Research

Third-party funded projects

Misperceptions about the welfare state (Jan 2024 - August 2026, Vienna Science and Technology, PI, EUR 341k, Co-PI Jean-Robert Tyran) [Link to project page]

Publications

Is There a Nexus Between Pro-Social Behavior and Well-Being?  Correlational Evidence – Journal of the Economic Science Association (forthcoming) [PDF]

Tax Amnesties and the Insurance Effect: An Experimental Study (with Cornelius Müller) – Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 108, 102130,  (2024) [WP-PDF]

Covenants before the Swords: Cooperation in Heterogeneous Societies (with Nikos Nikiforakis and Charles Noussair) – Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 188, 307-321, (2021)    [WP-PDF]

Do Reference Points Affect Workers’ Fairness Perceptions? Experimental Evidence on Wage Rigidity – Journal for Labor Market Research 55, 5, (2021) [WP-PDF]

The Ghost of Institutions Past: History as an Obstacle to Fighting Tax Evasion (with Aaron Kamm and Nikos Nikiforakis) – European Economic Review 132, 103641, (2021)  [WP-PDF]

The winner's curse: Conditional Reasoning and belief formation (with Stefan P. Penczynski) – Journal of Economic Theory 174, 57-102. (2018).   [WP-PDF]

Working Papers

Disclosure of Verifiable Information under Competition: An Experimental Study (with Stefan P. Penczynski and Sihong Zhang) - r&r AEJ-Micro [PDF]

Populist Propaganda and Anti-Migration Stances: An Experimental Investigation (with Linda Dezső and Jean-Robert Tyran) -  [PDF] 

Anatomy of Welfare Chauvinism: An Experimental Investigation (with Linda Dezső and Jean-Robert Tyran) - available upon request

Overcoming negative ethnic sentiments: A compassion intervention (with Melis Kartal, Tomáš Miklánek and Wieland Müller) - available upon request

Research in Progress:

Anti-Migration Sentiments and Loss of Control: An Experimental Study (with Julian Polzin and Jean-Robert Tyran)

Scarcity and Social Distance: An Experimental Investigation (with Geoffrey Castillo)

Markets or not: Can Money Buy Morals? (with Sigma Samhita)

Norm Compliance vs. Norm Internalization