The Frankfurt-Mannheim-Macro Workshop is held on a yearly basis. It provides a forum for the discussion and the development of macro-oriented research projects by researchers at universities and research institutions in Frankfurt and Mannheim and aims at stimulating the exchange between the two groups. The workshop targets a broad audience including advanced PhD students, junior and tenured faculty.

Virtual CRC TR 224 Workshop on Labor Markets

Dates: July 08-09, 2021

Venue: online

Organization: Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Andreas Gulyás, Moritz Kuhn

Program

The Collaborative Research Center of the Universities of Bonn and Mannheim organized a two-day virtual workshop on labor markets. Topics of interest for paper submissions included but were not restricted to the determinants of earnings dynamics, families in the labor market, worker flows and firm dynamics, the effects of minimum wages, or the consequences of mass layoffs.

Workshop on "Secrecy and Disclosure in Innovation"

Dates: June 16-17, 2021

Venue: online

Organization: Bernhard Ganglmair, Eleftheria Triviza

Program

This workshop was part of the Mannheim Virtual IO Seminar.

Workshop on "The Causes and Consequences of Inequality"

Dates: June 03-04, 2021

Venue: online

Organization: Laura Ehrmantraut, Han Ye, Renske Stans, Yasemin Özdemir, Christina Bellés-Obrero

Program

This workshop intend was to bring together researchers that work on the causes and consequences of inequalities during different stages of life. In particular, we focussed on crucial topics within childhood, adulthood, and old age. The workshop aimed at fostering an exchange that transcends research in the separate stages of life and to gain a broader view of how inequalities over individuals’ lifetime are connected.

Mannheim Virtual IO Seminar

Dates: Weekly on Thursday at 3pm, starting March 18, 2021, until June 03, 2021

Organization: Bernhard Ganglmair, Eleftheria Triviza

Program

The Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI), the ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), and the Collaborative Research Center TR 224 "EPoS" at the University of Bonn and the University of Mannheim are happy to announce the "Mannheim Virtual IO Seminar Series".
The papers this spring were related to the broader topic of "Secrecy and Strategic Disclosure" in competition, innovation, and beyond.
On June 16 - 17, 2021 a workshop on "Secrecy and Disclosure in Innovation" took place.

Virtual Workshop on Policies to Cope with the COVID-19 Crisis

Dates: January 27-28, 2021

Organization: Harald Fadinger, Jan Schymik, Sebastian Siegloch, and Sebastian Seitz

Program

This workshop presented and discussed recent policy-relevant work from different fields of economics exploring the economic and epidomological aspects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The research that was presented studied these questions in both Europe and the US covering timely questions, such as individual behavior and non-pharmaceutical interventions, as well as macroeconomic consequences and labor market outcomes.

MaCCI/EPoS Virtual IO Seminar

Dates: Weekly on Thursday at 3pm, starting April 02, 2020, until June 18, 2020

Organization: Eleftheria Triviza, Bernhard Ganglmair

Program

MaCCI and CRC EPoS have created the “MaCCI/EPoS Virtual I.O. Seminar Series”. Seminars took place once a week, every Thursday at 3pm. For the first set of presentations, the seminar topic was "Privacy and Competition".

MaCCI/EPoS Workshop on "Economics of Innovation"

Date: December 09-10, 2020

Venue: Virtual workshop

Organization: Bernhard Ganglmair, Emanuele Tarantino

Program

Fourth Bonn Mannheim PhD Workshop

Date: October 23-24, 2020

Venue: Virtual workshop

Organization: Timo Freyer, Carl-Christian Groh, Luca Henkel, Chui Yee Ho, Maximilian Jager, Paul Schäfer, Fabian Schmitz

Program

This workshop provided an opportunity for Ph.D. students in Economics to present and discuss on-going work with fellow students and, more generally, served as a platform for the scientific exchange between Ph.D. students from the two nodes of the CRC TR 224, the University of Bonn and the University of Mannheim.

CRC LISS data workshop

Date: October 15, 2020

Venue: Virtual workshop

Organization: Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Michele Tertilt

This workshop brought together members from both nodes (nine participants) who work with the Dutch LISS data. There were several presentations with ideas, pitfalls, and helpful techniques to work with the data.

2020 Frankfurt-Mannheim Macro Workshop

Date: September 10-11, 2020

Venue: Virtual workshop

Organization: Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Anne Hannusch, Zainab Iftikhar, Leo Kaas, Alexander Ludwig

Program

LISS/CBS data retreat

Date: March 19-20, 2020

Venue: Virtual workshop

Organization: Hans-Martin von Gaudecker¹, Katja Kaufmann², Pia Pinger³, Moritz Mendel⁴

Several CRC projects are making use of the Dutch LISS data and the administrative CBS data linked to it. It should have taken place in person over three days. Instead, a shortened version was held as what probably was one of the first virtual workshops. There were several presentations with ideas, pitfalls, and helpful techniques to work with the data and with the remote computing environment of CBS. This sparked subsequent collaborative efforts and a harmonization of data preparation processes.

Workshop on Banking

Date: March 02-03, 2020

Venue: Mannheim

Organization: Christiane Englert, Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden

Program

The workshop brought together researchers in the field of banking from Bonn and Mannheim and a small group of outside specialists. It was funded by the Collaborative Research Centre TR 224, co-organized with the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation, and provided a platform for researchers of the CRC to discuss and share their research with the broader scientific community as well as interested faculty in Bonn and Mannheim.

The workshop covered all areas of modern banking research, with a particular emphasis on the CRC's research agenda in financial stability, competition, and bank vs. non-bank lending. It featured eight talks of 75 minutes each, which were deliberately designed in a seminar style to leave sufficient time for interaction and discussion. While lunches and dinners were by invitation only, faculty and students from Bonn and Mannheim were welcome to attend the sessions, subject to the availability of seating.

Workshop "Advances in Platform Economics"

Date: February 13-14, 2020

Venue: Bonn

Organization: Martin Peitz, Sven Rady

Program

Motivated by consumer protection, privacy, market power, and other regulatory concerns, policy makers have come up with many poposals how to intervene in digital platform markets. Economic theory can contribute to a better understanding of such markets. In this workshop, CRC researchers and some invited researchers from outside the CRC presented and discussed recent theory contributions in platform economics.

Internal Workshop of Project A03

Date: November 11, 2019

Venue: Mannheim

Organization: Michèle Tertilt

This workshop brought together internal researchers from both nodes working on topics in the area of family economics. The focus was on early ideas rather than finished projects. Topics ranged from understanding the effect of citizenship on fertility, understanding gender wage gaps, the one-child policy in China to female labor force participation.

Education and Family Policy - Tapping Potential, Reducing Inequality

Date: November 04, 2019

Venue: ZEW Mannheim – Raum Brüssel

Organization: Pia Pinger, Katja Kaufmann

Program

Equality of opportunity in education, families and on the labor market are important political and societal goals. Yet, socio-economic status and gender still determine education and labor market opportunities. Understanding the sources and determinants of this discrepancy are an important focus of CRC research, and our findings may help shape education, family and labor market policy.
Aim of the workshop was thus to enact a dialogue between outstanding CRC researchers and political decision-makers. The event provided a platform for policy research presentations revolving around equality of opportunity in education, family, or labor markets. Afterwards, there was be a panel discussion and an informal get-together to foster discussions and the research-policy dialogue.

Junior workshop on Economic Theory: "Information and Markets"

Date: October 11-12, 2019

Venue: Bonn

Organization: Helene Mass, Sarah Auster

Program

Conference on "New Approaches for Understanding Business Cycles"

Date: August 30-31, 2019

Venue: University of Mannheim

Organization: Klaus Adam, Elisa Faraglia, Isabel Schnabel

Call

The conference covered a broad range of themes related to challenges and advancements in understanding business cycle behavior. It sought to bring together recent contributions in this area of research, including studies with strong theoretical basis and empirical papers.

A non-exclusive list of examples of relevant topics included: - Alternative sources for demand-like and supply-like aggregate disturbances - The role of uncertainty, asymmetries, country characteristics, and asset markets for the behavior of business cycles - New empirical facts characterizing business cycle fluctuations - The role of medium or long-run trends (globalization, digitalization, automation, etc.) in shaping business cycle outcomes - The role of firm and consumer heterogeneity for business cycles behavior.

Workshop on "Trade Policy and Firm Performance in the Global Economy"

Date: June 13-14, 2019

Venue: Hardtwald Hotel, Bad Homburg

Organization: Jan Schymik, Yanping Liu, Harald Fadinger

Program

ECONtribute SPECIAL LECTURE: M&A im Bankwesen

Date: May 28, 2019

Venue: University Bonn, Juridium Lecture Hall C

Organization: Carola Braun, Isabel Schnabel

Program

Third Bonn Mannheim PhD Workshop

Date: May 11, 2019

Venue: University of Mannheim

Organization: Alina Bartscher, Marina Khismatullina, Raphael Epperson, Carl-Christian Groh, Mykola Ryzhenkov

Program

Compact Course by Asher Wolinsky (Northwestern University) on "Decentralized Markets and Simultaneous Search"

Date: May 09, 2019

Venue: University of Bonn, Juridicum, 3rd Floor, Room 3.006

Organization: Stephan Lauermann

Program

Frankfurt-Mannheim Macro Workshop 2019

Date: March 08, 2019

Venue: Schloss Mannheim, Ostflügel, Fuchs-Petrolub Saal O138

Organization: Antonio Ciccone, Anne Hannusch, Zainab Iftikhar, Michèle Tertilt

Program

The workshop, jointly organized by Antonio Ciccone (A04), Anne Hannusch and Michèle Tertilt (both A03), gathered around forty junior and senior researchers in macroeconomics from universities in Frankfurt and Mannheim. The workshop, funded by the CRC TR 224, provided a forum for the discussion and development of macro-oriented research projects using a wide range of methodological approaches. Topics included, but were not limited to: the relevance of household heterogeneity for aggregate labor market fluctuations, the importance of family structure in accounting for employment decisions of husbands and wives, rising household inequality and the American debt boom, and understanding the impact of migration on employment and the distribution of wealth.

Compact Course by Mark Armstrong (All Souls College, Oxford University) on "Theory Models of Advertising and Consumer Search"

Date: December 13-14, 2018

Venue: University of Bonn, Juridicum, Faculty Room

Organization: Stephan Lauermann

Program

Professor Mark Armstrong (Oxford) offered a two-day minicourse on “Theory models of advertising and consumer search.” The course was advertised to all graduate students and postdocs. Mark Armstrong is a renowned expert in economic theory and industrial organization with broad expertise who has served on the boards of many journals. The course consisted of a pair of lectures in the morning by Mark Armstrong. Over a joined lunch, the participants were able to ask further questions about the lectures and economics more generally. In the afternoon, advanced graduates students presented their own research projects and Mark Armstrong gave detailed feedback to the presenters (this included research projects in search but also many other areas in economic theory). The course was attended by students with an interest in theory not only from Bonn but also from Mannheim, Jerusalem, and Vienna.
Impact: The course was directly relevant for the research in the CRC, especially for the subproject B4 “Decentralized markets" which uses search theory in applications to decentralized markets such as the markets for housing and labor. Mark Armstrong presented work on the research frontier in “search theory” that would help both students who are already working in the area and provide a “kickstart” to those who think about the topic. Moreover, the course offered many young researchers from the CRC the opportunity to present their work in the afternoon from other subprojects as well.

Peer-to-Peer Markets: Airbnb and the Accommodation Industry

Date: December 12, 2018

Venue: Department of Economics, University of Mannheim (Room 458, 4th floor)

Organization: Laura Grigolon

Program

The goal of this workshop was to advance our understanding of peer-to-peer markets, as well as their impact on traditional providers, with a focus on Airbnb and the accommodation industry.The rapid growth of Airbnb is often attributed to a business model which uses technology to create markets for surplus resources. But part of the success of these online platforms may also come from the parallel legal universe they inhabit. Concerns about fair competition have grown with the size of these platforms. While it started as a platform for hosts to make some extra cash on the side by occasionally renting out spare rooms, entrepreneurs spied a more lucrative opportunity: acquiring a portfolio of empty properties and offering them as a direct, often cheaper, competitor to hotels, with consequences on sale prices of properties and long-term rentals. The workshop encouraged a discussion on these themes and a reflection on relevant research questions on the topic.

EPoS-MACCI-ZEW Workshop on Pan-European Evaluation of Climate Policies

Date: December 06-07, 2018

Venue: ZEW, Mannheim (Room Luxemburg)

Organization: Ulrich Wagner, Dana Kassem

Program

The MACCI-EPoS-ZEW Workshop on Pan-European Evaluation of Climate Policies, funded by the CRC TR 224, brought together 16 researchers from various European countries who are interested in the micro econometric evaluation of EU climate policy – particularly, CO₂ emissions trading. From a policy perspective, the aim of the workshop was to prepare the basis for a much-needed pan-European evaluation of a pan-European policy – the EU emissions trading scheme. During 1.5 days of presentations from researchers on each of the different European countries, the group shared their experiences with the econometric evaluation of climate policies using administrative microdata, and discussed approaches to program evaluation in this policy area. To carve the path towards a pan-European evaluation of the policy, the workshop participants collaborated in producing a pan-European database of information on the various data sources in each of the countries participating in the European emissions trading scheme as well as an overview of each national context.

MaCCI-EPoS Workshop on Mergers and Antitrust

Date: November 29 - December 01, 2018

Venue: Hardtwald Hotel, Bad Homburg

Organization: Volker Nocke, Nicolas Schutz

Program

The workshop, organized by Nicolas Schutz and Volker Nocke (both B03), gathered around twenty researchers to present and discuss empirical and theoretical research on horizontal mergers, common ownership, and other antitrust-related topics. The presenters were Christopher Conlon (NYU), Daniel Ershov (Toulouse), Mitsuru Igami (Yale), Justin Johnson (Cornell), Leslie Marx (Duke), Massimo Motta (Pompeu Fabra), Patrick Rey (Toulouse), Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse), Nicolas Schutz (Mannheim), Kosuke Uetake (Yale), and Xavier Vives (IESE). The discussants were Bernhard Ganglmair (Mannheim), Laura Grigolon (Mannheim), Volker Nocke (Mannheim), Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse), Pasquale Schiraldi (LSE), Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (Vienna), Nicolas Schutz (Mannheim), Anton Sobolev (Mannheim), Yossi Spiegel (Tel Aviv), and Christoph Wolf (Bocconi).

1st MaCCI-EPoS-CREST Workshop on Industrial Organization

Date: November 22-23, 2018

Venue: ZEW, Mannheim

Organization: Volker Nocke

Program

The first MaCCI-EPoS-CREST Workshop on Industrial Organization, co-funded by the CRC TR 224, covered empirical and theoretical research on a number of industrial organization issues connection to projects A02, B02, B03, B04, and B05. Presenters from CREST were Marie-Laure Allain, Philippe Choné, Xavier d'Haultfoeuille, Laurent Linnemer and Julien Monardo; presenters from MaCCI were Esteban Cattaneo, Volker Nocke, Nicolas Schutz, Anton Sobolev, and Michelle Sovinsky.

MaCCI Law & Economics Conference on the Law and Economics of Market Design

Date: November 15-16, 2018

Venue: ZEW, Mannheim (Room Brussels)

Organization: Andreas Engert

Program

Starting from market design as a comprehensive approach, the conference explored the practical implementation of theoretical concepts from economics, particularly with a view to the existing legal framework, potential reforms, and legal limitations. To this end, the conference covered four reference areas where enhanced market design can deliver important benefits: online market platforms, private and public procurement, markets for public infrastructure, and the allocation of critical resources in health care. Two keynote lectures provided a thorough analysis of specific market design applications: Kimberly D. Krawiec (Duke University Law School) on “Designing Transactions in the Human Body” and Peter Cramton (Universities of Cologne and Maryland) on “Using Technology to Eliminate Traffic Congestion”.

MaCCI-EPoS Workshop on Governance of Platform Markets in the Big Data Era

Date: November 08-09, 2018

Venue: University of Mannheim, Room O 026-028 Senatssaal (Schloss Ostflügel)

Organization: Miriam Buiten, Eleftheria Triviza

Program

The goal of this interdisciplinary workshop was to bring together economists and legal scholars in order to advance our understanding of platform markets in the big data era, as well as their implications for competition policy and privacy. The rise of large internet players such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, has raised concerns about whether platform markets may produce a “winner takes all” effect. Moreover, the collection and use of personal data has started a debate regarding the need for more privacy protection. This workshop aimed to help us get a deeper understanding of how policy makers should respond to these economic peculiarities of platform markets.

Families and the Macroeconomy

Date: October 18-20, 2018

Venue: ZEW, Mannheim

Organization: Matthias Doepke, Minchul Yum, Holger Stichnoth and Michèle Tertilt

Program

This conference brought together leading researchers from Europe and the U.S. working on family economics with a macroeconomic perspective.

Unobservables? The measurement of individual heterogeneity and its use in economic models

Date: September 27-28, 2018

Venue: University of Bonn, Juridicum

Organization: Katja Kaufmann, Pia Pinger, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

Program

The idea of the workshop was to bring together a group of researchers who are interested in measuring and using quantities that are economically relevant, but have typically been treated as unobservable. Examples are preference parameters such as risk aversion or social preferences, abilities of various kinds, or beliefs about the human capital production process. Take risk preferences as an example: In which situations is a self-assessment more useful, in which situations a measure derived via revealed preference arguments from incentivized lotteries? How could each be used in models of “real-world” behavior, say of portfolio choice? The workshop assembled a great range of presentations of empirical or methodological work on the entire spectrum from pure measurement to the use of such measures in empirical models.

Asset Prices and the Macro Economy

Date: August 31 - September 01, 2018

Venue: University of Mannheim, Castle of Mannheim, Fuchs-Petrolub-Festsaal (O138)

Organization: Klaus Adam, Isabel Schnabel

Program

The CRC TR 224 contributed funding to the EABCN - CRC TR 224 Conference on "Asset Prices and the Macroeconomy", which took place on August 31 - September 1, 2018 at the University of Mannheim. The program was organized by Klaus Adam (University of Mannheim), Isabel Schnabel (University of Bonn) and Elisa Faraglia (University of Cambridge). It comprised 15 paper presentations from presenters on both sides of the Atlantic, including keynote presentations by Stefan Nagel (University of Chicago) and Nicola Gennaioli (Bocconi University).

7th Research Workshop in Financial Economics

Date: July 20, 2018

Venue: Faculty Lounge, Juridicum, University of Bonn

Organization: Hendrik Hakenes, Isabel Schnabel

Program

On July 20, 2018, the projects C03 and C04 organized a Research Workshop in Financial Economics. The workshop was held in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Center CRC TR224 (Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges) and was aimed especially at young researchers, that is, doctoral students shortly before their dissertation (especially job market candidates), or postdoctoral researchers. Topics concentrated on banking, financial intermediation in general, financial regulation, supervision, financial stability, central banking, and other related topics. There were discussions for all papers. The participants came partly from the region, but we also had participants from Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid. The participants were happy with the feedback they got, and they also used the dinner for networking. We tried to attract especially women to the workshop, and we had four women on the program in the end. We will hopefully be able to repeat this format in the next year.

Mannheim Workshop in Quantitative Macroeconomics: Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges

Date: May 18-19, 2018

Venue: Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, L 7, 3-5

Organization: Minchul Yum

Program

The workshop was intended to provide a forum for junior economists based in Europe with a special interest in quantitative macroeconomics. The workshop attracted many young macroeconomists from top European universities such as Bocconi, Cambridge, EUI, IIES, Oxford, and Toulouse (among others) who presented their recent research coupled with critical yet productive discussions.

The workshop was highly successful in providing researchers with opportunities to engage in highly relevant policy debates. A subset of topics targeted some country-specific episodes such as social housing policies in Germany, housing bubbles in Spain, and commuting costs in the U.K. On the other hand, some other papers promoted active discussions on more general policy issues such as exchange rates, monetary policy, labor market mismatches, and fertility.

Panel Discussion on April 17 in Bonn: The Need for Euro Area Reform - How to Move Forward?

Date: April 17, 2018

Venue: University Forum, Center for International Security and Governance, Heussallee 18-24, 53113 Bonn

Organization: Isabel Schnabel

Program

On Tuesday, April 17th 2018, the Center for International Security and Governance in cooperation with the Reinhard Selten Institute hosted a panel discussion on the topic of Euro area reform at the University Forum. While the event had to compete with best conditions for an evening outdoors as the warm and sunny weather reminded of early summer, the high attendance signaled the significance of the topic.

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