CeDEx
Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics

Publications

2025

Publications 2025
 Title Author Journal

Incentives crowd out voluntary cooperation: evidence from gift-exchange experiments

Simon Gächter, Esther Kaiser and Manfred Königstein Experimental Economics

Measuring "Group Cohesion" to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production

Simon Gächter, Chris Starmer and Fabio Tufano  The Review of Economics and Statistics 

The contractual dispute resolution game: Real-effort experiments on contract negotiation and arbitration

Brice Corgnet, Simon Gächter, and Roberto Hernán González Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Do emotional carryover effects carry over? Nikhil Masters, Tim Lloyd, and Chris Starmer Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

 

2024

Publications 2024
 Title Author Journal

Wherefore art thou competitors? How situational affordances help differentiate among prosociality, individualism, and competition

Yi Liu, Simon Gächter, Paul van Lange, and 51 others.

European Journal of Personality

Social preferences and the variability of conditional cooperation

Malte Baader, Simon Gächter, Kyeongtae Lee and Martin Sefton

Economic Theory

Social norms: Enforcement, breakdown & polarization

Loukas Balafoutas, Eugen Dimant, Simon Gächter and Erin Krupka

European Economic Review

The prototypical UK blood donor, homophily and blood donation: Blood donors are like you, not me

Eamonn FergusonSarah BowenRichard MillsClaire ReynoldsKaty DavisonClaire LawrenceRoanna MaharajChris StarmerAbigail BarrTracy WilliamsMark Croucher, and Susan R. Brailsford

Vox Sanguinis

Tort Liability and Unawareness

Surajeet Chakravarty, David Kelsey, and Joshua C. Teitelbaum International Economic Review

Optimal sequential contests

Toomas Hinnosaar Theoretical Economics

How to activate threat perceptions in behavior research: A simple technique for inducing health and resource scarcity threats

Ozan Isler, Onurcan Yilmaz, A. John Maule, and Simon Gächter Behavior Research Methods
The role of payoff parameters for cooperation in the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma
Simon Gächter, Kyeongtae Lee, Martin Sefton, and Till O. Weber European Economic Review
Introducing IOS11 as an extended interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale to estimate relationship closeness Malte Baader, Chris Starmer, Fabio Tufano and Simon Gächter Scientific Reports

 

2023

Publications 2023
 Title Author Journal
Communication with partially verifiable information: An experiment Valeria Burdea, Maria Montero and Martin Sefton Games and Economic Behavior
(In)efficiency in private value bargaining with naive players: Theory and experiment Alex Possajennikov and Rene Saran  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Warming up cool cooperators Eamonn Ferguson, Claire Lawrence, Sarah Bowen, Carley N. Gemelli, Amy Rozsa, Konrad Niekrasz, Anne van Dongen, Lisa A. Williams, Amanda Thijsen, Nicola Guerin, Barbara Masser and Tanya E. Davison Nature Human Behaviour
Comparison-specific preferences: the attentional dilution effect for delay and risk Daniel Read, Rebecca McDonald and Robin Cubitt Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
The behavioral mechanisms of voluntary cooperation across culturally diverse societies: Evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey Till O. Weber, Jonathan F. Schulz, Benjamin Beranek, Fatima Lambarraa-Lehnhardt and Simon Gächter Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Investor Logins and the Disposition Effect Edika Quispe-Torreblanca, John Gathergood, George Loewenstein and Neil Stewart Management Science
Does Homeownership Reduce Crime? A Radical Housing Reform from the UK Richard Disney, John Gathergood, Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi The Economic Journal
Naïve Buying Diversification and Narrow Framing by Individual Investors John Gathergood, David Hirshleifer, David Leake, Hiroaki Sakaguchi and Neil Stewart The Journal of Finance
Work-from-home and the risk of securities misconduct Douglas Cumming, Chris Firth, John Gathergood and Neil Stewart European Financial Management
Buy now, pay later (BNPL)...on your credit card Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Chris Firth and John Gathergood Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
Estimating carbon footprints from large scale financial transaction data Anne Owen, Lara Vomfell, Lena Kilian, John Gathergood, Neil Stewart and David Leake Journal of Industrial Ecology
Discrimination with inaccurate beliefs and confirmation bias Christian A. Ruzzier and Marcelo D. Woo Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence Tom Lane, Daniele Nosenzo, Silvia Sonderegger American Economic Review
Who discriminates? Evidence from a trust game experiment across three societies Swee-Hoon Chuah, Simon Gächter, Robert Hoffmann and Jonathan H.W. Tan Journal of Economic Psychology
"Greedy" demand adjustment in cooperative games Maria Montero and Alex Possajennikov Annals of Operations Research

 

2022

Publications 2022
TitleAuthorJournal
An Adaptive Model of Demand Adjustment in Weighted Majority Games Maria Montero and Alex Possajennikov Games
Procrastination in the Field: Evidence from Tax Filing Seung-Keun Martinez, Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger Journal of the European Economic Association
Workplace inequality is associated with status-signaling expenditure Naomi Muggleton, Anna Trendl, Lukasz Walasek, David Leake, John Gathergood and Neil Stewart Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Default Effects of Credit Card Minimum Payments Hiroaki Sakaguchi, Neil Stewart, John Gathergood, PaulAdams, Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Lucy Hayes, and Stefan Hunt  Journal of Marketing Research
Money, Methodology, and Happiness: Using Big Data to Study Causal Relationships between Income and Well-being Gordon D. A. Brown, Edika Quispe-Torreblanca and John Gathergood

Pogrebna, G. & Hills, T.  (Eds.) Handbook of Behavioural Data Science, Cambridge University Press. 2022

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the Description - Experience gap Robin Cubitt, Chris Starmer and Orestis Kopsacheilis Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods Simon Gächter, Felix Koelle and Simone Quercia Games and Economic Behavior
Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems Simon Gächter, Chris Starmer, Christian Thöni, Fabio Tufano and Till O Weber Economic Letters
Conforming with peers in honesty and cooperation Ozan Isler and Simon Gächter Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

   
2021

Publications 2021
TitleAuthorJournal
Social proximity and the erosion of norm compliance Cristina Bicchieri, Eugen Dimant, Simon Gächter and Daniele Nosenzo Games and Economic Behavior
Naivety about hidden information: An experimental investigation Maria Montero and Jesal Sheth Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
The English Patient: Evaluating local lockdowns using real-time covid-19 & consumption data J Gathergood and B Guttman-Kenney Covid Economics
Levelling Down and the COVID-19 Lockdowns: Uneven Regional Recovery in UK Consumer Spending J Gathergood, F Gunzinger, B Guttman-Kenney, E Quispe-Torreblanca and N Stewart Covid Economics
The association between gambling and financial, social and health outcomes in big financial data N Muggleton, P Parpart, P Newall, D Leake, J Gathergood and N Stewart Nature Human Behaviour
Is the Acknowledgment of Earned Entitlement Effect Robust Across Experimental Modes and Populations? A Barr, L Miller, and P Ubeda Sociological Methods & Research
A self-funding reward mechanism for tax compliance E Fatas, D Nosenzo, M Sefton and DJ Zizzo Journal of Economic Psychology
Wikipedia matters Marit Hinnosaar, Toomas Hinnosaar, Michael Kummer & Olga Slivko Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
Externalities in knowledge production: evidence from a randomized field experiment Marit Hinnosaar, Toomas Hinnosaar, Michael E. Kummer & Olga Slivko Experimental Economics
Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe Van Doesum, N. J., Murphy, R.O., Gallucci, M., Van Lange Paul + 60 co-authors, including Simon Gächter
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices Simon Gächter, Eric J. Johnson & Andreas Herrmann Theory and Decision
Confidence snowballing and relative performance feedback Zahra Murad and Chris Starmer Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
The Attraction and Compromise Effects in Bargaining: Experimental Evidence Fabio Galeotti, Maria Montero, Anders Poulsen Management Science
Contextualised strong reciprocity explains selfless cooperation despite selfish intuitions and weak social heuristics Ozan Isler, Simon Gächter, A. John Maule & Chris Starmer Scientific Reports
Investigating the failure to best respond in experimental games Despoina Alempaki, Andrew Colman, Felix Koelle, Graham Loomes & Briony Pulford Experimental Economics
Attention-driven probabability weighting Di Wang                                                                                Economic Letters                                                                 
Disclosure of information under competition: An experimental study Jesal D Sheth Games and Economic Behavior


2020

Publications 2020
TitleAuthorJournal
How do consumers avoid penalty fees? Evidence from credit cards J Gathergood, H Sakaguchi, N Stewart and J Weber Management Science
Risk taking and sharing when risk exposure is interdependent A Barr, T Owens and A Perera Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
The effect of education, income inequality and merit on inequality acceptance A Barr and L Miller Journal of Economic Psychology
Collective management of an environmental threat when exposure is heterogeneous–A complementary methods approach A Barr, T Owens and A Perera World Development
The Differential Impact of Friendship on Cooperative and Competitive Coordination Gabriele Chierchia Fabio Tufano and Giorgio Coricelli Theory and Decision
LIONESS Lab: a free web‐based platform for conducting interactive experiments online Marcus Giamattei, Kyanoush Seyed Yahosseini, Simon Gächter & Lucas Molleman Journal of the Economic Science Association
Robust pricing with refunds Toomas Hinnosaar and Keiichi Kawai The RAND Journal of Economics
Stackelberg Independence Toomas Hinnosaar The Journal of Industrial Economics
Personality, Emotional Intelligence, and Rationality Brice Corgnet, Simon Gaechter, and Roberto Hernán González Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics
Write better, publish better Diego Marino Fages Scientometrics

 

2019

Publications 2019
TitleAuthorJournal
How do Americans repay their debt? The balance matching heuristic J Gathergood, N Mahoney, N Stewart and J Weber Economics Bulletin, Vol 39(2) 1458-1466
How do Payday Loans Affect Borrowers? Evidence from the UK Market J Gathergood, B Guttman-Kenney and S Hunt The Review of Financial Studies
The Red, the Black, and the Plastic: Paying Down Credit Card Debt for Hotels, Not Sofas EG Quispe-Torreblanca, N Stewart, J Gathergood and G Loewenstein Management Science
How Do Individuals Repay Their Debt? The Balance-Matching Heuristic J Gathergood, N Mahoney, N Stewart and J Weber American Economic Review
Consumption changes, not income changes, predict changes in subjective well-being GDA Brown and J Gathergood Social Psychological and Personality Science
Reexamining how utility and weighting functions get their shapes: A quasi-adversarial collaboration providing a new interpretation Despoina Alempaki, Emina Canic, Timothy L. Mullett, William J. Skylark, Chris Starmer, Neil Stewart and Fabio Tufano  Management Science
On the priming of risk preferences: The role of fear and general affect D Alempaki, C Starmer and F Tufano Journal of Economic Psychology
Social comparisons in job search Jingcheng Fu, Martin Sefton, and Richard Upward Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Efficiency versus equality in bargaining Fabio Galeotti, Maria Montero, and Anders Poulsen Journal of European Economic Association
Are Victims Truly Worse Off in the Presence of Bystanders? Revisiting the Bystander Effect (no online version available) Hanna Fromell, Daniele Nosenzo, Trudy Owens and Fabio Tufano Revue Economique 2018 70(6), 927-943.
Promoting Voter Registration: The Effects of Low-Cost Interventions on Behaviour and Norms Felix Koelle, Tom Lane, Daniele Nosenzo and Chris Starmer Behavioural Public Policy 
Preferences for Truth-Telling Johannes Abeler, Daniele Nosenzo and Collin Raymond Econometrica
Moderating Loss Aversion: Loss Aversion Has Moderators, But Reports of its Death are Greatly Exaggerated Kellen Mrkva, Eric J Johnson, Simon Gaechter and Andreas Herrmann Journal of Consumer Psychology
People Prefer Coordinated Punishment in Cooperative Interactions (full text available via share edit link). Lucas Molleman, Felix Koelle, Chris Starmer and Simon Gaechter Nature Human Behaviour 
A Theory of Esteem Based Peer Pressure Fabrizio Adriani and Silvia Sonderegger Games and Economic Behavior 
Dual Sourcing with Price Discovery José Alcalde and Matthias Dahm Games and Economic Behavior 
Discriminating Between Models of Ambiguity Attitude: a Qualitative Test Robin Cubitt, Gijs van de Kuilen and Sujoy Mukerji Journal of the European Economic Association
Cooperation in Polygynous Households Abigail Barr, Marleen Dekker, Wendy Janssens, Bereket Kebede and Berber Kramer American Economic Journal: Applied Economics


2018

Publications 2018
TitleAuthorJournal
Why Are Some Households So Poorly Insured? J Gathergood and D Wylie Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: A distributive justice experiment S Demel, A Barr, L Miller, P Ubeda Journal of Experimental Political Science
To tender or not to tender?:  deliberate and exogenous sunk costs in a public good game Heine, F and Sefton, M Games
Semi-targeted all-pay auctions: A partial exclusion principle Matthias Dahm International Journal of Industrial Organization 
Affirmative action through extra prizes Matthias Dahm and Patricia Esteve-González Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 
The enforcement of mandatory disclosure rules Matthias Dahm, Paula González and Nicolás Porteiro Journal of Public Economics
Credence Goods, Costly Diagnosis and Subjective Evaluation Helmut Bester and Matthias Dahm The Economic Journal
On the social inappropriateness of discrimination Abigail Barr, Tom Lane and Daniele Nosenzo  Journal of Public Economics
The strength of sensitivity to ambiguity Robin Cubitt, Gijs van de Kuilen and Sujoy Mukerji Theory and Decision
Coercive Trade Policy Vincent Anesi and Giovanni Facchini American Economic Association
Leaders as role models and ‘belief managers’ in social dilemmas Simon Gächter and Elke Renner Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Proportional Payoffs in Legislative Bargaining with Weighted Voting: A Characterization Maria Montero Quarterly Journal of Political Science
Legislative bargaining with heterogeneous disagreement values: Theory and experiments Luis Miller, Maria Montero and Christoph Vanberg Games and Economic Behavior
Dispositional free riders do not free ride on punishment Till O. Weber, Ori Weisel & Simon Gächter Nature Communications
Societal background influences social learning in cooperative decision making Lucas Molleman and Simon Gächter Evolution and Human Behavior
Existence and Indeterminacy of Markovian Equilibria in Dynamic Bargaining Games 
(accepted paper in working-paper format)
Vincent Anesi and John Duggan Theoretical Economics
Is intuition really cooperative? Improved tests support the social heuristics hypothesis Ozan Isler, John Maule & Chris Starmer                PLOS ONE                                          



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