The effects of German reunification on the development of household preference and resource structures in East and West Germany are the focus of several research papers published by economist Prof. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln. “A topic that has also been of great importance to the Magdeburg Faculty of Economics over the past 30 years,” reads the press release from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, which has now awarded Fuchs-Schündeln an honorary doctorate at its 30th anniversary celebrations.
Fuchs-Schündeln has been Professor of Macroeconomics and Development at Goethe University since 2009 and is a member of the research initiative “ConTrust – Trust in Conflict”. Before coming to Frankfurt, she was an assistant professor at Harvard University in Boston (USA). She received her doctorate from Yale in 2004. In 2018, she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the highest scientific award in Germany. She received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2010 and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2018. She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection.
To the press release of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg: Here…
