The world is waiting for you: Why you should study “International Business and Economics” and the skills you will need for this degree

The world is yours to enjoy with a degree in “International Business and Economics”. We asked Programme Director Dmitri Blüschke to tell us about the unique features of this English language Bachelor’s degree and to explain what distinguishes it from “traditional” business degrees.

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Online Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (11th-13th June 2020)

Our 2020 conference will take place in an online environment on Thursday-Saturday, 11th-13th June 2020, hosted at the Department of Economics, Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt/Celovec, Austria.

The confirmed keynote speakers are:

  • Pierpaolo Battigalli, Bocconi University
  • Johannes Hörner, Yale University
  • Benny Moldovanu, University of Bonn

For more details please look at:

https://conference2.aau.at/event/4/

The maximizing human being

Paul Schweinzer, a micro-economist at the Department of Economics, is unable to say how happy the human species is and whether progress makes people happier. By focusing on the things that are most essential, however, he can calculate how to maximise the welfare of a society.

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Is a team composed of the best always the best team?

At the Olympic Games in Sochi 2014, Russia’s ice hockey “dream team”, programmed for gold, lost to Finland during the quarter finals following a series of disappointing games. They were eliminated even though the team was effectively comprised entirely of superstars, the most powerful individual players from all of the nation’s teams. Was it a simple coincidence, or is there a systematic explanation?

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