Sebastian Kube

Sebastian Kube is a Professor of Behavioral and Experimental Economics at the University of Bonn, Germany. He holds concurrent positions as Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Public Goods, Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future of Labor (IZA), and Vice Director of the BonnEconLab. He also coordinates the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics and serves on multiple editorial/research boards.

• University of Bonn
• Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
• Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• BonnEconLab
• European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics

His experimental research examines social preferences, cooperation mechanisms, incentive design, and norm enforcement. Key areas include: how remuneration schemes affect workplace cooperation, the effectiveness of social sanctions in social dilemmas, and the psychological foundations of environmental behavior.

Recent work explores trust communication strategies for maintaining cooperation, information asymmetry effects in group dynamics, and incentive reversal phenomena where higher rewards paradoxically reduce effort. His 2025 publications particularly focus on sanction removal strategies and environmental behavior.

Scientific Awards:

• Excellence in Teaching Award (2017, 2016, 2015, 2012)
• IZA Young Labor Economist Award (2011)
• Etienne-Laspeyres Prize (2011)
• Heinz Sauermann Prize (2004)

As Vice Director of BonnEconLab, he oversees experimental infrastructure for economic research. His methodological approach combines field experiments with laboratory studies, often using behavioral game theory frameworks. He has published extensively in top journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, and Management Science.