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Economics and Finance
Germany
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
90
Citations
50616
World Ranking
168
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
  • 2011 - Yrjö Jahnsson Award
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Armin Falk is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany, focusing on research within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including education, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, safety research, and demography. Falk's research topics primarily cover experimental behavioral economics studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, school choice and performance, early childhood education and development, culture, economy and development studies, environmental education and sustainability, as well as climate change communication and perception.

Falk has contributed to a variety of publication venues. Frequent outlets include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Political Economy

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Falk include:

  • "Socioeconomic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences," 2021, Journal of Political Economy
  • "Diffusion of Being Pivotal and Immoral Outcomes," 2020, The Review of Economic Studies

Other significant publications in collaboration with colleagues include:

  • "Globally representative evidence on the actual and perceived support for climate action," 2024, Nature Climate Change (author: Peter Andre)
  • "Patience and Comparative Development," 2021, The Review of Economic Studies (author: Uwe Sunde)
  • "Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences," 2020, AEA Papers and Proceedings (author: Anke Becker)

Falk has collaborated extensively with a number of co-authors. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Fabian Kosse
  • Benjamin Enke
  • Teodora Boneva
  • Thomas Dohmen
  • Pia Pinger

Among recognized honors, Armin Falk has received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in 2011 and holds membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Best Publications

  • Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants and Behavioral Consequences

    Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • A theory of reciprocity

    Armin Falk;Urs Fischbacher

  • Psychological foundations of incentives

    Ernst Fehr;Armin Falk

  • Global Evidence on Economic Preferences

    Armin Falk;Anke Becker;Thomas Dohmen;Benjamin Enke

  • Global Evidence on Economic Preferences

    Armin Falk;Anke Becker;Thomas Dohmen;Benjamin Enke

  • Are risk aversion and impatience related to cognitive ability

    Thomas J Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • Lab Experiments Are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences

    Armin Falk;James Joseph Heckman

  • The hidden costs of control

    Armin Falk;Michael Kosfeld

  • Are risk aversion and impatience related to cognitive ability

    Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

    Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • Individual risk attitudes: New evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey

    Thomas Dohmen;Armin Falk;David B. Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • Clean Evidence on Peer Effects

    Armin Falk;Andrea Ichino

  • Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting - Productivity, Preferences and Gender

    Thomas Dohmen;Armin Falk

  • Reference Points and Effort Provision

    Johannes Abeler;Armin Falk;Lorenz Götte;David Huffman

  • On the Nature of Fair Behavior

    Armin Falk;Ernst Fehr;Urs Fischbacher

  • Testing theories of fairness—Intentions matter

    Armin Falk;Ernst Fehr;Urs Fischbacher

  • Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

    Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman;David Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • Wage Rigidity in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market

    Ernst Fehr;Armin Falk

  • Social comparison affects reward-related brain activity in the human ventral striatum

    Klaus Fliessbach;Bernd Weber;P. Trautner;Thomas Dohmen

  • Relational contracts and the nature of market interactions

    Martin Brown;Armin Falk;Ernst Fehr

  • Performance Pay and Multidimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences, and Gender

    Thomas Dohmen;Armin Falk

  • Cross-sectional earnings risk and occupational sorting: the role of risk attitudes

    Holger Bonin;Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman

  • The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences

    Armin Falk;Anke Becker;Thomas Dohmen;David B. Huffman

  • Reputation and Reciprocity: Consequences for the Labour Relation

    Simon Gächter;Armin Falk

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Dohmen
Thomas J. Dohmen University of Bonn
Uwe Sunde
Uwe Sunde Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ernst Fehr
Ernst Fehr University of Zurich
Urs Fischbacher
Urs Fischbacher University of Konstanz
Bernd Weber
Bernd Weber University of Bonn
Jürgen Schupp
Jürgen Schupp German Institute for Economic Research
Simon Gächter
Simon Gächter University of Nottingham
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner German Institute for Economic Research
Josef Zweimüller
Josef Zweimüller University of Zurich
Rafael Lalive
Rafael Lalive University of Lausanne

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