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06/19/2018 | Campus-Meldung

Kassel habilitation thesis wins prize

A professor of economics was today (June 19) awarded a research prize by the Roman Herzog Institute for his habilitation thesis at the University of Kassel. Korbinian von Blanckenburg received the second place prize of € 10,000.

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Prof. Dr. Korbinian von Blanckenburg.

Prof. Dr. Korbinian von Blanckenburg (39) is currently Professor of Economics and Business Mathematics at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences in Lemgo. In 2016, he completed his habilitation at the University of Kassel on the topic of "Development of competition economics methods to detect and mitigate market power abuse." In it, he shows ways to identify competition defects and analyzes relevant empirical case studies. The main focus is on competition policy and cartel formation.

Von Blanckenburg held a three-semester lectureship at the Institute of Economics at the University of Kassel from 2012 to 2014. He also worked at the German Institute for Economic Research e.V. in Berlin and WINGAS GmbH in Kassel. Currently, he continues to be associated with the University of Kassel, among other things by co-supervising several doctoral students.