The Economics & Philosophy group covers a wide range of research and teaching topics. The fields cover practical philosophy, microeconomics, and macroeconomics.
With their theoretical, applied, and empirical research, the group members actively contribute to the academic discourse in their respective fields. In addition to joint internal projects, our experts engage in interdisciplinary collaborations across and beyond EBS Business School.
Prof. Dr. Jan-Christoph Rülke
Professor of Economics, esp. Macroeconomics
Focus areas
With their expertise, our professors and lecturers contribute to the various degree and non-degree programmes of EBS Business School by delivering basic and advanced courses in the fields of ethics, philosophy, and economics. They also advise students on their theses and are actively involved in the academic self-administration of EBS Business School and the university.
The group’s experts are active in the following research areas:
- International Economics
- Monetary and Fiscal Policy
- Economic Growth
- European Financial Crisis
- Exchange Rates and International Finance
- Managerial Economics
- Public Economics
- Pension Economics
- Political Economics
- Law & Economics
- Economics of Human Resource Management
- Incentive Theory and Incentive Design
- Multitasking, Performance Measurement, and Job Design
- Incentives and CEO Appointment in Family Firms
- Organisation of Firms and Economic Transactions
- Incentive Systems within and between Firms
- Job Design and Optimal Task Assignments
- Behavioural Contract Theory
- Fairness, Relative Income Concerns, and Other-Regarding Preferences in Organizations
- Income Inequality, Incentives, and Other-Regarding Preferences in Society
- Economics of R&D
- Competition Policy
- Social Policy
Our Team
Jenny Kragl
Professor of Economics, esp. Microeconomics
Zum Profil +49 611 7102 1529 jenny.kragl@ebs.eduJan-Christoph Rülke
Professor of Economics, esp. Macroeconomics
Zum Profil +49 611 7102 1414 jan-christoph.ruelke@ebs.eduEmanuel V. Towfigh
Chair of public law, empirical legal research and legal economics (public law III)
Zum Profil + 49 611 7102 2229 emanuel.towfigh@ebs.edu
Pantelis Karapanagiotis, Ph.D.
Assistant professor of microeconomics
Zum Profil +49 611 7102 1530 pantelis.karapanagiotis@ebs.edu
