Vorlesungsverzeichnis

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Veranstaltungen von Prof. Dr. Christian Pfeifer


Lehrveranstaltungen

Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungskolloquium (Kolloquium)

Dozent/in: Luise Görges, Boris Hirsch, Johannes Lohse, Mario Mechtel, Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner, Christoph Wegener, Thomas Wein

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 6.317 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Vorträge zu laufenden Forschungsarbeiten von Promovierenden und Wissenschaftlern des Instituts sowie von auswärtigen Gästen. Die Referenten sollten möglichst min. eine Woche vor dem Vortrag ihr Papier an Boris Hirsch schicken, der es dann für alle Teilnehmer zugänglich in MyStudy hochladen wird. Hierdurch sollen tiefergehende Diskussionen der Papiere ermöglicht werden. * im Seminarplan: Externe Gäste, mit denen wir vermutlich am Dienstagabend Essen gehen werden, wozu alle Interessierten gerne mitkommen können (Info bei Boris Hirsch).

Personalökonomik (Vorlesung/Übung)

Dozent/in: Christian Pfeifer

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10:15 - 13:45 | 15.10.2025 - 28.01.2026 | C 14.001 Seminarraum | Vorlesung mit integrierter Übung

Inhalt: Personnel Economics is a subdiscipline of Labor Economics and Business Economics, in which microeconomic and econometric tools are used to analyze interactions of firms and employees. The field of personnel economics has evolved over the past decades and has received increasing attention at American Business Schools and also in economic research. The lecture is accompanied by an integrated exercise. Part 0: Introduction Part 1: External vs. Internal Labor Markets 1.1. External labor markets 1.1.1. Labor supply model 1.1.2. Labor demand model 1.1.3. Equilibrium market wage and employment 1.1.4. Compensating wage differentials 1.2. Internal labor markets and long-term employment relationships 1.2.1. Insurance model 1.2.2. Transaction costs 1.2.3. Human capital theory 1.3. Q&A, Exercises, Discussion Part 2: Managing Turnover 2.1. Recruitment of employees 2.1.1. Selection 2.1.2. Raiding 2.2. Exits of employees 2.2.1. Quits 2.2.2. Layoffs 2.3. Labor flexibility 2.3.1. Dynamic labor demand and adjustment costs 2.3.2. Temporary workforce 2.3.3. Working time flexibility 2.4. Efficient allocation of employees (Internal labor turnover) 2.5. Q&A, Exercises, Discussion Part 3: Managing Worker Codetermination 3.1. Works councils and codetermination 3.1.1. Communication between workers and management 3.1.2. Optimal level of codetermination 3.1.3. Empirical effects of works councils 3.2. Unions and collective contracts 3.2.1. Union organization and importance across countries 3.2.2. Monopoly union wage setting and employment 3.2.3. Efficient wage bargaining and employment 3.3. Q&A, Exercises, Discussion Part 4: Managing Motivation and Remuneration 4.1. Agency theory and the need for incentives 4.1.1. Different objective functions and information asymmetries 4.1.2. Forms of principal-agency relationships 4.2. Time rates and efficiency wage theories 4.2.1. Input based remuneration 4.2.2. Labor as efficiency units 4.2.3. Non-shirking efficiency wage model 4.2.4. Turnover cost efficiency wage model 4.2.5. Adverse selection efficiency wage model 4.2.6. Fairness efficiency wage model 4.3. Piece rates and performance pay 4.3.1. Output based remuneration 4.3.2. Worker’s choice of work effort under piece rates 4.3.3. Problems in performance pay schemes 4.3.4. Design and effects of MBO bonus payments 4.4. Promotions and tournament theory 4.4.1. Wage hierarchies and promotion tournaments 4.4.2. Worker’s choice of work effort in tournaments 4.4.3. Problems in promotion tournaments 4.5. Seniority and deferred compensation schemes 4.5.1. Upward sloping wage-tenure profiles 4.5.2. Deferred compensation model 4.5.3. Problems and applications 4.6. Q&A, Exercises, Discussion Borjas, G.J. (2010), Labor Economics, 5th edition, McGraw-Hill [B:Chapter]. Lazear, E.P., Gibbs, M. (2009), Personnel Economics in Practice, 2nd edition, Wiley & Sons [LG:Chapter].

Theory and Empirics of Wage Structures (Stata) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Christian Pfeifer

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 12:15 - 15:45 | 16.10.2025 - 29.01.2026 | C 6.317 Seminarraum | Start 1. lecture week

Inhalt: This course gives students the chance to conduct own empirical research with real microdata by using their prior knowledge from courses in the Economics Major (e.g., Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Orientation in Economics, Econometrics). It starts with a brief introduction and overview of relevant theories from labor economics including human capital theory and discrimination theories. The course further comprises a short introduction to applied econometrics, earnings functions, and Stata applications for estimating earnings functions using the VSE data set. Students also have to work at home through textbook Stata commands and applications and should estimate earnings functions on their own using the supplied VSE. The second part of the course is devoted to own empirical research of students, in which they can choose own topics when estimating earnings functions with Stata. Students have to give a short presentation of their own research idea, write an own empirical paper, and give a final presentation with their results. These three assignments will be graded in the combined examination.

Orientation in Economics: Education, Labor Market, Research (Seminar/Übung)

Dozent/in: Jonas Dix, Christian Pfeifer

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 16.10.2025 - 29.01.2026 | C 3.120 Seminarraum | Start 1. lecture week

Inhalt: This course gives an orientation for the students of the Economics Major. It starts with a brief overview over the course of studies, studying abroad, Master and PhD in Economics, potential jobs, etc. We will further discuss scientific standards and work in the field of economics, which include the structuring of papers, citation styles, literature search, publication outlets and the publication process. To get an impression about the topic diversity in economic research, we will have a short look at Nobel prize winners and other prominent researchers in economics as well as class room discussions. The second part of the course is devoted to an introduction into the statistical software package Stata, to be used in the empirical research projects in the Economics Major. In addition to class room attendance, students are expected to do homework like reading the supplied literature and materials, watching the linked videos, searching research topics, and working with Stata.

Empirical Labor and Personnel Economics (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Christian Pfeifer

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 14.10.2025 - 27.01.2026 | C 6.026 Seminarraum | Start 1. lecture week / ---

Inhalt: Since the 1980s, economics has developed more and more into an empirical science. After the first organizational meetings, students have to search for an empirical journal paper which will be presented in class (with additional information and MCs). Hence, students should have a good understanding of economics and econometric methods to present empirical papers from economics. Help will be provided in terms of selecting a paper, structuring the own presentation, and specific questions about econometric methods. Students are expected to attend all presentations.

Replication Studies in Economics (and related empirical social science) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Christian Pfeifer

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 14.10.2025 - 27.01.2026 | C 6.026 Seminarraum | Start 1. lecture week

Inhalt: Good empirical research in science, including Economics and other social sciences, should be replicable. Replication studies usually focus on the robustness of empirical findings. They should not be too narrow and rather scientific than pure replications, i.e., they can use (a) different methods and same data or (b) same methods and different data (different time or different population); but no pure reproductions (same method and same data). Typically, such replications can be research notes. The authors usually start by briefly stating literature, theory, methods, data, and findings of the replicated paper, before starting the own replication, and finishing with a comparison of the results as well as a short discussion. Students select a replicable journal paper and conduct an own replication study. After the first meetings, in which students are introduced to replications (focus on economics) and the organization of the course, students have to search for an empirical journal paper (ranked in Scopus or SSCI), which can be replicated. To be replicable, a selected paper should ideally have stored the statistical files (and sometimes even the data) on the journal homepage (or related repositories). These papers are shortly verbally discussed in the class to check their fit for a replication. Then students conduct their own empirical replication study for their selected journal paper, which will be presented in class.