IAW Events and Seminars

The Deutsche Bundesbank’s headquarters in Baden-Württemberg and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW) invite you to the “Bundesbank-IAW Lecture” on Thursday, May 7, 2026, at 4:15 p.m. in the Neue Aula at the University of Tübingen.

We are very pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. mult. Dr. h.c. Ulrike Malmendier from the University of California, Berkeley. Her lecture is titled:

Human Finance – Incorporating Insights from the Life Sciences into Finance, with an Application to German Capital Markets and Pension Reform.

Please refer to the invitation for further information. Registration to attend the lecture is not required.

Presentation of the 2026 Norbert Kloten Prize for Applied Economic Research to:

Judith Lehner

An Empirical Counterfactual Analysis of Fiscal Policy in Germany.

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ralph Lütticke, Chair of Macroeconomics at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Ricardo Acevedo Arias

The Welfare, Trade, and Emissions Effects of the EU-MERCOSUR Trade Agreement: A Quantitative Analysis.

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jung, Chair of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hohenheim

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From left to right: Ricardo Acevedo Arias, Judith Lehner, Dr. Patricia Staab (President of the Baden-Württemberg Branch of the Deutsche Bundesbank), Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Rall (IAW)

Lecture

What is Europe's Response to Geopolitical Challenges?

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Prof. Dr. Christoph Trebesch, Vice President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Director of the International Finance and Geopolitics Research Group at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Kiel.

Panel discussion

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From left to right:

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Diez, Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen
• Dr.-Ing. Sven Gailus, Managing Director, Strategy Office, Hapag-Lloyd AG, Hamburg
• Johannes Pennekamp, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Moderator)
• Prof. Dr. Christoph Trebesch, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
• Johannes Jung, Department Head, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor, and Tourism of Baden-Württemberg

The Tübingen-Hohenheim Economics (THE) association invites you to this year's THE workshop in combination with a mini-course on “Causal Machine Learning.”

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For the 10th anniversary of the Bundesbank-IAW Lecture at the University of Tübingen, organized annually by the IAW in cooperation with the Bundesbank's Baden-Württemberg headquarters, a very special speaker was invited: Dr. Joachim Nagel, acting president of the Deutsche Bundesbank and thus head of the institution whose name the renowned lecture series bears. The lecture, held in English, took place in the almost full Audimax lecture hall at the University of Tübingen. In his speech, Dr. Nagel provided a detailed overview of the European Central Bank's monetary policy strategy since 2021 and answered numerous questions from the audience.

The full text of his speech is available on the Deutsche Bundesbank website.

Target achieved, but challenges still remain – monetary policy since the 2021 strategy review.

Dr. Joachim Nagel, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

The Deutsche Bundesbank, Head Office Stuttgart, and the Institute for Applied Economic Research e.V. (IAW) cordially invite you to the 10th Bundesbank-IAW Lecture at the University of Tübingen on Wednesday, July 9, 2025 at 2:15 p.m. in the New Auditorium (Neue Aula) of the University.

See invitation for further information. Registration is not required.