Prof. Dr. Bettina Rockenbach
Cluster position Principal Investigator
Cluster member since 2019
Research Areas
Main research topics
Behavioral economics, cooperation in social dilemmas, social responsibility, compliance
CV
Bettina Rockenbach is Professor of Experimental and Behavioral Economics at the University of Cologne as well as Vice Rector of the university. She holds a diploma in Mathematics from the University of Bonn and received her habilitation in 1999 as an assistant to Nobel laureate Prof. Reinhard Selten at the University of Bonn. From 2000 to 2011 Bettina held the Chair in Microeconomics at the University of Erfurt and served as Vice-President for Research and Young Academics at the same university. She has published in leading economic journals as well as in general interest journals.
Bettina is also one of the two directors of the Reinhard Selten Institute.
Publications
Published papers
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What makes Cooperation Precarious?
Engel, C., & Rockenbach, B. (2024). What Makes Cooperation Precarious?. Journal of Economic Psychology, 102712. -
Complementarities in Behavioral Interventions: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Energy Conservations
Fang, X., Goette, L., Rockenbach, B., Sutter, M., Tiefenbeck, V., Schoeb, S., Staake, T. (2023). Complementarities in Behavioral Interventions: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Energy Conservations. Journal of Public Economics. -
Revealing Good Deeds: Disclosure of Social Responsibility in Competitive Markets
Harrs, S., Rockenbach, B., & Wenner, L. (2022). Revealing Good Deeds: Disclosure of Social Responsibility in Competitive Markets. Experimental Economics. -
Paying with Your Personal Data: The Insensitivity of Private Information Provision to Asymmetric Benefits
Rockenbach, B., Sadrieh, A. & Schielke, A. Paying with your personal data: the insensitivity of private information provision to asymmetric benefits. J Econ Sci Assoc (2021). -
Inequality and Competitive Effort: The Roles of Asymmetric Resources, Opportunity and Outcomes
Fallucchi, F., Ramalingam, A., Rockenbach, B. & Waligora, M. (2021). Inequality and Competitive Effort: The Roles of Asymmetric Resources, Opportunity and Outcomes. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 185, 81-96.