Julien Senn
Fields
Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Political Economy
Ogranizational/Labor Economics
Contact
University of Zurich
Department of Economics
Blümlisalpstrasse 10, office 212
CH-8006 Zurich
Phone : +41 (0)44 634 37 63
E-mail : julien.senn [at] econ.uzh.ch
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I am a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich.
I am an applied microeconomist, with interests in behavioral economics, political economy, public economics, and labor economics. My most recent work sheds lights on the determinants of redistributive preferences, on the effects of institutions on norm enforcement and cooperation, and on the effects of social comparisons on productivity and stress.
I study these topics using state-of-the-art experimental methods, large-scale surveys with nationally representative samples, and administrative or historical data.
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Publications and completed working papers
with Thomas Epper and Ernst Fehr
Accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics
with Clara Colombatto, Jim Everett, Michel Maréchal and Molly Crockett
Psychological Science, 2023
with Everett, J.A.C., Colombatto, Maréchal, M.A., Crockett, M.J., et al.
Nature Human Behavior, 2021
with Ernst Fehr
forthcoming in One Hundred Years of Game Theory, Cambridge University Press
with Jan Schmitz and Christian Zehnder
Revise and Resubmit @ Journal of the European Economic Association
with Thomas Epper, Ernst Fehr and Aljosha Henkel
Revise and Resubmit @ Journal of Public Economics
with Lorenz Goette
Revise and Resubmit @ Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
with Thomas Epper and Ernst Fehr
with Thomas Epper and Ernst Fehr
Corruption, Punishment and Cooperation [under revision]
with Justin Buffat
Selected work in progress
Who deserves a tax break and why?
with Krishna Srinivasan
Competition and Immoral Behavior: Evidence from Economic Aryanization during WW2
with Juha Tolvanen and Stephanos Vlachos
The right to be Heard: An RCT on Economizing Procedural Justice
with Andreas Beerli, Lorenz Biberstein, Martin Killias, Michel Maréchal and Nora Markwalder
The Psychological Foundations of Social Preferences
with Thomas Epper, Ernst Fehr and Aljosha Henkel
Who are the meritocrats?
with Thomas Epper and Ernst Fehr
Resting papers
Myopic loss aversion, the endowment effect for risk and the limits of expectation-based reference-dependent preferences (2015)
with Justin Buffat