Thomas de Haan
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Bergen
I use microeconomic theory, behavioral economics, and data science to investigate a broad range of economic questions.
Scientific papers
Work in Progress
Product Ratings and Externalities (Together with Magnus Knutsen). Working paper
Adversarial Anchoring in Bargaining (Together with Jona Linde). Working paper
Eliciting Beliefs using a Two-Level Partitioning of the State Space. Working paper
Bargaining with Direct Investment Cost versus Opportunity Costs (Together with Gerhard Riener). Working paper
Preferences for Unemployment Compensation in an Experiment Setting (Together with Cornelius Cappelen).
Has the mathematics level of high-school students changed over time? (Together with Lenka Fiala).
Longevity Beliefs Elicitation: Full Distributions and Visual Support. (Together with Kremena Bachman, Andre Lot, and Paolo Crosetto)
Published Papers
Cappelen, A. W., De Haan, T., & Tungodden, B. (2024). "Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats?". Journal of Public Economics, 233, 105097. Link
Crosetto, P., & de Haan, T. (2023). "Comparing input interfaces to elicit belief distributions". Judgment and Decision Making, 18, e27. Link
de Haan, T., & Linde, J. (2018). "Good Nudge Lullaby: Choice Architecture and Default Bias Reinforcement". The Economic Journal, 128, 610, 1180-1206. Link
de Haan, T., Offerman, T., & Sloof, R. (2017). "Discrimination in the Labour Market: The Curse of Competition between Workers". The Economic Journal, 127, 603, 1433-1466. Link
De Haan, T., Offerman, T., & Sloof, R. (2015). "Money talks? An experimental investigation of cheap talk and burned money". International Economic Review, 56(4), 1385-1426. Link
De Haan, T., & Van Veldhuizen, R. (2015). "Willpower depletion and framing effects". Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 117, 47-61. Link
Abbink, K., & de Haan, T. (2014). "Trust on the brink of Armageddon: The first-strike game". European Economic Review, 67, 190-196. Link
de Haan, T., Offerman, T., & Sloof, R. (2011). "Noisy signaling: theory and experiment". Games and Economic Behavior, 73(2), 402-428. Link
Other
Together with Paolo Crosetto and Ismaël Benslimane, we developed a Click-and-Drag interface for people to easily enter probability distribution beliefs for many different indicators, like expected inflation rates or future recorded temperatures. See the Github website to explore.
