Prof. Dr. Sebastian J. GoergHead of the Professorship & Associate Professor

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Professor Goerg is a behavioral and experimental economist. He investigates how incentives, information, and (legal) institutions influence actual human behavior. Together with co-authors from the social and natural sciences, he pursues an interdisciplinary research agenda.

Professor Goerg studied economics at the University of Bonn, where he also obtained his PhD under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Professor Reinhard Selten. From 2009 to 2012, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. After research stays at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Michigan, he joined Florida State University as an Assistant Professor in 2012 and was granted tenure there in 2018. In 2018, Professor Goerg joined TUM as an Associate Professor. He holds the Professorship of Economics at TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability. He is also an affiliated member of the TUM School of Management. Professor Goerg is a Research Fellow at the IZA – Institute of Labor Economics, and a Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.

Research Interests

Sustainable Behavior in the Bioeconomy
Behavioral- and Experimental Economics
Organizational Economics, Personnel Economics, Law and Economics

Positions in Research

Since 05/2018 : Associate Professor of Economics (W3) at the Technical University of Munich, TUMCS for Biotechnology and Sustainability, TUM, Straubing

2012–2018 : Assistant Professor of Economics, positive Evaluation in 2018, Department of Economics, Florida State University, Tallahassee

2009–2012 : Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn

2005–2009 : Research Associate, BonnEconLab, Laboratory for Experimental Economics, University of Bonn

Education

2005–2010 : Dr. rer. pol. (summa cum laude), University of Bonn

2001–2005 : Master Economics, University of Bonn

Affiliations & Visits

Since 2018 : Affiliate, TUM School of Management, TUM, Munich

Since 2017 : Research Fellow, IZA – Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn

Since 2012 : Research Affiliate, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn

2011–2012 : Visiting Research Scholar, School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2007–2008 : Visiting Researcher, Antai College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai

Selected Publications

Sebastian J. Goerg, Andreas Pondorfer and Valentina Stöhr (2025) Public support for more ambitious climate policies: Empirical evidence from Germany. Ecological Economics, Vol. 231, 108538.
Christoph Drobner and Sebastian J. Goerg (2024) Motivated Belief Updating and Rationalization of Information, Management Science, Vol. 70, No. 7, 4167–4952.
Sebastian J. Goerg, Oliver Himmler, and Tobias König (2024) Norm violations and behavioral spillovers – Evidence from the lab and the field, European Economic Review, Vol. 166, 104776
Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, and Jonas Radbruch (2019) The effectiveness of incentive schemes in the presence of implicit effort costs, Management Science, Vol. 65, No 9, 3949–4450.
Ilan Fischer, Alex Frid, Sebastian J. Goerg, Simon Levin, Daniel Rubenstein, and Reinhard Selten (2013) Fusing Enacted and Expected Mimicry Generates a Winning Strategy that Promotes the Evolution of Cooperation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 110, No. 25, 10229–10233.
Thorsten Chmura, Sebastian J. Goerg, and Reinhard Selten (2012) Learning in repeated 2×2 games, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 76, 44–73.
Reinhard Selten, Thorsten Chmura, and Sebastian J. Goerg (2011) Stationary Concepts for Ex- perimental 2×2 Games: A Reply, The American Economic Review, Vol. 101, No. 2, 1041–44.
Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube and Ro’i Zultan (2010) Treating Equals Unequally – Incent- ives, Motivation and Production Technology in Teams, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 28, 747–72.