List of Publications:

• Are Conflicts in the 21st Century Mainly Identity-based?

  Günther Schlee 2

  

• Are Europeans Today Genetically Different from Their Ancestors?

  Johannes Krause

  

• Are States Shifting Their Borders to Control Immigration?

  Ayelet Shachar

  

• Are There Different Types of Beauty?

  Winfried Menninghaus

  

• Are There Forms of Media Representation of Extreme Crises that Avoid Commodification and Spectacle?

  Christiane Brosius

  

• Can a Single Model Explain Different Functions of the Human Brain?

  Tatjana Tchumatchenko

  

• Can an Overconfident Employee be an Asset to a Company?

  Andres Espitia

  

• Can Autism Be Explained by Biological Causes and Hence Be Treated Medically?

  Nils Brose

  

• Can Biosignatures Be Used to Develop a Reliable, Fast and Low-Cost Test for Tuberculosis?

  Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

  

• Can Dark Matter Particles Be Detected Directly by Using a Xenon-based Detector?

  Manfred Lindner

  

• Can Islamic Law Evolve Without the Interference of the State?

  Dominik Krell

  

• Can Legal Reforms Effectively Combat the Negative Consequences of Child Marriage?

  Cristina Bélles-Obrero

  

• Can Moral Suasion Effectively Induce Compliance with the Law?

  Christian Traxler

  

• Can Multiple Platforms Profitably Co-Exist in Digital Markets?

  Martin Peitz

  

• Can Physical Education Lessons Promote the Intercultural Competence of School Children?

  Elke Grimminger-Seidensticker

  

• Can Taxation be Used to Effectively Limit Young People’s Use of Legalized Marijuana?

  Michelle Sovinsky

  

• Can the Concept of Universal Slavery Be Rethought through the Lens of Colonialism in Japan?

  Rômulo Ehalt

  

• Can the Perovskite Semiconductor Provide Sufficient Sustainable Energy in the Near Future?

  Michael Saliba

  

• Can We Distribute Goods Efficiently Without Property Rights?

  Christoph Engel

  

• Can We Explain the Co-Evolution of Democracy and Market Economy by Adaptive Preferences?

  Carl Christian von Weizsäcker

  

• Can We Maintain Normative Individualism when Allowing for Preferences to Be Adaptive?

  Carl Christian von Weizsäcker

  

• Did Religion Play a Causal Role in the Evolution of Large, Complex Societies?

  Russell Gray

  

• Do Awards Yield Better Results in Enhancing Performance than Monetary Incentives?

  Bruno S. Frey

  

• Do Certain Mosquitoes Transmit Malaria More Effectively Than Others?

  Elena Levashina

  

• Do Constitutional Courts Use Balancing to Promote Judicial Activism?

  Niels Petersen

  

• Do Exclusivity Rebates Cause Psychological Switching Costs in Consumers?

  Alexander Morell

  

• Do Financial Incentives Help Obese People to Achieve and to Maintain a Target Weight?

  Christoph M. Schmidt

  

• Do Infants Understand Others as Mental Agents and Communicate Meaningfully Before They Acquire Language?

  Ulf Liszkowski

  

• Do Kea Birds Have Cooperative Abilities?

  Russell Gray

  

• Do Land Management Changes Have Effects on Climate as Large as Land Cover Changes?

  Julia Pongratz

  

• Do Moral Capacities Change With Improving Living Conditions?

  Christian Welzel

  

• Do New Genes Stem From the Non-Coding Part of the Genome During Fast Adaptation Processes?

  Diethard Tautz

  

• Do People Choose Optimal Health Insurance Plans?

  Joachim Winter

  

• Do People Tend to Behave Dishonestly in Groups?

  Simeon Schudy

  

• Do Weak Topological Insulators Exist Outside Theoretical Mathematical Concepts?

  Markus Morgenstern

  

• Do Wild Chimpanzee Populations Develop Diverse Cultures?

  Christophe Boesch

  

• Does Compensation by Stock Options Induce Excessive Risk Appetite in Executives?

  Ferdinand M. Vieider

  

• Does Compulsory Licensing Work as an Effective Antitrust Tool?

  Monika Schnitzer

  

• Does Going For a Walk In a Natural Environment Reduce Stress?

  Sonja Sudimac

  

• Does Knowledge About the Presence of a Maverick in the Market Influence the Price Level?

  Michael Kurschilgen

  

• Does Logically Incoherent Decision-Making Really Have Negative Consequences?

  Gerd Gigerenzer

  

• Does State Law Pluralism Inhibit Legal Reform?

  Dörthe Engelcke

  

• Does the Instrument of Opposition During the Patent Filing Process Need to Be Improved?

  Dietmar Harhoff

  

• Does Vagueness in Regulation Make an Organization Less Likely to Comply?

  Bernhard Ganglmair

  

• Does Your Position in an Interview Sequence Influence Your Chance of Success?

  Jonas Radbruch

  

• How Are a Plaintiff’s Chances Affected by the Composition of the Court?

  Christoph Engel

  

• How Are Communicative Functions of Media Control Culturally Defined?

  Stephan Packard

  

• How Are Different Transcripts in Our Genome Translated Into Proteins?

  Uwe Ohler

  

• How Are Economic Preferences Formed in Early Life and Adolescence?

  Matthias Sutter

  

• How Are High-Energy Particles Accelerated and What Is Their Impact?

  Jim Hinton

  

• How are Purchasing Decisions Impacted by the Compromise Effect?

  Marko Sarstedt

  

• How Can a 3D-Map of Dust Help Measure Distances in our Milky Way?

  Hans-Walter Rix

  

• How Can Acetogenic Bacteria Process Carbon Monoxide?

  Olivier N. Lemaire

  

• How Can AI Improve Early Warnings for Climate Risks?

  Markus Reichstein

  

• How Can an Entrepreneurial Mindset be Developed to Encourage Poverty Reduction?

  Michael Frese

  

• How Can Artificial Intelligence Enhance Our Understanding of the Earth System?

  Markus Reichstein

  

• How Can Australian Indigenous Experience Change Western Perspectives of the World?

  Carsten Wergin

  

• How Can Biomaterial Scaffolds Help to Repair Damaged Spinal Cords by Guiding Nerves to Grow Across the Injury?

  Laura De Laporte

  

• How Can Chemicals Be Produced in a More Sustainable Process?

  Kai Sundmacher

  

• How Can Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Be Treated Effectively in a Variety of Patients?

  Brigitte Voit

  

• How Can Classroom Rank Affect Students in Later Life?

  Felix Weinhardt

  

• How Can Competition Authorities Make Sounder Judgments When Considering Prospective Mergers?

  Volker Nocke

  

• How Can Dissenting Historical Narratives of Law Be Uncovered and Shared through Transmedia Historytelling?

  

• How Can Economics Help Us Explain Parenting?

  Matthias Doepke

  

• How Can Emergent National Identity Affect Family Law Reform?

  Shéhérazade Elyazidi

  

• How Can Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Help Detect, Visualize, and Treat Strokes?

  Arno Villringer

  

• How Can German Constitutional Law Promote the Inclusion of Migrants?

  Anuscheh Farahat

  

• How Can Investment Decisions Influence Climate Change?

  Hendrik Hakenes

  

• How Can Laser Technology Improve Material Processing?

  Ulrike Fuchs

  

• How Can Literary Works Help Us to Understand the Politics of Migration?

  Rémi Armand Tchokothe

  

• How Can Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Help Us to Diagnose and Treat Neurodegenerative Disease?

  Nikolaus Weiskopf

  

• How Can Magnetic Resonance Imaging Be Improved for Early Disease Detection?

  Leif Schröder

  

• How Can New States of Matter Be Generated on a Theoretical Level?

  Angel Rubio

  

• How Can Parliaments Optimally Organize Voting Procedures?

  Benny Moldovanu

  

• How Can Plasma and Proton Beams Be Used in Building Next Generation Particle Accelerators?

  Allen Caldwell

  

• How Can Programming Technology Best Respond to Radical Changes in Computing?

  Mira Mezini

  

• How Can Psychology Help Mankind to Overcome its Greatest Challenges?

  Stefan Brunnhuber

  

• How Can Sound Help Us to Better Understand Early and Medieval China?

  Noa Hegesh

  

• How Can Spintronic Devices Be Built to Improve Computing Capacity?

  Stuart Parkin

  

• How Can the Characteristics of Continuum Robots Be Optimized for a Specific Medical Application?

  Jessica Burgner-Kahrs

  

• How Can the Data Economy Be Regulated to Promote New Emerging Markets?

  Josef Drexl

  

• How Can the Enantiomers of a Chiral Molecule be Separated More Effectively?

  Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern

  

• How Can the History of Earth Sciences Help to Explain Contemporary Distrust Towards Science in General?

  Etienne Benson

  

• How Can The Latest Developments in Beam Shaping Improve Microscopy?

  Ulrike Fuchs

  

• How Can the Motion of Electrons Be Changed by Short Pulses of Laser Light?

  Thomas Pfeifer

  

• How Can the Statistical Properties of a Turbulent Flow Be Calculated?

  Eberhard Bodenschatz

  

• How Can the Statistical Properties of Cosmic Structures Be Calculated with Simple Physical Laws?

  Matthias Bartelmann

  

• How Can the Toxic Effects of Chemical Compounds on Humans Be Predicted by Means of Crowdsourcing?

  Julio Saez-Rodriguez

  

• How Can the Understanding of Medical Statistics Be Improved?

  Markus A. Feufel

  

• How Can Vaccine Design Be Modified by the Use of Synthetic Sugars?

  Peter H. Seeberger

  

• How Can Waste Be Converted Into a Source of Carbon for the Production of Chemicals?

  Largus T. Angenent

  

• How Can We Assess the Nature and the Effectiveness of Informal Political Processes?

  Stephan Lauermann

  

• How Can We Best Respond to Low Participation Rates in Elections?

  Thomas Tröger

  

• How Can We Best Respond to the Challenges Presented by Super-Diversity?

  Steven Vertovec

  

• How Can We Combine Loans into Balanced Loan Portfolios?

  Kay Giesecke

  

• How Can We Detect Non-Stationarities of Turbulence in the Atmosphere?

  Marta Waclawczyk

  

• How Can We Determine the Informational Efficiency of Global Equity Markets?

  Söhnke M. Bartram

  

• How Can We Effectively Assess the Level of Surveillance in a Society?

  

• How Can We Effectively Combat Antibiotic Resistant Bacterial Pathogens?

  Andreas Peschel

  

• How Can We Eliminate Traffic Congestion in Urban Centers?

  Peter Cramton

  

• How Can We Encourage More Widespread Use of Hydrogen Fuel Cells?

  Alba Garzón Manjón

  

• How Can We Encourage Private Households to Install Photovoltaic Systems?

  Sven Müller

  

• How Can We Experimentally Determine Why Hydrogen Atoms Are Absorbed on Metal Surfaces?

  Oliver Bünermann

  

• How Can We Explain Extreme Rainfall in a Warming Climate?

  Sarosh Alam Ghausi

  

• How Can We Get 3D-Pictures of Moving Objects with Just One Camera?

  Daniel Cremers

  

• How Can We Historically Describe the Evolution of Knowledge and How Can We Account for It?

  Jürgen Renn

  

• How Can We Improve the Existing Vaccine for Tuberculosis to Combat the Growing Number of Multi-Resistant Strains?

  Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

  

• How Can We Improve the Performance of Immigrants in the Labor Market?

  Christina Gathmann

  

• How Can We Improve the Response to Chronic Conditions in India?

  Pascal Geldsetzer

  

• How Can We Measure Honesty and Patterns of Dishonesty?

  Urs Fischbacher

  

• How Can We Predict What Happens at an Event Horizon?

  Andreas Burkert

  

• How Can We Prevent Network Security Problems in Smartphone Apps?

  Matthew Smith

  

• How Can We Quantify the Immediate and Lingering Impact of Genocide on Local Populations?

  Diego Alburez-Gutierrez

  

• How Can We Redefine Natural Hazards Through Societal and Health Responses?

  Kelley De Polt

  

• How Can We Reduce CO₂ Emissions from Steel Production?

  Yan Ma

  

• How Can We Speed Up the Discovery of Biodiversity on Earth?

  Johannes Vogel

  

• How Can We Use Machine Learning in the Search for Exoplanets?

  Bernhard Schölkopf

  

• How Can Women's Roles in Colonial Legal Systems Be Uncovered Through a Gendered Approach to Legal History?

  Luisa Stella Coutinho

  

• How Cloudy Is the Earth?

  Bjorn B. Stevens

  

• How Could the Modern Human Succeed over Other Hominids?

  Jean-Jacques Hublin

  

• How Did African Intermediaries Shape Colonial Law Through Agency and Translation?

  Raquel Sirotti

  

• How Did China Juridically Deal with Atrocities Committed During the Cultural Revolution?

  Daniel Leese

  

• How Did Radio Broadcasting Affect Public Support for the Nazis in Pre-War Germany?

  Maja Adena

  

• How Did Religious Normativity Transform and Localize in the Context of Colonial Expansion?

  Pilar Mejía

  

• How Did the Three-Dimensional Structures of Proteins Evolve in Nature?

  Andrei N. Lupas

  

• How Do Ad Blocking Programs Affect Competition?

  Anton Sobolev

  

• How Do Aesthetic Experiences Function in the Brain?

  Edward A. Vessel

  

• How Do Alloying Elements Behave at the Grain Boundary?

  Liam Huber

  

• How Do Behavioral Context and Internal State Influence Sensory Perception and Behavior?

  Ilona Grunwald Kadow

  

• How Do Belowground Components Contribute to the Healthy Functioning of Ecological Systems?

  Stefan Scheu

  

• How Do Cells Form Compartments and How Is this Related to the Onset of Neurodegenerative Diseases?

  Anthony A. Hyman

  

• How Do Climate Change Related Natural Disasters Potentially Increase the Risk of Armed Conflicts?

  Jonathan Donges

  

• How Do Consumers React To A Product Harm Crisis?

  Helena Perrone

  

• How Do Electrochemical Reactions Work At The Quantum Level?

  Stefan Wippermann

  

• How Do Forest Trees Defend Themselves Against Insects Under Natural Conditions and Is This Process Affected by Forest Management?

  Sybille Unsicker

  

• How Do Genes Allow Migratory Birds To Travel With Such Precision?

  Miriam Liedvogel

  

• How Do Households Invest Their Savings?

  Christian Zimpelmann

  

• How Do Ideas Spread?

  Kerstin Maria Pahl

  

• How Do Insects Use Their Sense of Smell and How Does It Function?

  Bill S. Hansson

  

• How Do International Organizations Put Together Their Budgets?

  Klaus Goetz

  

• How Do Microalgae Remove Carbon from the Atmosphere?

  Silvia Vidal Melgosa

  

• How Do Moroccans Residing in Different Countries Perceive the Modernized Family Code?

  Marie-Claire Foblets

  

• How Do Natural Killer Cells Protect Themselves and How Does the Killing Process work?

  Carsten Watzl

  

• How Do Nature and Nurture Shape the Brain and What Does This Mean for Cognition?

  Sofie Valk

  

• How Do Parents’ Social Networks Affect Their Children’s Educational Attainment?

  Anette Fasang

  

• How Do People Make Timing Decisions in Situations Where They Have Little Experience and Insufficient Data?

  Sarah Auster

  

• How Do Planetary Systems Develop out of a Disk of Young Stars?

  Thomas Henning

  

• How Do Plant Genomes Develop Different Phenotypes Depending on Their Environment?

  Ian T. Baldwin

  

• How Do Plants Regulate Their Behavior Based on Their Carbohydrate Resources?

  Mark Stitt

  

• How Do Players Split an Amount of Money in the Ultimatum Game?

  Werner Güth

  

• How Do Seagrasses Control Methane Emissions from Coastal Marine Environments?

  Sina Schorn

  

• How Do Terrorist Groups Learn and Unlearn Violence?

  Carolin Görzig

  

• How Do The Processes of Aging and Migration Inform Each Other?

  Megha Amrith

  

• How Does Additional Pension Benefit Affect Workers’ Retirement Timing?

  Han Ye

  

• How Does Associative Recall Shape the Process of Belief Formation?

  Florian Zimmermann

  

• How Does China Remove Air Pollution From Cities For Prestigious International Events?

  Anna Ahlers

  

• How Does Common Ownership Affect Corporate Conduct?

  Yuliyan Mitkov

  

• How Does Degradation Occur in Spring Algae Blooms?

  Bernhard Fuchs

  

• How Does DNA Testing Affect Family Reunifications in the Immigration Process?

  Torsten Heinemann

  

• How Does Empathy Affect Trade-Offs People Are Willing to Make Between Their Own and Other’s Income?

  Justin Valasek

  

• How Does Energy Supply Affect Citizen Well-being?

  Heinz Welsch

  

• How Does Gender Inequality Affect a Country’s Economic Performance?

  Stephan Klasen

  

• How Does Human Use of Nitrogen Affect Our Climate?

  Sönke Zaehle

  

• How Does Hydrogen Affect the Mechanical Behavior of Metals and Alloys?

  María Jazmin Duarte Correa

  

• How does Hydrogen Behave in Aluminum Alloys?

  Huan Zhao

  

• How Does India Achieve Change in Its Policies?

  

• How Does International Competition Affect the Power Distribution in Firms?

  Dalia Marin

  

• How Does Late-Victorian Popular Fiction Subvert Scientific Authority?

  Laura Habbe

  

• How Does Local Knowledge Influence Broader Concepts and Structures of Information?

  Dagmar Schäfer

  

• How Does Making Music Change the Brain Depending on the Starting Age?

  Eckart Altenmüller

  

• How Does Medieval Historians' Use of the Notion of 'Europe' Compare to Its Use in the Middle Ages?

  Klaus Oschema

  

• How Does Metabolism Influence the Function of Different T Cell Types?

  Erika Pearce

  

• How Does Risk Perception Change over the Course of Communication Chains?

  Wolfgang Gaissmaier

  

• How Does Shadow Banking Influence Financial Stability?

  Paul Schempp

  

• How Does Single Motherhood Impact Health and Wellbeing?

  Mine Kühn

  

• How Does Stereotype Threat Impact Immigrant Students’ Learning?

  Sabrina König

  

• How Does the Computerization of Decision Making Affect Perceptions of Fairness?

  Pascal Langenbach

  

• How Does the Depiction of Cartoon Characters’ Bodies and Faces Influence Our Reaction to Them?

  Stephan Packard

  

• How Does the Enzyme MOF Work as a Molecular Bridge between Epigenetics and Metabolism?

  Asifa Akhtar

  

• How Does the Homogenization of Scientific Knowledge Occur?

  Matteo Valleriani

  

• How Does the Importation of Machinery Impact Upon Human Capital Accumulation?

  Lei Li

  

• How Does the Interaction of Water with Collagen Lead to Pretension in Our Connective Tissues?

  Peter Fratzl

  

• How Does the Interplay of Genes, Environment, and Development Affect the Biological Diversity of a Species?

  Ralf Sommer

  

• How Does the Molecular Machine That Drives Energy Conversion in the Cell Membrane Work?

  Werner Kühlbrandt

  

• How Does the Presence of FLRT Proteins Influence Cortex Folding?

  Rüdiger Klein

  

• How Does The Recycling Process Within Eukaryotic Cells Work on a Molecular Level?

  Volker Haucke

  

• How Does the Visibility of Employee Savings Affect the Worker - Employer Relationship?

  Francesc Dilmé

  

• How Does Tourism Change People and Places?

  Carsten Wergin

  

• How Does Workers‘ Trustworthiness Influence Their Reaction to Incentives?

  Florian Englmaier

  

• How Does Writing Reflect Deep Human Preferences for Certain Shapes?

  Olivier Morin

  

• How Has German Gangsta-Rapper "Kollegah" Used Digital Media for Self-Marketing?

  Michael Ahlers

  

• How Has Relationship Marketing Changed in the Digital Age?

  Lena Steinhoff

  

• How Has the Islamic Party of Malaysia’s Stance Towards Popular Culture Evolved?

  Dominik Müller

  

• How Has the Issue of Gender Been Negotiated in Tunisia’s Recent History?

  Steffi Hobuß

  

• How Has the Practice of Comparing Evolved Over Time?

  Angelika Epple

  

• How Important Are Caseworkers In Helping the Unemployed To Find Work?

  Amelie Schiprowski

  

• How Is Charitable Giving Influenced by Suggestions of a Contribution-Level?

  Maja Adena

  

• How Is Cross-Talk Between Calcium and Actin Cytoskeleton Involved in Memory Formation?

  Marina Mikhaylova

  

• How is Disability Portrayed in Contemporary Culture?

  Susanne Hartwig

  

• How Is Economic Change Influenced by Innovations?

  Uwe Cantner

  

• How Is Genetic Variance Maintained Through Sexual Selection?

  Astrid T. Groot

  

• How Is Kinship a Factor for Social Relations of Male Guinea Baboons?

  Julia Fischer

  

• How Is Normative Knowledge Globalized and Localized?

  Thomas Duve

  

• How Is Nostalgia Felt in Post-Socialist Hungary?

  Chris Hann

  

• How is Student Learning Affected by Different Types of Testing?

  Ludger Woessmann

  

• How Is the Cerebral Cortex of Mammalian Brains Wired?

  Moritz Helmstaedter

  

• How Is the Concept of “Storyline” Being Employed in Climate Related Science?

  Eulalia Baulenas

  

• How Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Impacting Human Inequality?

  Hans Martin von Gaudecker

  

• How is the Form of Limbs in Dogs Related to their Function?

  Martin S. Fischer

  

• How Is the Principle of the Best Interests of the Child Applied in Islamic Family Law?

  Nadjma Yassari

  

• How Is the UNESCO World Heritage Title Being Awarded and What Are Its Consequences?

  Christoph Brumann

  

• How Is Yoga Spirituality Transforming in the Face of Modernity?

  Anne Koch

  

• How Prevalent is Conflict of Interest in the Medical Profession?

  Klaus Lieb

  

• How Prevalent is Discrimination in Career Networking?

  Wladislaw Mill

  

• How Reproducible Are Results from Empirical Psychology?

  Susann Fiedler

  

• How Should Governments Respond to Energy Crises?

  Christian Bayer

  

• How Should We Organize the Liquidation of the Estate of A Deceased Person?

  Jan Peter Schmidt

  

• How To Turn Toxic Waste Into Green Steel?

  Isnaldi R. Filho Souza

  

• How Well Do Automatic Methods for Language Comparison Work?

  Johann-Mattis List

  

• How Well Do High Resolution Ocean Models Simulate Local Turbulent Mixing?

  Marta Mrozowska

  

• How Were Different Actor Groups Intertwined During the 2015 Refugee Crisis?

  Ludger Pries

  

• Is Affirmative Action an Effective Policy for Reducing Labor Market Inequality?

  Marcela Ibáñez-Díaz

  

• Is Confucianism a Religion or a Secular Moral System?

  Peter van der Veer

  

• Is Europe Ready for More Political Integration?

  Guido Tabellini

  

• Is It a Violation of the Right to Leave to Prevent Migrants from Crossing the Border to Another State?

  Nora Markard

  

• Is Language Development in the Child’s Brain Visible on a Molecular Level?

  Angela D. Friederici

  

• Is Physical Activity an Effective Treatment for Bone Cancer?

  Franziska Jundt

  

• Is Political Competition Good for Social Welfare?

  Felix Bierbrauer

  

• Is Random Decision Making a Viable Solution for Replacing or Complementing Contemporary Selection and Election Processes?

  Bruno S. Frey

  

• Is Rational Choice Theory Sufficient to Explain the Coming About of Social Order?

  Hartmut Kliemt

  

• Is the ‘Independent Director’ an Effective Corporate Governance Tool Across National Jurisdictions?

  Harald Baum

  

• Is the Course of a Sepsis Influenced by the Mobilization of Endothelial Progenitor Cells?

  Neysan Rafat

  

• Is the Impact of Job Loss Equal for Men and Women?

  Hannah Illing

  

• Is the Protoplanetary Disk of TW Hydrae on the Verge of Dispersal?

  Barbara Ercolano

  

• Is There a Common Molecular Link that Drives the Stress Risk for Disease?

  Mathias V. Schmidt

  

• Is There a Relationship Between Anti-Trust Law, Economic Growth, and Democratic Development?

  Niels Petersen

  

• Is There a Religious Bias Against Muslim Immigrants?

  Marc Helbling

  

• Is There Actually a Continental Divide Between Europe and Asia?

  Chris Hann

  

• Is There Underlying Rhythmicity in the Vocal Behavior of Marmoset Monkeys?

  Steffen R. Hage

  

• Should Different Types of Methodology in Comparative Legal Research Be Combined into One Method?

  Jürgen Basedow

  

• Should Governments Apply a Correction for the Cost of Taxation in Social Cost Benefit Analysis?

  Bas Jacobs

  

• Should Governments Have Their Own Banks?

  Hendrik Hakenes

  

• Should We Have a New Human Right to Freedom From Work?

  Nicolas Bueno

  

• The "Real" Tragedy of the Commons: Can a Dual Currency System Achieve a Pareto-superior Equilibrium?

  Stefan Brunnhuber

  

• To What Extent Do Aerosol Particles in the Atmosphere Mask the Effects of Greenhouse Gases?

  Bjorn B. Stevens

  

• To Which Extent Do Genetics Determine the Composition of the Gut Microbiome?

  Ruth E. Ley

  

• Was The Oxygenation of the Earth Linked to Increasing Day Length?

  Judith Klatt

  

• What Are Cold Pools and What Can They Teach Us?

  Felix Ament

  

• What Are Some Unintended Consequences of Pension Reform?

  Yasemin Özdemir

  

• What Are the Basic Principles that Govern Synaptic Plasticity?

  Alessio Attardo

  

• What Are the Characteristics of Defacements of Election Posters?

  Axel Philipps

  

• What Are the Core Mechanisms that Drive the Dynamics of Political Discourse?

  Philip Leifeld

  

• What are the Costs of Lies?

  Joel Sobel

  

• What Are the Economic Consequences of International Migration?

  Antonio Ciccone

  

• What Are the Effects of Religious Pluralism in Society on Individual Religiosity?

  Detlef Pollack

  

• What Are the Lasting Impacts of British Colonization on Language Use in Postcolonial African Societies?

  Eric Anchimbe

  

• What Are the Long term Effects of Ambient Scents in Sensory Rich Environments?

  Marko Sarstedt

  

• What are the Long-Run Effects of Elite Universities on Individuals and Society?

  Katja Kaufmann

  

• What are the Sources and Health Effects of Air Pollution?

  Jos Lelieveld

  

• What are the Strategies pursued by Platforms, Buyers and Sellers in the Online Marketplace?

  Jonas von Wangenheim

  

• What Are the Transmission Channels in a Financial Crisis?

  Jörg Rocholl

  

• What Can “Non-Work” Teach Us About the Labor Market?

  Michael Burda

  

• What Can a Behavioral Perspective Teach Us on the Relationship Between Law and Morality?

  Stefan Magen

  

• What Can Artisanal Production Teach Us About Knowledge and Ownership?

  Annapurna Mamidipudi

  

• What Can the History of Schizophrenia Teach Us About “Revolutionary” Breakthroughs in Science and Medicine?

  Alfred Freeborn

  

• What Can the Origins of Multicellular Life Teach Us About How Bodies Function?

  Thomas Bosch

  

• What Can We Learn from Governments’ Compliance with Fiscal Rules?

  Eckhard Janeba

  

• What Can We Learn From Norway’s Experience With Open Educational Resources?

  

• What Can We Learn from Studying Homo sapiens’ First Moves into Tropical Forests?

  Patrick Roberts

  

• What Can We Learn From the Fully Virtual Shareholder Meetings That Have Taken Place During the Corona Pandemic?

  Elena Dubovitskaya

  

• What Can We Learn from the Revival of Vinyl Records in the Digital Age?

  Dominik Bartmanski

  

• What Constitutes a Modern Personality Cult?

  Daniel Leese

  

• What Do We Know About the Potential of Endothelial Cells in Treating Acute Lung Injury?

  Neysan Rafat

  

• What Does Dental Calculus Reveal About Human Evolution?

  Christina Warinner

  

• What Explains the Impact of Popular Chinese Fiction from the Period After the Foundation of the PRC?

  Lena Henningsen

  

• What General Principles Govern the Behavior of Liquids in Porous Materials?

  Stephan Herminghaus

  

• What Generates the Magnetic Field of the Jupiter Moon Ganymede?

  Ulrich R. Christensen

  

• What Happens In A Person's Brain When A Memorable Experience Occurs?

  Alessio Attardo

  

• What Happens In Material Imperfections at the Atomic Level?

  Christian Liebscher

  

• What Happens to Carbon Dioxide in Plant and Soil Systems?

  Susan Trumbore

  

• What Happens When Access to Legal Advice Becomes a Privilege?

  Nabil Khabirpour

  

• What Impact Do Exogenous Stimuli Have on Financial Decision Making?

  Matthias Pelster

  

• What Impact do Start-Ups Really Have on Regional or National Economic Development?

  Michael Fritsch

  

• What Information Should Smart Meters Provide To Effectively Reduce Energy Consumption?

  Andreas Gerster

  

• What Insights Can New Simulations Provide Into Tropical Precipitation?

  Hans Segura

  

• What is Hydrogen Embrittlement and What Can Be Done To Prevent It?

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• What Mechanisms Underlie the Interaction Between a Virus and its Host During an Infection?

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• What New Insights Can Archeology Provide Into Homo sapiens’ Emergence from Africa?

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• What New Insights into Plants' Defense Mechanisms Can Be Gained by Studying Their Interactions with Their Habitat?

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• What Political Methods Are Effective in Countering Terrorist Threats?

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• What Prompts Decision Makers to Stop Collecting Relevant Information?

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• What Role Do Microorganisms Play in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle?

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• What Role Do Neutrophils Play in Infectious Disease?

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• What Role Does Life Expectancy Play for the Economic Development of Countries?

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• What Science Will Be Remembered Centuries from Now, and Why?

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• What Were the Cultural Implications of Political Communication in the Late Roman Republic?

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• Which Character Traits Are Important for Good Decision-Making?

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• Which Chemical Traits Protect the Roots of Dandelions Against Insect Damage?

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• Which Evolutionary Changes in the Genome Led to the Development of the Large-Sized Human Brain?

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• Which Features of Language Allow Fiction to Influence People and Their View on Reality?

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