SESSION 2 OF 3:
The Effects & Ethics of Nudging
Tea & Talent – 04/11/2021
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Applying Behavioural Insights in Policy-design and Management
Predicting people’s behaviour and designing policies in a way that ‘nudges’ behaviour in a certain direction can lead to better policy-making and improved management. At the same time, a common concern is that nudges are seen as manipulative; sneaky ways of affecting people’s behaviour without telling them.
This session therefore consisted of two teasers. In the first teaser, we talked about whether and how research on nudge interventions can be transformed to professional practice. In the second teaser, we considered the ethics of nudges and the consequence of ethical concerns for their effectiveness.
The speakers
Jona Linde is Assistant Professor in the Microeconomics and Public Economics department at Maastricht University. Before that, he did his PhD and two Postdocs, one in economics, one in political science, in Amsterdam. A lot of his work focuses on how people, including Dutch MPs, deal with risk. He has also studied the effect of tuition fees on study behaviour and the consequences of being nudged repeatedly. In various research and teaching projects he has cooperated with BIN-NL, APG, CBS, several Dutch ministries, and other organisations.
Thomas Meissner is Assistant Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University since 2016. Prior to that, he spent some time as a postdoctoral researcher at the Grenoble Ecole de Management, and completed his PhD at the Berlin Institute of Technology. His research focuses on economic decision-making, specifically on how people make economic decisions that involve risk or inter-temporal tradeoffs, such as behaviour on financial markets or individual borrowing and saving decisions.
Behavioural Insights & Change
This session represents one of three parallel presentations that are part of the online Tea & Talent event Behavioural Insights & Change, organised on 4 November 2021 by UMIO in partnership with the UM Behavioural Insights Centre (UM-BIC) and the Behavioural Insights Network Netherlands (BIN-NL).
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Jona Linde
Assistant Professor Microeconomics and Public Economics
Thomas Meissner
Assistant Professor of Economics
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