News Archive
at the Centre for Experimental Economics

Sept. 11

Working paper: "Credible Communication and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Multi-stage Games", by O. Andersson and  E. Wengström, (paper).

Sept. 11

Publication: "Public Goods and Voting on Formal Sanction Schemes", by L. Putterman, J.-R. Tyran and K. Kamei, Journal of Public Economics 95(10): 1213-22.

August 11

Publication: "Persuasion in Experimental Ultimatum Games", by O. Andersson, S. Kranz, K. van der Wiel and E. Wengström, Economics Letters 108(1): 16-18.

August 11

Summer school in Behavioral and Experimental Economics taught by J.-R. Tyran (link).

June 11

Working paper: "The Price of Prejudice", with M. Hedegaard and J.-R. Tyran Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, Study paper 32.

June 11

Press conference by the Rockwool Foundation (June 23) where CEE research on ethnic discrimination was presented (more, in Danish).

June 11

Working paper: "Inequality Aversion and Voting on Redistribution", by W. Höchtl, R. Sausgruber and J.-R. Tyran (paper)

June 11

The fourth wave of internet experiments (iLEE4) has been rolled out

June 11

Completed PhD theses: We congratulate Morten Hedegaard, Toke Fosgaard and Carsten Nielsen

May 11

Publication: "Let the Experts Decide? Asymmetric Information, Abstention, and Coordination in Standing Committees", by R. Morton and J.-R. Tyran Games and Economic Behavior 2011, 72: 485-509.

April 11

Publication: "Heterogeneity in Risk Choice Behavior in a Broad Population", by H. von Gaudecker, A. van Soest and E. Wengström, American Economic Review 101(2): 664-94.

April 11

Publication: "Predicting the Improbable", by C.B. Jørgensen, S. Suetens and J.-R. Tyran, Vox, 22.4.2011.

April 11

Publication: "Temptation and Productivity: A Field Experiment with Children", by A. Bucciol, D. Houser and M. Piovesan. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 78: 126-36.

March 11

Working paper: "Experts in Experiments: How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences", by H.-M. Gaudecker, A. van Soest and E. Wengström (paper)

March 11

Working paper: "Predicting Lotto Numbers", by C.B. Jørgensen, S. Suetens and J.-R. Tyran (paper)

March 11

Working paper: "Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting", by A. Bucciol, N. Montinari and M. Piovesan (paper)

March 11

Working paper: "Temptation at Work", by A. Bucciol, D. Houser and M. Piovesan (paper)

Feb. 11

We welcome Ulrik H. Nielsen as a new member (PhD student) of CEE.

Feb. 11

Working paper: "Income and Ideology: How Personality Traits, Cognitive Abilities, and Education Shape Political Attitudes", by R. Morten, E., J.-R. Tyran and E. Wengström (paper)

Feb. 11

Working paper: "State or Nature? Formal vs. Informal Sanctioning in the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods", by Kamei, K., Putterman, L. and  J.-R. Tyran, February 2011 (paper) (supplementary online materials) 

Feb. 11

The 6th CEE days are held Feb. 16/17, 2011 in Copenhagen

Feb. 11

Working paper: "The Gambler's Fallacy and Gender", by S. Suetens and J.-R. Tyran, February 2011 (paper)

Jan. 11

Working paper: "Self-Organization for Collective Action: An Experimental Study of Voting on Formal, Informal, and No Sanction Regimes", by T. Markussen, T., Putterman, L. and  J.-R. Tyran, January 2011 (paper) (supplementary online materials)

Jan. 11

Publication: "Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children”, by A. Bucciol and M. Piovesan, Journal of Economic Psychology 32(1): 73-78. 

Jan. 11

Publication: "Are We Taxing Ourselves? How Deliberation and Experience Shape Voting on Taxes", by R. Sausgruber and J.-R. Tyran, Journal of Public Economics 95: 164-76.

Dec. 10

Here's a musical invitation to experiment by Mabel Mercer

Dec. 10

Publication: "Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts", by A. Cabrales, R. Miniaci, M. Piovesan and G. Ponti, American Economic Review 100(5): 2261-78.

Nov. 10

The Research Council of Norway funds the project "Moral preference, labor markets and welfare policies" (for 4 years with a total of 8.5 mio. Dkr, of which approx. 2 mio. Dkr. are allocated to CEE)

Oct. 10

Publication: "Persuasion in Experimental Ultimatum Games", by O. Andersson, M. Galizzi, T. Hoppe, S. Kranz, E. Wengström and K. van der Wiel), Economics Letters 108(1): 16-18.

Sept. 10

Working paper: "Stepwise Thinking in Strategic Games with Incomplete Information", by C.S. Nielsen. (paper) 

Sept. 10

Publication: "Willpower in Children and Adults: A Survey of Recent Results and Economic Implications", A. Bucciol, D. Houser and M. Piovesan. International Review of Economics 57(3):259-67.

Sept. 10

M. Piovesan is appointed as research fellow at Harvard Business School, and as affiliate at CEE

Sept. 10

J.-R. Tyran is appointed as full professor at the University of Vienna, and continues to be (part-time) professor at CEE and the Department of Economics

Aug. 10

Working paper: "Unawareness in Dynamic Psychological Games", by C.S. Nielsen and A. Sebald (paper)

Aug. 10

Working paper: "Subjective Performance Evaluations, Self-esteem, and Ego-threats in Principal-agent Relations.", by A. Sebald and M. Walzl (paper)

July 10

J.-R. Tyran is appointed as associate editor of the journal Judgment and Decision Making

July 10

CEE hosts the world meeting of the Economic Science Association (ESA) with 360 registered participants from 26 countries, July 8-11, 2010 in Copenhagen

July 10

Publication: "Consumer Networks and Firm Reputation: A First Experimental Investigation", by S. Huck, G. Lünser and J.-R. Tyran
Economics Letters 108: 242-4.

June 10

Publication: "Voting on Thresholds for Public Goods: Experimental Evidence", J. Rauchdobler, R. Sausgruber and J.-R. Tyran
Public Finance Analysis 66(1): 34-64.

May 10

A. Sebald has received funding from FSE (2.9 mio. kr.) for the project "An Experimental Investigation of Employment Relations based on Subjective Performance Evaluations"

May 10

Publication: "Investments into Education - Doing as the Parents Did", by G. Kirchsteiger and A. Sebald. European Economic Review 54(4): 501-516. 

April 10

Working paper: "Serving the Public Interest", by T. Markussen and J.-R. Tyran.  (paper)

March 10

The CEE away day will be held on March 19. CEE members are requested to register with Tine by March 15. 

March 10

Publication: "Costly Renegotiation in Repeated Bertand Games", by O. Andersson and E. Wengström, The B.E Journal of Theoretical Economics (Contributions), 2010, 10(1), Article 51.

Feb. 10

Working paper: "Measuring the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Guilt: Estimation using Equilibrium and Stated Belief Models", by C. Bellemare, A. Sebald and M. Strobel (paper)

Jan. 10

Publication: "Attribution and Reciprocity", by A. Sebald. Games and Economic Behavior 68(1): 339-52.

Jan. 10

Working paper: "Public Goods and Voting on Formal Sanction Schemes: An Experiment", by Putterman, L., Kamei, K. and J.-R. Tyran. Working paper, (download). (supplementary online materials).

Jan. 10

Publication: "Everyone is a Winner. Promoting Cooperation through Non-Rival Intergroup Competition", by E. Reuben and J.-R. Tyran European Journal of Political Economy 2010, 26:25-35.

Dec 09

Working paper: "Voting on Thresholds for Public Goods: Experimental Evidence", by J. Rauchdobler, R. Sausgruber and J.-R. Tyran. (paper)

Nov 09

We thank the Danish National Bank for co-sponsorings the ESA world Meetings 2010 in Copenhagen.

Nov 09

Publication: "Fast or fair? A study of response times", by M. Piovesan and E. Wengström Economics Letters 105(2): 193-6.

Nov 09

J.-R. Tyran gave the commemoration lecture 2009 at the University of Copenhagen in the presence of Margrethe II, the Queen of Denmark. See webcast here

Oct 09

Read an article published in Science by Falk, A. and Heckman, J. on the importance of laboratory experiments in economics and the social sciences.

Oct 09

Working paper: "Microfoundations of Social Capital", by C. Thöni, J.-R. Tyran, and E. Wengström (paper) (supplementary online materials)

Sept 09

We welcome Jonathan Schulz as a long-term visitor at CEE (Sept. 9-Aug. 30, 2010)

Aug 09

Working paper: "Temptation at Work: A Field Experiment on Willpower and Productivity", by Bucciol, A. and Houser, D. and Piovesan, M. (paper)

Aug 09

J.-R. Tyran has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal "Experimental Economics"

July 09

We welcome Olga Manrique as a short-term visitor at CEE.

May 09

CEE will host the world meeting of the Economic Science Association (ESA) in July 8-11, 2010 in Copenhagen. The world meeting is held every third year in Europe. Previous locations were Amsterdam, Barcelona and Rome. The event will be organized by M. Piovesan, E. Wengström and J.-R. Tyran.

May 09

J.-R. Tyran has received funding from Carlsberg Foundation of 3.3 mio. kr. for the third year of the iLEE project.

May 09

J.-R. Tyran has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Economic Science Association for a three year term (2009-12)

March 09

Working paper: "Do People Make Strategic Moves? Experimental Evidence on Strategic Information Avoidance", by Poulsen, A. and Roos, M.: (paper)

March 09

Working paper: "A Shock Therapy Against the 'Endowment Effect' ”, by Engelmann, D. and Hollard, G. (paper)

March 09

We welcome Simon Gächter as a new affiliate at CEE

Feb. 09

The Annual report for 2008 provides an overview of activities at CEE in the previous year

Feb. 09

Here's the program of the 1st CEE away day

Feb. 09

We welcome Nikos Korfiatis as a new collaborator at CEE. Nikos is a specialist (post doc) for IT-related aspects of experimental economics.

Jan. 09

Erik Wengström has been awarded a prestigious Wallander scholarship by the Handelsbanken research foundation. The scholarship is worth more than 1 mio. Swedish kroner and is awarded to outstanding junior researchers in economics to promote their research for a duration of 3 years.

Jan. 09

We welcome Sigrid Suetens as a new affiliate of CEE

Dec. 08

Read an interview with J.-R. Tyran in Universitetsavisen (in Danish, paper)

Nov. 08

Working paper: "Money Illusion and Nominal Inertia in Experimental Asset Markets", by Noussair, C. and Richter, G. and J.-R. Tyran (paper)

Nov. 08

Working paper: "Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children", by Bucciol, A. and Marco Piovesan (paper)

Nov. 08

Job opening: post doc position in "IT-related aspects of Experimental Economics". Deadline for application: December 17

Nov. 08

We welcome Urs Fischbacher and Dirk Engelmann as a visitors at CEE

Nov. 08

Working paper "Everyone Is a Winner: Promoting Cooperation through Non-Rival Intergroup Competition" by E. Reuben and J.-R. Tyran (paper)

Nov. 08

Publication "Price Competition, Level-k Theory and Communication", by E. Wengström. Economics Bulletin 2008, 3(66): 1-15

Nov. 08

Working paper "Let the Experts Decide? Asymmetric Information, Abstention, and Coordination in Standing Committees", by R. Morton and J.-R. Tyran (paper)

Nov. 08

Here's the program for the 3rd Nordic Conference in Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Oct. 08

Working paper: "Tax Salience, Voting, and Deliberation", by R. Sausgruber and J.-R. Tyran (paper)

Oct. 08

Here's the program for the 4th Workshop on Behavioral Public Economics (Oct. 11/12)

Oct. 08

We welcome Simon Gächter (for 1 month) and Sigrid Suetens (for 2 months) as visitors at CEE

Sept. 08

Watch a special program on behavioral and experimental economics reporting on our work in the science magazine "Viden om" in Denmark's National TV DR2 (partly in Danish and partly in English with Danish subtitles)

Sept. 08

Working paper: "How Ego-threats Facilitate Contracts Based on Subjective Evaluations", by M. Walzl and A. Sebald (paper).

Aug. 08

J.-R. Tyran is appointed to the Board of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) for a 4-year term (2008-12)

Aug. 08

We welcome Christian Thöni as a visitor at CEE

July 08

We welcome Lise Vesterlund as affiliate researcher at CEE

July 08

J.-R. Tyran gives a  semi-plenary lecture at the 3rd World Congress of the Game Theory Society.

June 08

We welcome Anders Poulsen as affiliate researcher at CEE

May 08

The newpaper Handelsblatt has ranked the "recently most active" economists from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland who are currently employed outside these countries. The ranking is based on publication record since 2004. J.-R. Tyran was ranked #5.

May 08

E. Wengström was awarded the Prize for best PhD thesis at the School of Economics and Management at Lund University. The Prize is awarded annually by the Färs and Frosta Foundation and comes with a prize money of SEK 100'000.

May 08

Announcement: 4th CEE day (workshop) on "First experiences with iLEE", June 4, 2008.

April 08

Working paper: "Fast or Fair? A Study of Response Times", by M. Piovesan and E. Wengström  (paper)

April 08

Announcement: Workshop in Behavioral Public Economics October 12-13, 2008

March 08

Publication "Limited Rationality and Strategic Interaction. The Impact of the Strategic Environment on Nominal Inertia", by E. Fehr and J.-R. Tyran,  Econometrica 2008, 76(2): 353-94. (pdf)

March 08

Feb. 08

We welcome Rupert Sausgruber as a long-term visitor (until July 08)

Dec. 07

The wiki for coordinating our work on the internet platform iLEE is now up (login  requires password )

Dec. 07

Attend the public lecture by J.-R. Tyran at the Biocampus series at the University of Copenhagen on December 6

Nov. 07

New working paper: "Consumer Networks and Firm Reputation", with S. Huck and G. Lünser. (paper)

Nov. 07

J.-R. Tyran is appointed as Research associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) at Australian National University (ANU)

Nov. 07

J.-R. Tyran gives an invited lecture at the Second Nordic Workshop for Behavioral and Experimental Economics on Nov. 16/17, in Göteborg

Oct. 07

Here's the program of the 3rd Workshop in Behavioral Public Economics

Sept. 07

We welcome Steffen Andersen and Dirk Engelmann as affiliate members of CEE

Aug. 07

Read article by J.-R. Tyran about "Money illusion and the Market" in Science, the press release by KU or listen to the Interview in Deutschlandfunk

Aug. 07

We welcome Erik Wengström and Marco Piovesan as new assistant research professors at LEE

Aug. 07

PhD fellowship in Experimental Economics available (deadline for applications is September 14

Aug. 07

We welcome Brian Wood , Morten Hedegaard and Nikos Korfiatis as affiliate members at LEE

June 07

Read a policy insight by J.-R. Tyran on "Can Markets be Trusted?"