Thank you so much, dear students! We are very happy about the teaching prize!

Jannis Engel and Nora Szech

We are offering a Doctoral Position (75%)/ Postdoctoral Position (100%) to become part of our team. Please send your application before February 28, 2019 to polit.office@econ.kit.edu

In June 2019, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (German national newspaper) organizes the first Congress Plan W with the title "Aufbruch!" (Departure!), which brings together people from politics, industry and science.  The welcoming speech is held by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU), the new female leader of the biggest German party and a possible successor of Angela Merkel as Chancellor. Other speakers are Dorothee Bär, Nora Szech and Frank Thelen. Here you can find more information and register.

Magazine Capital ranks Nora Szech among the "Young Elite" in the category "Society and Science". More information.

The next HeiKaMaX Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Economics, jointly organized by the Universities of Heidelberg, Mannheim and KIT will take place at the University of Heidelberg on April 10, 2019.

For more information or if you want to participate, please contact Petra Nieken, Philipp Reiss, Clemens Puppe or Nora Szech. And if you are interested in presenting a paper, send title and abstract to Philipp Reiss until March 11, 2019.

In this podcast of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Gerd Gigerenzer, Malcolm Gladwell, Julia Rothhaas, and Nora Szech talk about the relationship of economy and gut feeling. Susanne Klingner is doing the interviews.

Marietta Schwarz talks with Nora Szech about current topics from behavioral economics, about morals in economic institutions, and the roots of game theory. There is also some music, ranging from The Cure to Oasis to Anohni to Taylor Swift. To the podcast.

The focus of the OECD Integrity Week in Paris was on fighting corruption worldwide. Multiple public and closed events surrounded the main event of the week, the OECD Integrity Forum. Nora Szech was one of the panelists at the Forum. The OECD provides lots of information on the topic and on the event that takes place on a yearly basis, which you can find here.

Max Hägler from Süddeutsche Zeitung interviews Nora Szech on the diffusion of responsibility in economic institutions. To the video.

Nora Szech is a KIT expert with a focus on markets and market design and on how institutions shape our moral values.

The 5th HeiKaMaxY Young Researchers Workshop took place in Mannheim on December 7. It is a workshop on Behavioral Economics and Experiments for young researchers (PhD students, postdocs, and JProfs), jointly organized with the universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. For more information, please contact Julia Schreier or David Huber.

On Wednesdays at 11:30 am. our Brown Bag Seminar takes place. Everybody is very welcome.

On Thursdays at 11:45 am, our research Seminar Workshop on Economics and Finance takes place. Everybody is welcome to join in!
If you want to get in touch with the speaker, feel free to take part in the lunch afterwards.