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