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On the occasion of the East German Economic Forum 2019, the ZDF produced a broadcast on the topic of the "Extended Workbench East Germany" on the 20th of May 2019. In it, people from business, politics, and science were given the opportunity to express their views. Jutta Günther explains why the…

On May 21st Prof. Dr. Lutz Schneider will give a presentation at our faculty titled "Can the decline of traditional industrial sites explain people's election behaviour in German regions?".

Prof. Dr. Udo Ludwig took part in a research colloquium on the economic history of the German nation at the University of Bamberg on April 6, 2019. In this context, he reported on the measurement of economic performance and welfare in times of German dictatorships, titled: "Growth of the gross…

On April 10, 2019 the general assembly decided to affiliate Jutta Günther as a faculty member at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS).

Since April 01, 2019, Michael Rochlitz is professor of economics with the specialisation “institutional change” at the University of Bremen.

The “Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation” brings together contributions from a wide range of researchers related to transformation research covering theoretical frameworks, research approaches, methods, historic waves and types of societal transformation.

In February 2019, Jutta Günther was appointed for four years as a member of the scientific advisory board of the Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO).

The International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) at Higher School of Economics in Moscow will together with the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES) organize the workshop on "Topics in Political Economy of Development".

Nahezu 30 Jahre nach dem Zusammenbruch des Sozialismus und der „Wende“ sind in den Neuen Bundesländern technologisch hochmoderne Wirtschaftszweige und Infrastrukturen sowie eine leistungsstarke Wissenschaftslandschaft entstanden.