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Inspection of the Technology and Growth exam

Inspection of the Technology and Growth exam from Summer Semester 2020


Economic Colloquium in the Winter Term 2020/2021

In the Winter Term 2020/2021 the Economic Colloquium will take place online. On tuesdays from 4:15 to 5:45 pm there will be lectures, which can be attended via Zoom. The first lecture on November 3rd was: The Fed’s Response to Economic News Explains the “Fed Information Effect”. To take part in one…


The Journal of the Economics of Ageing

New publication in -The Journal of the Economics of Ageing-

Torben Klarl has published his paper "Estimating the income inequality-health relationship for the United States between 1941 and 2015: Will the relevant frequencies please stand up?" in the renowned journal -The Journal of the Economics of Ageing-.


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Inspection of the Macroeconomics Exam postponed

Inspection of the Macroeconomics Exam from Winter Semester 2019/20 postponed


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New publication: The evolution of Zipf’s Law for U.S. cities

Angelina Hackmann, PhD student at the Working Group “quantitative Macroeconomics”, and Torben Klarl have published an article in the journal "Papers in Regional Science" on city size development in the U.S. between 1840 and 2016.


Inspection of the Macroeconomics Exam

Inspection of the Macroeconomics Exam from Summer Semester 2019


Inspection of the Technology and Growth exam

Inspection of the Technology and Growth exam from Summer Semester 2019


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New publication: The response of CO2 emissions to the business cycle: New evidence for the U.S.

Torben Klarl has published a paper about emissions elasticity with respect to GDP in the leading scientific journal for energy economics, Energy Economics.


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New publication: The implications of automation for economic growth when investment decisions are irreversible

Torben Klarl has published an article in the renowned journal Economics Letters on the topic of economic growth in the context of the progressive automation of production processes.


Call for a Special Issue for Small Business Economics Journal (SBEJ) on: “Radical Innovation, Entrepreneurship and (Regional) Growth”

Guest editors: David Audretsch (Indiana University, Bloomington and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Economics), Dirk Fornahl (University of Bremen) and Torben Klarl (University of Bremen)