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New acquisitions from ZBW through EconBiz

You can use the search key econbiz_created to retrieve newly added publications in the catalogue of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. For a list of new acquisitions, enter the search key and a time period in the search field.

For example, new acquisitions on the financial market in 2025 can be found with: source:econis AND econbiz_created:[2025-01-01 TO 2025-12-31] AND subject:"financial market"

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Author profiles of Nobel laureates

This year's winners of the Alfred Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences are Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt. They were honoured for their research explaining innovation-driven economic growth. Congratulations to the winners! Would you like to find out more about the researchers? Check out their EconBiz Author Profiles to learn about their research:

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Academic Skills with AI support

Two interdisciplinary entry-level courses on academic skills with AI support (economics, 1st/2nd semester) have been created at the University of Hamburg as part of a funding program. The course materials have been published as Open Educational Resources. The OER materials include lecture slides, exercises, a writing schedule, prompt templates and other resources. 

The materials are in German. They can be shared, reused, and adapted freely (CC BY 4.0 license).

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