About

Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn

Contact

University of Bonn
Department of Economics
Adenauerallee 24–42, 53113 Bonn, Germany

armin.falk@uni-bonn.de

Research interests

Armin Falk’s main fields are behavioral, experimental and labor economics. His research focuses on

• the determinants and consequences of time, risk and social preferences,

• the behavioral economics of climate change,

• sources of inequality,

• early childhood development, and

• the malleability of moral behavior.

Grants and awards

Falk has received two ERC grants and was awarded the Gossen Prize in 2008, the Leibniz Prize in 2009, as well as the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in 2011.

As organizer or keynote speaker, Falk has been involved in numerous conferences and summer schools.

Falk is Fellow of the European Economic Association and the Econometric Society. He is also the Director of the Bonn Laboratory for Experimental Economics (BonnEconLab) and affiliated with J-PAL, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), CESifo, and the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.

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