Events & Deadlines

Upon the invitation of Mark Andor, Prof. Dr. René Bekkers (VU Amsterdam) will give a talk in the RWI Environmental and Behavioral Economics Seminar on April 16, 2024. You can participate either in-person (E-Werk) or virtually. René Bekkers will be presenting in-person in Essen.

Upon the invitation of Felix Heuer, Prof. Dr. Ismir Mulalic (Copenhagen Business School) will give a talk in the RWI More than Data (MODA) Seminar on May 7, 2024. You can participate either in-person (E-Werk) or virtually. Ismir Mulalic will be presenting in-person in Essen.

Upon the invitation of Mark Andor, Dr. Jan Schmitz (Radboud University) will give a talk in the RWI Environmental and Behavioral Economics Seminar on May 14, 2024. The topic of the presentation will be "The Behavioral Effects of Carbon Taxes - Experimental Evidence". You can participate either in-person (E-Werk) or virtually. Jan Schmitz will be presenting in-person in Essen.

Upon the invitation of Johannes Hollenbach, Elisa de Weerd (Erasmus School of Economics & Tinbergen Insitute) will give a talk in the RWI Health Economics Seminar on June 4, 2024. You can participate either in-person (E-Werk) or virtually. Elisa de Weerd will be presenting in-person in Essen.

We are pleased to announce the 9^th Workshop on Experimental Economics for the Environment on the 10^th and 11^th of September 2024. The workshop will take place at the Ruhr University Bochum. We are very happy to welcome Astrid Dannenberg (University of Kassel), Lorenz Goette (National University of Singapore) and John List (University of Chicago) as keynote speakers.

We are building a programme to promote the contribution of experiments to environmental economics and policy. Priority will be given to early career researchers (PhD students/postdocs), but submissions from researchers at all career levels are welcome. We encourage submission of projects at all stages and will plan sessions with pre-analysis plans, preliminary results, and working papers.

Workshop date: 10^th and 11^th of September 2024
Organizer: RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Location: Ruhr University Bochum

Call For Papers Deadline: 31^st of May 2024

You can find more information here.

Call for Papers

On September 13-14, 2024, CReAM (Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London) and RWI will host their 4^th joint workshop on the ‘Economics of Migration’ in Essen, Germany. The aim of the workshop is to bring together young and experienced researchers to present and discuss their work in the broad field of migration economics. Both empirical and theoretical contributions are welcome. The workshop will be organized in a way to encourage interaction among the participants in a relaxed atmosphere.

The keynote lecture will be given by:

Joan Llull (IAE-CSIC, Barcelona School of Economics) 

Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit a paper (preferred) or an extended abstract in pdf format to migrationworkshop@rwi-essen.de by June 1, 2024.

For further information, see the Call for Papers.

Upon the invitation of Ronald Bachmann, Prof. Dr. Robert Sauer (Royal Holloway University of London) will give a talk in the RWI Research Seminar on November 19, 2024. You can participate either in-person (E-Werk) or virtually. Robert Sauer will be presenting in-person in Essen.