Sebastian Kube

Sebastian Kube is a Professor for Behavioral and Experimental Economics at the University of Bonn and Vice Director of the BonnEconLab. He holds secondary affiliations as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

• Key research areas: Social preferences, incentive design, cooperation, and norm enforcement in economic contexts
• Active in field and lab experiments across labor economics, public economics, and law

His recent work explores pro-environmental behavior (2025) and information effects in social dilemmas (2021). Peer-reviewed publications span journals like American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, and European Economic Review.

• 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award (University of Bonn)
• 2012 Excellence in Refereeing Award (American Economic Review)
• 2011 IZA Young Labor Economist Award

Teaching includes Experimental Economics and Economics 101 at the University of Bonn. Research projects involve decentralized sanctions, institutional design, and behavioral finance intersections.