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2017.06.29 | Awards
Eric Hillebrand receives grant of 3.6 million from DFF
Associate Professor Eric Hillebrand has been awarded a grant of DKK 3.659.615 from The Danish Council for Independent Research - Social Sciences for his project entitled “Econometric Modeling of Climate Change”. The purpose of the project is to specify econometric models that connect global macroeconomic activity with key climate variables.…
2017.06.27 | Awards
Tom Engsted and Thomas Q. Pedersen receive large grant from DFF
Professor Tom Engsted and associate professor Thomas Quistgaard Pedersen have been awarded a grant of DKK 2.6 million from The Danish Council of Independent Research (DFF – Research Project 1) for the period January 2018 – December 2020 for their project entitled “Money Illusion”. The project proposes new theoretical and empirical research that…
2017.06.26 | Awards
Jonas Fluchtmann wins award for thesis on labour market economy
Jonas Fluchtmann wins the Danish Ministry of Employment’s new labour market economy award for his Master’s thesis ”Cognitive Biases in Dynamic Job Search”.
2017.06.26 | Students
Aarhus BSS students receive award for assignment
For three Aarhus BSS students, the end of the semester included a cash price of DKK 10,000 when the winner of this year’s case collaboration with the City of Aarhus was revealed at the Town Hall.
2017.05.15 | People
Graduation Day 2017
See the photos from Saturday’s graduation ceremony for the department’s graduates.
2017.05.01 | People
Philipp Schröder – Member of the Government’s New Disruption Council
Professor Philipp Schröder has been appointed member of the government’s new Disruption Council, which is a partnership between the labour market parties, companies, experts and ministers. Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen will act as chairman of the partnership. The partnership will analyse, discuss and provide suggestions as to how…
2017.03.12 | Aarhus BSS
Longer deadlines make people donate more money
We become more generous in relation to donating money for e.g. emergency aid via email and text messages if we do not feel (too) pressured to donate right away. But deadlines in themselves do not make more people donate money. This is the result of a new study from Aarhus BSS.
2017.03.12 | Aarhus BSS
Reminder emails increase the number of donations, but…
New research shows that reminder emails make more people donate money to charity. But the extra email also causes a significantly higher number of people to unsubscribe from the mailing list, which can reduce donations by up to a third over the long run. However, the number of unsubscriptions can be reduced by simple means.
2017.03.06 | Public/media
Aarhus BSS establishes the Dale T. Mortensen Centre
Three years after the passing of Nobel Prize winner Dale T. Mortensen, Aarhus BSS at Aarhus University now establishes a new research centre to develop the theories of the American economics professor.
2017.03.06 | People
Philipp Schröder appointed member of expert group on research
Professor Philipp Schröder from the Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus BSS has been appointed member of the expert group which is to assist a cross-ministerial committee in assessing the effects of the current research efforts.