Year: 2025

OSUS is a Zoom-based Urban Economics Workshop Series founded in 2020 with the aim of bringing economists from various disciplines together to explore urban issues. OSUS is run by junior faculty and post-doctoral students on a revolving basis, with the aim of involving early-career academics in t...

Applications to complete a Bachelor Thesis in Winter Semester 2025/26 at the Chair of Economics and Social Policy are due by September 12, 2025. The Chair supervises Bachelor and Master theses with a focus on: Social Policy Housing Policy Regional and Urban Economics Old-age Provisi...

Economist Matthias Wrede, Professor of Social Policy at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, was interviewed by the F.A.Z. (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) about the housing shortage in Germany, its consequences for the labor market, and possible solutions. Like many other wealthy countries, Germany is fac...