From October 7-8, 2024 the 9th Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics (BEHnet) took place at the HCHE. The BEH workshop brought together economists and behavioural scientists who apply behavioural economic insights and experimental methods to investigate health-related decisions. This year the Hamburg...

At the first Research-in-Progress workshop, the doctoral students of the GRK “Managerial and economic dimensions of health care quality” presented the progress of their research and discussed the current status and future projects. After the first year, the Research-in-Progress workshop represents an important milestone in...

A very warm welcome to Prof. Dr. Biliana Yontcheva, who will join the Universität Hamburg (Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences) in November 2024. Within the Professorship for Health Economics with an emphasis on empirical methods, she will be a new core member at the HCHE. Biliana Yontcheva joins the HCHE...

HCHE’s Carolin Brinkmann visits the Erasmus University Rotterdam for the last project of her dissertation between August and October 2024. The project compares two well-being theories for their implications in health policy decision-making. Prof. Job van Exel and Prof. Werner Brouwer of the Erasmus School of Health Policy &amp...

The shortage of skilled workers is strongly felt in Germany and also in the healthcare system. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach therefore commissioned the Expert Council on Health and Care (SVR) to prepare a report on the skilled worker situation. In the report "Professionals in the healthcare sector. Sustainable use...

From July 15-26, 2024, the International Summer School Health Economics by the Universität Hamburg will be held at the HCHE! International participants from Indonesia, Ruanda, China, Azerbaijan, Switzerland, France, Taiwan, Japan, Hungary, Portugal, Czech Republic, South Korea, the Netherlands and Italy are guests at the...