Teaching awards 2024/251
Every year, the Rectorate of the University of Bonn and the Department of Economics award teaching awards to lecturers who have made outstanding achievements in teaching. The teaching awards recognize and highlight excellent teaching at the University of Bonn. There are four award categories for economics courses, which take into account the different framework conditions and requirements for teaching in terms of the number of participants, compulsory or elective courses. One teaching award is presented by the Rectorate, the other three by the Department of Economics.
Statement on the award of an honorary doctorate to Paul von Hindenburg in 19262
Statement by the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Bonn on the awarding of an honorary doctorate to Paul von Hindenburg in 1926.
Bundesbank Science Prize 20253
Ms. Paula Jacobs received the Bundesbank Science Prize 2025 for excellent theses for her Master's thesis “Above and Below Zero: Bank Lending in a Post-Negative Policy Rate Era.” The prize was awarded on June 24, 2025 by the President of the North Rhine-Westphalia Head Office of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Mr. Christian Otto, at the Juridicum in Bonn. This year's prize was endowed with 2,000 euros. We would like to congratulate the winner!
Just Graduated: Maximilian Grimm4
Congratulations! Maximilian Grimm graduated from the Bonn Graduate School of Economics.
#48: Is the housing construction boom coming?5
Why is there still too little construction? What are the economic consequences of the housing shortage? And how realistic is the construction boom announced by the new federal government?
Bonn graduate Peter Andre receives the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize6
Peter Andre has been awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for his research expertise in behavioral economics, particularly in relation to human behavior in the context of climate change. The economist, who graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Bonn and completed his doctorate at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics, is one of ten prize winners in 2025. The Department of Economics at the University of Bonn congratulates Peter Andre on this important award.
Funding extended for ECONtribute & HCM7
A huge success for the University of Bonn: yesterday, all six of the University of Bonn's existing Clusters of Excellence were selected for further funding in the nationwide Excellence Competition. In addition, both newly applied Bonn cluster initiatives will receive funding from the federal and state governments. This means that Bonn will be represented by a total of eight clusters in the coming funding period - more than at any other university in Germany.
New episode of the ECONtribute-Wirtschaftspodcast8
What are the effects of transparency regulations on politicians’ outside income? Do they influence their behavior? And how do voters react to lucrative side jobs?
Links
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news/vergabe-der-lehrpreise-fuer-das-studienjahr-2024-25
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news/statement-honorary-doctorate-hindenburg
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news/bundesbank-science-prize-2025
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news/get-to-know-bgse-graduate-maximilian-grimm
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news/48-is-the-housing-construction-boom-coming
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news/bonn-graduate-peter-andre-receives-the-heinz-maier-leibnitz-prize
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news/funding-extended-for-cluster-of-excellence
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news/nebenjobs-von-abgeordneten-was-bringt-mehr-transparenz-neue-folge-des-econtribute-wirtschaftspodcasts
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=8
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=16
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=24
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=32
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=40
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=48
- https://www.econ.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=128