Professor Friederike Mengel
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873417
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Location
5B.313, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
via e mail
Profile
Qualifications
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PhD
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University of Alicante 2008.
Research and professional activities
Research interests
(Evolutionary) Game Theory
Learning and Categorization
Models of (Bounded) Rationality
Social Networks
Behavioural and Experimental Economics
Family and health economics
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Behavioural Economics II: Games and Markets (EC914)
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Cognitive Psychology and Economics (EC956)
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Social Psychology and Economics (EC957)
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Economics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 4/7/2018
Degree type: Occasional Postgraduate Study
Awarded date: 30/6/2016
Publications
Journal articles (27)
Grimm, V. and Mengel, F., Experiments on Belief Formation in Networks. Journal of the European Economic Association
Embrey, M., Mengel, F. and Peeters, R., Strategy revision opportunities and collusion. Experimental Economics
Mengel, F., Sauermann, J. and Zölitz, U., (2019). Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations. Journal of the European Economic Association. 17 (2), 535-566
Kovářík, J., Mengel, F. and Romero, JG., (2018). Learning in Network Games. Quantitative Economics. 9 (1), 85-139
Mengel, F., (2018). Risk and Temptation: A Meta Study on Prisoner's Dilemma Games. Economic Journal. 128 (616), 3182-3209
Gächter, S., Mengel, F., Tsakas, E. and Vostroknutov, A., (2017). Growth and inequality in public good provision. Journal of Public Economics. 150, 1-13
Mengel, F. and Rivas, J., (2017). Common value elections with private information and informative priors: Theory and experiments. Games and Economic Behavior. 104, 190-221
Calo-Blanco, A., Kovářík, J., Mengel, F. and Romero, JG., (2017). Natural disasters and indicators of social cohesion. PLoS ONE. 12 (6), e0176885-e0176885
Mengel, F., Tsakas, E. and Vostroknutov, A., (2016). Past experience of uncertainty affects risk aversion. Experimental Economics. 19 (1), 151-176
Chen, Y. and Mengel, F., (2016). Social identity and discrimination: Introduction to the special issue. European Economic Review. 90, 1-3
Currarini, S. and Mengel, F., (2016). Identity, homophily and in-group bias. European Economic Review. 90 (37), 40-55
Mengel, F., (2014). Computer Games and Prosocial Behaviour. PloS One. 9 (4), creators-Mengel=3AFriederike=3A=3A
Mengel, F., (2014). Learning by (limited) forward looking players. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 108, 59-77
Mengel, F., (2012). Learning across games. Games and Economic Behavior. 74 (2), 601-619
Mengel, F., (2012). On the evolution of coarse categories. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 307, 117-124
Grimm, V. and Mengel, F., (2012). An experiment on learning in a multiple games environment. Journal of Economic Theory. 147 (6), 2220-2259
Horváth, G., Kovářík, J. and Mengel, F., (2012). Limited memory can be beneficial for the evolution of cooperation. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 300, 193-205
Mengel, F. and Rivas, J., (2012). An Axiomatization of Learning Rules when Counterfactuals are not Observed. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics. 12 (1), 1-19
Grimm, V. and Mengel, F., (2011). Let me sleep on it: Delay reduces rejection rates in ultimatum games. Economics Letters. 111 (2), 113-115
Fosco, C. and Mengel, F., (2011). Cooperation through imitation and exclusion in networks. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 35 (5), 641-658
Grimm, V. and Mengel, F., (2011). Matching technology and the choice of punishment institutions in a prisoner’s dilemma game. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 78 (3), 333-348
Mengel, F. and Peeters, R., (2011). Strategic behavior in repeated voluntary contribution experiments. Journal of Public Economics. 95 (1), 143-148
Grimm, V. and Mengel, F., (2009). Cooperation in viscous populations--Experimental evidence. Games and Economic Behavior. 66 (1), 202-220
Mengel, F., (2009). Conformism and cooperation in a local interaction model. Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 19 (3), 397-415
Mengel, F., (2008). Matching structure and the cultural transmission of social norms. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 67 (3-4), 608-623
Güth, W., Mengel, F. and Ockenfels, A., (2007). An Evolutionary Analysis of Buyer Insurance and Seller Reputation in Online Markets. Theory and Decision. 63 (3), 265-282
Mengel, F., (2007). The evolution of function-valued traits for conditional cooperation. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 245 (3), 564-575
Book chapters (1)
Grimm, V., Mengel, F., Ponti, G. and Viianto, LA., (2009). Investment incentives in auctions: an experiment. In: Experiments and Competition Policy. Cambridge University Press. 267- 300. 9780511576201
Scholarly Editions (3)
Mengel, F., Mohlin, E. and Weidenholzer, S., (2018). Collective Incentives and Cooperation in Teams with Imperfect Monitoring
Mengel, F., Sauermann, J. and Zölitz, U., (2018). Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations
Mengel, F., Sauermann, J. and Zölitz, U., (2017). Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations
Grants and funding
2019
Incentives for whistleblowing
British Academy
2018
Homophily and (Over) - Confidence
British Academy
Opinion Dynamics
European Research Council
2017
Early years interaction and strategic behaviour in economic games
The British Academy
Contact
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