Newsletter 01/2010 - Human Behaviour in Social and Economic
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Newsletter 01/2010 - Human Behaviour in Social and Economic
01-2010 Newsletter Dear participants and friends of the GSBC, With this GSBC newsletter, we continuously want to inform you about current developments at the Graduate School “Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change” (GSBC), upcoming courses, workshops and conferences as well as research highlights relevant for researchers and doctoral candidates in the GSBC. The contents of this newsletter are as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Latest News 3rd IMPRS Thesis Workshop Study Programme in Summer Term Announcements Accomplishments All announcements and accomplishments (especially of publications and lectures) are based on information supplied to us. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest News Grants and Offers Thuringian Research Award for Stefan R. Schweinberger The Thuringian Research Prize (Thüringer Forschungspreis) 2009 was awarded to Stefan R. Schweinberger, Jürgen M. Kaufmann and Holger Wiese from the Department of General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. They received the prize in the category basic research for their investigations of description and analysis of neuronal correlates of face recognition. Stefan R. Schweinberger is professor for general psychology and cognitive neuroscience at the FSU Jena and faculty member of the GSBC. Honorary Doctorate awarded to Werner Güth On February 16th, the Eberhardt Karls University of Tuebingen awarded Prof. Dr. Werner Güth a honorary doctorate. In her welcome address, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Pull, Dean of the Faculty for Economics and Business Administration, emphasized the impact of Werner Güth’s work especially on interdisciplinary research. His research mirrors the close link between economics and management as advanced by the Faculty in Tuebingen. In particular she underlined the impact of his work for these two domains of economic science and furthermore across disciplines. The dean paid also tribute to Werner Güth as a founder and prominent research representative uniting economic and behavioral science. The laudation was delivered by Prof. Dr. Manfred Stadler. In his speech he particularly pointed out the many joint research projects carried out by Kerstin Pull, Manfred Stadler and Werner Güth and various other members of both institutions. Newsletter 01-2010 New Project by Rainer K. Silbereisen: Demography and Democracy - Territorial Levels of Demographic Change, Individual Levels of Developmental Assets and Community-Based Potentials for Civic Engagement and Recruitment of Political Personnel (together with Everhard Holtmann (University of Halle)) The aim of the new project is to investigate the relationship between disadvantaged developmental contexts (regarding demographic and social-economic characteristics), individual perceptions of developmental resources of the inhabitants, and their consequences for civic engagement and political involvement. As a consequence, regional-specific recommendations will be given to promote participation, in particular in young adults. This project is funded by the Innovation Fund of the SFB 580 aiming at the elaboration of inter-disciplinary research projects. New GSBC-Post-Docs Alaina Brenick Alaina completed her Ph.D. in Human Development at the University of Maryland in December 2009. Her research has focused on the role of identity, stereotypic expectations, and intergroup conflict in children and adolescents’ social and moral reasoning regarding intergroup relations, particularly among youth who come from groups with histories of inequality and conflict. Her dissertation examined the role of cultural identity and intergroup contact on adolescents’ evaluations of ArabJewish friendships. While at the University of Maryland, Alaina conducted research investigating children and adolescents’ evaluations of intergroup relations in the United States, Colombia, and the Middle-East. As part of her post-doctoral work at the GSBC she will investigate the intergroup dynamics between native and immigrant populations in Germany and Israel. Contact: alaina.brenick[at]uni-jena.de Maria Pavlova My specialization is developmental psychology, and I received both my diploma (2001) and my doctoral degree (2007) at the Developmental Psychology Department, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Before coming to Jena, I worked as a lecturer at the Moscow City University of Psychology and Education. In 2008, I received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a six-month research stay at the Center for Applied Developmental Science (CADS), University of Jena, and now I come to Jena as a postdoctoral fellow at the GSBC (since February 2010). My doctoral dissertation concerned interrelationships between different domains of development in adolescence (i.e., social, cognitive, and self). As a result of my stay at the CADS and with the help of my co-authors, I accomplished a study on early, on-time, and late transitions to behavioural autonomy in adolescence and their associations with subsequent psychosocial adjustment in adulthood. Currently I am investigating potential explanations of the age-related gap in subjective well-being between adults (age 18¬42) that have achieved a certain normative Page 2 Newsletter 01-2010 status (i.e., employment, steady partnership, and parenthood) and those who have not. At the GSBC, I will continue studying adult development, with more focus on its socioeconomic context, and I am very open to interdisciplinary collaboration. Contact: maria.pavlova[at]uni-jena.de New GSBC-Fellows Chad Baum I am originally from Dallas, Texas in the United States of America. In 2002, I was awarded a McNair Scholarship to attend the University of South Carolina. During my time at USC, I spent three semesters studying abroad: at the Kansai Gaidai University in Japan in 2004, and then at the Universidad de Complutense in Madrid, Spain from 2004-2005. In 2006, I graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a minor in Japanese. The next year, I moved to Australia and attended the Australian National University. In 2008, I attained a masters degree in International and Developmental Economics, also having studied time-series econometrics, public policy and environmental economics. I also have experience as an English-as-a-Second-Language instructor, including teaching English grammar and pronunciation. I have now been studying at the GSBC since January. During the next three years, I intend to broaden my understanding of economic theory, especially in institutional and ecological economics. Inspired by the work of Friedrich Hayek, among others, I plan to research the growing trend toward libertarianism and decentralization within modern society, and pursue a thesis project that highlights the impact of these changes on economic development, especially in relation to environmental sustainability and in pursuit of a contextual approach to economic theory. Contact: chad.baum[at]uni-jena.de Fernando Campos Medina Territorial Speed Up, the revolutionary process of construction of relevant geographies - this research proposal begins with the very general idea that the social acceleration process can be understood in late modernity not only in its temporal dimension but also in a spatial dimension. There are many concepts coming from the critical geography or the sociological neo-Marxist tradition, seeking to build a bridge between the temporal and the spatial dimension in contemporary society, e.g. time-space compression, time-space distantiation, spatio-temporal matrices of globalization, historically specific territorialisation and rescaling. I start from the premise that the concepts of time-space compression and historically specific round of territorialisation are outstanding contributions to the social theory but they are insufficient to describe and understand the revolutionary transformation in the organization of space in contemporary societies due to the social process of acceleration as is conceptualized by Hartmut Rosa in the dimension of: technological acceleration, acceleration of social change, acceleration of the pace of life. My research interest, it is to develop a theoretical and methodological approach connecting the ideas of social acceleration to the spatial dimension, through the study of social Page 3 Newsletter 01-2010 process of governance arrangement and local networks, highlighting the complexity and the institutional desynchronization in regional and metropolitan contexts. Contact: fernando.campos-medina[at]uni-jena.de Hana Doležalová I am a PhD student at GSBC since January 2010. Previously I was studying at Masaryk University in Brno in the Czech Republic. In 2005 I completed my bachelor degree in religious studies and sociology and in 2007 I received my diploma in sociology. During my graduate studies I developed a strong interest in a qualitative research of contemporary religiosity, mainly its non-church forms. My main spheres of interest are sociology of religion, body and identity. My dissertation will undertake qualitative research of beliefs and bodily practices in New Age spirituality. I will deal with the question: how New Age practitioners relate to their Self, their body and to others, examining the role of individualism and collectivism in New Age’s holistic spiritual milieu. More generally, will explore how do people in contemporary individualized society relate to their communities. Contact: hana.dolezalova[at]uni-jena.de Felix Hussenöder My name is Felix Hussenöder and I started working at the Graduate School “Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change” (GSBC) in January 2010. After studies in Germany (FAU-Nürnberg) and Spain (Universitat de les Illes Balears) I acquired my diploma in psychology at the FSU Jena (topic: Diary Test of Explicit Memory – realistic memory testing considering the interaction of anxiety and coping style). For my dissertation “members of social networks” I will explore the functions of social networks for their members in the context of their personalities. Contact: felix.hussenoeder[at]googlemail.com Sheriffa Mahama I started in February as one of the doctoral students of the Jena Graduate School – Human Development in Social and Economic Change. My background studies have been in Psychology. I received my bachelors as well as a master’s degree from the University of Ghana in 2007 where I was also employed as an assistant lecturer. Currently, I am researching into social change effects on family and kinship cultural behavior and the interplay with individual resources and coping strategies across the lifespan. So far, I love the city of Jena and have met some amazing and kind people and I am looking forward to my work and stay in Jena. Contact: sheriffa.mahama[at]uni-jena.de Dario Montero I was born in Santiago de Chile, where I studied sociology and philosophy at the Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2002 I studied for one semester at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) as an exchange student, and then I spent the rest of that year in EngPage 4 Newsletter 01-2010 land doing volunteer work. After completing my studies in Chile I came to Germany in 2006 to pursue the Master of Public Policy (MPP) at the University of Erfurt, a two-year program in political science and public administration. In September 2009 I began writing my dissertation in Jena under the supervision of Prof. Hartmut Rosa (Sociology) on the methodology of the social sciences, in particular, on the role that hermeneutics has played in the foundation of the social sciences and the consequences that this methodological approach entails for the explanation of social change. My dissertation focuses on the work of Max Weber and Charles Taylor. Since January 2010 I am doctoral fellow at the Jena Graduate School "Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change" (GSBC). Contact: dario.montero[at]uni-jena.de Maria Skivko In 2008 I finished Samara State University (Russia), sociological faculty. My specialization was sociology of communication, that I finished with final research work “Designing of consuming standards in men’s’ and women’s’ magazines”. In this work I investigated how the standards of consuming today might be constructing. For improve my practical skills in sociology and enlarging research experience I continued my education in European Humanities University in Vilnius (Lithuania) and finished there the program of Cultural studies, specialization of Visual and cultural studies. The field of my research projects was consumption in the culture sphere and the functioning of creative industries, that’s why the theme of my Masters’ Thesis was “Cultural consumption and event-tourism in the contemporary city”. From January 2010 I started my PhD-study at the Jena Graduate School “Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change”. In my PhD project I’m planning to research the phenomenon of trend-setting and the trendsetters as a special social group. Always ready to study, to develop, to create ;) Contact: maria.skivko[at]uni-jena.de Philip Hiroshi Ueno I was born and raised in Brazil though my parents come from Japan. In the last years I lived in Berlin where I completed my Master in International and Development Economics at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences. Prior to that, I have lived for a year in Hyderabad (India) where I was project consultant at a Corporate Social Responsibility Foundation dealing with urban development. In Brazil, I completed my bachelor in Public Policy at Fundação Getulio Vargas and worked for three years in Instituto de Tecnologia Social, a NGO that develops that deals with use of technologies for Social Inclusion with support of Brazilian Science and Technology Ministry. My research interests span from topics like the role, origins and classification of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Social Economy and Appropriate Technology to issues Page 5 Newsletter 01-2010 on Development Economics and Innovation Policy. Here in GSBC, I will research on the technology policy in Brazil. As for the hobbies, swimming, cycling, cooking and travelling are my favourite ones. I am very pleased to take part of GSBC and hope to meet and collaborate with you. Contact: philip.ueno[at]uni-jena.de New EIC-Fellows Levan Bzhalava I studied development economics at Warsaw University. My master thesis illustrated relationships among socioeconomic conditions, knowledge diffusion and labor productivity. After graduating from the university I began working as a chief of the Economic Development Department of Bolnisi Municipality in Georgia. Since February 2010 I am a PhD student at Jena Graduate School “The Economics of Innovative Change”. Consumer behavior, market demand and innovation systems are the areas of my interest where I would like to develop a PhD project. In particular, my purpose is to study demand-side factors of an economy, how agents (consumer and entrepreneur) actively shape a market demand as an outcome of interaction and learning processes and the role of institutional framework in an evolutionary process. Contact: levan.bzhalava[at]uni-jena.de Mingdi Xiao In February 2010, I started working as a PhD student at the Jena Graduate Program “The Economics of Innovative Change”. Before joining the group I studied Finance at the University of St Andrews as well as the University Utrecht. In November 2009, I received my Master of Science degree in Finance (M.Sc Finance). The focus of my final thesis was on the relationship between Entrepreneurs and Investors in the venture capital investments in the UK high-technology industries. My interest places on financing of innovations, entrepreneurship, venture capital investment, and that is also where I plan to complete my PhD thesis. I am looking forward to participate in this interesting and challenging program. Contact: mingdi.xiao[at]uni-jena.de 3rd IMPRS Thesis Workshop The 3rd IMPRS Thesis workshop was held at castle Ringberg, conference site of the Max Planck Society, from February 15 till 19. The purpose of this Workshop is to report on the actual state of the PhD project of all enrolled IMPRS doctoral students. Therefore, the IMPRS PhD students from the Max Planck Institutes in Jena, Berlin, and Bonn as well as from the University of Jena met. 29 presentations in the three fields the fields the IMPRS Uncertainty combines (Economics, Law, and Psychology) were given in three days: • Matthias Uhl: Weak Paternalism - An Experimental Analysis Page 6 Newsletter 01-2010 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Charlotte Klempt: Committing to incentives: Should the Decision to Sanction be revealed or hidden? Stefan Tontrup: Studies on Process Fairness Michael Kurschilgen: Fairness Ex Ante and Ex Post - the Benefits of a “Bestseller Paragraph" in Media Markets Fabian Winter: Remarks on the dynamics of normative conflict and some preliminary results Astrid Buba: Being in balance gets you rich!? About the relationship of emotional stability and other core self-evaluations with wage expectations and competitiveness Nikolai Bodemer: Evaluating risk communication: Towards a theoretical framework for understanding and supporting patient's bounded rationality Robert Böhm: Intragroup discussion and interindividual-intergroup discontinuity: A test of two explanations Katharina Eckartz: Innovation in the Lab Christiane Ehses-Friedrich: Aspects of Strategic Information Transmission Juliane Kämmer: Heuristics in Group Decision Making Florian Artinger: Pricing Heuristics, The role of empathy and theory of mind in simple games Hannes Koppel: Keep the track!? An experimental investigation of milestones in a collective-risk social dilemma Christoph March: Behavioral Approaches to Social Learning Azzurra Ruggeri: The development of our Adaptive Toolbox across the life-span: step one - the process of generating alternatives Lauri Sääskvuori: On interdependent groups with little ado about the neural basis of property Jenny Vollstorf: The role of gist-based strategies in the emergence of cooperation Georg von Heusinger: Does the Order of Contributions matter? Real-time Provision of Threshold Public Goods. Johannes Weisser: Leading by Words: A Voluntary Contribution Experiment With One-Way Communication Jan Multmeier: The adaptivity of judgments by availability Katrin Schmelz: Three studies to investigate control aversion Gaoneng Yu: Effect of Punishment Strategies on Bribery Decision-making Sebastian Krügel: Miscalibration and the Volume of Trade: Preliminary Results Laxmi Natarajan: Efficiency versus Sufficiency in Startup Size Decisions Ulrike Vollstädt: Bargaining with couples - preliminary results Jieyao Ding: Temporal Bracketing of Choice Discrepancies between Simultaneous and Sequential Choice Nadine Fleischhut: Moral Judgments under Risk and Uncertainty Linan Diao: Do name recognition and familiarity play a role when investor make portfolio decisions: An experimental Examination Georg Zaklan: Social interaction in public goods with many agents At the end of the workshop, some of the IMPRS students received certificates, confirming that they fulfilled all the IMPRS Uncertainty requirements. After scientific work, students and faculty engaged in table tennis, chess, or other games. A highlight was a guided tour through the castle where all got insights in the history and architecture of this place. The unanimous consent after these days was: “It was great to be here!” Page 7 Newsletter 01-2010 Methodological Courses Theoretical Courses Study Programme in Summer Term The Human Brain: Structures and Functions Miltner, W.H.R. Current problems of European and international administrative law Ruffert, M. Development Economics Freytag, A. Evolutionary Economics Witt, U. From Empirical Investigations regarding Sexual Orientation to Queer Studies: Is an Integration Possible? Steffens, M.C., Kenklies, K. Entrepreneurship Policy Fritsch, M. Human Development in Times of Social Change Silbereisen, R.K. Growth Theory Pasche, M. Interventions: Promotion of positive outcomes and prevention of adaptation problems Weichold, K. Basics in the Economics of Innovation Cantner, U. Sociology of Genocide Best, H., Semenova, E. Sociology of Unfreedom Strecker, D. Social Exclusion in Eastern Europe Sedmak, C. Political Thought in America Lang, M. Industrial Dynamics Cantner, U. Analysis of Total, Direct, and Indirect Effects in Experiments and Quasi-Experiments Steyer, R. Strategies and Methods for the Analysis of Continuity and Change: Variable-based and Person-based Approaches Reitzle, M. Advanced Research Methods Funke, F. Introduction to Mechanism Design Güth, W., Levinsky, R. Experimental Economics Ploner, M. Patent Data Analysis Lissoni, F. Econometrics II - Microeconometrics Jung, R. Statistic Workshop von Eye, A. An Introduction to Economic Growth and Development Ciarli, T., Lorentz, A. Page 8 Workshops and Summer Schools Newsletter 01-2010 Development as Action in Context 4rd Jena Summer Academy on ”Innovation and Uncertainty” GSBC Summer School on Identity, Innovation and Aging For further information or for course registration please see http://www.gsbc.unijena.de/index.php?id=74. Announcements GSBC Schools Day This year the Schools Day of the Graduate School “Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change” will take place on April 15th in the Senatssaal of the University’s Main Building. As in the last year we want to welcome our new GSBC fellows officially. Our postdoctoral students will present their research projects by a poster session and will give a short introduction. Please find the preliminary programme below. 14.00 Welcome Speech Klaus Dicke (Rector, FSU Jena) and Uwe Cantner 14.10 Getting familiar with the GSBC and building a research profile Jenny Block and Leonhard Lades 14.20 Introduction of the GSBC postdoctoral students I Alaina Brenick, Alexia Gaudeul and Elena Semenova 14.50 Coffee Break 15.10 Introduction of the GSBC postdoctoral students II 15.40 Coffee Break 16.00 Reception of the new GSBC fellows Maria Pavlova, Caterina Giannetti and Katharina Stößel Please see http://www.gsbc.uni-jena.de/index.php?id=13 to get up-to-date information about the GSBC Schools Day. All GSBC members and guests are cordially invited! GSBC-BBS In the following term we will continue the GSBC-Brown-Bag-Seminar-Series. Due to that the fellows and the faculty of the GSBC invited interesting guests or will give lectures about their current research results. The GSBC-BBS takes place every Wednesday at 12.00 p.m. in Room 102, Bachstraße 18k, Jena. Please see http://gk.wiwi.uni-jena.de/index.php?SEM=GSBCB to get up-to-date information about the GSBC-BBS. Ph.D. Workshop in Developmental Psychology, “Development as Action in Context”, June 16-18, 2010, Altes Schloss Dornburg (near Jena), Germany On initiative of the Developmental Divison (Fachgruppe Entwicklungspsychologie) of the German Psychological Association (DGPs), Rainer Silbereisen invites doctoral students Page 9 Newsletter 01-2010 (i.e., young scientists working on their Ph.D.) in developmental psychology to participate in a 3-day workshop in June 2010. Participants will work with national and international experts representing outstanding research in developmental science. To date, these include Lieselotte Ahnert (University of Vienna, Austria), Jacquelynne Eccles (University of Michigan, USA), Alexandra Freund (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Marcus Hasselhorn (University of Goettingen, Germany), Ingrid Schoon (University of London, UK), Laurence Steinberg (Temple University, USA), Clemens Tesch-Römer (German Center of Gerontology, Berlin, Germany), and Alexander von Eye (Michigan State University, USA). Applications should be sent to Karina Weichold (karina.weichold[at]uni-jena.de) before March 30, 2010. For further information on the faculty and the workshop please check our website http://www2.uni-jena.de/svw/devpsy/news/2007/phdworkshop2010.html. International Conference on Discrimination and Tolerance between Social Groups The DFG-Research Unit on Discrimination and Tolerance in Intergroup Relations will be hosting an International Conference in Jena from June 30th to July 3rd, 2010. Understanding the social phenomena of discrimination and tolerance in relations between social groups has challenged psychological theory and research for many decades. It is the aim of this conference to cover a broad range of research perspectives and to bring together researchers from different areas of psychology to stimulate exchange and crossfertilization between these perspectives. Researchers will present and discuss research and ideas from different angles, be it social or personality psychology, developmental or educational psychology, using a basic or applied focus on the issue. Contributions will cover antecedents and consequences of discrimination and tolerance as well as its underlying cognitive and motivational processes either at the individual or collective level. As an eminent part of the scientific programme, three internationally highly distinguished scholars accepted our invitation for keynote lectures: • • • John Dovidio (Yale University, USA) Klaus Fiedler (Universität Heidelberg, Germany) Melanie Killen (University of Maryland, USA) Beside its main focus on current research work, the conference in its entirety is projected to also target practitioners as well as the interested public and therefore consists of 1. 2. 3. public panel discussion (in German), June 30th, 2010 scientific programme comprising talks and a poster session (in English), July 1st and 2nd, 2010 workshops on applied issues (in German), July 3rd, 2010 Furthermore, previous to the conference a course of public guest lectures on the issue of social discrimination and tolerance will be arranged. For further information please see: http://discrimination-tolerance.squarespace.com/. Upcoming Lectures and Workshops • April 7th, 2010, 12.00 - 13.30, GSBC-BBS by Leonard Dudley (Université de Montréal), Information Revolutions in the History of the West, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. • April 7th, 2010, 14.00 - 15.30, JERSeminar by Frank Riedel (Universität Bielefeld), Voronoi Languages - Equilibria in Cheap-Talk Games with High–Dimensional Page 10 Newsletter 01-2010 Types and Few Signals, MPI seminar Room V14, MPI of Economics, Kahlaische Straße 10. • April 19-22, 2010, ESI Spring Workshop, MPI of Economics, Kahlaische Straße 10. • April 28th, 2010, 14.00 - 15.30, JERSeminar by Elisa Giuliani (Università di Pisa), The evolution of knowledge networks in industrial clusters, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. • April 28th, 2010, 15.45 - 17.15, JERSeminar by Adelina Gschwandtner (University of Wien), Evolution of Profit Persistence in the US: Evidence from three periods, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. • April 30th, 2010, Workshop Staatsbankrott in der Eurozone?, organized by the Graduate College Global Financial Markets (GFinM), Rosensäle. • May 5th, 2010, 14.00 - 15.30, JERSeminar by Hans-Peter Weikard (University of Wageningen), The warm glow of participation. The effect of altruism on international climate agreements, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. • May 12th, 2010, 12.00 - 13.30, GSBC-BBS by Andreas Motel-Klingebiel (German Centre of Gerontology, Berlin), Life courses, social change and the ageing of the babyboomers: conceptual remarks on a research agenda, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. • May 12th, 2010, 14.00 - 15.30, JERSeminar by Francesco Guala (University of Milan), Reciprocity: Weak or Strong? What Punishment Experiments Do (and Do Not) Demonstrate, MPI seminar Room V14, MPI of Economics, Kahlaische Straße 10. • May 19th, 2010, 12.00 - 13.30, GSBC-BBS by Heinrich Best (GSBC), Personality Matters in Politics, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. • June 2nd, 2010, 12.00 - 13.30, GSBC-BBS by Wolfgang Scholl (Humboldt-University Berlin),The Socio-Emotional Basis of Human Interaction and Communication A Junction for Interdisciplinary Exchange, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. • June 2nd, 2010, 15.45 - 17.15, JERSeminar by Andrés Perea (Maastricht University), Backward induction versus forward induction reasoning, MPI seminar Room V14, MPI of Economics, Kahlaische Straße 10. • June 9th, 2010, 12.00 - 13.30, GSBC-BBS by Hans-Peter Müller (Humboldt-University Berlin), Social milieus and styles of life, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. • June 9th, 2010, 14.00 - 15.30, JERSeminar by Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln (Harvard University), The Role of Borders, Languages, and Currencies as Obstacles to Labor Market Integration, MPI seminar Room V14, MPI of Economics, Kahlaische Straße 10. • June 9th, 2010, 15.45 - 17.15, JERSeminar by Matthias Sutter (University of Innsbruck), Experiments on gender differences in competition -- How age matters and how affirmative action might help, MPI seminar Room V14, MPI of Economics, Kahlaische Straße 10. • June 15th, 2010, 18.00 – 19.30, Lecture by Katariina Salmela-Aro (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies), Is the price of Finnish Pisa success burned out students?, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. • June, 23rd, 2010, 12.00 - 13.30, GSBC-BBS by Peter Noack (GSBC), Social and political participation in adolescence and early adulthood, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. • June, 23rd, 2010, 14.00 - 15.30, JERSeminar by Hermann Held (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Mitigating Global Warming - A case for Investment under Uncertainty, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. Page 11 Newsletter 01-2010 • June 30th, 2010, 12.00 - 13.30, GSBC-BBS by Rebeca Méndez-Durón (Universitat de les Illes Balears), Does allocation of assets affect the organization's status position?, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. • June 30th, 2010, 14.00 - 15.30, JERSeminar by Giovanna Devetag (University of Perugia), Incentives, group pride and real effort in experimental weak-link games, MPI seminar Room V14, MPI of Economics, Kahlaische Straße 10. • June 30th, 2010, 15.45 - 17.15, JERSeminar by Marco Piovesan (University of Copenhagen), The Dark Side of the Vote: How Facts and Opinions shape majority voting, MPI seminar Room V14, MPI of Economics, Kahlaische Straße 10. • July 1-2, 2010, 4th FLOSS International Workshop on Free/Libre Open Source Software, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. • July 7th, 2010, 12.00 - 13.30, GSBC-BBS by Julien Navarro (University of Bordeaux), The French Parliament and the European Union: Do backbenchers really learn to fight back?, Room 102 Bachstr. 18k. Please see http.//gk.wiwi.uni-jena.de/index.php?GSBC=1 to get up-to-date information about seminars and lectures. GSBC Summer School on Identity, Innovation and Aging, 19th-26th September, 2010, Castle Oppurg, Thuringia, Germany The first GSBC Summer School is scheduled from September 19th until September 26th at the Castle Oppurg in Thuringia. The focus of the Summer School will be on three special topics from the field Human Behavior in Social and Economic Change, namely Identity (under supervision by Amélie Mummendey), innovation (coordinated by Uwe Cantner) and aging (under the guidance of Rainer K. Silbereisen). All doctoral students can apply for participation. The announcement will be published soon on the GSBC website (www.gsbc.uni-jena.de). GK-EIC - IMPRS Summer School 2010 (IMPReSS 2010) The fourth GK - IMPRS Summer School (IMPReSS 2010) is scheduled from July 25th until August 20th, 2010 at Bachstraße 18 as well as at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena. From July 25th until August 8th 2010, the 4th Jena Summer Academy on "Innovation and Uncertainty" will be jointly hosted by the DFG Research Training Group "The Economics of Innovative Change" (GK-EIC) and the International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World (IMPRS). The focus of this year's edition will again lie on foundations of (innovative) behavior, entrepreneurship, the generation of innovations and their diffusion, the change of regional and sectoral structures caused by innovations, the role of the demand side in this context, as well as the political management of change. Just like in the last three years, the IMPRS Summer School will continue in the second and the third week of August to cover a number of specific topics related to how subjects behave under fundamental uncertainty. The IMPRS Uncertainty Summer School aims at stimulating the scientific discourse on decision making under uncertainty between economists, psychologists and legal scholars. More information can be found at http.//www.imprs.econ.mpg.de/summerschool/. Page 12 Newsletter 01-2010 Accomplishments Completed Dissertations • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dennis Azara (Under Supervision by Walter Bayer), Gesellschafterfremdfinanzierung und Eigenkapitalersatz der GmbH nach dem MoMiG. Stefan Bauernschuster (EIC), Empirical Strategies in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research. Johannes Benz (Under Supervision by Walter Bayer), Verdeckte Sacheinlage und Einlagenrückzahlung im reformierten GmbH-Recht (MoMiG). Holger Bergbach (Under Supervision by Walter Bayer), Anteilseigentum - Betrachtungen zur Stellung von Gesellschaftern, insbesondere Aktionären, unter der Eigentumsgarantie des Grundgesetzes. Anke Buchheim (Under Supervision by Walter Bayer), Die Interessenvertretung der Aktionäre durch ihre Depot.b.a.nken. Nadine Chlaß (EIC), Purely Procedural Aspects of Games. Jörn Isenberg (Under Supervision by Walter Bayer), Die Rechtsstellung des Vorstandes der Aktiengesellschaft seit dem ADHGB mit Beispielen aus der Rechtswirklichkeit. Sebastian Grümer (CADS), Subjective well-being in times of social change. On the adaptive role of coping strategies. Jürgen Heinzelmann (Under Supervision by Walter Bayer), Haftungsrechtliche Aspekte von Doppelmandaten in Geschäftsführungs- und Aufsichtsratsgremien juristischer Personen. Philipp Jugert (Under Supervision by Peter Noack), Can they be friends? Variability and stability of friendship choices among German and Turkish preadolescents entering ethnically heterogeneous schools. Mohini Lokhande (CADS), The explanation of an increase in delinquency among juvenile immigrants. Adolescence-typical behavior or consequence of acculturative problems?. Jens Neumann (Under Supervision by Walter Bayer), Staatshaftung im Bereich des Handelsregisters. Sabine Odparlik (Under Supervision by Nikolaus Knoepffler), Würde der Pflanze. Daniel Renner (Under Supervision by Walter Bayer), Die Transparenz der Managementvergütung. Gerhard Reese (Research Unit Discrimination and Tolerance in Intergroup Relations), The Black Sheep Effect as a Function of Information Processing Depth. Christoph Robitzsch (Under Supervision by Walter Bayer), Die Nebenintervention in aktienrechtlichen Verfahren. Kristian Stange (Under Supervision by Walter Bayer), Squeeze-Out-Beschlüsse von AGen. Susanne Täuber (IGC), Should I stay or should I go? Strategies to regulate individual achievement needs within task groups. We congratulate and wish all the best for the further career. Recent Scholarly Publications of GSBC Members Bayer, W. & Hoffmann, T., Aktuelle Rechtstatsachen zur Verbreitung der Aktiengesellschaft (R30-R32); Rechtsanwaltsaktiengesellschaften in der Praxis (R81-R82), in. AG – Report 2009. Bayer, W. & Hoffmann, T., Die Musterprotokoll-Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschränkt), in. GmbHR - GmbH-Rundschau 2009, R225-226. Bayer, W. & Hoffmann, T., Die Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschränkt) des MoMiG zum 1.1.2009 – eine erste Bilanz (124-125); 100 Jahre GmbH-Rundschau – 100 Jahre Rechtstatsachen zur GmbH (1048-1056); Erste gemeinnützige UnternehmergesellschafPage 13 Newsletter 01-2010 ten (haftungsbeschränkt) (R102-103); Erste Unternehmergesellschaften (haftungsbeschränkt) werden „erwachsen” (R118-119);Genehmigtes Kapital für GmbH als Ladenhüter (R161-162), in. GmbHR 2009. Bayer, W. & Hoffmann, T., Entsendungsrechte in den Aufsichtsrat einer AG (R347-R350); Die kommunale AG (R371-R372); Die Nebenleistungs-AG (R395-R396); Nachgründungen gestern und heute (R435-R438); Ein Blick in die deutsche SE-Landschaft fünf Jahre nach Inkrafttreten der SE-VO (R480-482, with Schmidt, J.); Spielbetriebsgesellschaften im deutschen Profifußball (R499-R500, with Matthes, D.), in. AG - Die Aktiengesellschaft 2009. Bayer, W. & Hoffmann, T., Rechtstatsachen zu Kommanditgesellschaften auf Aktien (R151-R152); Der statutarisch verankerte AG-Beirat (R243-R244), in. AG 2009. Bayer, W. & Lieder, J., Umschreibungsstopp bei Namensaktien vor Durchführung der Hauptversammlung, NZG 2009, 1361-1366. Bayer, W. & Schmidt, J., Die Reform der Kapitalaufbringung bei der Aktiengesellschaft durch das ARUG, ZGR 2009, 805-846. Bayer, W. & Schmidt, J., Grenzüberschreitende Sitzverlegung und grenzüberschreitende Restrukturierungen nach MoMiG, Cartesio und Trabrennbahn, ZHR 173 (2009), 735-774. Bayer, W., Bereicherungsausgleich bei Zahlungen auf Grund unwirksamer Preisanpassungsklausel in Energielieferverträgen?, RdE 2010, 1-6. Bayer, W., Die Geltendmachung abgetretener Forderungen in der Insolvenz des Schuldners. Ein Alltagsfall und dennoch ein ungelöstes Rechtsproblem? (Einblick in ein Verfahren der Willkürkontrolle vor dem Thüringer Verfassungsgerichtshof), FS Olaf Werner 2009, 557-568. Bayer, W., Gesellschaftsrechtliche Fragen der Unternehmensnachfolge, in. Bayer & Koch (eds.), Unternehmens- und Vermögensnachfolge 2009, 169-185. Bayer, W., Gesetzliche Zuständigkeit der Hauptversammlung für die Zustimmung zur Übertragung vinkulierter Namensaktien auf einen künftigen Mehrheitsaktionär?, FS Uwe Hüffer 2009, 35-47. Bayer, W., Kapitalaufbringung und Kapitalerhaltung – was hat das MoMiG verändert?, in. Schröder, R. (eds.), Die Reform des GmbH-Rechts, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Notarrecht der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2009, 57-86. Bayer, W., Legalitätspflicht der Unternehmensleitung, „nützliche Gesetzesverstöße“ und Regreß bei verhängten Sanktionen, FS Karsten Schmidt, 2009, 85-105. Bayer, W., Lieder, J. & Hoffmann, T., Ein Jahr MoMiG in der Unternehmenspraxis. Rechtstatsachen zu Unternehmergesellschaft, Musterprotokoll, genehmigtes Kapital, GmbHR 2010, 9-16. Bayer, W., Lutter/Hommelhoff, GmbH-Gesetz, 17th ed. 2009, Comment §§ 1-5, 7-12, 14-28, 40, 45-51, 53-54, I+II zu § 4a, §§ 1, 3 EGGmbHG. Bayer, W., Privatschriftliche Abtretungen deutscher GmbH-Anteile in der Schweiz?, DNotZ 2009, 887-894. Bayer, W., Wirtschaftsrecht in einer freiheitlichen und demokratischen Gesellschaft, Wendepunkte - Beiträge zur Rechtsentwicklung der letzten 100 Jahre, in: Pauly, W. (eds.), Jenaer Schriften zum Recht 41 2009, 101-123. Becker, C. & Scholl, A., Balancing assembly lines with variable parallel workplaces. Problem definition and effective solution procedure, European Journal of Operational Research 199/2 (2009), 359-374. Bianchi et al., Like me or like us. Is ingroup projection just social projection? Experimental Psychology 56 (2009), 198-205. Bianchi et al., What do you mean by European? Evidence of spontaneous ingroup projection, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (in press). Page 14 Newsletter 01-2010 Böhm, R., Funke, F. & Harth, N.S., Same-race and same-gender voting preferences and the role of perceived realistic threat in the democratic primaries and caucuses 2008, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (in press). Bornhorst et al., Similarities and Differences when Building Trust. the Role of Cultures, Experimental Economics (in press). Boschma, R. & Fritsch, M., Creative Class and Regional Growth − Empirical Evidence from Seven European Countries, Economic Geography 85 (2009), 391-423. Boysen, N. & Scholl, A., A general solution framework for component commonality problems, BuR - Business Research 2/1 (2009), 86-106. Boysen, N., Fliedner, M. & Scholl, A., Assembly line balancing. Joint precedence graphs under high product variety, IIE Transactions 41/3 (2009), 183-193. Boysen, N., Fliedner, M. & Scholl, A., Level Scheduling for batched JIT supply, Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal (online first, doi.10.1007/s10696-009-9058-z). Boysen, N., Fliedner, M. & Scholl, A., Level scheduling of mixed-model assembly lines under storage constraints, International Journal of Production Research 47/10 (2009), 2669-2684. Boysen, N., Fliedner, M. & Scholl, A., Production planning of mixed-model assembly lines. Overview and extensions, Production Planning and Control 20/5 (2009), 455-471. Boysen, N., Fliedner, M. & Scholl, A., Scheduling inbound and outbound trucks at cross docking terminals, Operations Research Spectrum 32/1 (2009), 135-161. Boysen, N., Fliedner, M. & Scholl, A., Sequencing mixed-model assembly lines. Survey, classification and model critique, European Journal of Operational Research 192/2 (2009), 349-373. Boysen, N., Fliedner, M. & Scholl, A., The product rate variation problem and its relevance in real world mixed-model assembly lines, European Journal of Operational Research 197/2 (2009), 818-824. Boysen, N., Herud, R. & Scholl, A., Prozessplanung und –optimierung, in. Britzke, B. (ed.), MTM in einer globalisierten Wirtschaft - Arbeitsprozesse systematisch gestalten und optimieren, mi-Wirtschaftsbuch, München (in press). Boysen, N., Kiel, M. & Scholl, A., Sequencing mixed-model assembly lines to minimize the number of work overload situations, Jena Research Papers in Business and Economics 05/2010. Cantner U. & Stützer, M., The Use and Effect of Social Capital in New Venture Creation -Solo Entrepreneurs vs. New Venture Teams, Jena Economic Research Papers, 2010-012. Cantner U., Göthner, M. & Meder, A., Prior knowledge and entrepreneurial innovative success, in: Freytag, A. & Thurik, R. (eds), Entrepreneurship and Culture, Springer/Physica, 2009, 79-94. Domschke, W. & Scholl, A., Logistik. Rundreisen und Touren, 5th ed., Oldenbourg, München-Wien (in press). Ebert, I.D. et al., How to like yourself better, or chocolate, less. Changing implicit attitudes with one IAT task, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 45 (2009), 10981104. Emde, S., Boysen, N. & Scholl, A., Balancing mixed-model assembly lines. a computational evaluation of objectives to smoothen workload, International Journal of Production Research (online first, doi.10.1080/00207540902810577). Feddes, A.R., Noack, P. & Rutland, A., Direct and extended friendship effects on minority and majority children’s intergroup attitudes: A longitudinal study, Child Development 80 (2009), 377-390. Fliedner, M., Boysen, N. & Scholl, A., On the part inventory model sequencing problem. Complexity and beam search heuristic, Journal of Scheduling (in press). Page 15 Newsletter 01-2010 Fliedner, M., Boysen, N. & Scholl, A., Solving symmetric mixed-model multi-level just-intime scheduling problems, Discrete Applied Mathematics 158/3 (2010), 222-231. Fritsch, M. & Kauffeld-Monz, M., The impact of network structure on knowledge transfer. an application of social network analysis in the context of regional innovation networks, Annals of Regional Science 44 (2010), 21-38. Fritsch, M. & Noseleit, F., Start-ups, Long- and Short-Term Survivors and their Effect on Regional Employment Growth, Jena Economic Research Papers, 2009-081. Fritsch, M. & Rusakova, A., Entrepreneurship and Cultural Creativity, Jena Economic Research Papers, 2010. Fritsch, M., Wissenstransfer und Innovation im regionalen Kontext, in. Krupa, J. & Schmidt, S. (eds.), Fachhochschulen als regionales Potential - zur Kooperation von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft in der Metropolregion Berlin-Brandenburg, Erkner. LeibnizInstitut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung e.V. (2009), 9-20. Fritsche, I. et al., Existential threat and compliance with pro-environmental norms, Journal of Environmental Psychology 30 (2010), 67-79. Fritsche, I. et al., Kontrolltheorie, Reaktanz, Hilflosigkeit, in: Bierhoff, H.-W. & Frey, D. (eds.), Bachelorstudium Psychologie: Sozialpsychologie – Individuum und soziale Welt, Göttingen: Hogrefe (in press). Gleibs, I., Noack, P. & Mummendey, A., We are still better than them: A longitudinal field study of ingroup favouritism during a merger, European Journal of Social Psychology 39 (2009). Gniewosz, B., Buhl, M. & Noack, P., Political alienation in adolescence – Associations with family and school factors, International Journal of Behavioral Development 33 (2009), 337-346. Güth, W. & Kliemt, H., What ethics can learn from experimental economics – if anything, European Journal of Political Economy (in press). Güth, W., Levati, M.V. & von Wangenheim, G., Shared Interest versus Repeated Interaction. An Experiment Studying Voluntary Social Exchange, Rationality and Society (in press). Jonas, E. et al., Dedicate your life to the company! A terror management perspective on organizational identity, Journal of Applied Social Psychology (in press). Jugert, P., Noack, P. & Rutland, A., Friendship preferences among German and Turkish preadolescents, Child Development (in press). Knoepffler, N. & Albrecht, R., Buddhistische Ethik und reproduktives Klonen von Menschen, Wege und Welten der Religionen, Forschungen und Vermittlungen (FS Udo Tworuschka), Otto Lembeck. Frankfurt a. M., 319-329. Knoepffler, N. & Albrecht, R., Entwurf einer Führungsethik – ein Weg zu einem nachhaltigen unternehmerischen Wirken, Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis 61 (2009), 465-478. Knoepffler, N. & O’Malley, M., Heidegger, in. Birx, J. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Time. Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture 2, Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks 2009, 642-646. Knoepffler, N. & Savulescu, J. (eds.), Der neue Mensch? Enhancement und Genetik, Alber. Freiburg i. Br. 2009. Knoepffler, N., Angewandte Ethik. Ein systematischer Leitfaden, UTB (Böhlau). Köln 2010. Knoepffler, N., Ein Strukturmodell genetischen Enhancements, in. Knoepffler, N. & Savulescu, J. (eds.), Der neue Mensch? Enhancement und Genetik, 277-296. Knoepffler, N., Ethics, in. Birx, J. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Time. Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture 1, Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks 2009, 441-445. Page 16 Newsletter 01-2010 Knoepffler, N., Ethische Fragen bei Organtransplantationen, in. Knoepffler, N., Preuß, D. & Kodalle, K.-M. (eds.), Körperteile – Körper teilen?, 13-28. Knoepffler, N., Gerechtigkeit in der Krebstherapie, Der Onkologe 15 (2009), 997-1003. Knoepffler, N., Kant, in. Birx, J. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Time. Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture 2, Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks 2009, 738-740. Knoepffler, N., Preuß, D. & Kodalle, K.-M. (eds.), Körperteile – Körper teilen? K&N. 2009. Knoepffler, N., Rahner (1081f); Technology Assessment (1220-1223); Values and Time (1405-1409), in. Birx, J. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Time. Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture 3, Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks 2009. Knoepffler, N., Toleranz und der Umgang der Religionen mit bioethischen Kontroversen, Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik 53 (2009), 252-266. Knoepffler, N., Würde versus Gentechnologie, Journal für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit, Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety 4 (2009), 325-330. Krüger, D. & Scholl, A., A heuristic solution framework for the resource constrained (multi-)project scheduling problem with sequence-dependent transfer times, European Journal of Operational Research 197/2 (2009), 492-508. Noack, P. & Gniewosz, B., Politische Sozialisation, in: Beelmann, A. & Jonas, K. (eds.), Diskriminierung und Toleranz, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden (2009), pp. 137-153. Noack, P. et al., Parental and School Effects on Students' Occupational Exploration A Longitudinal and Multilevel Analysis, Journal of Vocational Behavior (in press). Obschonka, M., Silbereisen, R.K. & Schmitt-Rodermund, E., Entrepreneurial intention as developmental outcome, Journal of Vocational Behavior (in press). Ohler, C., Bankensanierung als staatliche Aufgabe, WiVerw 2010/1, 47 ff. Ohler, C., International Regulation and Supervision of Financial Markets after the Crisis, European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EYIEL) (2010), 3 ff. Ohler, C., Streinz, R. & Herrmann, C., Der Vertrag von Lissabon zur Reform der EU, Einführung mit Synopse, München, 3rd ed. (2010), XV, 430. Pinquart, M., Silbereisen, R.K. & Körner, A., Coping with family demands under difficult economic conditions. Associations with depressive symptoms, Swiss Journal of Psychology 69 (2010), 53-63. 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Witt, U. & Zellner, C., How Firm Organizations Adapt to Secure a Sustained Knowledge Transfer, Economics of Innovation and New Technology 18 (2009), 647 - 661. Witt, U., Novelty and the Bounds of Unknowledge in Economics, Journal of Economic Methodology 16 (2009), 361-375. Witt, U., Symbolic consumption and the social construction of product characteristics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 21 (2010), 17–25. Best Wishes, Uwe Cantner (Director) You can subscribe and unsubscribe this newsletter at https.//lc03.rz.uni-jena.de/mailman/listinfo/newsletter-gsbc. For comments or announcements in the next issue please contact Kristina von Rhein ([email protected]). Page 18