Research Interest


  • Art and Cultural Economics
  • Economic Policy
  • Regional Economics




Publications


  • Dario Gödecke (2022). Planspiele als Methode der gemeinsamen Zielfindung und Instrumentenentwicklung. In Jan Abt et al. (Hg.). Von Beteiligung zur Koproduktion. Springer 2022 (S. 465-492).
  • Kilian Bizer, Dario Gödecke (2020). Planspiele als Methode der Transformationsforschung – Ein neues Instrument erleben: Erprobung eines Fonds im geschützten Raum, in: Abt, Jan / Blecken, Lutke / Bock, Stephanie / Diringer, Julia / Fahrenkrug, Katrin (Hrsg.): Kommunen innovativ – Lösungen für Städte und Regionen im demografischen Wandel. Ergebnisse der BMBF-Fördermaßnahme. Berlin 2020. 122-125.
  • Dario Gödecke (2020): Innenentwicklungsmaßnahmen bewerten – Die modifizierte Nutzwertanalyse: Ein Instrument der Entscheidungsfindung für kommunale Akteure, in: Abt, Jan / Blecken, Lutke / Bock, Stephanie / Diringer, Julia / Fahrenkrug, Katrin (Hrsg.): Kommunen innovativ – Lösungen für Städte und Regionen im demografischen Wandel. Ergebnisse der BMBF-Fördermaßnahme. Berlin 2020. 126-129.
  • Kilian Bizer, Dario Gödecke, Tanja Klein, Marta Jacuniak-Suda, Angelika Sack, Annika Sommer (2020). Kommunaler Innenentwicklungsfonds. Über Planspiele Vertrauen schaffen! in: Wékel, Julian (ISW) / Ohnsorge, David (ISW) (Hrsg.): Planungspraxis regionaler Initiativen und interkommunaler Kooperation – Neue Materialien zur Planungskultur. München. Seite 188-191.
  • Kilian Bizer, Dario Gödecke, Marta Jacuniak-Suda, Tanja Klein, Angelika Sack, Annika Sommer (2019). Kommunaler Innenentwicklungsfonds. Ein Instrument zur Stabilisierung und Weiterentwicklung der Ortskerne im ländlichen Raum. Planerin 6/2019, 38-40.



Conference Talks


  • Accepted: 98th Annual Conference Western Economic Association International (WEAI), 02.-06. July 2023, San Diego, California/United States: “Does place of residence make a difference in cultural consumption? How rural theatergoers differ from those in urban areas”
  • Accepted: 22th International Conference on Cultural Economics presented by the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI), 27.-30. June 2023, Bloomington, Indiana/United States: “Does place of residence make a difference in cultural consumption? How rural theatergoers differ from those in urban areas”
  • 6th North American Workshop on Cultural Economics with the Southern Economic Association (SEA), running as part of SEA 92nd Annual Meeting, 19.-21. November 2022, Fort Lauderdale, Florida/United States: “Theater in rural areas: Competition or cooperation between voluntary work, private-sector theaters and publicly funded theaters? - A qualitative survey with different theaters in rural areas of South Lower Saxony, Germany”.
  • 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research ICCPR 2022, 19.-22. September 2022, Antwerp/Belgium: “The Use of Social Media in Times of Pandemic - Results of an Online Survey with Publicly Funded and Private Theaters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland”
  • 17. Berliner Methodentreffen Qualitative Forschung, 29.-30. Juli 2022, Freien Universität Berlin, Germany. Aktive Teilnahme an der Forschungswerkstatt „Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse“ bei Udo Kuckartz: „Active #2: Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse – Gemeinsame Probleme der Kategorienbildung und des Teamworks“
  • 21th International Conference on Cultural Economics presented by the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI), 06.-09 July 2021, online: “Theatre and Social Media. An analysis of the social media strategies of theatres in Germany, Austria and Switzerland”
  • BMBF-Bildungsforschungstagung 2021, 09. -10. März 2021, online: „Theater im Off? – Kulturelle Teilhabe durch Theater in ländlichen Räumen“ im Forum 9: „Vielfalt zeigen und Teilhabe stärken. Zukunftsweisende Perspektiven kultureller Bildung in ländlichen Räumen“
  • Fifth North American Workshop on Cultural Economics with the Southern Economic Association (running as part of the Southern Economic Association Conference), 23-25 November 2019, Fort Lauderdale, Florida/United States, Dario Gödecke: “Theatre Demand and Government Subsidies in Germany - A Travel Cost Analysis”.
  • Ninth European Workshop on Applied Cultural Economics with Copenhagen Business School and the University of Southern Denmark, 5-7 September 2019, Copenhagen/Denmark, Dario Gödecke: “Theatre Demand and Government Subsidies in Germany - A Travel Cost Analysis”.
  • 20th International Conference on Cultural economics presented by the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI), 26-29 June 2018, Melbourne/Australia, Dario Gödecke: “Theatre Demand and Government Subsidies: an Analysis of German Public Theatres”.




Topics for Degree Theses

Art and cultural economics:


  • Economic effects of cultural events
  • Visitor and non-visitor surveys in selected cultural institutions
  • Cultural economic approaches in practice
  • Markets and market intervention with art property
  • Economic analysis of cultural offerings and demands
  • Economic effects of the UNESCO World Heritage Site title
  • General support in this subject area




Supervised Degree Theses


  • Presentation and evaluation of various measures to face the shortage of general practitioners in rural Germany in the context of demographic change
  • Modularization of the vocational training system in the commercial and industrial sector - theoretical considerations and their proof of suitability at SMA Solar Technology AG
  • Impact of the Football World Cup on the economy of the host country - A comparison of the World Championships in Germany (2006) and South Africa (2010)
  • The inner development in rural areas: An analysis for the Leinebergalnd
  • The communicative utility analysis – A modified procedure for the selection of measures for internal development of settlements by municipal actors
  • The contempory Art Exhibiton documenta and it´s Regional effects on the City of Kassel, Germany
  • E-Sport - an Economic Analysis of the International Market
  • Evaluation of the Multi Criteria Analysis for the Selection of Inner Development Measures in Rural Areas
  • The demographic change and technical infrastructure - A challenge for local communities in Lower Saxony
  • The political economy of Banking Union
  • Critical analysis of the dynamics of political reforms using the veto player theorem - the example of the German pension system
  • Market concentration and market regulation - A welfare analysis of a horizontal merger in the German food market
  • The Effects of Demographic Change on Residential Property Prices in Rural Areas in Germany
  • “Rich Germany, poor communities" – Does land use contribute to increasing local business taxes? Empiricism and discussion on the fiscal analysis in the simulation game "Flächenhandel"
  • What ist he economic value of including the German theater scene in the UNESCO list of the Intanggible Cultural Heritage?
  • „Creating and preserving open space“ – Demand analysis of open space in the city of Göttingen, Germany