Research

Finished 

2020

• Amin Zokaei Ashtiani, Thomas Dudek, and Marc-Oliver Rieger. 2020. Happy Savers and Happy Spenders: An experimental study comparing US Americans and Germans, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 85: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2019.101506.  

2022

• Dudek, Thomas. 2022. Personality economics: An investigation of how personality develops and how it predicts decisions. Victoria University of Wellington Thesis Depository. Access here (link). 

• Thomas Dudek, Jan Feld, Anne A. Brenoe, and Julia Rohrer. 2022. Global Evidence on the Effect of Siblings’ Sex on Personality. Psychological Science, Vol. 33(9): https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221094630. 

2023

• Thomas Schilling, Eberhard Feess, and Yuriy Timofeyev. Misreporting in teams with individual decision making: the impact of information and communication. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 209: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.03.027. 

In progress

• Thomas Schilling, Rebecca Müller, Thomas Ellwart, and Conny H. Antoni. Context-dependent preferences for an HR decision support system’s level of autonomy. (Presented at EAWOP 2023)

• Thomas Schilling and Vishal George. Toward a regenerative future: Profiling and nudging pro-environmental leaders?

• Thomas Schilling and Wiebke Bleidorn. 2022. Personality is Weakly Associated With Insurance Decisions.

• Wiebke Bleidorn, Chris Hopwood, Thomas Schiling. 2023. High Openness and Low Conscientiousness Predict Green Party Preferences and Voting. (submitted) 

• Thomas Schilling, Ilan Noy, and Eric Ulm. Demand for multi-year catastrophe insurance contracts: Experimental evidence for mitigating the insurance gap. CESifo Working Paper No. 9442. Appendix available here. 

• Thomas Schilling, Wiebke Bleidorn and Eric Ulm. Locus of control predicts insurance choices in an incentivized home insurance experiment.

• Thomas Schilling, Eberhard Feess, and Roee Sarel. Learning about moral licensing and moral cleansing from a real-effort experiment. 

• Thomas Schilling, Tanjila Tabassum, Eric Ulm. Can people correctly infer (Bayesian update) probabilities from disaster occurrences in an incentivized home insurance choice experiment?