Dr. Ekkehard Köhler holds a doctorate in economics (Unviersity of Freiburg) and is a junior (assistant) Professor of economics and didactics at the University of Siegen. His research interests lie in the areas of economics, the transmission of its findings into economic education and the development of economic thinking, as well as in applied empirical and experimental economics. His enthusiasm for economic education and economic policy issues lead to related research projects that he has organized internationally. Research stays took him to the Paris School of Economics (Gilles Saint-Paul) and to the University of Southern California