Previous guests
Marco Faravelli
Marco Faravelli is an Associate Professor of economics at The University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. His main field of research is microeconomics, both from a theoretical and an experimental perspective, with a particular interest in political economy.
David Schindler
David Schindler is an Assistant Professor in the Economics department at Tilburg University, primarily interested in behavioral & experimental economics, public policy & political economy, and behavioral & experimental finance.
Lawrence Blume
Lawrence Blume is Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics at Cornell University. His research fields are evolutionary processes in markets and games, economic theory, and game theory.
Charles Manski
Charles Manski is Board of Trustees Professor in Economics at the Department of Economics and Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University. His research fields include econometrics, judgment and decision, and the analysis of public policy.
Sonja Kovacevic
Sonja Kovacevic is a doctoral research fellow at the Department of Economics at the University of Oslo. Her academic interests include welfare states, redistribution and inequality as well as institutional quality, universal institutions and redistribution preferences.
Gary Charness
Gary Charness is Professor of Economics and the Director of the Experimental and Behavioral Economics Laboratory in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research fields are experimental and behavioral economics.
Micael Castanheira
Micael Castanheira is a director for research with the Belgian National Science Foundation, he works at ECARES and is a professor at ULB, where he also teaches microeconomics and political economics. His main research topics include the political economics of collective decisions, and of reforms.
Paul Smeets
Paul Smeets is an Associate Professor in Finance at Maastricht University. His research particularly focuses on understanding what motivates millionaires to give to charity, how the rich think about income redistribution and how money increases happiness.
David Reinstein
David Reinstein is an Economist based at the University of Exeter. His research considers other-regarding behavior, charitable giving, returns to education, applications of mechanism design, and psychology and economics.
Anna Kerkhof
Anna Kerkhof is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cologne, Department of Economics.
Joseph Vecci
Joseph Vecci is research fellow at the University of Gothenburg. His main research fields are development economics and behavioural economics.
Piotr Evdokimov
Piotr Evdokimov isan Assistant Professor at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City, where he studies game theory and experimental economics.
Ryan Oprea
Ryan Oprea is Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests are economic dynamics and disequilibrium behavior in competitive markets, individual choices, and games.
Seymour Spilerman
Seymour Spilerman is Julian C. Levi Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality, at Columbia University.
Jose Apesteguia
Jose Apesteguia is ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His research interests are decision theory, bounded rationality and political economy.
William D. Ferguson
William D. Ferguson is Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics at Grinnell College. His fields of interest are political economy, institutional economics, labor economics, game theory, policy processes and analysis.
Stéphane Luchini
Stéphane Luchini, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, GREQAM, Marseille.
Miriam Teschl
Miriam Teschl, Ph.D., is an economist and maître de conférences at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE).
Simon Weidenholzer
Simon Weidenholzer is a Professor of Economics at the University of Essex. His research interests are microeconomics, game theory, behavioral economics, social networks, and industrial organization.
Richard Blundell
Sir Richard Blundell is Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the University College London and Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy Institute for Fiscal Studies, London.
Iwan Barankay
Iwan Barankay is Associate Professor of Management and Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are political economy, behavioral economics, field experiments, and personnel economics.
Ryan Oprea
Ryan Oprea is Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests are economic dynamics and disequilibrium behavior in competitive markets, individual choices, and games.
Miguel Costa-Gomes
Miguel Costa-Gomes is Professor of Economics at the University of St. Andrews. His research interests are in the field of game theory as part of empirical economics.
Boon Han Koh
Boon Han Koh is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Melbourne, Department of Economics. His main research interests are in the fields of behavioural economics and experimental economics, with a focus on leadership and contests.
Ted Bergstrom
Ted Bergstrom holds the Aaron and Cherie Raznick Chair of Economics at the University of California Santa Barbara. His research spans Pure and Applied Micro-economic Theory, Public Finance, Welfare Economics, Resource Economics, Health Economics, International Trade, Game Theory, Evolutionary Theory, and Economic Anthropology.
Andrej Angelovski
Andrej Angelovski is Post-Doc at LUISS Università Guido Carli, Rome, with a research focus on experimental and behavioural economics.
Thomas Buser
Thomas Buser is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam and a research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. He is interested in behavioural economics and empirical microeconomics.
Fabio Michelucci
Fabio Michelucci is Associate Professor of Economics at CERGE-EI. His research interests include microeconomic theory, mechanism design, market design, auction theory, behavioral economics, bounded rationality, experimental economics, and political economy.
Jonathan de Quidt
Jonathan de Quidt is Assistant Professor at the IIES, working broadly in behavioral and development economics. His research uses theory and experiments to study the foundations of preferences, contract design, and sources of market failure and misallocation in developing countries.
Wieland Müller
Wieland Müller is Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna. His research includes Experimental Economics, (Evolutionary) Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Microeconomics in general.
Christopher Rauh
Christopher Rauh is Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on topics related to inequality and intergenerational mobility.
Terri Kneeland
Terri Kneeland is Assistant Professor at the University College London. Her research fields include Microeconomic Theory, Experimental Economics, and Behavioural Economics.
Tuomas Nurminen
Tuomas Nurminen is a PhD student at HECER Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki
David Reiley
David Reiley is Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley
Thomas R. Palfrey
Thomas R. Palfrey is Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Werner Güth
Werner Güth is director at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena and lecturer at LUISS Università Guido Carli, Rome
Andrej Angelovski
Andrej Angelovski is Post-Doc at LUISS Università Guido Carli, Rome
Nikita Roketskiy
Nikita Roketskiy is Assistant Professor at the University College London
James Andreoni
James Andreoni is Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego
Marco Battaglini
Marco Battaglini is Professor of Economics at Cornell University.
Peter Schwardmann
Peter Schwardmann is an assistant professor in Economics at the University of Munich (LMU).
Botond Köszegi
Botond Köszegi is Professor of Economics at Central European University, Budapest.
Paul Heidhues
Paul Heidhues holds the Lufthansa Chair in Competition and Regulation and is the director of PhD studies at the European School of Management and Technology, Berlin.
Aniol Llorente-Saguer
Aniol Llorente-Saguer is Reader in Economics at the Queen Mary University of London.
Melis Kartal
Melis Kartal is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna.
David Ahn
David Ahn is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Aldo Rustichini
Aldo Rustichini is Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota.
Enrique Fatas
Enrique Fatas is Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Håkan Jerker Holm
Håkan J. Holm is Professor in Economics at Lund University.
Jason Shachat
Jason Shachat is Professor of Economics at Durham University Business School.
Antonio Cabrales
Antonio Cabrales is Professor of Economics at the University College London.
Elisa Cavatorta
Elisa Cavatorta is Lecturer in Political Economy in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London.
Antonio Guarino
Antonio Guarino is Associate Professor of Economics at the University College London.
Karl Wärneryd
Karl Wärneryd is Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Ed Hopkins
Ed Hopkins is Professor of Economics at The University of Edinburgh.
Tatiana Kornienko
Tatiana Kornienko is Senior Lecturer at The University of Edinburgh.
Topi Miettinen
Topi Miettinen is Assistant Professor of Economics at Hanken School of Economics at the Helsinki Center of Economic Research in Finland.
Johanna Mollerstrom
Johanna Mollerstrom is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University.
Jeffrey C. Ely
Jeffrey Ely , Charles E. and Emma Morrison Professor at the Northwestern University, is a microeconomic theorist with interests ranging from pure game theory to applied microeconomics to behavioral and experimental economics. His work includes contributions to the foundations of game theory under incomplete information, repeated games, and mechanism design, the evolution of preferences, and torture.
Christian Zehnder
Christian Zehnder is a Professor of Organizational Decision Making at the University of Lausanne. In his research he enriches organizational economics with insights from behavioral and experimental economics. His recent work focuses on the psychological effects of contracts, the behavioral implications of competition, and the motivating effects of charismatic leadership.
Verena Utikal
Verena Utikal is a Junior Professor for Behavioural Economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Her research priorities are behavioural and experimental economics with a focus on moral implications and social preferences.
Roberto Weber
Roberto Weber is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. His research and teaching fall primarily within the areas of behavioral and experimental economics, decision making, and the study of organizations and institutions.
Jean-Robert Tyran
Jean-Robert Tyran is professor of Economics and Director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics. In his research, Jean-Robert Tyran mainly investigates how outcomes in institutions like markets and democracy are shaped by bounded rationality and social preferences.
Andrew Seltzer
Andrew Seltzer’s primary research interests are with the design of contracts between workers and firms and how these are affected by public policy. His approach to these questions has included a variety of empirical and experimental methodologies. He is currently working on projects looking at contracts in the English and Australian banking industries; the effect of commuting infrastructure on London wages; and the economics of employment protection. He is a Professor at the Royal Holloway University of London.
Bjoern Hartig
Björn Hartig is Experimental Laboratory Officer at the Royal Holloway University of London.
Jörg Oechssler
Jörg Oechssler is a Professor of Economics at the University of Heidelberg. His research interests are experimental economics, evolutionary game theory, learning in games, industrial organization, urban economics, microeconomics and game theory in general.
Ran Spiegler
Ran Spiegler, professor at the University College London and at Tel Aviv University, earned his Ph.D in economics at Tel Aviv University in 1999. He is a microeconomic theorist with interests in bounded rationality, game theory and industrial organization.
Terri Kneeland
Terri Kneeland is a lecturer at University College London. Her research interests are in microeconomic theory, behavioural economics and experimental economics.
Florian Spitzer
Florian Spitzer is a PhD student at the University of Vienna. His research interests are in behavioral and experimental economics. During his stay at the WZB he will work with Steffen Huck on insurance and competition in markets for credence goods and search costs in markets for experience goods.
Daniel J. Benjamin
Daniel Benjamin is Associate Professor at Cornell University. His research is in behavioral economics (which incorporates ideas and methods from psychology into economic analysis) and genoeconomics (which incorporates genetic data into economics).
Burkhard C. Schipper
Burkhard Schipper is Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis.
Brit Grosskopf
Brit Grosskopf is a Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter Business School. Her research interests lie at the intersection of economics and psychology.
Rajiv Sarin
Rajiv Sarin is a Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter Business School.
Jidong Zhou
Jidong Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Economics at NYU Stern School of Business. His research fields include applied microeconomic theory, industrial organization and behavioral economics.
Kai Barron
Kai Barron is a PhD student at the University College London.
Andrew Schotter
Andrew Schotter is currently a Professor of Economics at New York University and the Director of the Center for Experimental Social Science (C.E.S.S.). His main area of research is in economic theory, game theory, and especially experimental economics.
Espen Aarseth
Espen Aarseth is the principal researcher at the Center for Computer Game Research, IT University of Copenhagen [game.itu.dk], and the Editor-in-chief of Game Studies [gamestudies.org]. Currently he is researching the ontological status of game phenomena and the relation between the fictional, the ludic, and the real.
Susann Fiedler
Susann Fiedler is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. Her research interests lay in the emerging field of behavioral economics and decision making.
Eva Hoppe
Eva Hoppe-Fischer is assistant professor at the Department of Economics, University of Cologne and a CEPR research affiliate (Centre for Economic Policy Research, London). She is interested in applied microeconomics, especially in contract theory, experimental and behavioral economics.
Melanie Joy
Melanie Joy, Ph.D., Ed.M., is a professor of psychology and sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the founder and president of the Carnism Awareness & Action Network.
Sandra Ludwig
Sandra Ludwig is a Professor of Economics at Ulm University. Her research interests include in particular organizational and experimental economics.
Wanda Mimra
Wanda Mimra is professor at the ETH Risk Center, Zurich.
Ingela Alger
Ingela Alger is CNRS Senior Researcher at the Toulouse School of Economics. Her current research focuses on the evolution of human motivation. The objective is to use generate theoretical predictions regarding which preferences are more likely to emerge as a result of natural selection, and also to test these predictions.
Jean-Robert Tyran
Jean-Robert Tyran is professor of Economics and Director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics. In his research, Jean-Robert Tyran mainly investigates how outcomes in institutions like markets and democracy are shaped by bounded rationality and social preferences.
Bård Harstad
Bård Harstad is the Max McGraw Chair in Management and Environment at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern) and a professor at the University of Oslo. His academic interests include political economics, public economics and organizational economics. In particular, his research focuses on international institutions, negotiations and agreements; currently he is analyzing international climate change agreements.
Marcos Vera-Hernández
Marcos Vera-Hernández is a Senior Lecturer at the Economics Department at University College London. His research interests focus on health, development and applied micro econometrics. Currently, he is undertaking several research projects on how incentives affect the performance of public sector workers in developing countries.
Håkan Jerker Holm
Håkan J. Holm is a professor at Lund University in Sweden, where he also is the Director of the PhD program in Economics. He has a research background in microeconomics and experimental economics. Currently, he is involved in a large experimental study of CEOs in the Yangtze delta in China and is also leading a project focusing on the relationship between risk-taking and competition.
Imran Rasul
Imran Rasul obtained his PhD in Economics from the LSE in 2003. He is now a Professor at University College London, co-director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and research co-director of the Human Capital Research Group of the International Growth Centre. His research interests include labor, development and public economics and his work has been published in leading journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica and the Review of Economic Studies. He is a co-managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies journal. He was awarded the 2007 IZA Young Economist Prize, the 2008 CESIfo Distinguished Affiliate Award, and an ERC-starter grant in 2012.
Maria Bigoni
Maria Bigoni is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Bologna. Her main research interest is experimental economics, applied to the study of cooperation in repeated social dilemmas, industrial organisation and learning. She has published in top field journals such as Games and Economic Behavior, the RAND Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Guilleaume Frechette
Guilleaume Frechette is an associate professor at the Department of Economics (primary) and Department of Politics (associated – since 2012) at the New York University.
Ryan Oprea
Ryan Oprea is an associate professor of economics at the University of British Columbia. He uses experimental economics to study human rationality, strategic behavior and markets. Lately his research has been focused on disequilibrium processes in markets and games.
Andrew Schotter
Andrew Schotter is currently a Professor of Economics at New York University and the Director of the Center for Experimental Social Science (C.E.S.S.). His main area of research is in economic theory, game theory, and especially experimental economics.
Torsten Persson
Torsten Persson holds the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Chair in Economic Sciences at the IIES, Stockholm University, and is also a Centennial Professor at the LSE. His past and current interests span several areas of economics, but he is most well-known for his books and articles on political economics.
Daniel Friedman
Daniel Friedman is a Distinguished Professor of the University of California Santa Cruz and CoDirector-[LEEPS] Learning & Experimental Economics Projects of Santa Cruz. During his visit, he will work with Economics of Change Unit Director Steffen Huck to better understand long run competition and the factors that enable emergence of cooperation and those that lead to its decay.
Antonio Guarino
Antonio Guarino is Associate Professor of Economics at the University College London. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. His main research areas are economic theory, financial economics and experimental economics. Currently, he is interested in social learning and in the microstructure of financial markets.
Rune Midjord
Rune Midjord received his PhD from the Venice International University under the supervision of Piero Gottardi, after which he has been a postdoc at the University of the Basque Country. His research lies in the area of applied economic theory, with a focus on industrial organization and political economy. During his visit, he will be working with Justin Valasek to better understand how politicians' reelection concerns influence the ability of a legislature to effectively aggregate the
information held by its members.
Nora Szech
Nora Szech holds the Chair of Political Economics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. She obtained her PhD at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics under the supervision of Benny Moldovanu. Her research projects lie in the fields of theory, behavioral theory and experiments. Currently, she studies how institutions affect moral behavior, information provision and anticipatory utility, topics from auctions and matching as well as markets with boundedly rational consumers.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith is a Professor of Economics at University College London, and Executive Dean of the UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences. His current research covers the economics of instrument choice in environmental regulation (evaluation of practical applications of emissions trading; theory of regulation combining tax and direct regulation; instrument choice and waste management), and the economics of European indirect tax policy (VAT treatment of international trade in goods and services; excise tax policy).
Florian Spitzer
Florian Spitzer is a PhD student at the University of Vienna. His research interests are in behavioral and experimental economics. During his stay at the WZB he will work with Steffen Huck on insurance and competition in markets for credence goods and search costs in markets for experience goods.
Kenneth Binmore
Kenneth Binmore's research interests cover evolutionary game theory, bargaining theory, experimental economics, political philosophy, mathematics and statistics. He is Fellow of the Econometric Society and the British Academy.
Simon Weidenholzer
Simon Weidenholzer is a reader at the University of Essex. His research interests cover evolutionary game theory, industrial organization, and experimental economics. He will collaborate with Steffen Huck on theoretical and empirical aspects of imitation learning.
Elke Weidenholzer
Elke Weidenholzer is a PhD student at the University of Vienna and will be working with Steffen Huck on imitation learning among children.
Jan Potters
Jan Potters is professor of economics at Tilburg University and director of the CentERlab. His main area of research is experimental economics. He uses this method to study a variety of topics in industrial organization, public economics, and game theory.
Georg Kirchsteiger
Georg Kirchsteiger is Professor of Microeconomics at the European Center of Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles. His research interests are in the fields of behavioral economics, experimental economics, game theory, and industrial economics.
Lukas Wenner
Lukas Wenner is a PhD student at University College London (UCL). His main areas of research are Behavioural and Experimental Economics as well as Industrial Organisation.
Wieland Müller
Wieland Müller is professor of economics at the universities of Wien and Tilburg and managing director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics (VCEE). His main areas of research are experimental research on market behavior and field research on risk and time preferences.
Joël van der Weele
Joël van der Weele has a post-doc position at the Goethe University in Frankfurt since September 2009. In that year he completed his Phd. in economics at the European University Institute in Florence. His research is on diverse issues in applied microeconomics, game theory and experimental economics.
Paul Seabright
Paul Seabright is professor of economics at the Toulouse School of Economics and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Toulouse. His current research lies in three areas of microeconomics: industrial organization and competition policy; the economics of networks and the digital society; and behavioral economics (especially the integration of evolutionary biology and anthropology with an understanding of the development of economic institutions in the very long run).