Center for European Governance and Economic Development Research

Center for European Governance and Economic Development Research
Established1999
Research typeInterdisciplinary research institute
Field of research
European integration, governance and development research
LocationGermany
CampusUniversity of Göttingen

The Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege) is an interdisciplinary research institute of the University of Göttingen, Germany. The cege was founded in 1999 by Prof. Dr. Renate Ohr. It analyzes European and global economic structures, the effects of economic incentives on a national and international scale, as well as with processes of growth and development in developed and developing countries.

Members

The members of the cege are professors from the fields of economics, business administration, economic history, agricultural economics, law and political science:

  • Prof. Dr. Hartmut Berghoff
  • Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer
  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Busch
  • Prof. Dr. Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel
  • Prof. Ingo Geishecker, PhD
  • Prof. Dr. Claudia Keser
  • Prof. Stephan Klasen, PhD
  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Oestreicher
  • Prof. Dr. Renate Ohr
  • Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rübel
  • Prof. Dr. Frank Schorkopf
  • Prof. Dr. Robert Schwager
  • Prof. Dr. Achim Spiller
  • Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler
  • Prof. Dr. Peter-Tobias Stoll

Activities

The cege conducts researches and supports research projects in the fields European integration, governance and development research.

Symposium

On a regular basis, the cege organizes symposiums on current European policy issues.

  • On the importance of referenda in the process of European integration, 2009 (Participants among others: Lars Feld, Roland Vaubel, Christian Calliess)
  • Globalisation in critical discussion (Participants among others: Norbert Berthold, Rolf Langhammer, Wilhelm Kohler)
  • Globalisation - A challenge for economic policy 2003 (Participants among others: Friedrich L. Sell, Axel Dreher, Wolf Schäfer)

Research Seminar

The cege organizes a research seminar to promote scientific exchange. Presenters include Justus Haucap, Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, Michael C. Burda, Christoph M. Schmidt und Bruno Frey.

Third-party funded projects

The cege studied on behalf of Transparency International the extent and consequences of corruption, also with regard to central banks.[1]

Cege is involved in the project "Responsive Regulation of Innovation Behaviour for Sustainability (ReSINa)“. ReSINa is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It is a joint project of the University of Göttingen (cege – Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research), the University of Augsburg (CEPRA – Centre for Performance Research & Analytics) and the College of Darmstadt (sofia – Society for Institutional Analysis).[2]

References

  1. ^ GESIS – SofisWiki. Website of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  2. ^ University of Göttingen - Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research – Research. Website of the University of Göttingen,

External links

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University of Göttingen
Leadership
President
Metin Tolan
Faculties
  • Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
  • Faculty of Biology and Psychology
  • Faculty of Chemistry
  • Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology
  • Faculty of Geoscience and Geography
  • Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Faculty of Physics
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Faculty of Economic Sciences
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Theology
  • Medical Center
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