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Professor Tertilt is the first German to receive the Birgit Grodal Award of the European Economic Association (EEA) for her outstanding work in the field of macroeconomics, development economics, and family economics.

The obligations of politicians towards future generations can be derived from the existing legal system. This is shown by Mannheim jurist Svenja Behrendt in her latest publication.

Artificial intelligence, self-driving cars or smart robots are rapidly changing the way we work. People are more and more afraid of being replaced by machines. A study by the Mannheim professor Philipp Ager shows that the career outlook is not necessarily negative.

A study of Dr. Valentin Lang, junior professor of Political Economy at the University of Mannheim, and his co-author Marina M. Tavares of the International Monetary Fund shows that the top ten percent of the national income distributions, in particular, have benefited from globalization.

The recently adopted Growth Opportunities Act was designed to increase competitiveness and investment incentives. But are the tax measures of the law sufficient to achieve these goals? The current survey of the German Business Panels (GBP) shows that this is not the case. The GBP data show that ...