Economic Behavior & Governance (EB&Go)

Link with the university's research priorities

Sustainable transformations: Many of the issues investigated in the EB&Go research focus area are directly related to sustainability and transformation. A genuine contribution of the EB&Go research focus lies in the application of experimental and quasi-experimental research methods to sustainability-relevant objects of investigation and in the further development and critical reflection of these methods. Social, political and legal aspects of sustainable transformation are also analyzed through the application of theory-based institutional economics and other empirical methods. In the area of social sustainability in particular, legal methods, especially comparative law and legal dogmatics, are also applied. The combination of economic and legal methods is used to develop policy-relevant solutions.
There are links to two other competence and research centers that make sense to work on from the perspective of EB&Go, even if only individual persons or projects from the Faculty are currently involved. Firstly, this involves gender research in transformation, as economic experiments lend themselves to the identification of gender-specific behaviors and research into their causes. And secondly, there are links to the research focus on social policy, development policy and decent work, in particular to the Research Network for Social Law and Social Policy (FoSS), with which there is close cooperation, particularly from a legal perspective.