[en] The N = 52 nucleus ⁹⁸Pd was investigated at the Cologne TANDEM accelerator both with the Cologne plunger using the recoil distance Doppler-shift method (RDDS) and with the Cologne HORUS spectrometer for a γγ angular correlation experiment. For the first time lifetimes of yrast states and highly excited low-spin states were measured in ⁹⁸Pd and the low-spin level scheme was extended. From our data we were able to interpret ⁹⁸Pd as a nucleus that exhibits some collective features, but is obviously much less collective than the neighboring N = 52 isotones ⁹⁴Mo and ⁹⁶Ru due to its closeness to doubly-magic ¹⁰⁰Sn.