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The Center for Doctoral Studies in Business (CDSB) of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim is hosting an online information event for prospective students interested in pursuing a doctoral degree in one of the following seven areas of ...

At the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Mannheim we are excited to announce that applications are officially open for our fully funded doctoral degree programs starting in Fall 2025! Programs Available: Business (Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, ...

We are proud to present this year’s recipients of the GESS Awards! The awards were presented during the annual GESS Welcome Reception for the new cohort of doctoral students and recognize outstanding achievements in both teaching and research by GESS doctoral candidates. We would like to extend our ...

CDSB doctoral candidate Marc J. Mertens received the Best Paper Award at the 4th International Conference of the Global Research Foundation for Corporate Governance, held in partnership with Loughborough University London. In their paper titled “The Power of Visuals: How Visual Impression Management ...

For his outstanding paper “Progressive Income Taxation and Inflation: The Macroeconomic Effects of Bracket Creep” Lukas Hack, CDSE Alumnus and now Post-Doctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich, was awarded the Reinhard Selten Prize. In his paper he explores how progressive income taxation and inflation ...

CDSE student Felix Rusche has been awarded the ESEM 2024 Award for his paper “Broadcasting Change: India’s Community Radio Policy and Women’s Empowerment.” In his research, Felix investigates the role of grassroots media as a tool for development, focusing on India’s 2006 community radio policy. By ...

For his first-class dissertation entitled ‘Robust and Replicable, but also Inexplicable? Articulation Dynamics and their Effects on (Evaluative) Judgments’, CDSS Alumnus Moritz Ingendahl was honoured with this year's Heinz Heckhausen Prize of the German Psychological Society (DGP). In his doctoral ...

Tilko Swalve joins Leiden University as Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University. His research interests lie in the interactions between politics and law, with a focus on the role of courts in the political process and the behavior of ...

Thibault Cézanne, doctoral candidate at the CDSE and ZEW researcher, was awarded the 11th SUERF I UniCredit Foundation Research Prize for his contribution in the workshop 'AI in Banking and Finance'. Alongside Dr. Frank Brueckbauer (ZEW), he co-authored the paper “Bank Manager Sentiment, Excessive ...

Last year in May Marc Philipp succesfully defended his thesis and has now taken up the  ‘Tenure-Track Professorship for Teaching and Learning Psychology with a focus on Educational Design and Educational Effectiveness’ at the Karlsruhe University of Education on 1 September 2024. He'll remain ...