What's Worth Knowing?
A Global Survey on Problem Choice in Economics
We are currently running a large survey among academic economists around the globe. The study revolves around the choice of research topics in economics and addresses two main questions: On which topics should economists work? How do economists choose their research topics? By making the results public, we hope to stimulate and inform a discussion of research topics and practices in economics.
If you receive an invitation, we would be extremely grateful if you take a couple of minutes to participate in the survey.
The project is run by Professor Armin Falk and Peter Andre at the briq Institute on Behavior & Inequality and is supported by the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 of the University of Bonn.
A research paper that presents the results of an earlier survey conducted in summer 2020 is available: What’s Worth Knowing? Economists’ Opinions about Economics.
about us
Armin Falk
Armin Falk is interested in behavioral economics with a focus on inequality, childhood development and moral behavior. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn and CEO of the Institute on Behavior and Inequality (briq) and the Bonn Laboratory for Experimental Economics at the University of Bonn. In addition, he is Program Director at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), an external scientific member of the Max-Planck Institute for Collective Goods, a fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a fellow of the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo), a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), and a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Ministry for Economics and Technology. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics (2011), the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Award of the German Science Foundation (2009), and the Gossen Award of the German Economic Association (2008). Falk has also received many research grants, including two European Research Council Grants: an ERC Starting Independent Research Grant in 2008 (on the theme of preferences) and an ERC Advanced Grant in 2015 (on the theme of morals). [more]
Peter Andre
Peter Andre is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the briq – Institute on Behavior & Inequality. His main research field is behavioral economics, where he focuses on individuals' beliefs, economic expectations, and fairness views. [more]