Andis Sofianos

Welcome to my site. I am a  Professor of Economics at Durham University. I joined the Department of Economics at Durham University as an Associate Professor in September 2022. I was previously 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.

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. My current work is focused on cooperation, belief updating and cryptocurrency pricing. 

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Publications:

• Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions (with Marco Lambrecht, Eugenio Proto and Aldo Rustichini). August 2024, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 16(3),  199-231.

• Investigations of decision processes at the intersection of psychology and economics ( with Johannes Lohse, Rima-Maria Rahal, Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck, and Conny Wollbrant). August 2024, Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 103, 102741.

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

• Anger Impairs Strategic Behavior: A Beauty-Contest Based Analysis (with Alessandro Castagnetti and Eugenio Proto), September 2023. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 213:  128-141

• Intelligence, Errors and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions (with Eugenio Proto and Aldo Rustichini), October 2022. The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 89, Issue 5: 2723-2767

• The conditional contribution mechanism for repeated public goods: the general case (with Joerg Oechssler and Andreas Reischmann), July 2022. Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 203, 105488

• Self-reported & Revealed Trust: Experimental Evidence , January 2022, Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 88, 102451

• The Binary Lottery Procedure does not induce risk neutrality in the Holt & Laury and Eckel & Grossman tasks (with Oliver Kirchkamp and Joerg Oechssler), May 2021. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 185: 348-369 

• 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:

• Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events  (with Christoph K. Becker, Tigran Melkonyan, Eugenio Proto  and Stefan T. Trautmann). Accepted at Journal of the European Economic Association

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