Papers

My research uses experiments (both in the lab or the field) to study human decision making. I work on four parallel topics:

• Altruism in the dictator game and related behaviour (fairness, cooperation, etc.). More recently I am moving from observed behaviour (what people do) to expected behaviour (what people expect other people to do). A good example of my stuff on "guessing behaviour of others" are this paper on gender differences in AMT and this other paper on consistency of Nash behaviour.
• The connection between economic preferences and decisions in games. My research focuses on risk taking (and risk aversion) and time preferences. The big question here is whether future-minded subjects play different games than impatient individuals. For instance we study whether patient subject punish more in the public good games and in the ultimatum game.
• The biological roots of economic behaviour: Fetal exposure to testosterone (proxied by the 2D:4D). I have studied whether 2D:4D correlates with risk taking, giving in the dictator game, cognitive abilities and networks formation. Recently I conducted a large scale experiment to replicate previous results on risk taking.
• Elicitation of real networks using experimental methods. We use economic games (such us coordination games) to eliciting the existing ties among subjects. Using the links obtained in the game we are able to draw the social network (link to a survey). We use individuals´ centrality to explain behaviour in games, such us giving or inequity aversion.