Behavioural and Environmental Economics

Behavioural environmental economics has attracted rising interest within the economics community in recent years. The central aim of the rapidly evolving research on behavioural environmental economics is to enrich traditional economic theory by concepts from psychology, sociology or philosophy. Extensions to the concept of unbounded rationality include other-regarding preferences, social norms, prospect theory or nudges. Among the various different methodological approaches applied to the field of behavioural environmental economics are game-theoretic analyses, experimental investigations both in the lab and the field and empirical studies. Given the vital scientific progress and debate in the field, the workshop particularly focuses on new developments and directions in behavioural environmental economics.