Behavioral Public Economics Workshop

Join us in this Berlin School of Economics Behavioral Public Economics Workshop

Program

09:15 Welcome – Renke Schmacker & Christian Traxler 

09:15 – 10:35 Session 1 – Transport Policy, Salience & Behavior

  • Maximilian Amberg – Levers for Change? The Welfare Effects of a
    Large-scale Public Transport Subsidy in Germany
  • Lars Felder – Fuel Price Elasticities: The Role of Price Salience and
    Expenditure Misperceptions
  • Josh Klier – To keep or not to keep: Tax Salience and
    Vehicle Fleet Exit in Germany

10:35 – 11:00 Cafe Break

11:00 – 12:30 Session 2 – Fiscal Policy & Labor Supply

  • Tomasz Sulka – The Response of Wages to Mandated Benefits:
    Evidence from Automatic Pension Enrollment 
  • Mareen Bastiaans – Female Labor Supply and Intergenerational
    Spillovers: Evidence from a Tax Reform
  • Tim Bayer – Withheld from Working More? Withholding Taxes
    and the Labor Supply of Married Women

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:30 Keynote

  • Naomi Feldman – Real and Phantom Constraints:
    How Japan’s Tax System Shapes Female Labor Supply

14:30 – 15:00 Cafe Break

15:00 – 16:30 Session 3 – Markets, Morals, and Media

  • Simona Sartor – Meritocracy and Birthrights
  • Maja Adena – Reading News and Learning from It: A Field Experiment with
    A Newsfeed App on News Knowledge, Media Trust, and Political Polarization
  • Marco Runkel – Tax Competition for Profit Shifting with Moral Consumers
  • Jonas Radbruch (HU Berlin) – AI for Take-up: Personalized eligibility and
    application support for social transfers (Design)

Registration is required.

Zum Event

Event Detail

12. Juni 2026 9:15
12. Juni 2026 16:30
Hertie School
Friedrichstraße 180, 10117 Berlin

Organizers

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events@hertie-school.org
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