RUB Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) faculty Prof Matthias Kiese and Dr Christian Hundt attended the annual MOC Affiliate Workshop at Harvard Business School this week. The workshop started with a research session on Monday, in which Christian presented research on the distinction between resistance and recovery of German regions facing the external shock of the financial crisis in the last decade. His paper was co-authored by Franziska Pudelko, his former Masters student who is now at the University of Marburg.