Over the next weeks, our Managing Director Dr. Manuel Schubert will organize the 7^th annual seminar on “Behavioral Economics and the Seven Deadly Sins” at Passau University, Germany.

Starting in 2014, this introductory seminar covers a broad range of topics in behavioral economics: why do we fail to stick to our plans, why do we trust others, when do we care for others, how do we perceive chance, or how do moral judgements influence our actions?

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How can behavioral insights help startups, NGOs, corporates and governments to increase conversion? Our managing director, Dr. Manuel Schubert, explains what it needs to turn “don’ters” into “doers”.

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Training days at Behavia. Our director Dr. Julia Stauf gave a workshop on ‘Behavioral Insights and Nudging’ at THAK Thuringia. Great day with great creative people and lots of inspiring discussions!

If you speak German, have a look at THAK’s Instagram Story Wissen:teilen that contains a section on Behavioral Insights!

Photos: © THAK 2020

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Fantastic news from the official G20 Engagement Group for Think Tanks: our joint policy brief with Dr. Fahad Alsharif, Senior Researcher at the King Faisal Center for Research & Islamic Studies, has been accepted.

The policy brief focusses on “how to solve global burden sharing problems?” and will form part of the G20 recommendations of the Task Force on “Migration and Young Societies”.

We are super excited, truly honored and can’t wait for the G20 Saudi Arabia Summit to begin!

Smart designs, settings and services change how we perceive options and ultimately affect our behaviors. Behavioral insights organize these effects in a systematic way and provide a wide range of nudging applications to better achieve an organization’s goals. Well-known examples at the company level are healthy workplace designs, nudges to de-bias recruitment decisions or to increase job satisfaction.

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The Saudi Ministry of Health has announced its “Walk 30” campaign. The countrywide campaign under the theme “Saudi Walks!” seeks to promote public health by cultivating a culture of walking. It involves dozens of activities as well as a special walking event held on the Saudi National Day.

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We are very pleased to announce that BEHAVIA is Scientific Partner of this year’s Asbar World Forum – “Towards the Future”. The forum will be held under the patronage of HRH Prince Faisal Bin Bandar Al Saud, Governor of Riyadh, and take place from 4 – 6 November 2019 at the Fairmont Hotel Riyadh.

Register now at http://www.awforum.org/index.php/en/

Are you currently pursuing a PhD or Master in Behavioral Economics and are you interested in applying behavioral insights in the field? Then get in touch with us: we are currently looking for behavioral freelancers and are always interested in new research collaborations.

Big day for BEHAVIA: We have teamed up with the Asbar Center for Studies, Research & Communications to cooperate on a behavioral economics project  in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Working hand in hand to deliver the best results for our client, we are very excited to jointly provide unique Saudi experience in public policy paired with Behavioral Economic Engineering made in Germany.

Some impressions taken during the official launch event…

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For the 17^th time, our affiliate Prof. Dr. Johann Graf Lambsdorff and his team are organizing the workshop “The Economics of Corruption”, at the University of Passau. This year’s workshop focusses on “Overcoming Behavioral Impediments to Honesty” and will be held from September 22-29, 2019.

The workshop provides graduate and PhD-students with experimental, behavioral and institutional tools for doing research on corruption and good governance. For further information and registration, please approach http://www.icgg.org.

Further reading on behavioral approaches to increase honesty and integrity:

1. How income and tax rates provoke cheating – An experimental investigation of tax morale
2. Preventing Corruption by Promoting Trust – Insights from Behavioral Science