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Rittersaal mit prunkvoller Decke und den Referent:innen am Pult
Rückblick zur IMU Frühjahrstagung 2025
„Kundenbeziehungen neu definiert – Hyperpersonalisierung im Fokus“ – so lautete das Thema der diesjährigen Frühjahrstagung des Instituts für Marktorientierte Unternehmensführung (IMU), die am vergangenen Donnerstag, den 20. März 2025, erneut im prachtvollen Rittersaal des Barockschlosses der ...
FAZ vom 22.03.2025
Zitat/Beitrag von Prof. Spengel im Artikel “Pfandbons für die Staatskasse”
Mannheimer Kommunikationswissenschaftler*innen auf der 70. DGPuK-Jahrestagung in Berlin
Mitte März fand die 70. Jahrestagung der DGPuK unter dem Titel “Öffentlichkeit(en) und ihre Werte” statt. Auch das Mannheimer Institut für MKW war durch Beiträge vertreten.
Compliance Costs and Real Effects of the EU Deforestation Regulation.
A. Bach, F. Habermann, and N. Rudolf (2025). This study explores the financial and environmental impact of the EU Deforestation-Free Regulation (EUDR), showing that firms with greater exposure experienced negative market reactions following key regulatory events.
Technoeconomic Decision Support for Second-Life Batteries
Zhuang, J., Bach, A., van Vlijmen, B., Reichelstein, S., Chueh, W., Onori, S., Benson, S. M.
Drei blaue Luftballons, auf einem steht Carer Fair. Im Hintergrund sieht man verschwommen zwei Personen und das Schloss.
Career Fair
Vom 08.-10. April 2025 findet die hochschuleigene Firmenkontaktmesse Career Fair UniMA auf dem Campus der Universität statt.
Talk at Aix-Marseille School of Economics
Prof. Ratkovic visited the group of Asst. Prof. Romain Ferrali at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics and gave a talk entitled “Large Language Models for Statistical Inference: Context Augmentation with Applications to the Two-Sample Problem, Regression, and Concordance”. The abstract reads: Text ...
CfP: Feedback Analytics in Education – Guiding Designs and Solutions
We would like to invite you to submit your proposal for an edited volume on “Feedback Analytics in Education – Guiding Designs and Solutions” to be published by Springer, Cham (part of the book series Advance in Analytics for Learning and Teaching; www.springer.com/series/16338).
Dekan Joachim Lutz und prof. Dr. Jens Förderer stehen vor einer verzierten Holztür und geben sich die Hand
Neuzugang an der Business School: Prof. Dr. Jens Förderer übernimmt den Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik II
Die Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaftslehre heißt Prof. Dr. Jens Förderer als neuen Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Wirtschaftsinformatik II willkommen. Er verstärkt seit März 2025 die Area Information Systems.
No Place Like Home: Charging Infrastructure and the Environmental Advantage of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
J. Gessner, W. Habla, B. Rübenacker, and U. J. Wagner (2025). This study examines whether providing home charging infrastructure can increase electric usage in company-owned plug-in hybrid vehicles, a key challenge for European firms aiming to lower fleet emissions.
Exam date

The exam of the BA lecture “Ausgewählte Themen der Vergleichenden Regierungslehre: Authoritarian Politics” held by Professor Traunmüller will take place on Wednesday, 11. June 2025.

The retake of the exam is planned to be on Saturday, 23 August 2025.

26/01/2022 Conditional Accept at PSRM!

Our paper “Computing quantities of interest and their uncertainty using Bayesian simulation” has just been conditionally accepted at Political Science Research & Methods (with Andi Murr and Jeff Gill).

14/12/2021 Invited Talk at WZB

Tomorrow, I will give a talk on “Free Speech and Self-Censorship at the University: Testing the ‘Campus Cancel Culture’ Hypothesis” in the MaD Colloquium at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

24/11/2021 Pre-registered Study In-Principle-Accepted!

Our pre-registered study for the GLES Open Science Challenge “Subjective Freedom of Speech: Why Do Citizens Think They Cannot Speak Freely?” (with Jan Menzner) has been in-principle-accepted for publication in Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

06/07/2020 Our Survey Items on Covid-19 are included in ESS Round 10!

Our (Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell and myself) survey items on Covid-19 were chosen to be included in the next round of the European Social Survey, due to be fielded across Europe from September 2020. The survey items on government authority and legitimacy in the age of a pandemic will focus on attitudes... 

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17/08/2020 Conditional Accept at KZfSS!

Our paper “Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Evidence from a Most Likely Case” (with Matthias Revers) has just been conditionally accepted for publication in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie!

17/08/2020 Accept at PA!

What a day: Our paper “Eliciting Beliefs as Distributions in Online Surveys” (with Lucas Leemann and Lukas Stoetzer) has just been accepted for publication in Political Analysis!