Publications

Below you find recent publications which are indicative of the range of topics and research approaches covered within the Human Decisions and Policy Design research theme.

2017

Blakstad, M., Brüggen, E.C., & Post, T. (2017). Life events and participant engagement in

pension plans. Netspar Design Paper 93.
Brüggen, E.C., Hogreve, J., Holmlund, M., Kabadayi, S., & Löfgren, M. (2017). Financial

well-being: A conceptualization and research agenda. Journal of Business Research, 79, 228-237.
Brüggen, E.C., van der Heijden, K., & Post, T. (2017). Creating good choice environments:

Insights from research and industry practice. Netspar Design Paper 88.
Cettolin, E., & Riedl, A. (2017). Justice under uncertainty. Management Science, 63, 11,

3739-3759.
Chen, D.H., Beetsma, R.M., Broeders, D.W., & Pelsser, A.A. (2017). Sustainability of

participation in collective pension schemes: An option pricing approach. Insurance:

Mathematics and Economics, 74, 182-196.
Davidoff, T., Gerhard, P., & Post, T. (2017). Reverse mortgages: What homeowners (don’t)

know and how it matters. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 133, 151-171.
Dietrich, S. (2017). Coping with shocks: Impact of insurance payouts on small-scale farmers.

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance – Issues and Practice, 42(2), 348-369.
Gäechter, S., Mengel, F., Tsakas, E., & Vostroknutov, A. (2017). Growth and inequality in

public goods provision. Journal of Public Economics, 150, 1-13.
Jiao, P. (2017). Belief in mean reversion and the disposition effect: An experimental test.

Journal of Behavioral Finance, 18(1), 29-44.
Khalmetski, K., Rockenbach, B., & Werner, P. (2017). Evasive lying in strategic

communication. Journal of Public Economics, 156, 59-72.
Meissner, T., & Rostam-Afschar, D. (2017). Learning Ricardian Equivalence. Journal of

Economic Dynamics & Control, 82, 273-288.
Sliwka, D., & Werner, P. (2017) Wage increases and the dynamics of reciprocity. Journal of

Labor Economics, 35(2), 299-344.
Vink, J., Mahr, D., & Odekerken-Schröder, G. (2017). Shifting the balance of power in

healthcare through service design. Service Design Impact Report – Health Sector.
Zhou, Y., Jiao, P., & Zhang, Q. (2017). Second-party and third-party punishment in a public

goods experiment. Applied Economics Letters, 24(1), 54-57.

2018

Albrecher, H., Bauer, D., Embrechts, P., Filipovic, D., Koch-Medina, P., Korn, R.,

Loisel, S., Pelsser, A., Schiller, F., Schmeiser, H., Wagner, J. (2018). Asset-liability management for long-term insurance business. European Actuarial Journal, 8(1), 9-25.
Bosch-Rosa, C., Meissner, T., & Bosch-Domenech, A. (2018). Cognitive

bubbles. Experimental Economics, 21(1), 132-153.
Bosmans, K., Decancq, K., & Ooghe, E. (2018). Who’s afraid of aggregating money

metrics? Theoretical Economics, 13(2), 467-484.
Bosmans, K., Lauwers, L., & Ooghe, E. (2018). Prioritarian poverty comparisons with

cardinal and ordinal attributes. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 120(3), 925-942.
Bosmans, K., Öztürk, E. (2018). An axiomatic approach to the measurement of envy. Social

Choice and Welfare, 50(2), 247-264.
Brüggen, A., Feichter, C., & Williamson, M. (2018). The effect of input and output targets for

routine tasks on creative task performance. Accounting Review, 93(1), 29-43.
Coricelli, G., Polonio, L., Vostroknutov, A., (2018). The Process of Choice in Games. In

Capra, M., Croson, R., Rosenblatt, T., Rigdon M., (eds): Handbook of Experimental Game Theory. Edward Elgar Publishing
de Haan, T., & Linde, J. (2018). ‘Good Nudge Lullaby’: Choice architecture and default bias

reinforcement. The Economic Journal, 128(610), 1180-1206
Eijkelenboom, G. G., Rohde, I., & Vostroknutov, A. (2018). The impact of the level of

responsibility on choices under risk: the role of blame. Experimental Economics, 1-21.
Feichter, C., Grabner, I., & Moers, F. (2018). Target setting in multi-divisional firms: State of

the art and avenues for future research. Journal of Management Accounting Research, 30(3), 29-54.
Feldhaus, C., Sobotta, T., & Werner, P. (2018). Reminders for voluntary payments might

backfire—Evidence from a field study. Economics Letters, 171, 133-136.
Festjens, A., Bruyneel, S., & Dewitte, S. (2018). An appetite for risk? Failure to replicate the

effect of hunger cues on risk taking. Food Quality and Preference, 68, 415-419
Fioretti, M., Vostroknutov, A., & Coricelli, G. (2018). Dynamic Regret Avoidance.
Gross, J., Emmerling, F., Vostroknutov, A., & Sack, A. T. (2018). Manipulation of pro

sociality and rule-following with non-invasive brain stimulation. Scientific reports, 8(1), 1827.
Haesebrouck, K., Cools, M., & Van den Abbeele, A. (2018). Status differences and

knowledge transfer: The effect of incentives. Accounting Review, 93(1), 213-234.
Hainaut, D., Devolder, P., & Pelsser, A. (2018). Robust evaluation of SCR for participating

life insurances under Solvency II. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 79, 107-123
Kimbrough, E. O., & Vostroknutov, A. (2018). A portable method of eliciting respect for

social norms. Economics Letters, 168, 147-150.
Mounir, A., Perea y Monsuwé, A., & Tsakas, E. (2018). Common belief in approximate

rationality. Mathematical Social Sciences, 91, 6-16.
Nadler, A., Jiao, P., Johnson, C. J., Alexander, V., & Zak, P. J. (2018). The bull of Wall

Street: Experimental analysis of testosterone and asset trading. Management Science, 64(9), 3971-4470.
Recalde, M. P., Riedl, A., & Vesterlund, L. (2018). Error prone inference from response time:

The case of intuitive generosity in public-good games. Journal of Public Economics, 160, 132-147.
Tsakas, E. (2018). Agreeing to disagree with conditional probability systems. The BE Journal

of Theoretical Economics, 18(2).
Vostroknutov, A., Polonio, L., Coricelli, G., (2018). The role of intelligence in social

learning. Scientific Reports, 8, 6896.

2019

Bossel, V., Geyskens, K., & Goukens, C. (2019). Facing a trend of brand logo simplicity: The

impact of brand logo design on consumption. Food Quality and Preference, 71, 129-135.
Cettolin, E., & Riedl, A. (2019). Revealed Preferences under Uncertainty: Incomplete

Preferences and Preferences for Randomization. Journal of Economic Theory, 181, 547-585.
Feldhaus, C., Sobotta, T., & Werner, P. (2019). Norm uncertainty and voluntary payments in
the field. Management Science, 65(4), 1855-1866.
Schleich, J., Gassmann, X., Meissner, T. and Faure, C. (2019). A large-scale test of the effects

of time discounting, risk aversion, loss aversion and present bias on household adoption of energy efficient technologies. Energy Economics: 80, 377-393.

Forthcoming

Werner, P., & Riedl, A. (forthcoming). The role of experiments for policy design. In:
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Experimental Economics, edited by Arthur Schram and Aljaz Ule, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.