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On May 11th at 16:15, Alexander Libman, Professor of Russian and East European Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin, is going to present his paper "Legacies of Communist Modernization: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" at the seminar of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy (IERP).

On April 22nd, Michael Rochlitz took part in a panel discussion on the topic of the transition from socialist planning to a market economy. The discussion was organized by the German Historical Institute in Moscow (DHI), and the Center for East European and International Studies in Berlin (ZOiS).

On March 25th, Michael Rochlitz was invited to give the keynote opening lecture at the „International Conference on Federalism, State and Society“, organized by the Islamia University of Bahawalpur in Pakistan. The yearly conference is the biggest conference in the social sciences in Pakistan.

For his dissertation on "Green Technologies and their Role for Sustainability" Tobias Wendler received the "CAMPUS PREIS: Research for a Sustainable Future" of the Kellner & Stoll Foundation on April 15, 2021.

Time: 14. April 2021, 4 pm, via Zoom Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dong Jun Wu, Georgia Tech Title: IT Knowledge Spillovers, Absorptive Capacity, and Productivity: Evidence from Enterprise Software

Professor Dr. Lars Hornuf has published a new article in the Journal of Corporate Finance under the title "The relevance of investor rights in crowdinvesting." The article emerged in collaboration with Tobias Schilling and Prof. Dr. Armin Schwienbacher of Skema Business School.

The article deals with the importance of science for the state of Bremen. In view of the Corona pandemic, public revenues are declining and the resources for financing science are no longer available to the extent planned.

On March 20, 2021, Michael Rochlitz gave a four-hour guest lecture at the University of Zurich on the subject of “Russia's Economic Transformation”, for the module “World Perspectives: Russia” of the master program “Applied History”.

A new paper by Michael Rochlitz, Evgeniya Mitrokhina and Irina Nizovkina has just been published in the current issue of the European Journal of Political Economy. The study shows how entrepreneurs affiliated with the political opposition are discriminated against by Russia’s state bureaucracy.