February 15, 2019
briq student fellow portraits: Sven Walter
In a series of short portraits, the briq newsroom introduces our student fellows and what they do.
February 11, 2019
Three questions with Alex Imas
Alex Imas explains his current work on dynamic decision-making, which combines data from the lab and the real world.
January 25, 2019
Three questions with Ulf Zölitz
Ulf Zölitz studies the effects of peer personality on educational performance.
December 21, 2018
Three questions with George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein explores the mental phenomena of boredom, flow and curiosity using economic methods.
December 13, 2018
Three questions with Peter Schwardmann
Peter Schwardmann finds that people tend to deceive themselves to better deceive others.
November 20, 2018
Armin Falk on culture and economic preferences
Armin Falk presented his insights from the Global Preferences Survey at this year's Forum for Economic Dialogue.
November 16, 2018
Three questions with Jon de Quidt
Jon de Quidt on how deliberately inducing an "experimenter demand effect" can help assess the robustness of experimental work.
October 18, 2018
Gender differences in preferences increase with economic development and gender equality
Article by Armin Falk and Johannes Hermle published in Science
October 10, 2018
Paola Giuliano on the origins and persistence of gender roles
Paola Giuliano (UCLA) reviewed work on the origin of differences in gender norms, with particular emphasis on differences in agricultural technologies.
October 1, 2018
briq is part of the University Bonn’s new cluster of excellence
“ECONtribute: Markets and Public Policy” is Germany's only predominantly economics-focused cluster funded under the Excellence Strategy.
September 26, 2018
Two prize-winning papers by Chris Roth
briq researcher receives EEA Young Economist Award and Reinhard Selten Award
September 11, 2018
Three questions with Ran Spiegler
Ran Spiegler explores what happens when people confuse the concepts of correlation and causation. In his research he aims at bringing behavioral economics and economic theory closer together.
September 4, 2018
Armin Falk receives Felix Büchel Award 2018
At the 13th International SOEP User Conference, Armin Falk was the first experimental economist to receive the Felix Büchel Award.
August 24, 2018
Michal Bauer on nasty behavior in groups
How do individuals and groups differ in their decision-making processes and what are the wider consequences of this group interaction?
August 10, 2018
Three questions with Sandro Ambuehl
People sometimes harm themselves or others by making irrational decisions. But how much paternalism do we need and want?
July 23, 2018
Three questions with Simon Jäger
A puzzle in standard economics – why would the same worker be paid different wages depending on the firm he or she is employed by?
July 6, 2018
Alex Imas on the dynamics of decision-making
By better understanding the dynamics of how prior outcomes are mentally grouped with prospects, managers can better structure contracts to align their risk preferences with those of their employees.
June 25, 2018
Three questions with Roland Bénabou
What kind of stories do we tell ourselves and others in order to explain or justify our actions? Roland Bénabou explores the role of narratives in moral behavior.
June 6, 2018
Three questions with Paul Heidhues
Paul Heidhues looks into new models of consumer behavior and their implications for markets.
May 30, 2018
briq Research Retreat
At a briq Research Retreat on May 29-30, some of the world’s leading behavioral economists came together in Bonn.
May 18, 2018
Three questions with Uwe Sunde
Why have some countries’ economies grown faster than others? What does patience have to do with it? These are some of the questions Uwe Sunde explores in his research.
May 2, 2018
Three questions with Stefano DellaVigna
Stefano DellaVigna on behavioral firms -- and the difference between "the bagel man" and today's big data giants like Google or Facebook.
April 26, 2018
Patient countries are rich countries
Patience may be the decisive factor why some countries are richer than others.
April 6, 2018
Three questions with Philipp Strack
Philipp Strack currently researches the mechanisms behind misperceiving one's own abilities.
April 3, 2018
Unfair pay has negative health effects
Study shows that unfair pay not only reduces work morale, but can also affect the health status of the workforce.
March 19, 2018
“Out of pure curiosity”
briq Visiting Professor George Loewenstein talks about what drives people to seek and share information, how insights from behavioral economics can contribute to the study of inequality – and whether it’s okay for economists to do research on sex.
March 9, 2018
People become more risk-averse with age
The results of a study published in the Economic Journal suggest that willingness to take risks declines with age, implying that societies may become more risk-averse as their population ages.
March 6, 2018
Three questions with David Huffman
David Huffman on overconfidence among managers and other puzzles in behavioral economics.
February 8, 2018
Many Germans know little about economics
In a representative survey, briq and DIE ZEIT tested the knowledge of the German population about basic economic concepts and facts.
October 17, 2017
Learning about job search
A field experiment with job seekers in Germany investigates how information provision affects job seekers’ employment prospects and labor market outcomes.
September 28, 2017
Impressions from the briq opening ceremony
During a grand opening ceremony with more than 80 invited guests from science and society, briq was officially introduced to the public on September 27, 2017.