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Bennet Janssen wearing a blue shirt and receiving the Impact Award

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CDSB students Bennet Janssen and Youpeng Zhang receive the Impact Award

CDSB students Bennet Janssen and Youpeng Zhang received the Impact Award for their paper “Beyond Consensus: ESG Ratings Divergence and Sustainable Investments” at the Liechtenstein Workshop of Sustainable Finance 2025. The Impact Award is presented by the LIFE Climate Foundation Liechtenstein to ...

Portrait of Jan Menzner. He is wearing a black sweater and standing in front of a wall.

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Hot of the press – The Importance of Descriptive Representation & Cue-Taking in Free List Local Elections

In the previous local elections in Mannheim, candidates performed best in their own residential districts and in districts similar to them. The success of younger candidates is especially affected by the age composition of the district's citizens. This is the result of a recent study by Jan ...

A group photo showing, from left to right, Fabienne Partsch, Hannah Rajski, Malena Ullrich, Leonard Wendering, Julius Diener, and Harmut Höhle, all smiling. The award winners are holding their award certificates toward the camera.

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Meet the Winners: GESS 2025 Awards

We proudly present the doctoral candidates whose accomplishments in teaching and research have earned them the GESS Awards. The graduate school’s Teaching Awards recognize the central part GESS doctoral students play in enriching learning across the Business School, the Department of Economics, and ...

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Welcome to the 2025 Doctoral Student Cohort!

Orientation day is here in Mannheim! Today we warmly welcome our incoming cohort of doctoral students as they arrive for orientations. This marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter as researchers at the GESS, University of Mannheim! After months of preparation, we cannot wait to meet you and ...

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New Appointments to the GESS Board of Directors

We are pleased to announce recent appointments within the GESS Board of Directors: Prof. Dr. Christoph Rothe has been appointed as the new Academic Director of the Center for Doctoral Studies in Economics (CDSE). With his expertise and vision, he will continue to advance the center’s commitment to ...

Aleksandar Blečić receives award while wearing a white shirt.

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CDSB Alumnus Aleksandar Blečić receives Marketing Foundation Award

CDSB Alumnus Aleksandar Blečić has been honored with the Marketing Foundation Award (sponsored by Dr. Hajo Treutler) for his outstanding dissertation “Valence and consumer behaviour: An empirical investigation of how positive and negative experiences influence perception and evaluation”. In his ...

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Trauer um Dr. Ulrich Karl Roschitsch

Felix trägt einen schwarzen Rollkragenpullover und hat braune Haare.

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Felix Rusche Wins FBK-IRVAPP 2025 Best Paper Award

Felix Rusche has been awarded the prestigious FBK-IRVAPP Best Paper Award 2025 for his research showing how community radio in India can empower women and reduce gender inequality.

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Von Nobelpreisträger*innen lernen

Zwei Mannheimer Doktoranden bewerben sich erfolgreich für das Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

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CDSB Alumna Dr. Theresa Bührle appointed Assistant Professor at NHH

From Berlin to Bergen – A new chapter begins for Dr. Theresa Bührle as she joins the Norwegian Center for Taxation, part of the Department of Business and Management Science at the Norwegian School of Economics. In Bergen, Theresa will focus her research on the intersection of taxation and ...