Peters, K.O., and Fonseca, M.A. (In press). “Gossip and Reputation.” Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. [paper]
Tyner, A. H., (…), Fonseca, M.A., (…), Nosek, B. A., and Errington, T. M. 2026. “Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioral sciences.” Nature, 652(8108), 143-150. [paper]
Fonseca, M.A., McCrea, A. 2025. “The Role of Experience in Shifting Gender Beliefs on Performance: Experimental Evidence.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 107115. [paper]
Chen, J., D'Attoma, J., Fonseca, M.A., and Malézieux, A. 2025. “Promoting Cooperation in an Unequal World: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Transparency and Punishment.” Journal of Business Ethics, 202, 823-842. [paper]
Peters, K., Fonseca, M.A., Hauser, O.P., and Steffens, N. 2024. “Do Followers Mind the Pay Gap? An Experimental Test of the Impact of the Vertical Pay Gap on Leader Effectiveness.” Leadership Quarterly 35(6), 101811. [paper]
Flores, L.Q. and Fonseca, M.A. 2024. “Do in-group biases lead to overconfidence in performance? Experimental evidence.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 111, 102217. [paper]
Mulder, L.B., Kurz, T., Prosser, A.M.B. and Fonseca, M.A. 2024. “The presence of laws and mandates is associated with increased social norm enforcement.” Journal of Economic Psychology 101, 102703. [paper]
Chen, J., Fonseca, M.A., Heyes, A., Yang, J. and Zhang, X. 2023. “How Much will Climate Change Reduce Productivity in a High-Technology Supply Chain? Evidence from Silicon Wafer Manufacturing.” Environmental and Resource Economics 86, 533-563. [paper] [media coverage]
Fonseca, M.A., Gonçalves, R., Pinho, J. and Tabacco, G. 2023. "How do antitrust regimes impact on cartel formation and managers' labor market? An experiment." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 204, 643-662. [paper]
Fonseca, M.A. and Rahimi, L. 2022. “The effects of income windfalls on labour supply and tax compliance: experimental evidence.” Review of Behavioral Economics 9(3), 185-221. [paper]
Fonseca, M. A., Peters, K. 2021. "Detecting Deception: When Are Gossipers' Lies Detected and Punished?" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376 (1838), 20200304. [paper]
Chakravarty, S., Choo, L., Fonseca, M.A., Kaplan, T.R. 2021. "Should Regulators Always be Transparent? A Bank Run Experiment." European Economic Review, 136, 103764. [paper]
Chen, J., Fonseca, M. A., Grimshaw, S. 2021. "When a Nudge Is (Not) Enough: Experiments on Social Information and Incentives." European Economic Review, 103711. [paper]
Fonseca, M. A., Giovannoni, F. and Makris, M. 2020. “Auctions with External Incentives: Experimental Evidence.” International Journal of Game Theory, 49, 1003–1043. [paper]
Auerbach, J., Fonseca, M. A. 2020. Preordered Service in Contract Enforcement. Games and Economic Behavior, 122, 130-149. [paper]
Peters, K., Fonseca, M. A. 2020. Truth, Lies and Gossip. Psychological Science 31(6), 702-714. [paper] [media coverage]
Peters, K., Fonseca, M. A., Haslam, S. A., Steffens, N. K., & Quiggin, J. 2019. Fat Cats and Thin Followers: Excessive CEO Pay May Reduce Ability to Lead. In The Social Psychology of Inequality (pp. 21-34). Springer, Cham.
Chakravarty, S., Fonseca, M. A., Ghosh, S., Kumar, P., Marjit, S. 2019. “Religious Fragmentation, Social Identity and Other-Regarding Preferences: Evidence From an Artefactual Field Experiment in India.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 82, 101451. [paper]
Fonseca, M. A. 2019. “Endogenous Price Leadership with Asymmetric Costs: Experimental Evidence.” Studies in Microeconomics 7(1), 59-74. [paper]
Fonseca, M. A., Li, Y., Normann, H. T. 2018. “Why Factors Facilitating Collusion May Not Predict Cartel Occurrence.” Southern Economic Journal, 85(1), 255-275. [paper]
Steffens, N. K., Fonseca, M. A., Ryan, M. K., Rink, F. A., Stoker, J. I., Nederveen Pieterse, A. 2018. How feedback about leadership potential impacts ambition, organizational commitment, and performance. The Leadership Quarterly, 29(6), 637-647 . [paper]
Fonseca, M. A., Peters, K. 2017. “Will Any Gossip Do? Gossip Does Not Need To Be Perfectly Accurate To Promote Trust.” Games and Economic Behavior 107, 253-281. [paper]
Fonseca, M. A., Grimshaw, S. 2017. “Does Using Behavioural Nudges in Pre-Populated Tax Forms Affect Compliance? Experimental Evidence With Real Taxpayers.” Journal of Public Policy & Marketing 36(2), 213-226. [paper]
Chakravarty, S. and Fonseca, M. A. 2017. “Discrimination via Exclusion: An Experiment on Group Identity and Club Goods.” Journal of Public Economic Theory 19(1), 244-267.
Chakravarty, S., Fonseca, M. A., Ghosh, S. and Marjit, S. 2016. “Religious fragmentation, social identity and cooperation: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in India.” European Economic Review 90, 265-279. [paper]
Gonçalves, R. and Fonseca, M. A. 2016. “Learning From Simultaneous Play: Evidence From Penny Auctions.” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 25(4), 1040-1059. [paper]
Chakravarty, S., Fonseca, M. A., Ghosh, S. and Marjit, S. 2016. “Religious fragmentation, social identity and conflict: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in India.” PLOS: One, 11(10): e0164708. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164708. [paper]
Choo, L., Fonseca, M. A. and Myles, G. 2016. “Do Students Behave Like Real Taxpayers? Experimental Evidence on Taxpayer Compliance From the Lab and From the Field.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 124, 102-114. [paper]
Chakravarty, S., Fonseca, M. A. and Kaplan T. R. 2014. “An Experiment on the Causes of Bank Run Contagions.” European Economic Review 72, 39-51. [paper]
Fonseca, M. A. and Normann, H. T. 2014. “Endogenous Cartel Formation: Experimental Evidence.” Economics Letters 125(2), 223-225. [paper]
Chakravarty, S. and Fonseca, M. A. 2014. “The Effect of Social Fragmentation on Public Good Provision: An Experimental Study.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 53, 1-9. [paper]
Kurz, T., Thomas, W. and Fonseca, M. A. 2014. “A Fine is a More Effective Financial Deterrent when Framed Retributively and Extracted Publicly.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 54, 170-177. [paper]
Hueffer, K., Fonseca, M. A., Leiserowitz, A., and Taylor, K. M. 2013. “The Wisdom of Crowds: Predicting a Weather and Climate-Related Event.” Judgment and Decision Making 8(2), 91-105. [paper]
Fonseca, M. A. and Normann, H. T. 2013. “Excess Capacity and Competition in Bertrand-Edgeworth Markets: Experimental Evidence.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 169(2), 199-228. [paper]
Peters, K., Haslam, S. A., Ryan, M., and Fonseca, M. A. 2012. “Working with Subgroup Identities to Build Organizational Identification and Support for Organizational Strategy: A Test of the ASPIRe Model.” Group and Organisation Management 38(1) 128-144.
Fonseca, M. A. and Normann, H. T. 2012. “Explicit vs. Tacit Collusion – The Impact of Communication in Oligopoly Experiments.” European Economic Review 56, 1759-1772. [paper]
Fonseca, M. A., Pfaff, A., and Osgood, D. 2012. “An Advantage of Resource Queues over Spot Markets: Decision Coordination in Experiments with Resource Uncertainty.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 94(5), 1136-1153. [paper]
Fonseca, M. A. 2009. “An Experimental Investigation of Asymmetric Contests.” International Journal of Industrial Organization 27, 582-591. [paper]
Fonseca, M. A. and Normann, H. T. 2008. “Mergers, Asymmetries and Collusion: Experimental Evidence.” Economic Journal 118, 387-400. [paper]
Fonseca, M. A., Müller, W. and Normann, H. T. 2006. “Endogenous Timing with Observable Delay: Experimental Evidence.” International Journal of Game Theory 34(3), 443-456. [paper]
Fonseca, M. A., Huck, S. and Normann, H. T. 2005. “Playing Cournot Although They Shouldn’t: Endogenous Timing in Experimental Duopolies with Asymmetric Cost.” Economic Theory 25(3), 669-677. [paper]