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Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management
Office: University Main Building (UHG) W8-102
E-Mail: bigsem@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de
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Bielefeld University
BiGSEM
Universitätsstraße 25
33615 Bielefeld
Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management
Office: University Main Building (UHG) W8-102
E-Mail: bigsem@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de
Mailing Address:
Bielefeld University
BiGSEM
Universitätsstraße 25
33615 Bielefeld
successfully defended his thesis on "Theory and Application of Renegotiation in Repeated Games". Congratulations!
BiGSEM Student, Michael Günther, will defend his thesis on Tuesday, September 19. It will take place at 5 pm in room V10-122.
Ms. Fabienne Dascher
Mr. Jasper Hepp
and three new doctoral students of the EXIDE program are starting their doctoral work at Bielefeld University:
Mr. Erdenebulgan Damdinsuren;
Ms. Mariam Nanumyan;
Ms. Roberta Terranova
We wish our new students a good start and much success with their academic program!
The Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings has selected Sevak Alaverdyan to participate in the 6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences to be held from 22 - 26 August 2017 in Lindau, Germany. Up to 20 Nobel Laureates and approximately 400 highly-talented young economists from all over the world will participate in this meeting. Sevak Alaverdyan was selected among 1000 nominated students. Congratulations!
The EDEEM graduate Benoit Decerf has a forthcoming publication in The Journal of Public Economics "Why not consider that being absolutely poor is worse than being only relatively poor?", which is a part of his PhD dissertation.
The EDEEM student Gregor Böhl has been awarded the "Graduate Student Paper Contest 2017" of the Society for Computational Economics (SCE). The awards have been presented during the international conference "Computing in Economics and Finance" in New York City on Friday, June 30.
We are very happy to congratulate Gregor Böhl who is awarded the "Graduate Student Paper Contest 2017" for his paper "Monetary Policy and Speculative Stock Markets".
We are glad to announce that Gregor Böhl has landed a job as a post doc at the Goethe University in Frankfurt from 01.06.2017. We wish him all the best and success for his professional and private future.
The BiGSEM-students have hold their vote on the new doctoral representative. Erdenebulgan Damdinsuren got elected and is from now on acting as a conduit between the doctoral students and the program administration. Congratulations!
Ly Dai Hung successfully defended his thesis on "Productivity Growth and International Capital Flows in an integrated World".
Congratulations!
EDEEM student, Hung Ly Dai, will defend his Phd thesis on March 9. It will take place at 1 pm in V8-119.
Jochen Manegold successfully defended his thesis on "Competition in Markets with Intermediaries".
Congratulations!
Every year about 260 doctoral students complete successfully their doctoral degree at Bielefeld University. According to the recommendations of the faculties, the "Universitätsgesellschaft Bielefeld" then nominates graduates with outstanding dissertations for its dissertation prize.
This year we are happy to congratulate Dr. Tobias Hellmann who is awarded the dissertation prize 2016 for his Thesis "Essays on the Foster-Hart Measure of Riskiness and Ambiguity in Real Options Games".
Congratulations Tobias!
Nikoleta van Welbergen successfully defended her thesis on "Information Uncertainty in Auction Theory".
Congratulations!
Lan Sun successfully defended her thesis on "Essays on Two-Player Games with Asymmetric Information".
Congratulations!
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network: Expectations and Social Influence Dynamics in Economics (ExSIDE)
ExSIDE is looking for 15 highly motivated doctoral fellows to engage in cutting edge interdisciplinary research combined with a structured curriculum of training activities. The agenda of ExSIDE is to improve our understanding of the role of expectation formation and social influence for economic dynamics and for the optimal design of economic policy. Doctoral fellows will engage in network-wide training activities and carry out research work at two (or three) out of eight European partner universities. Selected candidates will enter a 36 month work contract with the recruiting university of their project.
For more information about ExSIDE and the application procedure see
Deadline for Application: January 15, 2017
Anna Zaharieva together with two colleagues Ursula Mense-Petermann (Faculty of Sociology) and Thomas Welskopp (Faculty of History) successfully applied for an interdisciplinary ZiF Research Group “In Search of the Global Labour Market”. During the ZiF residence period between October 2017 and July 2018 more than 25 research fellows from leading German and foreign Universities will visit Bielefeld in order to join their effort in analyzing labour market globalization tendencies, internationalization patterns and worker mobility flows across the globe.
More information will be frequently updated over here
BiGSEM students Lan Sun and Nikoleta van Welbergen will defend their theses on December 2.
Lan Sun: 10 am in V10-122
Nikoleta van Welbergen: 2 pm in U3-140
Francesca Grassetti from University of Macerata (IT) is taking part in BiGSEM as a visiting student in the time from 01/11/2016 to 31/01/2017. Her research interests are mainly on nonlinear dynamics applied to economic growth theory.
Welcome!
Philipp Külpmann successfully defended his thesis on "Essays on Teamwork".
Congratulations!
BiGSEM student Philipp Külpmann will defend his Phd thesis on October 17th. It will take place at 11 am in V10-122.
BiGSEM happily welcomes seven new BiGSEM members:
Mr Erdenebulgan Damdinsuren
Mr Simon Hoof
Ms Kerstin Hötte and
Mr Victor Zapata Garcia
Three of them are starting their doctoral work in the EDEEM program at Bielefeld University:
Mr Alessandro Basurto
Mr Zhaojun Xing
Furthermore, two second year EDEEM doctoral students:
Ms. Madhuri Agrarwal
Mr Quentin Couanau
Mr. Ilya Eryzhenskly
are now doing their research in BiGSEM during for the academic year 2016/17
We wish our new students a good start and much success with their academic program!