News overview 2025

The research article by Arthur Seibold, Sebastian Seitz and Sebastian Siegloch has been published in ECONOMETRICA! We asked Arthur Seibold to share their key insights.

On April 17, Prof. Klaus M. Schmidt was honored in Augsburg by State Minister Markus Blume with the prestigious “Prize for Excellence in Teaching” from the Free State of Bavaria.

ECONM has been ranked #1 in Germany for Economics & Econometrics in the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

We’re excited to welcome you to the new semester!

We congratulate Ludwig Straub who has been awarded the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association!

The research article by Jan Bietenbeck, Uwe Sunde, and Petra Thiemann is now published in Journal of Public Economics! We asked economist Uwe Sunde, to share their key insights.

The research article by Ulrich Glogowsky, Emanuel Hansen, Dominik Sachs, and Holger Lüthen is now published in the European Economic Review! We asked economist Emanuel Hansen, to share their key insights.

The research article by Manwei Liu and Sili Zhang is now published in The Economic Journal! We asked economist Sili Zhang, to share their key insights.

We are pleased to share that Silvia Castro has been selected as an AI at Work Awardee with Schmidt Sciences.

The Faculty of Economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München extends its sincere condolences to the Gumpel family on the passing of Prof. Dr. Werner Gumpel.