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Axel Ockenfels

Axel Ockenfels is a Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne. He also is Director of the Cologne Laboratory of Economic Research, Speaker of the "University of Cologne Excellence Center for Social and Economic Behavior " (C-SEB), and Coordinator of the DFG research unit "Design & Behavior". Born in Germany, Ockenfels is considered one of the most influential German economists, both in fundamental research and in practical market design.

Ockenfels is a Diploma holder in Economics from the University of Bonn in 1994. He earned his doctoral degree in economics from the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in 1998. He publishes in leading journals in economic, particularly behavioral and design economics, but also in business administration, information systems, psychology, and sociology, as well as in application-oriented outlets.

He is a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische and of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, the Academic Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, and Contributing Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).