Our research

September 2021

• The Eastern Arc workshop will take place on September 8th and 9th at the University of Kent and feature lots of interesting research by ExCESS members including Ahrash Dianat, Friederike Mengel, Ceren Baysan, Simon Weidenholzer and Lisa Spantig.

Two ExCESS members' research is forthcoming in JEBO. Find the article below:

• Friedman, Daniel and Zhao, Shuchen, When Are Mixed Equilibria Relevant? (May 21, 2021).
• Lisa Spantig, Cash in hand and savings decisions. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Volume 188, 2021, Pages 1206-1220.
• Dennie van Dolder will be joining as the director of Essex Lab. Dennie says: "Controlled experiments are an invaluable tool to learn more about human judgment and decision making. As director of ESSEXLab, I will dedicate myself to promote and facilitate experimental social science research at the University of Essex. I am excited to join such a vibrant academic community.”

 July 2021

• ExCESS member Ceren Baysan becomes a member of JPAL.
• ExCESS members Christoph Siemroth and Simon Weidenholzer have first results for their ESRC grant. Under the grant they use experimental methods both in the lab and in the field to understand how and why people use fintech, such as robo-advice, crowdfunding platforms, and copy-trading. In a first study they discovered that crowdfunding is popular, because it allows investors to choose exactly what project their funds are used for, which is not possible when investing through more conventional channels such as banks or funds.

June 2021

• Research on the effects of WFH on productivity by ExCESS members Friederike Mengel and Christoph Siemroth receives a lot of attention in media around the world.
• Read the article from The Economist, Will workers return to the office?
• View the article from The Economist, Remote workers work longer not more efficiently.
• Examine the Financial Times article, Medicore workers have nowhere to hide. 
• View the Financial Times article, Healthy habits to boost productivity.
• Read the Wall Street Journal article, Work flexibility, popular with employees, is hardly a holy grain.
• View the New York Times article, Covid return to the office.
• Examine the TIME magazine article, The pandemic revealed how much we hate our jobs. Now we have a chance to reinvent work. 
• Read the Diario Financiero article, Study warns that productivity was reduced by 20% in the pandemic despite an increase in teleworked hours.
• View the Hong Kong Economic Times article, Does the company implement working from home to reduce the work efficiency of employees?

The associated research can be found below: 

• Work from Home & Productivity: Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on it Professionals.

May 2021

• More research from ExCESS members in the International Economic Review. See Dan Friedman's research 

April 2021

• Behavioural and Experimental Mini-Conference on April 9 2021. If you'd like more information or a zoom link please email the centre.

March 2021

• Research conducted at Essex Lab forthcoming at the International Economic Review.

February 2021 

• Learn more about Friederike Mengel's ERC grant.

ExCess members in the media for their Covid Research. 

• Read the article from The Guardian, One third of UK women are suffering from lockdown loneliness which features research by Dr Ben Etheridge and Dr Lisa Spantig.
• View the article from German newspaper Die Welt, Corona app gives more freedom which features research from academics at ExCess.
• Read the article from The Independent, One in three women suffering from loneliness in lockdown which includes research from academics at ExCess.

The associated research papers can be found below: 

• Research Paper, The Gender Gap in Mental Well-Being During the Covid-19 Outbreak: Evidence from the UK.
• Research Paper, Extensions of the SEIR model for the analysis of tailored social distancing and tracing approaches to cope with COVID-19. 

• Lingqing Jiang on Blood Donations
• Dominik Duell on COVID
• Patrick Lown and Friederike Mengel on Inequality
• Lisa Spantig on Microcredit
  
  

• Extensions of the SEIR Model for the Analysis of Tailored Social Distancing and Tracing Approaches to Cope with Covid19 (joint with V. Grimm and M. Schmidt), Scientific Reports (2021), 11:4214.
• Do Markets Encourage Risk-Seeking Behavior? (joint with R. Peeters), European Journal of Finance (WEHIA special issue), in press.
• Gender Differences in Networking, Economic Journal, 130(630) (2020), 1842-1873.
• Compliance Behavior in Networks (joint with F. Drago and C. Traxler), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12(2) (2020), 1-40.
  Experiments on Belief Formation in Networks (joint with V. Grimm), Journal of the European Economic Association 18(1) (2020), 49-82. *selected for editor’s choice collection virtual issue June 19
• Strategy Revision Opportunities and Collusion (joint with M. Embrey and R. Peeters), Experimental Economics 22(4) (2019), 834-856. 
• Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations (joint with J. Sauermann and U. Zoelitz), Journal of the European Economic Association 17(2) (2019), 535-566. 
• Alan, S., Baysan, C., Gumren, M. and Kubilay, E., Building Social Cohesion in Ethnically Mixed Schools: An Intervention on Perspective Taking. The Quarterly Journal of Economics.
• Burke, M., Gonzalez, F., Baylis, P., Heft-Neal, S., Baysan, C. and Hsiang, S., (2020). Reply to: Temporal displacement, adaptation and the effect of climate on suicide rates. Nature Climate Change. 10 (6), 502-504.
• Baysan, C., Burke, M., González, F., Hsiang, S. and Miguel, E., (2019). Non-economic factors in violence: Evidence from organized crime, suicides and climate in Mexico. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 168, 434-452.
• Dianat, A. and Siemroth, C., (2021). Improving decisions with market information: an experiment on corporate prediction markets. Experimental Economics. 24 (1), 143-176.
• Castillo, M. and Dianat, A., (2021). Strategic uncertainty and equilibrium selection in stable matching mechanisms: experimental evidence. Experimental Economics.
• Duell, D. and Landa, D., Strategic Discrimination in Hierarchies. The Journal of Politics. Online.
• Duell, D., (2020). Follow the Majority? How Voters Coordinate Electoral Support to Secure Club Goods. Political Science Research and Methods, 1-17
• Arnesen, S., Duell,D. and Johannesson, MP., (2019). Do citizens make inferences from political candidate characteristics when aiming for substantive representation?. Electoral Studies. 57, 46-60
• Duell, D. and Valasek, J., (2019). Political Polarization and Selection in Representative Democracies. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 168, 132-165
• Freer, M., Martinelli, C. and Wang, S., (2020). Collective experimentation: A laboratory study. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 175, 365-379
• Castillo, ME., Cross, PJ. and Freer, M., (2019). Nonparametric utility theory in strategic settings: Revealing preferences and beliefs from proposal–response games. Games and Economic Behavior. 115, 60-82.
• Cason, T., Friedman, D. and Hopkins, E., (2021). An Experimental Investigation of Price Dispersion and Cycles. Journal of Political Economy. 0 (3), 789-84.
• Friedman, E., (2020). Endogenous quantal response equilibrium. Games and Economic Behavior. 124, 620-643.
• Illeditsch, PK., Ganguli, J. and Condie, S., (2021). Information Inertia. The Journal of Finance. 76 (1), 443-479.
• Bruhin, A., Goette, L., Haenni, S., Jiang, L., Markovic, A., Roethlisberger, A., Buchli, R. and Frey, BM., (2020). The Sting of Rejection: Deferring Blood Donors due to Low Hemoglobin Values Reduces Future Returns. Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy. 47 (2), 1-10.
• Bruhin, A., Goette, L., Haenni, S. and Jiang, L., (2020). Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors. Journal of Health Economics. 70, 102244-102244.
• Jiang, L., (2020). Splash with A Teammate: Peer Effects in High-Stakes Tournaments. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 171, 165-188.
  Feldman, S., Huddy, L., Wronksi, J. and Lown, P., (2020). The Interplay of Empathy and Individualism in Support for Social Welfare Policies. Political Psychology. 41 (2), 343-362.
• Page, L. and Siemroth, C., How much information is incorporated in financial asset prices? Experimental Evidence. The Review of Financial Studies. 0, 0-0.
  Siemroth, C., When can decision makers learn from financial market prices?. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
• Dianat, A. and Siemroth, C., (2021). Improving decisions with market information: an experiment on corporate prediction markets. Experimental Economics. 24 (1), 143-176
• Goette, L. and Tripodi, E., Social Influence in Prosocial Behavior: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment. Journal of the European Economic Association.
• Papageorge, NW., Zahn, MV., Belot, M., van den Broek-Altenburg, E., Choi, S., Jamison, JC. and Tripodi, E., (2021). Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behaviour during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Population Economics. 34 (2), 691-738.
• Goette, L. and Tripodi, E., (2020). Does positive feedback of social impact motivate prosocial behavior? A field experiment with blood donors. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 175, 1-8.
• Cui, Z. and Weidenholzer, S., (2021). Lock-in through passive connections. Journal of Economic Theory. 192, 105187-105187.
• Apesteguia, J., Oechssler, J. and Weidenholzer, S., (2020). Copy trading. Management Science. 66 (12), 5485-6064.