Note: Adjusted timing allows attendees to catch Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin's public lecture at HU Berlin afterward! 🏆 (2/2)

Requirements: PhD in Economics, strong empirical skills, German & English fluency

Deadline: Nov 20, 2025

More info here: www.empwifo.de

This seminar is in person. We will meet in H01, Haus 6, Campus Griebnitzsee.

- reductions in non-financial job satisfaction are negatively associated with both time and monetary investments; negative experiences – in form of reduced non-financial job satisfaction – narrow the thought-action repertoire. (3/3)

Having separated job satisfaction into its financial and non-financial aspects, they show that
- decreasing financial job satisfaction is positively related to time investments into the venture; thus reduced financial job satisfaction induces higher search efforts to improve the business situation

A big thank you as well to @amandayagan.bsky.social and @annabindler.bsky.social for contributing to the sessions on the academic job market — your insights and advice were invaluable for early-career researchers navigating this important stage. (3/3)

Many thanks to our keynote speaker, @amandayagan.bsky.social , for delivering an inspiring keynote that set the tone for the event. (2/3)

Main finding: Equity crowdfunding is not closing the regional funding gap — it thrives where venture capital already flows. (2/2)

These findings underline the importance of nuanced antitrust policy approaches. Explore the detailed coordination mechanisms of partial cartels in our study.

- Ringleader policies can backfire via a leading-by-example effect where information about ringleader activities motivates other firms to participate in the cartel which increases prices compared to settings without such policies.

Key Insights:
- The possibility to form partial cartels creates opposing effects: the individual willingness to communicate decreases due to free-riding incentives, but overall, communication becomes more frequent because a coalition of firms willing to communicate cannot be blocked by one outsider.

Great benefits including flexible hours, home office options, and 30 vacation days! 6/6

Position details:

30 hours/week (75%)
TV-L 13 remuneration group
University of Potsdam, Germany
Application deadline: August 15, 2025
Contact: lisa.bruttel@uni-potsdam.de 5/n

Looking for candidates with:

Master's in economics, computer science, psychology, or related field
Strong interest in behavioral economics

and ideally with:
Programming skills (Python/R preferred)
ML & text mining experience
Very good English & German (B2/C1) 4/n

Your responsibilities:

Own research as part of a doctorate in behavioral economics
Collaboration in research projects of the chair
Teaching in microeconomics and behavioral economics (German & English) 3/n