Personalie vom 11. Juli 2016
Friederike Lenel, a doctoral student of the Development and Security department, was awarded the best PhD Student Paper Award for her paper 'Insurance and Solidarity' at the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology Annual Conference 2016 in Wageningen.
The paper was written in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Susan Steiner as part of the research project 'Insurance and Private Transfers - Experimental Evidence' and funded by the German Research Foundation.
Last year's award recipient was Christian Zankiewicz, of the Competition and Consumers department, for his paper entitled "Hidden skewness: On the difficulty of muliplicative compounding under random shocks (PDF, 0.68 MB)".