News
2017.02.20 | People
Torben M. Andersen to head new macroeconomic model
Professor and former Chief Economic Adviser Torben M. Andersen, Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus BSS, has been appointed chairman of the board of a new working group aiming to develop a new macroeconomic model on behalf of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry for Economic Affairs and the Interior. The model will…
2017.02.02 | Public/media
Languages and maths in the day nursery
It’s a good idea to already start developing children’s language and maths learning skills in the day nursery. This way, the children might do better in school later on than they otherwise would have done.
2017.01.04 | Public/media, Staff
ECON gets professorship from central bank
Danmarks Nationalbank has granted the Department of Economics and Business Economics a professorship in economics as part of the celebration of the bank’s 200 year anniversary in 2018.
2016.12.22 | Private and public companies
Disruption – good or bad
Professor Philipp Schröder was one of the experts participating when Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen welcomed business leaders, union leaders and experts to the first session at the new Disruption Council to discuss the future Danish labour market.
2016.12.12 | Research news
Men and women handle bullying very differently
Men and women are almost at an equal risk of being bullied in the workplace, but whereas bullying often causes women to go on prolonged sick leave or use antidepressants, men often choose to leave the labour market altogether for a period of time. This is the result of new research from Aarhus BSS and the University of Copenhagen.
2016.11.14 | Education news
Photos from Graduation Day 2016
See this year’s graduates at the graduation ceremony on Saturday 12 November 2016. The programme was as follows: Welcome by Marie Møller Petersen Oecon Council song for the audience “Nu falmer skoven trindt om land” Speech by Esben Kolind Laustrup Speech by the Oecon Association Speech by the EØ-association Speech by…
2016.11.02 | People
New professor at NCRR
Thomas Munk Laursen has been awarded a professorship at the National Centre for Register-based Research (NCRR). Here, he is examining why people with severe mental disorders have such a high excess mortality.
2016.10.31 | Awards
Business Administration Student of the Year 2016
Tor Toftgaard Madsen has received the title as Business Administration Student of the Year 2016.
2016.10.25 | People
2 x Frederik win award for best Barchelor’s project in economics
Frederik Bjørn Christensen and Frederik Læssøe Nielsen have won the award for best Bachelor’s project in economics presented by the Danish central bank, Danmarks Nationalbank. They receive the DKK 10,000 award for the project ”The role of the public sector in intergenerational welfare contracts”.
2016.10.25 | Events
Large sequences of numbers map out how humans have affected the climate change
Econometric models can help us understand the correlation between climate change and human activity. For that reason, number crunchers from all over the world are meeting up for a conference on climate econometrics in Aarhus on 27 and 28 October.