Erik Wengström
Professor
Department of Economics, Lund University, Sweden
Distinguished Senior Fellow
Hanken School of Economics / Helsinki Graduate School of Economics, Finland
News:
As of January 1, 2024, I am one of the editors at The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
New forthcoming publication: "Norm compliance in an uncertain world" (with Toke R. Fosgaard and Lars Gårn Hansen), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics [Link]
We are organizing the 15th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics at Lund University on September 28-30.
I am now a fellow at the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University.
New working paper: "Put a Bet on It: Can Self-Funded Commitment Contracts Curb Fitness Procrastination?" (with Devon Spika, Linnea Wickström Östervall and Ulf Gerdtham) [Link]
"Economic Preferences and Personality Traits Among Finance Professionals and the General Population" (with Martin Holmen, Felix Holzmeister, Michael Kirchler and Matthias Stefan), forthcoming Economic Journal [Link]
"Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences" (with Florian Schneider, Pol Campos-Mercade, Stephan Meier, Devin Pope and Armando Meier), 2023, Nature [Paper]
Short bio:
I am a Professor of Economics at Lund University and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Hanken School of Economics / Helsinki Graduate School of Economics. I received my Ph.D. from Lund University, and after that, I worked at the University of Copenhagen before returning to Lund . My research focuses primarily on how people behave in economic, financial and health contexts. I serve as an editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics. I am also a member of the RISLab team, a research fellow at the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics and a fellow at the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University.
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