Behavioral Public Policy and Economics GmbH
Are you an experienced researcher who believes that government policies should empower people to make better choices? Do you think that insight from behavioral experiments can help design policies that are closely aligned with people’s true preferences and preserve individual autonomy? If yes, then Anja wants to hear from you!
We wish you a blessed Ramadan 2022. May you celebrate it with your beloved ones being safe, well and happy.
We are pleased to announce that our director Dr. Julia Stauf has been appointed Professor of Economics at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, where she will pursue her passion for teaching, helping students use different lenses to better understand why economies, markets and people behave the way they do.
We are very pleased to welcome Fahad Alsharif, Ph.D. as a Senior Affiliate to our team.
Dr. Fahad is a distinguished scholar in labor, social and migration policies and Senior Research Fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Eid Al-Adha Mubarak to all friends, partners and colleagues. We wish you and your families a very happy and peaceful Eid break.
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 33rd rank (out of 475) and came in 4th among all German universities.
Eid Mubarak to all friends and colleagues. We wish you and your families a very happy and peaceful time.
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!
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/.