I've been elected to serve as chairperson of the "Committee for Organizational Economics" in the Verein für Socialpolitik as of Jan 1, 2021. nja Schöttner from HU Berlin will support me as deputy chairperson.

I've been elected to the Board of SIOE, the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics.

January 2020, my first High Table at Cambridge; my first chance to don my LMU gown!!!

We had a great conference at CESifo on "The Effects of the Digital Transformation on the Workplace and the Labor Market"

Recently we started an initiative to create a platform for knowledge exchange between academia and firms on the effective use of HR practices, Predictive People Analytics.

The CAS^LMU has established an interdisciplinary Research Focus on Democracy in Crisis (where I am a co-PI).

I will have the honour to serve as local organizer for the 21st edition of the Colloquium on Personnel Economics at LMU in 2018. See the conference site here.

The CAS^LMU has established an interdisciplinary Research Focus on Evidence Based Practice (where I am a co-PI).

The Elitenetwork of Bavaria will, starting in the fall of 2017, fund a new research master program at LMU Munich's Economics Department, the "Master in Quantitative Economics". I have the honour to lead the team of PIs for this program.

See the Ministry's press release.

See LMU Munich's press release.

DFG approves new SFB Transregio "Rationality and Competition" (LMU joint with Berlin)!

The program started on Jan 1, 2017. For more information, see here or here.

New "Committee for Organizational Economics" in the Verein für Socialpolitik

The Verein für Socialpolitik established a new committee on Organizational Economics. The inaugural meeting was held in Munich on September 14, 2016. Andreas Roider (Regensburg) was elected the committee's first chairman and I will serve as his deputy. For information, see: OrgEc Committee and the website of the Verein für Socialpolitik.

New Organizations Research Group (ORG) established at LMU

LMU Munich has granted funds to establish a new interdiciplinary research initiative, the Organizations Research Group (ORG) , directed by Tobias Kretschmer and Ingo Weller (both Management) and myself. In ORG we want to study and quantify sources of persistent performance differences between firms by empirically identifying bundles of complementary activities and characteristics that drive performance differences among firms. To be able to do this, we gather a unique set of data on intra-firm activities and characteristics using a consistent and reliable method of data collection. We aim to establish LMU as a prime location to do quantitative organizational research and to showcase the dataset we are building up, the Organizational Observatory, through workshops, conferences, and an active visitors’ program. The combination of these activities comprises the Organizational Research Group (ORG). Additional information can be found at:

www.organizations-research-group.lmu.de .

International Graduate Program "Evidence-Based Economics"

The Elite Network of Bavaria ("Elitenetzwerk Bayern") has decided to fund an International Graduate Program ("Internationales Doktorandenkolleg") on "Evidence-Based Economics".