EBDM research group

 

 

Frank Auton
Ray Baldon
Franz Buscha
Paul Antoine Chevalier
Anna Conte
Dan Goldstein
Lionel Page
Matthew Rablen
Richard West
Nicos Zafiris

 

 

 

                                    

Economics of Behaviour and Decision Making research group

Organiser: Lionel Page

The EBDM research group focuses on the study of human behaviour and decisions in economic situations. Its scope is interdisciplinary in nature and the group gathers researchers in Economics, Marketing and Management.

  • Research topics:
    • Choice under risk
    • Construction of preferences
    • Consumer and Managerial decision making
    • Political decisions
    • Educational choices
  • Selected publications:
    • Lionel Page (forthcoming), Last shall be first: A field study of biases in sequential performance evaluation on the Idol series. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (with Katie Page)
    • Anna Conte (2008), Mixture models of Choice under Risk, Journal of Econometrics (with  John Hey and Peter Moffat)
    • Dan Goldstein (2008), Fast and frugal heuristics are plausible models of cognition, Psychological Review (with Gigerenzer, G. and Hoffrage, U.).
    • Matthew Rablen (2008), Relativity, Rank and the Utility of Income, Economic Journal.
    • Matthew Rablen (2008), Mortality and immortality, Journal of Health Economics (with Andrew Oswald).
    • Dan Goldstein (2007) Asymmetric discounting in intertemporal choice: A Query Theory account. Psychological Science (with Weber, E. U., Johnson, E. J., Milch, K. F., Chang, H. and Brodscholl, J. C.).
    • Lionel Page (2007), "Aspiration Levels and Educational Choices: An Experimental Study." Economics of Education Review (with  Louis Levy Garboua and Claude Montmarquette)
  • EBDM seminar series, jointly organised with the London Business School
    •  The EBDM seminar series is open to all and takes place usually weekly. Check the program here.

  • Doctoral program
    •  If you are interested by our doctoral program, ask for more information at ebdm@wmin.ac.uk

     

  • News
    • Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Planck Institute) will be the guest speaker of the inaugural EBDM seminar of the next academic year, in September.
    • Luis Rayo (University of Chicago) will be visiting the research centre next academic year.