Research
Publications
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. [Online Appendix][Replication package]
Unofficial soundtrack: John Hiatt with the Jerry Douglas Band. Interest in electric vehicles in Groningen goes a long way back.
(2024) Sharing with Minimal Regulation? Evidence from Neighborhood Book Exchange. With Anouk Schippers
European Economic Review, 161, 104639 [Online Appendix][Replication package]
(2023) Corporate leniency programs for antitrust: Past, present, and future. With Jeroen Hinloopen and Sander Onderstal
Review of Industrial Organization, 63, 111-122.
(2022) I will donate later! A field experiment on cell phone donations to charity. With Toke R. Fosgaard.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 202, 549-565, [RCT ID: AEARCTR-0001759], [Replication package]
(2022) Short Run Reference Points and Long Run Objectives. (No) Evidence from Running Data.
Journal of Economic Psychology, 89, 102471. [Replication package]
(2020) (Non-)Insurance Markets, Loss Size Manipulation and Competition: Experimental Evidence. With Jeroen Hinloopen.
Journal of Industrial Economics, 68(4), 819-856. [Final wp version] [Experiment Instructions][Plots decisions at subject level]
(2018) The Impact of Process Innovation on Prices: Evidence from Automated Fuel Retailing in The Netherlands. With Tadas Bruzikas.
European Economic Review, 110, 181-196. [Final wp version][Online Appendix]
(2018) Price competition on graphs. With Pim Heijnen.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 146 (February), 161-179. [Final working paper version] [Online Appendix] [MatlabCode [zip]]
(2016) Loss Modification Incentives for Insurers Under Expected Utility and Loss Aversion. With Liting Zhou.
De Economist, 164(1), 41-67.
(2015) Screening for collusion: A spatial statistics approach. With Marco A. Haan and Pim Heijnen
Journal of Economic Geography, 15(2), 417-448. [Working paper version March 28, 2014] Coverage in The Economist (Dec. 15th, 2012)
(2014) Do auctions and forced divestitures increase competition? Evidence for retail gasoline markets. With Marco A. Haan and Pim Heijnen.
Journal of Industrial Economics, 62(3), 467-502. [working paper version]
(2014) Broad and narrow bracketing in gift certificate spending. With Flóra Felsö.
European Economic Review, 66, 284-302. [Online Appendix] [Original survey [in Dutch]] [Contract [Translation from Dutch]]
(2013) Bidding to Give in the Field. With Sander Onderstal and Arthur Schram.
Journal of Public Economics, 104, 72-85. [Project web site]
(2011) Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment.
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 3(1), 180-205. [MatlabCode [zip]] [pdf]
(2011) The Effects of Lottery Prizes on Winners and their Neighbors: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery. With Peter Kuhn, Peter Kooreman and Arie Kapteyn
American Economic Review, 101(5), 2226-2247. [Project web site with supporting materials]
(2008) Laboratory evidence on the effectiveness of corporate leniency programs. With Jeroen Hinloopen
RAND Journal of Economics, 39(2), 607-616
(2007) Social Networking and Individual Outcomes beyond the Mean-Field Case. With Yannis M. Ioannides
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 64(3-4), 369-390.
(2007) A Discrete Choice Model with Social Interactions; with an Application to High School Teen Behavior. With Peter Kooreman
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 22(3), 599-624. [JAE Data Archive]
(2006) Wages and Unemployment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution. With Yannis M. Ioannides
American Economic Review (Papers & Proceedings), 96(2), 270-274.
Journal of Economic Surveys, 20(2), 193-228.
(2006) Price-Setting Behavior in the Presence of Social Interactions. With Bert Schoonbeek
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 226(2), 208-228.
(2005) Social ties within school classes – the roles of gender, ethnicity and having older siblings. With Peter Kooreman
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 21(3), 373-391.
(2004) Anonymity in Giving in a Natural Context – A Field Experiment in 30 Churches.
Journal of Public Economics, 89(11-12), December, 2301-2323.
Contributions to books
(2019) Randomization in Field Experiments. With Noemi Peter.
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Experimental Economics, Arthur Schram and Aljaž Ule (Eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Chapter II.2, 121-140.
(2014) Exploitation and Induced Tacit Collusion; A Classroom Experiment of Corporate Leniency Programs. With Jeroen Hinloopen
Chapter 8 in: Analysis of Competition Policy and Sectoral Regulation, Martin Peitz and Yossi Spiegel (eds.), CRESSE Volume, Now Publishers, Boston
Selected working papers
(2024) P(l)ay-As-You-Go: Large-Scale Longitudinal Risk-Elicitation in the Field. With Gert-Jan Romensen.
(2024) The Short and Long Term Effects of In-Person Performance Feedback: Evidence from a Large Bus Driver Coaching Program. With Gert-Jan Romensen. Revision requested JPE: Microeconomics
(2024) Does Targeting Relative Performance Feedback Improve Worker Productivity? Field Experimental Evidence from Bus Drivers. With Gert-Jan Romensen.
(2024) Don’t wait on the world to change! How technophilia causes group inaction – an experiment. With Lennart Stangenberg.
Keanu Reeves and John Cleese on this topic. Fun fact: The title has included the reference to John Mayer's song since July 2022, we turned out to be in sync with the New Year's Eve conference by Claudia de Breij at December 31 that year.
Other working papers
Risk and Loss Aversion, Price Uncertainty and the Implications for Consumer Search. With Tadas Bruzikas
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper no. 2016-049/VII.
Work in progress
Discount Competition. With Tadas Bruzikas and Pim Heijnen
Publications in Dutch
(2015) Canon deel 17: Gedragseconomie. With Jan Potters and Arno Riedl.
Economisch Statistische Berichten, 100(4716), 486-491.
(2014) Besteding soms anders bij cadeaubon. With Flóra Felsö.
Economisch Statistische Berichten, 21 March, 99(4681), 180-183.
(2014) De micro-structuur van markt en samenleving.
TPEdigitaal, 8(4), 108-131 [Oratie 21 januari 2014]
(2012) De prijseffecten van benzineveilingen. With Marco A. Haan and Pim Heijnen.
TPEdigitaal, 6(1), 35-48,
(2011) Sociale effecten van loterijprijzen. With Peter Kuhn, Peter Kooreman and Arie Kapteyn.
Economisch Statistische Berichten, Jun. 24, 96(4613), 394-396.
(2009) De prijseffecten van benzineveilingen. With Marco A. Haan and Pim Heijnen.
Economisch Statistische Berichten, Jan. 23, 94(4552), 42-44.
(2007) Identificatie van sociale interacties - het belang van quasi-experimentele data.
AENORM, 55, 55-58.
(2007) Het succes van clementieregelingen. With Jeroen Hinloopen.
Economisch Statistische Berichten, April 20, 92(4508), 232-234.
(2004) Een duit in het mandje - de rol van anonimiteit bij kerkcollectes.
Economisch Statistische Berichten, June 11, 89, 275-277.
Non-refereed publications
(2000) One-sided underreaction in stock prices. With Sibrand Drijver
In: SOM Essay Competition 2000, pp. 35-49,
Other
(1999) The static replication of barrier options.
Master thesis, University of Groningen.
(2004) Social Interactions and Economic Outcomes`.
University of Groningen, PhD thesis.
Book reviews
(2007) The Grammar of Society; The Nature and Dynamics of Social Norms, by: Christina Bicchieri.
De Economist, 155(1), March 2007, pp. 125-126.
Permanent working papers
A Commercial Gift for Charity, 2016, with Te Bao and Anouk Schippers
Random Social Networks, Unemployment and Wage Inequality, 2006, with Yannis M. Ioannides
Consumer Demand with Social Interactions; a Simulation Study, 2004, working paper