: Doctoral researcher in the DFG Graduate Program „Managerial and Economic Dimensions of Health Care Quality“ § 28 Abs. 3 HmbHG

The DFG Graduate Program ‘Managerial and Economic Dimensions of Health Care Quality’ has a vacancy for a research assistant starting on 1 April 2026. The application deadline is 5 March 2026.

For further information, please refer to the Job advertisement.

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14 January 2026|VWL Aktuelles

Job advertisement Research assistant

The Chair of Economics, in particular Methods of Economics, of Prof. Dr. Olaf Posch has a vacancy for a research assistant (m/f/d) as of 01.04.2026. You can find the job advertisement here.

3 January 2026|VWL Aktuelles

Willem F. Duisenberg Fellowship verliehen

In Würdigung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten zu geoökonomischen und geopolitischen Themen hat das Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS; https://nias.knaw.nl/) der Königlich Niederländischen...

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Current Seminars

30 April 2026|Interdiscipl. Research Seminar

Institutional Accountability

IRS talk by Emanuela Ceva (University of Geneva) on 30 April 2026, 17:15 CEST has been cancelled.

28 April 2026|Quantitative Economics ReSem

The Signaling Effects of Fiscal Announcements

Anna Rogantini Picco (ECB) gives a talk in the Research Seminar "Quantitative Economics", 12:15 - 13:30pm.

This seminar will take place in person, room 0031, Von-Melle-Park 5, ground-floor (besides HaSpa Café).

21 April 2026|Quantitative Economics ReSem

The Scope of Scope-3

Max Croce (Bocconi University) gives a talk in the Research Seminar "Quantitative Economics", 12:15 - 13:30pm.

This seminar will take place in person, room 0031, Von-Melle-Park 5, ground-floor (besides HaSpa Café).

16 April 2026|Interdiscipl. Research Seminar

Reallocating Wasted Votes in Proportional Parliamentary Elections with Thresholds

Dominik Peters (CNRS), 17:15 - 18:45, presents his project in the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar of the GRK "Collective Decision-Making”.

Location: Room 0031, Von-Melle-Park 5 (next to HASPA-Café)

Abstract

In many proportional...

14 April 2026|Quantitative Economics ReSem

Loanly Governments

Lukas Diebold (University Carlos III de Madrid) gives a talk in the Research Seminar "Quantitative Economics", 12:15 - 13:30pm.

This seminar will take place in person, room 0079, Von-Melle-Park 5, ground-floor.

29 January 2026|Interdiscipl. Research Seminar

The Structure of the Open Society: Social Ontology Meets Collective Ethics

Frank Hindriks (University of Groningen), 17:15 - 18:45, presents his project in the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar of the GRK "Collective Decision-Making”.

Location: Room 0079, Von-Melle-Park 5