Third-party funded projects
Misperceptions about the welfare state (Jan 2024 - August 2026, Vienna Science and Technology, Principal Investigator, EUR 341k, Co-PI Jean-Robert Tyran) [Link to project page]
Cross-country evidence on information evaluation competency (September 2024 - August 2026, FWF, Principal Investigator, EUR 261k, Co-PI Stefan Penczynski)
Publications
Is There a Nexus Between Pro-Social Behavior and Well-Being? Correlational Evidence – Journal of the Economic Science Association [WP-PDF]
Tax Amnesties and the Insurance Effect: An Experimental Study (with Cornelius Müller) – Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 108, 102130, (2024) [WP-PDF]
Covenants before the Swords: Cooperation in Heterogeneous Societies (with Nikos Nikiforakis and Charles Noussair) – Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 188, 307-321, (2021) [WP-PDF]
Do Reference Points Affect Workers’ Fairness Perceptions? Experimental Evidence on Wage Rigidity – Journal for Labor Market Research 55, 5, (2021) [WP-PDF]
The Ghost of Institutions Past: History as an Obstacle to Fighting Tax Evasion (with Aaron Kamm and Nikos Nikiforakis) – European Economic Review 132, 103641, (2021) [WP-PDF]
The winner's curse: Conditional Reasoning and belief formation (with Stefan P. Penczynski) – Journal of Economic Theory 174, 57-102. (2018). [WP-PDF]
Working Papers
(De-)Radicalizing the Radical Right with Slanted News on Immigration (with Jean-Robert Tyran) – [PDF] (JMP1)
Disclosure of Verifiable Information under Competition: An Experimental Study (with Stefan P. Penczynski and Sihong Zhang) – [PDF] (JMP2, R&R Quantative Economics)
Climate Norm Interventions vs. Taxes: How to Motivate Climate-Friendly Behavior? (with Sigma Samhita) – [PDF] (R&R'd at European Economic Review)
Adaptive Skepticism in the Face of Uncertainty: An Experimental Study on Verifiable Information Disclosure (with Stefan P. Penczynski and Sihong Zhang) – [PDF] (R&R Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization)
Self-serving redistributive preferences among natives and immigrants in the UK (with Linda Dezső) – [PDF] (R&R Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization)
Overcoming negative ethnic sentiments: Short- and long-term effects of a narrative compassion intervention (with Melis Kartal, Tomáš Miklánek and Wieland Müller) - [PDF]
The Rhetoric of Immigration: ‘Good Citizens’ vs. ‘Free-Riders' (with Jean-Robert Tyran) – coming soon
Research in Progress
AI Paternalism: Experimental Evidence on Legitimacy and Acceptance (with Julian Polzin)
Cross-country Evidence on Information Evaluation Competency: Chatbot versus Video Intervention (with Can Çelebi and Stefan P. Penczynski)
Stochastic discounts and expectation-based loss aversion: An experiment (with Anastasia Leontiou)
Populist Framing and the Cost of Migration: An Experiment (with Jean-Robert Tyran)
Scarcity and Social Distance: An Experimental Investigation (with Geoffrey Castillo)
Norm Compliance vs. Norm Internalization