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Florian Hett, research assistant at the Chair of Financial Economics, was appointed as Junior Member of the Gutenberg Academy for Young Academics. The Gutenberg Academy brings the University's 25 best Ph.D. students together and gives them the chance to participate in an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas at the highest intellectual standard. Further information about the Gutenberg Academy can be found here.

Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 18.30 – 20.00 h
Room RW1

Professor Dr. Beatrice Weder di Mauro will present the Annual Report 2011/12 of the Council of Economic Experts with the title „Assume responsibility for Europe“. Everybody is warmly welcome to join the presentation.

Prof. Schunk has become an associate editor of the Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization.

The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is an international
peer-reviewed research journal that is devoted to theoretical and empirical
research concerning economic decision and behavior and to economic change in
all its aspects. 

On October 17 and 18, there will be introductory events for new bachelor and master students. Find more details on our information pages for new students.

In 2011 the German Handelsblatt once again evaluated the research performance of 1700 professors of Economics in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and published the results in a ranking. Several professors of JGU Mainz again succeeded in being ranked among the top researchers. ...  

Under the guidance of Professor Isabel Schnabel, the Bachelor, Master, and Diploma students Elisabeth Falck, Isabell Scheringer, Johannes Tischer, Cornelius Veith and Gerold Willershausen won the Postbank Finance Award 2011, the highest student prize in Germany. Of the prize money of 50,000 Euros, 30 percent go to the students and 70 percent enter the research budget of the Chair of Financial Economics.

More information can be found here:

http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/46918.php

http://www.financial.economics.uni-mainz.de/473.php