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Academics

I work as pofessor of economics and public policy and currently as Dean of the Business Faculty at Berlin International University of Applied Sciences in Germany. I teach behavioral economics at Tecnológico de Monterrey and combine my teaching with storytelling.

You can find some of my projects and publications here. Please refer to my blog for opinion articles and get in touch!

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Towards Public Value (Behavioral) Public Policy

The core of my interest is how policy (outcomes) and settings interact with the legal system, hence my interest for legal-formalism and its effects on citizens, for example, entrepreneurs and government innovators.

State Efficiency / Government Spending

Government spending is a crucial crossroads of macroeconomics and public policy. I study "wasteful spending cultures", especially with regards to Latin America.

white concrete building under blue sky during daytime
white concrete building under blue sky during daytime
white and black abstract painting
white and black abstract painting
Other Projects and Publications

You will find some interesting projects here that still fall into the umbrella of public value. During the time of my PhD, I was very interested in data extraction from social media and digital business in general. I stopped doing research in that area in order to address issues of the common good.

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black and white polka dot pattern
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architectural photography of building with people in it during nighttime
The Architecture of Incentives

The AoI is a policy (corporate and public) methodology that aims at reducing implementation costs and collateral damage of decisions that governments or firms make. This is perhaps the most important of my projects, given its long run orientation and a complex set of experimental and workshop related input needed to develop it.

Contact

erick.behar@tec.mx

Address

Berlin, Bogotá, Monterrey or Madrid