General Information

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Professuren und Lehrstühle

• Social Policy and Public Finance, Prof. Dr. Werding
• Social Policy and Public Economics, Prof. Dr. Hessami
• Junior Professorship for Health Care and E-Health, Prof. Dr. Merkel

Emeritus / Retired Professors

• Prof. em. Dr. Neumann (Chair of Social Policy and Social Economics)
• Prof. em. Dr. Ott, (Chair of Social Policy and Institutional Economics)

Self-Conception

Analyzing social structures and political processes comprehensively requires an understanding of their economic conditions and consequences. Conversely, economic analyses of social conditions gain depth by including their social context as well as the goals and processes of related political action in an interdisciplinary perspective.

In this context, the members of the section approach all social interactions and institutions from an economic perspective in their research and teaching, with a particular interest in questions of practical economic and social policy making.

Focal Points of the Section's Scientific Research:

• theory of social policy and social security system
• public finances and public economy
• economics of the labor market, education, and population
• health economics and environmental economics
• empirical economic research and international comparisons of economic and social policy