Seminars and Workshops
We organize research seminars to various topics. Most of them are jointly organized with the Graduate School Business and Economics (GSBE) and with other research programmes at the School of Business and Economics.
GSBE-ETBC seminar series
The Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE) seminar covers the topics Theory, Behavior, Experiments and Computation. From September to December and February to June it takes place once per week (usually Thursday at 16:00). Renowned speakers are invited from all over the world.
Interdisciplinary Brownbag Seminar of Behavioral Sciences – Theory and Empiric
The goal of the seminar is to establish an interdisciplinary seminar community of scholars interested in human behaviour and strategic interaction at SBE and beyond. In particular, we welcome presentations on theoretical, empirical and experimental research around this broad topic.
We are looking forward to intensifying the links in our community across disciplines, departments, and research groups.
MLSE seminar series
MLSE is a (mostly) bi-weekly event jointly organized by the Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics and the Department of Quantitative Economics. It aims to give researchers the opportunity to present their ongoing work and to facilitate cooperation among them.
M-BEES & M-BEPS
The Maastricht Behavioral and Experimental Economics Symposium and the Maastricht Behavioral Economic Policy Symposium are organized each year in June by the Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics.
The broad topic of M-BEES is Theory and Experiments. M-BEES centers around the question if and how economic experiments can inform economic theory and vice versa.
M-BEPS brings together behavioral and experimental researchers from different disciplines as well as policy makers and practitioners interested in how behavioral economics can inform policies in government and business. The goal of M-BEPS is to encourage the discussion of relevant policy topics and the exchange among European policy makers, international researchers, and practitioners.
CBEN & MVE 2024
The Cognition, Behavior & Evolution Network (CBEN) unites scholars working in the fields of evolutionary psychology, behavioral ecology, human biology, primatology, and cultural evolution. This year’s CBEN meeting will be a joint meeting with CBEN’s German sister network MVE. 2024 marks CBEN’s 10th and MVE’s 25th anniversary, making this a ‘doubly special’ occasion. Moreover, we prefix the meeting with a pre-conference on Wednesday, October 23, honoring Eckart Voland‘s 75th birthday. We would like this to be a meeting where scholars from a broad range of disciplines share their work at the interface of cognition, decision-making, behavior, and evolution.
The theme for 2024 will explore economic, psychological, and biological perspectives on the ‘dark’ sides of behavior, such as exploitation, violence, discrimination, criminal and antisocial behavior, conflict and war. How come that we as humans are those social animals that became uniquely cooperative, cultural, and civilized? How come that, at the exact same time, we are our own worst enemy, dehumanizing, subjugating, exploiting, and aggressing each other? And, most importantly: How can we prevent the conflicting interests permeating all human societies from escalating into segregation, suppression, violence, and war? These and related questions shape the program and will be addressed by the plenary speakers.