Institute of Economic Research (IWF)

Institute of Economic Research

The expertise of the Institute of Economic Research (IWF) covers the entire range of traditional fields within the discipline of economics. The Institute places great importance on applying both empirical and experimental methods in its teaching and research.

The wide range of fields include health economics, energy research, economic policy and labor market research. The Institute’s work is strengthened by its collaboration with affiliated chairs from the School’s Institute of Labor Market and Socioeconomics, as well as FAU’s Department of Mathematics.

Head of the Institute

Chairs

Chair of Empirical Economics	Prof. Regina T. Riphahn, PhD
Chair of Statistics and Econometrics	Prof. Dr. Jonas Dovern
Chair of Labor and Regional Economics	Prof. Dr. Claus Schnabel
Chair of Empirical Microeconomics	Prof. Dr. Gesine Stephan
Chair of Public Finance	Prof. Dr. Thiess Büttner
Chair of Macroeconomics	Prof. Dr. Christian Merkl
Chair of Economic Policy	Prof. Dr. Johannes Rincke
Chair of Economic Theory	Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm
Professorship of Health Economics	Prof. Dr. Harald Tauchmann
Professor of Economics, Industrial Organization and Energy Markets	Prof. Dr. Gregor Zöttl

Affiliated chairs

Chair of Labor Economics	Prof. Dr. Lutz Bellmann
Chair of Economics and Social Policy	Prof. Dr. Matthias Wrede
Chair of Global Governance	Prof. Dr. Christoph Moser

Assistant Professorships

Assistant Professorship for Macroeconomics and Labor Market Research	Prof. Dr. Britta Gehrke
Assistant Professorship for Behavioral Economics	Prof. Dr. Verena Utikal