The Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB), a Key Profile Area (KPA) of the University of Cologne (UoC), brings together Cologne-based researchers from economics, management science, and psychology. Together with internationally renowned scientists from Europe and the USA, they investigate the fundamental principles and behavioral mechanisms that affect social and economic behavior. Since its establishment in 2019, the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute is an important partner.
Social and economic behavior is shaping almost all aspects of our lives. But it does not only influence the actions of individuals. Behavior and its underlying motivation and cognition, also affects the success of societies, politics, markets and organizations. Understanding its determinants, and how it can be ‘managed’, is thus of crucial importance for understanding and addressing major challenges to society and humanity.
C-SEB aims to develop an empirically based theory of the institutions that define economic incentives and of the conditions that influence information processing in social and economic contexts. Using a behavioral economics and social cognition approach, the center examines how these mechanisms can be designed and manipulated. C-SEB seeks to build a bridge between laboratory research and real-world contexts in order to contribute to solutions to contemporary challenges in the economy.
Mona Mensmann and her co-authors have been awarded the 2024 IGL Annual Research Prize in the category “Best Experimental Paper …
Junior Start-Up Grants Marius Barth (with Karoline Bading) – “The Role of US Probability in Evaluative Learning” Yael Ecker (with …
The ECONtribute Cluster of Excellence, associated with C-SEB as a key profile area of the University of Cologne, will continue …
The Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) awards three honorary doctorates annually, alternating between the different faculties. In 2025, the renowned …
With its Research Prizes, the University of Cologne honors individual scientific excellence and outstanding achievements over the last six years …
C-SEB member Angela Dorrough wins the OECD Anti-Corruption Research Challenge for a study together with Jasper Siol from the University …
15. July 2025 @ 12:00 - 13:00 Room 3.206, Studierenden Service Center (SSC) (Building 102), Universitätsstraße 22a, 50923 Köln
Peter Katuščák (RWTH Aachen) - "Separating Contingent From Thinking: On Non-Truthtelling in Strategy-Proof Matching Mechanisms"
16. July 2025 @ 12:00 - 13:15 Room 3.206, Studierenden Service Center (SSC) (Building 102), Universitätsstraße 22a, 50923 Köln
Ronak Jain (University of Zurich) - "Prosocial Market Behavior and Children in Street Vending"
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