Researching and Teaching in an International Environment

Why do celebrities such as former Bayern Munich manager Uli Hoeneß make millions of euros in donations to charity while simultaneously evading taxes? Hans-Peter Grüner, a professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, and his colleague Sebastian Siegloch from Cologne explored this question in ...

Emine Ari, Ph.D., will spend two years investigating how states of emergency shape the way governments respond to political resistance. In particular, she examines why some governments rely on militias to suppress opposition and how this strategy changes when a state of emergency is declared. The ...

Why is the memory of World War II so scarce in the Maghreb countries of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia—even though the region was directly affected by the war? A new project by Prof. Dr. Claudia Gronemann examines how World War II is remembered in the Maghreb. For this project, the Mannheim-based ...

A recent analysis of the German National Cohort (NAKO) shows that people who experienced trauma such as abuse or neglect during their childhood or adolescence were around twice as likely to develop depression in adulthood – women affected more frequently than men. Among others, health psychologist ...