Andis Sofianos

Welcome to my site. I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Heidelberg at the chair of Economic Theory II (Jörg Oechssler). I completed my PhD at the University of Warwick where I also obtained an MSc in Economics and Psychological Science and a BSc in Economics.

My research interests are within the broad field of Experimental Economics where I study the impact of individual characteristics, like personality traits and intelligence, on strategic interactions and the labour market. My current work is focused on trusting and cooperative behaviours.

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Publications:

• The Binary Lottery Procedure does not induce risk neutrality in the Holt & Laury and Eckel & Grossman tasks (with Oliver Kirchkamp and Joerg Oechssler), forthcoming 2021. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

• Intelligence, Personality and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions (with Eugenio Proto and Aldo Rustichini), June 2019, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 127, no. 3 : 1351-1390.

Working Papers:

• Self-reported & Revealed Trust: Experimental Evidence

• Intelligence, Errors and Strategic Choices in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma (with Eugenio Proto and Aldo Rustichini) (R&R requested from Review of Economic Studies)

• Does mining fuel bubbles? An experimental study on cryptocurrency markets (with Marco Lambrecht and Yilong Xu)

• Reverse Bayesianism: Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events (with Christoph K. Becker, Tigran Melkonyan, Eugenio Proto and Stefan T. Trautmann)

• The conditional contribution mechanism for repeated public goods: the general case (with Joerg Oechssler and Andreas Reischmann)

• Personality as a Skill: Evolving Compositions of Personality Traits (with Gordon Brown)