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Keeping on with last year’s success, we encourage all fellow doctoral students at the University of Mannheim, independently of their belonging to GESS or not, to apply for a seat. We thus hope to benefit from the great diversity...
The article “Does Platform Owner's Entry Crowd Out Innovation? Evidence From Google Photos” by Dr. Jens Förderer and his co-authors Prof. Dr. Armin Heinzl, Dr. Thomas Kude and Sunil Mithas (University of Maryland), has been...
Scholarships for international participants available
The student representatives of the CDSE, CDSS and CDSB are extraordinarily pleased to announce the 9th GESS Research Day, which will take place on March the 5th, 2018.The Research Day will take place as a whole day symposium...
The German Statutory Pension Insurance awarded CDSS Alumnus Moritz Heß their 2017 FNA Research Prize for his dissertation „Preferred and Expected Retirement Age in Germany and Europe“. The prize is endowed with €5.000.Many...
The German weekly „ZEIT-Magazin“ from November 9, 2017 published an article about the quality of democratic decision-making procedures in Germany and the European Union regarding an ever growing influence from lobby groups...
The Consortium of Socio-Scientific Institutes (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Institute - ASI) has awarded the 2017 ASI Young Scientist Award to CDSS doctoral student Christian Schimpf for the publication Huber,...
