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The ERC Project PRINCIPLES Team
Principal Investigator | Postdoctoral Research Fellows | PhD Students | Affiliated PhD Students
Principal Investigator
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Simon's research interests are in the area of behavioural and experimental economics, organisational economics, labour economics, and game theory. His main research tools are experiments. Currently, his main research interests are on voluntary cooperation in the presence of free rider incentives, and on the interplay of material and psychological incentives in incentive provision. He has published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Science, Nature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, and Management Science. He is also an associate editor of Management Science, the Journal of Behavior and Organization, and the Journal of Economic Psychology. He is holder of the European Research Council Advanced Grant project 101020453 PRINCIPLES, which runs from September 2021 until August 2026.
Research interests
Behavioural and experimental economics; Voluntary cooperation, free riding, and punishment; Social comparisons and wage formation; Behavioural properties of incentive contracts; Loss aversion; Social interaction effects.
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
PhD Students
Thomas Barnes
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Thomas is interested in behavioural and microeconomic theory, interdisciplinary research, and experimental economics. He is currently working on research aimed at building an understanding of the connection between measures of social value orientation used in Psychology and social preference models in economics
Pierce Gately
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Pierce is interested in behavioural and experimental economics, with a particular focus on individual decision making and cooperation problems. His supervisors are
Simon Gächter and
Robin Cubitt
Affiliated PhD Students
Adrian Brown
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Adrian's scholarly pursuits encompass a diverse set of topics, including human cognition, rule-following, household finance, ethics, experimental and behavioural economics, public policy, and data-based research.
Tong Fang
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Tong's research interests lie in behavioural economics, cognitive economics and experimental economics. In particular, Tong is studying how interaction influences people's reasoning and preference.
Georg Sator
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Georg uses theoretical and experimental tools to analyse how morality and social norms affect human decision-making as well as economic outcomes. This includes the formation and evolution of norms, determinants of norm compliance and implications for public policy.
Kieran Stockley
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Kieran's research interests lie in the study of social norms, with particular interest in norm formation and change, and whether and why incorrect norms can form or can persist. Kieran is also interested in social misperceptions such as pluralistic ignorance.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No.10102045)