https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/thema/economics-and-business/ Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität | Neues aus Forschung, Lehre, Studium Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:04:14 +0000 de hourly 1 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cropped-fav_guo-blau-32x32.jpg https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/thema/economics-and-business/ 32 32 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/looking-beyond-gdp/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:01:59 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=88125 Alfons Weichenrieder, Professor of Public Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt, argues in a recent study that Net Domestic Product (NDP) offers a more realistic picture of how incomes are actually […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/where-goethe-meets-ai/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:35:36 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=88118 UniReport: How was your day at university? Goethe: I must confess that neither Wi-Fi nor vending machines existed in my time; the latter left me especially puzzled. What felt immediately […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/conclusions-often-diverge-when-hundreds-of-researchers-reanalyze-the-same-data/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:21:43 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87868 A large-scale, multi-analyst study on the objectivity of statistical analyses has now been published. Jan Landwehr, Professor of Marketing at Goethe University Frankfurt, says the findings highlight the critical role […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/does-google-really-eliminate-ad-blockers/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:26:19 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87442 A new study reveals the actual impact of Google’s Manifest Version 3 update on the effectiveness of ad blockers. Google’s recently released Chrome Manifest Version 3 (MV3) update sparked widespread […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/leadership-and-social-cohesion/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:16:51 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=86941 DFG approves new Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt Our times are dominated by crises as well as social polarization and fragmentation. […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/the-architect-of-westend-campus/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 05:30:18 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85128 University President Enrico Schleiff on the recently deceased economist and former University President Werner Meißner, who led Goethe University from 1994 to 2000 and played a decisive role in the […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/ruediger-weber-financial-economist/ Tue, 27 May 2025 13:35:18 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84177 Suddenly, everything becomes quite simple: For the past six months, Rüdiger Weber has held the endowed professorship in Alternative Investments at the Faculty of Economics and Business, which means he […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/jumpstart-for-rapid-growth/ Thu, 15 May 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=83535 Overcoming hurdles and putting research results into practice with the help of Innovectis and Unibator Scientists from Goethe University Frankfurt’s Faculty of Medicine are launching their own companies – and […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/new-professorship-for-artificial-intelligence-in-business-informatics/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:39:35 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=82292 Prof. Kevin Bauer researches human-machine interaction / Funding provided by the cross-university center “hessian.AI” Goethe University Frankfurt is further expanding its research and teaching on artificial intelligence: On January 1, […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/analyses-and-assessments-of-the-u-s-presidential-election-results/ Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:28:13 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=81966 The American people have voted, and Donald Trump secured a clear majority of their votes. The Republicans will also have a majority in both the House of Representatives and the […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/100-semesters-of-teaching-at-the-faculty-of-economics-and-business/ Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:02:15 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=81441 Laudatio for Professor Bertram Schefold For me, writing a laudatio for Bertram Schefold is not an easy task. Where do I start? Where do I stop? After all, I have […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/goethe-universitys-economics-and-business-faculty-introduces-international-bachelors-degree-at-three-universities/ Fri, 31 May 2024 13:27:53 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=79936 Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management, Rome-based Luiss University and Goethe University Frankfurt already operate a joint Master’s degree program. In the upcoming 2024/25 winter semester, the three partners […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/how-can-sustainability-reporting-become-internationally-comparable/ Fri, 24 May 2024 07:03:24 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=79884 How can sustainability reporting become internationally comparable? How do sustainability and reporting obligations feature in research? These and other questions will be the focus of the Sustainability Standards Conference 2024, […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/getting-into-the-goethe-university-groove/ Fri, 19 Apr 2024 08:21:30 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=79688 New students have a look around Westend Campus ahead of the semester start. On a Wednesday in early April, a small group of students sets out across Westend Campus’ main […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/german-research-foundation-funds-goethe-university-research-units-investigating-mutations-in-blood-cells-as-well-as-sustainable-financial-markets/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:23:50 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=76702 Two Goethe University research units emerged successfully out of the German Research Foundation’s (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) latest funding round: The new „HERZBLUT“ 5643 research unit in medicine dealing with mutations […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/how-to-understand-panics-and-crashes-in-the-financial-world/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:04:01 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=73675 Economist Eugene N. White has accepted the 2023 summer semester visiting professorship sponsored by Bankhaus Metzler and the Friedrich Flick Förderungsstiftung. Knowledge of financial history is virtually indispensable not just […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/honorary-doctorate-for-nicola-fuchs-schuendeln/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:28:20 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=72257 Prof. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Magdeburg for her research on the German reunification’s economic impact on private households. Fuchs-Schündeln has been at Goethe […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/two-huge-subjects-one-library/ Wed, 03 May 2023 14:11:22 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=70852 Time and space for the two vast subjects of Law and Economics – that is what the Law and Economics Library, known as the BRuW (the abbreviation of its German […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/employees-recommend-new-employees/ Mon, 24 Apr 2023 09:32:40 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=70762 Together with other researchers, economist Prof. Guido Friebel studied the introduction of an employee referral program (ERP) in a supermarket chain. The greatest effect lies in the company management’s increased […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/in-brief/ascg-opens-liaison-hub-at-goethe-university-frankfurt/ Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:40:35 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=68949 In cooperation with Goethe University Frankfurt, the ASCG – Accounting Standards Committee of Germany (ASCG) opened a Liaison Hub to support the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). The objective is to obtain scientific evidence for standard setting activities. The focus should […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/the-future-is-now/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 17:09:21 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=68674 ChatGPT, a chatbot prototype developed by US company OpenAI, is on everyone’s lips right now. Some of the questions asked include: Does the software constitute a challenge for the education […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/economics-and-business-30-years-of-partnership-between-goethe-university-and-universite-paris-dauphine/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:01:59 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=66440 The collaboration with the Université Paris Dauphine-PSL is one of the oldest and most intensive cooperations of Goethe University’s Faculty of Economics and Business. Its distinguishing feature: two double-degree programs […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/change-at-the-top-of-the-house-of-finance/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 08:47:44 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=65893 After 14 years as chairman of the House of Finance’s (HoF) Board of Trustees, Otmar Issing will be retiring at the end of this year. He will be succeeded by […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/how-family-decisions-affect-the-economy-and-vice-versa/ Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:41:46 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=65315 Singles, couples, single parents, families with one child or with several – private households can look very different. A new research unit at Goethe University wants to find out how […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/covid-19-pandemic-more-zombie-firms-through-federal-aid-by-scattergun-approach/ Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:03:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=57748 Extensive aid programs for companies during the COVID-19 pandemic also saved firms whose survival was not socially desirable. This is shown by a study of the Leibniz Institute for Financial […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/women-worldwide-underrepresented-in-economics/ Mon, 11 Apr 2022 07:36:05 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=57532 Women are underrepresented in many academic professions. This is particularly the case in economics, as shown by a study conducted by economist Guido Friebel from Goethe University and his team […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/biodiversity-time-machine-uses-ai-to-learn-from-the-past/ Fri, 03 Dec 2021 10:27:57 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=53822 Experts can make crucial decisions about future biodiversity management by using artificial intelligence to learn from past environmental change, according to an international team of researchers including Dr. Sarah Crawford […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/green-banking-the-perspective-of-politics-banks-and-investors/ Thu, 25 Nov 2021 10:44:48 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=53745 Everyone is talking about green banking – and were too at the recent global climate conference in Glasgow. But to what extent are economic concepts really forward-looking and green? A […]]]>