Prof. Dr. Michael H. Breitner
- Health IT and Care IT, particularly web-based applications and apps, Artificial Intelligence, mobile networks, and social media
- Comparisons of industrialized and developing countries
- Renewable energies technologies and climate protection
- Diverse shocks, health impacts and coping in developing countries
- Interactions between climate change and health
- Food safety and food security issues
- Migration
- Policy evaluation and applied economic research in health care markets
- Competition and regulation
- Quality, demand and supply, particularly in hospital and long-term care markets
- Identity and identification of employees
- Individual and organizational learning processes (e.g., learning from mistakes)
- New Work (e.g., new ways of team work)
- Wives’ and husbands’ labour supply when crossing retirement ages
- Effects of mandatory military and alternative community service on wages and other socioeconomic outcomes
- Culture as a hiring criterion: systematic discrimination in a procedurally fair hiring process
- Randomized field experiments and quasi-experimental methods
- Health and development economics
- Economic shocks, social norms, and information frictions
- Experimental innovation economics
- Habit formation and prevention
- Diversity
- Challenges to the adaptation of innovation
- Economic evaluation of medical services, particularly in the area of rare illnesses
- Risk/Hazard research and health insurances
- Impact of economic incentives in the healthcare context
- Applied economic policy, particularly labor market economics and economics of education, migration and social security
- Evaluation of policy reforms, applied econometrics
- Human capital acquisition, higher education research and science studies
- Evaluation of the relationship between health- and fitness-related use of social media and eating disorders
- Impact of digital stress in employees
- “Morbus Google” as a challenge within the physician-patient interaction
- The impact of air quality in servicescapes on customers and employees
- Acceptance of innovative food (measuring and creation of acceptance)
- Marketing for healthier eating habits (e.g., influence strategies, utilization of social influencers)
- Health economic evaluation of innovative health care services
- Economics and treatment of mental disorders
- Health services research, particularly in the area of inflammatory-rheumatic and mental diseases
- Barriers and health care provision for individuals with a migrant background
