Eid Al-Adha Mubarak to all friends, partners and colleagues. We wish you and your families a very happy and peaceful Eid break.

The number of people who do not show up to their COVID-19 vaccination appointments in Germany is increasing. Decision-makers are now discussing fines for people who do not show up on time. The idea is that fines would reduce the number of no-shows. But is this really what we can expect?

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Behavia‘s alma mater and academic incubator, the University of Passau, has been ranked among the top 10% according to the THE Young University Ranking for 2021. Among the universities aged 50 or younger, Passau secured the 33^rd rank (out of 475) and came in 4^th among all German universities.

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Eid Mubarak to all friends and colleagues. We wish you and your families a very happy and peaceful time.

Delegates from all over the world presented their abstracts during the V20 task force inception event. The V20 2021 now enters one of the most important phases in the G20 engagement process under the Italian Presidency.

“Passion, rigor, and empathy, three words describing the incredible journey of values practitioners and experts all over the world as they develop the most relevant social policy abstracts today.”

More on https://values20.org/

We wish all our friends, partners, and colleagues a blessed fasting month. May you celebrate it with your beloved ones being safe, well and happy.

The ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, one of the world’s largest information centers for economic literature, just published a commentary of our directors at its lead journal Wirtschaftsdienst. They critically reflect on the vaccination journey and discuss potential barriers for the “willing” from a behavioral economics perspective.

Full commentary in German language: Impfabsichten: Sie müssen umgesetzt werden!

A brief summary in English language is available here.

The Values 20 has officially launched its G20 engagement process in 2021 under the Italian Presidency.

Join our global community of practitioners, experts and behavioral scientists on the journey to bring evidence-based, human-centric policies to the forefront of global decision-making.

More on https://values20.org/

Online experimentation is an important tool in behavioral economic research. Our affiliates Prof. Dr. Marcus Giamattei and Prof. Dr. Johann Graf Lambsdorff invite interested researchers, lecturers, and teachers to learn more about ClassEx, a free online tool for interactive surveys and classroom experiments used in more than 60 countries.

Webinar participants will learn how to use ClassEx to design, program, and implement online experiments, especially for teaching purposes in economics and social sciences.

More information on the webinar series is available on https://classex.de/webinars/.

Excellent results for Passau’s Master in International Economics and Business (IEBS)

In the latest CHE and Times Higher Education rankings, the School of Business, Economics and Information Systems at Passau University significantly improved its positioning, now competing at eye-level with highly renowned business schools and faculties from around the globe. The school attained the 10th rank in Germany and 5th place in Bavaria (THE ranking). Especially, its Master “International Economics and Business (IEBS)” received outstanding ratings in the categories “scientific relevance”, “supervision”, and “foreign exchange” (CHE ranking).

More information is available in the official press releases: THE ranking and CHE ranking (partly in German language only).