The Economics Group –
One institute, five chairs, three centers.
Our chairs, institutes, and centers:
Our academic members:
Professor Dr.
Christina Günther
IHK-Chair of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
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Professor Dr.
Ralf Fendel
Chair of Monetary Economics
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Professor Dr.
Michael Frenkel
Chair of Macroeconomics and International Economics
+49 (0)261 6509 280
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Professor Dr.
Christian Hagist
Chair of Economic and Social Policy
+49 (0)261 6509 255
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Professor Dr.
Michael Massmann
Chair of Econometrics and Statistics
+49 (0)261 6509 370
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Professor Dr.
Jürgen Weigand
Institute for Industrial Organization
+49 (0)261 6509 270
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Assistant Professor Dr.
Nicole Gottschalck
Assistant Professor Dr.
Martin Prause
+49 (0)261 6509 273
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Assistant Professor Dr.
Rainer Rilke
+49 (0)261 6509 814
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Assistant Professor Dr.
Elena Shvartsman
+49 (0)261 6509 818
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Honorary Professor
Dr. David B. Audretsch
Dr. Clemens Buchen
Working Paper Series of the Economics Group
The WHU Working Paper Series of the Economics Group is listed in the EconPapers/IDEAS/RePEc-Archive. Additionally, it is listed in the German National Library with the ISSN 2511-1159.
This series offers you an opportunity to present your research at an early stage and the chance to obtain academic feedback. To submit a paper, please contact us at rainer.rilke(at)whu.edu.
Doctoral Program
Have you ever thought about
our Doctoral Program?
Are you an academically excellent and highly motivated student interested in pursuing research in economics?
We are delighted to receive applications from inspiring German and foreign candidates seeking to undertake doctoral studies in one of the fields of Economics.
Doctoral Program
Have you ever thought about
our Doctoral Program?
Are you an academically excellent and highly motivated student interested in pursuing research in economics?
We are delighted to receive applications from inspiring German and foreign candidates seeking to undertake doctoral studies in one of the fields of Economics.
Research articles -
published in the most prestigious journals.
Explore the most recent publications of our Economics research experts in peer-reviewed journals on economics-related topics to discover the research in detail.
Making a contribution to entrepreneurship research by studying crowd-funded entrepreneurial opportunities
Pollack, J., Maula, M., Allison, T., Renko, M., Günther, C. (2021), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice: ET & P, Vol. 45 (2), pp. 247-262
Designing feedback in voluntary contribution games: the role of transparency
Irlenbusch, B., Rilke, R., Walkowitz, G. (2019), Experimental Economics, Vol. 22 (2), pp. 552–576
Early employment expansion and long-run survival: examining employee turnover as a context factor
Gjerløv-Juel, P., Günther, C. (2019), Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 34 (1), pp. 80-102
Estimating strucutural parameters in regression models with adaptive learning
Christopeit, N., Massmann, M. (2018), Econometric Theory, Vol. 34, pp. 68-111
Is the crowd sensitive to distance?how investment decisions differ by investor type
Günther, C., Johan, S., Schweizer, D. (2018), Small Business Economics, Vol. 50 (2), pp. 289-305
The impact of family ownership on innovation: evidence from the German machine tool industry
Decker, C., Günther, C. (2017), Small Business Economics, Vol. 48, pp. 199-212
How to hire helpers?evidence from a field experiment
Conrads, J., Irlenbusch, B., Reggiani, T., Rilke, R., Sliwka, D. (2016), Experimental Economics, Vol. 19, pp. 577–594
It's all about timing: age-dependent consequences of founder exits and new member additions
Günther, C., Oertel, S., Walgenbach, P. (2016), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice: ET & P, Vol. 40, pp. 843–865