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Overview

Jan Potters is affiliated with Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily falls within the domain of Social Sciences, focusing notably on Behavioral Economics and Decision Sciences.

Their work extensively covers topics such as:

  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Economic Policies and Impacts
  • Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research

Potters' research output includes a number of recent papers published in interdisciplinary and economics-focused journals. Notable publications include:

  • "(Not) alone in the world: Cheating in the presence of a virtual observer," 2020, published in Experimental Economics
  • "Good decision vs. good results: Outcome bias in the evaluation of financial agents," 2020, Theory and Decision
  • "Cooperative versus competitive interactions and in-group bias," 2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "Magnitude effect in intertemporal allocation tasks," 2021, Experimental Economics
  • "The effect of brief cooperative contact with ethnic minorities on discrimination," 2024, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Potters frequently publishes in several scholarly venues, with a particular concentration in:

  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Experimental Economics
  • European Economic Review
  • Theory and Decision
  • Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken

Their collaborative efforts include multiple co-authors with whom they have published several papers. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Sigrid Suetens (3 publications)
  • Yadi Yang (3 publications)
  • Jantsje M. Mol (2 publications)
  • Cédric Argenton (2 publications)
  • Chen Sun (2 publications)

Their research engages with subfields such as Safety Research, Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, and Demography, indicating a multidisciplinary approach to understanding economic and social behaviors.

Best Publications

  • An Experiment on Risk Taking and Evaluation Periods

    Uri Gneezy;Jan Potters

  • Lobbying and asymmetric information

    Jan Potters;Frans van Winden

  • Leading-by-example and signaling in voluntary contribution games: an experimental study

    Jan Potters;Martin Sefton;Lise Vesterlund

  • Interest groups: A survey of empirical models that try to assess their influence

    Jan Potters;Randolph Sloof

  • Evaluation Periods and Asset Prices in a Market Experiment

    Uri Gneezy;Arie Kapteyn;Jan Potters

  • After you—endogenous sequencing in voluntary contribution games

    Jan Potters;Martin Sefton;Lise Vesterlund

  • Imitation and Belief Learning in an Oligopoly Experiment

    T.J.S. Offerman;J.J.M. Potters;J.H. Sonnemans

  • Assessing the Efficacy of Gaming in Economic Education

    H.J.F.M. Gremmen;J.J.M. Potters

  • An experimental examination of rational rent-seeking

    Jan Potters;Casper G de Vries;Frans van Winden

  • Campaign Expenditures, Contributions and Direct Endorsements: The Strategic Use of Information and Money to Influence Voter Behavior

    Jan Potters;Randolph Sloof;F.A.A.M. van Winden

  • Buyer confusion and market prices

    Kenan Kalaycı;Jan Potters

  • Cores and related solution concepts for multi-choice games

    C.G.A.M. van den Nouweland;J.A.M. Potters;S.H. Tijs;J. Zarzuelo

  • Campaign expenditures, contributions and direct endorsements: The strategic use of information and money to influence voter behavior

    Jan Potters;Randolph Sloof;Frans van Winden

  • Professionals and students in a lobbying experiment. Professional rules of conduct and subject surrogacy

    Jan Potters;Frans van Winden

  • MODELLING POLITICAL PRESSURE AS TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION

    Jan Potters;Frans Van Winden

  • Risk taking by agents: The role of ex-ante and ex-post accountability

    Monique M.H. Pollmann;Jan Potters;Stefan T. Trautmann

  • Do cheaters in the lab also cheat in the field

    Jan Potters;J.T.R. Stoop

  • Cooperation in Experimental Games of Strategic Complements and Substitutes

    Jan Potters;Sigrid Suetens

  • Hiding an inconvenient truth: Lies and vagueness

    Marta Serra-Garcia;Eric van Damme;Jan Potters

  • OLIGOPOLY EXPERIMENTS IN THE CURRENT MILLENNIUM

    Jan Potters;Sigrid Suetens

Frequent Co-Authors

Theo Offerman
Theo Offerman University of Amsterdam
Frans van Winden
Frans van Winden University of Amsterdam
Werner Güth
Werner Güth Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Arno Riedl
Arno Riedl Maastricht University
Martin Sefton
Martin Sefton University of Nottingham
Eric van Damme
Eric van Damme Tilburg University
Muriel Niederle
Muriel Niederle Stanford University
Peter Kooreman
Peter Kooreman Tilburg University
Lise Vesterlund
Lise Vesterlund University of Pittsburgh
Uri Gneezy
Uri Gneezy University of California, San Diego

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