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.
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 …
On January 29, 2025 at 18:00, Dr. Mulu Berhanu Hundera will give a “Humboldt Lecture” as part of the event …
24. June 2025 @ 12:00 - 13:00 Room 3.206, Studierenden Service Center (SSC) (Building 102), Universitätsstraße 22a, 50923 Köln
Hideo Owan (Waseda University) - "Personality Traits and Career Success: Understanding Workplace Dynamics" (with Liya Wang, Yingchao Zhang & Yukiko Asai)
25. June 2025 @ 12:00 - 13:15 Room 3.206, Studierenden Service Center (SSC) (Building 102), Universitätsstraße 22a, 50923 Köln
Arna Olafsson (Copenhagen Business School) - "What Makes Depositors Tick? Bank Data Insights into Households’ Liquid Asset Allocation"
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27. June 2025 @ 12:00 - 12:45 via ZOOM
Paula Scholz (University of Cologne) - "AI or Human? A Follow Up Experiment" (with Luisa Santiago Wolf & David Stommel)
1. July 2025 @ 12:00 - 13:00 Room 3.206, Studierenden Service Center (SSC) (Building 102), Universitätsstraße 22a, 50923 Köln
Aaron Leonard & Filip Milojević (The University of Chicago) - "Measuring Markets for Network Goods" (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Matthew Gentzkow, Rafael Jimenez-Duran & Christopher Roth)
2. July 2025 @ 12:00 - 13:15 Room 3.206, Studierenden Service Center (SSC) (Building 102), Universitätsstraße 22a, 50923 Köln
Regina Riphahn (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) - "Occupational Recognition of Refugees: Effects on Labor Market Outcomes, Remittances, and Life Satisfaction"
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8. July 2025 @ 12:00 - 13:00 Room 3.206, Studierenden Service Center (SSC) (Building 102), Universitätsstraße 22a, 50923 Köln
Aakash Rao (Harvard University) - "What Drives Political Attention?"
9. July 2025 @ 12:00 - 13:15 Room 3.206, Studierenden Service Center (SSC) (Building 102), Universitätsstraße 22a, 50923 Köln
Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) - "The Impact of Medicare on Life Expectancy" (with Adriana Lleras-Muney, Joe Price & Dahai Yue)
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