GRK 254:  Allocation Theory, Economic Policy and Collective Decisions

• Subject Area: Economics
• Term: from 1996 to 2005
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 271303

The main objective of the research training group is to apply a theoretical framework, which integrates economic and political decision making, to the analysis of practical problems facing economic policy makers. This approach is based on a neoclassical perspective as e.g. exemplary expressed by the research methodology of New Public Economics. Fields of interest include - among others - the theory of the welfare state, European integration and regulation policy, labor market economics and human capital, environmental economics.The programme includes a two-year teaching schedule at the universities of Bochum and Dortmund, which offers methods-oriented (decision theory, game theory) and problem-oriented courses, seminars and work-shops. It also provides full access to the research facilities of the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsinstitut (RWI) in Essen, one of the leading Economic Research and Forecast Institutes of Germany.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dortmund
• Participating Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Leininger
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Cay Folkers; Professor Dr. Heinz Holländer; Professor Dr. Walter Krämer; Professorin Dr. Notburga Ott; Professor Dr. Wolfram F. Richter; Professor Dr. Jörg Schimmelpfennig