Behavioral Public Policy and Economics GmbH
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
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.
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.
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/
Our directors Dr. Manuel Schubert and Dr. Julia Stauf give a workshop on Global Cooperation at the Asbar World Forum on 05/11/2019.
Time to rethink our behavior
Climate change, waste disposal or forced migration – most of today’s global challenges have the same root-cause: they result from a trade-off between collective and individual goals. During the workshop, the audience will engage in choice experiments to see how individual incentives are in stark contrast to socially desired outcomes.
How can we use these insights and apply them to joint global actions? Can we develop mechanisms to effectively cope with the underprovision of global public goods? The workshop will address these and related questions from a Behavioral Economics standpoint.
Register now http://www.awforum.org/index.php/en/registration-for-the-discussions
For the 17th 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:
Our directors Manuel and Julia just came back from a fantastic visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, giving a Masterclass in Behavioral Public Policy at the Ministry of Health. This week, Manuel is catching up on “Behavioral Economics and the Seven Deadly Sins”. More to come in June, then focusing on moral decay, procrastination and behavioral labor market insights.
Our Managing Director, Dr. Manuel Schubert, gave a talk on Behavioral Public Policy at the Asbar World Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. With a couple of interactive live-experiments, the event also premiered ClassEx in the Gulf region. Great night with great people and very inspiring discussions!