Publications (x54)

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Main publications (x44)

***Organizational & Labor Economics + Organizational Behavior (x20)

(Selected)

“No REST for the Weary: Pay Uncertainty Reduces Engagement in Recovery” (2025)

Journal of Applied Psychology Accepted (with R. Hernan, G. Sayre and S. Gächter) (link)

“Revisiting the Tradeoff Between Risk and Incentives: The Shocking Effect of Random Shocks” (2019) 

Management Science 65(3), 1096-111 (with R. Hernán) (link)

“Goal Setting in the Principal-Agent Model: Weak Incentives for Strong Performance” (2018)

Games and Economic Behavior 109, 311-326  (with J. Gomez-Minambres & R. Hernán) (link) P

“Goal Setting and Monetary Incentives: When Large Stakes Are Not Enough” (2015) 

Management Science 61 (12), 2926-2944  (with J. Gomez-Minambres & R. Hernán) (link) 

“Why Real Leisure Really Matters: Incentive Effects on Real Effort in the Laboratory” (2015) 

Experimental Economics 18, 284-301 (with R. Hernán & E. Schniter) (link) 

(All) 

“No REST for the Weary: Pay Uncertainty Reduces Engagement in Recovery” (2025)

Journal of Applied Psychology Accepted (with R. Hernan, G. Sayre and S. Gächter) (link)

“Build Better Pay-for-Performance (PFP) Compensation Plans”

 MIT Sloan Management Review Accepted  (with G. Sayre, R. Hernán & S. Gächter) (link)

“The Contractual Dispute Resolution Game: Real-Effort Experiments on Contract Negotiation and Arbitration Reference (2025)

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 231, 106902  (with S. Gächter & R. Hernan)

“Peer Effects in an Automated World” (2023)

Labour Economics 85 (102455) (with R. Hernan & R. Mateo) (link)

“Watching or Not Watching? Access to Information and the Incentive Effects of Firing Threats” (2021) 

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 189, 672-685 (with J. Brandts, R. Hernan, J. Ortiz & C. Sola) (link)

“Harnessing the Power of Social Incentives to Curb Shirking in Teams” (2021) 

 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 30(1), 139-167 (with B. Gunia & R. Hernan) (link) 

“Economic Stability Promotes Gift-Exchange in the Workplace” (2021) 

 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 187, 374-398 (with H. Bejarano & J. Gomez-Minambres) (link) 

“On the Merit of Equal Pay: When Influence Activities Interact with Incentive Setting” (2019)

European Economic Review 113, 23-45 (with L. Martin, A. Sutan & P. Ndodjang) (link) 

“Personality, Emotional Intelligence, and Rationality,” (2020) 

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 1-28 (with R. Hernan & S. Gächter) (link)

“Revisiting the Tradeoff Between Risk and Incentives: The Shocking Effect of Random Shocks” (2019) 

Management Science 65(3), 1096-111 (with R. Hernán) (link)

“Goal Setting in the Principal-Agent Model: Weak Incentives for Strong Performance” (2018) 

Games and Economic Behavior 109, 311-326  (with J. Gomez-Minambres & R. Hernán) (link)  P

“Firing Threats and Tenure in Virtual Organizations: Incentives Effects and Impression Management” (2015) 

Games and Economic Behavior 91, 97–113 (with R. Hernán & S. Rassenti) (link)

“Goal Setting and Monetary Incentives: When Large Stakes Are Not Enough” (2015)

Management Science 61 (12), 2926-2944  (with J. Gomez-Minambres & R. Hernán) (link)   

“Why Real Leisure Really Matters: Incentive Effects on Real Effort in the Laboratory” (2015)

Experimental Economics 18, 284-301 (with R. Hernán & E. Schniter) (link) 

“Peer Pressure and Moral Hazard in Teams” (2015)“

Review of Behavioral Economics 2(4), 379-403 (with R. Hernán & S. Rassenti) (link)

“Don’t Ask Me If You Will Not Listen: The Dilemma of Participative Decision Making” (2014) 

Management Science 60 560-585. (with R. Hernán) (link)

“Surf’s Up: Reducing Internet Abuse Without Demotivating Employees” (2014) 

Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings 113761 (with B. Gunia & R. Hernán) (link)

“Are You a Good Worker or Simply a Good Guy? Contract design and Influence Costs” (2013) 

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 92, 259-272. (with I. Rodriguez) (link)

“Peer Evaluations in Teams: When Friends Do Worse Than Strangers” (2012) 

Economic Inquiry 49 (1) 171-181. (link)

“Team Formation and Self-serving Biases” (2010) [my first pub 😁]

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 20 (1), 117-135. (link) 

***Finance (x15)

(Selected)

“Stocks as Lotteries? An Experimental Test of Expected Utility vs Behavioral Models,” (2026)

Review of Financial Studies (Accepted) (with T. Kpegli & J. Magnani)  

“Let’s Chat…. When Communication Promotes Efficiency in Experimental Asset Markets?” (2024) 

Management Science 70(10), 6550-6568  (with M. DeSantis & D. Porter) (link)

“Tail events, Emotions and Risk-taking” (2024) 

Economic Journal 134 (658), 538-578 (with C. Cornand & N. Hanaki) (link)

“When Do Security Markets Aggregate Dispersed Information?” (2022) 

Management Science 69(6), 3697-3729 (with Deck, C., DeSantis, M., Hampton, K. W., & Kimbrough, E.) (link)

“What Makes a Good Trader? On the Role of Reflection and Intuition on Trader Performance” (2018) 

Journal of Finance 73(3), 1113-1137 (with M. DeSantis & D. Porter) (link)

“The Effect of Earned vs. House Money on Price Bubble Formation in Experimental Asset Markets” (2015) 

Review of Finance 19, 1455-1488 (with R. Hernán, P. Kujal & D. Porter) (link)

(All) 

“Stocks as Lotteries? An Experimental Test of Expected Utility vs Behavioral Models,” (2026)

Review of Financial Studies (Accepted) (with T. Kpegli & J. Magnani) 

“Let’s Chat…. When Communication Promotes Efficiency in Experimental Asset Markets?” (2024) 

Management Science 70(10), 6550-6568  (with M. DeSantis & D. Porter) (link)

“Tail events, Emotions and Risk-taking” (2024) 

Economic Journal 134 (658), 538-578 (with C. Cornand & N. Hanaki) (link)

“Predicting the Unpredictable: New Experimental Evidence on Forecasting Random Walks” (2023) 

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 146, 104571 (with T. Bao, N. Hanaki, E. Riyanto & J. Zhu) (link)

“When Do Security Markets Aggregate Dispersed Information?” (2022) 

Management Science 69(6), 3697-3729 (with Deck, C., DeSantis, M., Hampton, K. W., & Kimbrough, E.) (link) 

“Forecasting Skills in Experimental Markets: Illusion or Reality?” (2022) 

Management Science, 68(7), 5216-5232 (with C. Deck, M. DeSantis & D. Porter) (link)

“Information Aggregation And The Cognitive Make-Up Of Traders” (2021) 

European Economic Review 133, 103667 (with M. DeSantis & D. Porter) (link)

“Cognitive Finance” (2021) 

Handbook of Experimental Finance, Edward Elgar Publishing, In Press (with C. Bosch-Rosa) (link)

“On Booms That Never Bust: Ambiguity in Experimental Asset Markets with Bubbles” (2020) 

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 110, 103754 (with R. Hernan & P. Kujal) (link)

“What Makes a Good Trader? On the Role of Reflection and Intuition on Trader Performance” (2018) 

Journal of Finance 73(3), 1113-1137 (with M. DeSantis & D. Porter) (link)

“The Distribution of Information and the Price Efficiency of Markets,” (2019) 

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 110, 103671 (with M. DeSantis & D. Porter) (link)

“Information (non)aggregation in Markets with Costly Signal Acquisition” (2018) 

Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization 154, 286-320 (with M. DeSantis, C. Deck & D. Porter) (link)

“The Effect of Earned vs. House Money on Price Bubble Formation in Experimental Asset Markets” (2015) 

Review of Finance 19, 1455-1488 (with R. Hernán, P. Kujal & D. Porter) (link)

“Reaction to Public Information in Markets: How much does Ambiguity Matter?” (2013)  

Economic Journal 6, 699-737. (with P. Kujal & D. Porter) (link)

“The Effect of Reliability, Content and Timing of Public Announcements on Asset Trading Behavior” (2010) 

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 76, 254-266. (with P. Kujal & D. Porter) (link)

***Cognitive Science, Decision Science & Neuroscience (x9)

“All at Once! A Comprehensive and Tractable Semi-Parametric Method to Elicit Prospect Theory Components,  (2023) 

Journal of Mathematical Economics 104, 102790 (with T. Kpegli & A. Zylberszteijn) (link)

“Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power-Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes” (2022) 

Psychological Science 33(3), 412-423 (with Y. Hu, R. Phillipe, V. Guigon, S. Zhao, E. Derrington, J. Bonaiuto & J-C. Dreher) (link)

“Right Temporoparietal Junction Underlies Avoidance of Moral Transgression in Autism Spectrum Disorder,” (2021)

Journal of Neuroscience 41(8), 1699-1715 (with Y. Hu, A. Pereira, X. Gao, B. Campos, E. Derrington, X. Zhou, F. Cendes & JC. Dreher)

“Cognitive and Hormonal Regulation of Appetite for Food Presented in the Olfactory and Visual Modalities,” (2021) 

NeuroImage 230, 117811. (with R. Janet, A. Fournel, M. Fouillen, E. Derrington, M. Bensafi, M. & JC. Dreher). 

“Neural Basis of Corruption in Power-holders,” (2021)

Elife 10, e63922 (with Y. Hu, C. Hu, E. Derrington, C. Qu, & JC. Dreher)

“Deliberation Favours Social Efficiency by Making People Disregard Their Relative Shares: Evidence From USA and India” (2017)

Royal Society Open Science 4 (2), 160605 (with  V. Capraro, A. Espín, & R. Hernán-González)

“The Cognitive Basis of Social Behavior: Cognitive Reflection Overrides Antisocial but not Always Prosocial Motives,” (2015)

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 9, 00287 (with A. Espín & R. Hernán)

“Cognitive Reflection and the Diligent Worker: An Experimental Study of Millennials,” (2015)

PLoS ONE 10(11): e0141243. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141243 (with R. Hernán & R. Mateo)

“Creativity and Cognitive Skills Among Millennials: Thinking Too Much and Creating Too Little” (2016)

Frontiers in Psychology 7 (with A. Espín & R. Hernán-González)

Other publications (x10)

“Financial Forecasting in the Lab and the Field: Qualified Professionals vs. Smart Students ,” (2025)

Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Finance 64, 20-27 (withT. Bao, N. Hanaki, K. Okada, Y. Riyanto, & J. Zhu)

“Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and Social Discounting of Generosity” (2023)

Frontiers in Psychology 14, 1087979 (with Liu, J., Derrington, E., Bénistant,  Der Henst, V., Tang, Z., Qu, C., & Dreher, J.C.)

“Applications of Reference Dependence” (2022)

Journal of Economic Psychology 91, 102507 (with G. Hochman, J. Gomez, S. Ayal & R. Hernán)

“Surveillance Informatique Versus Surveillance Classique: Une Expérience D’effort Réel” (2017)

Revue Economique 96-111(with L. Martin, P. Ndodjang, & A. Sutan)

“To trust, or Not to Trust: Cognitive Reflection in Trust Games,” (2016)

Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics 64, 20-27 (with A. Espín, R. Hernán, P. Kujal & S. Rassenti)

“The Role of the Decision-Making Regime on Cooperation in a Workgroup Social Dilemma: An Examination of Cyberloafing” (2015)

Games 6 (4), 588-603 (with  R. Hernán-González & M. McCarter)

“Market Bubbles,” (2015)

In: Real-World Decision Making: An Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics (Ed.: Morris Altman)  (with P. Kujal & D. Porter)

“My Teammate, Myself and I: Experimental Evidence on Equity and Equality Norms” (2011)

Journal of Socio-Economics 40, 347-355. (with A. Sutan & R. Veszteg)

“Did I do That? Group Positioning and Asymmetric Attributional Bias” (2010)

Negotiation Conflict and Management Research 3 (4), 358-378. (with B. Gunia)

“Mon Equipe et Moi” (2010)

Revue Economique 61 (4), 771-782 (with A. Sutan & R. Veszteg)