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Are emission scandal lawsuits becoming a business model? A survey of the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) broadcasting corporation tried to answer this question. Marketing expert Florian Stahl monitored the process from a scientific point of view.

The German Research Foundation extends the funding for the Collaborative Research Center TRR 266 “Accounting for Transparency”. The University of Mannheim is one of three universities which applied for funding. As part of the CRC 266, the German Business Panel (GBP), which is based in Mannheim, ...

Professor Eckhard Janeba, Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim is the new chair of the Board of Academic Advisors of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). The Board of Academic Advisors gives the ministry advice on all aspects of economic policy.

The European Commission has published a new report (Policy Report) on the consequences the coronavirus pandemic has had on women in research and development.

The US-based Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) has honored the Professor of Mathematics at the University of Mannheim for organizing a virtual One World Symposium at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.

Children will eat more fruits and vegetables if families take more time to eat meals. This is the result of a new study of health psychologist Professor Jutta Mata from the University of Mannheim and Professor Ralph Hertwig, Director at the Center for Adaptive Rationality of the Max Planck Institute ...

In December 2022, the German Bundesbank predicted a significant decline of the inflation rate to 4.1 percent for 2024. According to the April report of the German Business Panel (GBP), however, it is too soon to give the all-clear.

Mannheim data scientist Professor Florian Keusch and researchers from six other European countries have received a grant for a new project of the European Commission and EUROSTAT, the statistical office of the European Union. The goal of the project is to develop and test intelligent, ...

The Leibniz ScienceCampus MannheimTaxation, a joint initiative of ZEW Mannheim and the University of Mannheim, will receive 1.2 million euros in research funding from the Leibniz Association over a period of four years.

Over the next twelve months, the commission is to address the revision of legislation on reproductive medicine and the future of Section 218 of the German Criminal Code (StGB) regulating abortion.