Behavioral Economics
Behavioral economics has a strong representation at the Tinbergen Institute, incorporating insights from psychology into economic theory. Experimental methods in the laboratory and in the field are used to better understand individual behavior and decision making. The focus is on studying what the bounds of rationality are and when well-informed decision making fails. The research comprises a variety of topics, such as decisions under risk and uncertainty, strategic interactions, social identity, neuroeconomics, behavioral ethics and gender differences.
Behavioral Economics
Behavioral economics has a strong representation at the Tinbergen Institute, incorporating insights from psychology into economic theory. Experimental methods in the laboratory and in the field are used to better understand individual behavior and decision making. The focus is on studying what the bounds of rationality are and when well-informed decision making fails. The research comprises a variety of topics, such as decisions under risk and uncertainty, strategic interactions, social identity, neuroeconomics, behavioral ethics and gender differences.
Researchers in this field
Fellows and Faculty
Fellows and Faculty
PhD Students
PhD Students
Key Publications
Li, C. and Wakker, P. (2024). A Simple and General Axiomatization of Average Utility Maximization for Infinite Streams Journal of Economic Theory, 216:1--10.
Engelmann, JanB., Lebreton, M., Salem-Garcia, NahuelA., Schwardmann, P. and van der Weele, JoëlJ. (2024). Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking American Economic Review, 114(4):926--960.
Enke, B., Gneezy, U., Hall, B., Martin, D., Nelidov, V., Offerman, T. and van de Ven, J. (2023). Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes? Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(4):818–832.
Dirkmaat, T., Rohde, K., van de Veer, E., van Dijk, B. and Yu, X. (2023). Managing “Last Moment Behavior”:: Non-binding target dates to reduce the spikes in task completion at deadlines Journal of Public Economics, 219:.
Fischbacher, U., Grammling, D., Hausfeld, J. and Zíka, V. (2023). Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution Journal of Public Economics, 222:.
Discussion Papers
25-013/I - The Role of Opinion Polls in Coordination Amongst Protest Voters: An Experimental Study
Date: February 28, 2025
25-007/I - Willingness to Compete in Dirty Competitions
Date: February 07, 2025
24-070/I - Identifying the Impact of Hypothetical Stakes on Experimental Outcomes and Treatment Effects
Date: November 08, 2024
24-058/I - Poverty and Uncertainty Attitudes
Date: September 13, 2024
24-038/I - Repeated games with partner choice
Date: May 30, 2024
Upcoming events
Seminar
| Rotterdam | 12:00 - 13:00
Consistency of Individual and Group Decisions
Victor Gonzalez-Jimenez
- Brown Bag Seminars General Economics
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 16:00 - 17:15
Title to be announced
Heidi Thysen (Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)
- CREED Seminars
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 16:00 - 17:15
Title to be announced
M. Kathleen Ngangoué (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
- CREED Seminars
Seminar
| Rotterdam | 12:00 - 13:00
Title to be announced
Xiaomeng Chen
- Brown Bag Seminars General Economics
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 16:00 - 17:15
Fairness Preferences over Parental Wealth Transfer
Johanna Mollerstrom (George Mason University, United States)
- CREED Seminars
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 16:00 - 17:15
Title to be announced
Marie Clair Villeval (University of Lyon and CNRS, France) and Anton Suvorov
- CREED Seminars
TI Annual Conference
| Rotterdam | 09:00 - 17:00
16th Tinbergen Institute Conference: Morals, Purpose and Impact...
Thimo De Schouwer (KU Leuven), Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics), Marc Kaufmann (Central European University), Michael Kosfeld (Goethe University Frankfurt), Dorothea Kübler (WZB), Nicola Lacetera (University of Bologna), Birthe Larsen (Copenhagen Business School), Gabriel Ramos (Imperial College London), Marta Serra-Garcia (University of California, San Diego), Oliver Spalt (University of Mannheim), Sili Zhang (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), and Roberto Weber (University of Zürich)
Academic Distinctions
October 24, 2024
An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 850,000) has been awarded to Jan Hausfeld...
Jan Hausfeld
June 01, 2023
Chen Li appointed as Professor of Behavioural Economics
Chen Li
January 01, 2023
Joël van der Weele appointed Professor of Economic Psychology
Joel van der Weele