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Jean-Robert Tyran

Jean-Robert Tyran

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Economics and Finance

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38
Citations
9483
World Ranking
2502
National Ranking
14

Overview

Jean-Robert Tyran is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily spans social sciences with a focus on sociology and political science. Their work covers intersections with safety research, information systems, communication, and general decision sciences.

The scientist's research topics include misinformation and its impacts, experimental behavioral economics studies, spam and phishing detection, media influence and politics, social media and politics, decision-making and behavioral economics, and economic policies and impacts.

Jean-Robert Tyran has published extensively in several venues, often contributing to the following:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • American Economic Review
  • Journal of Public Economics
  • European Economic Review

Recent publications by Jean-Robert Tyran include:

  • "Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice," 2022, American Economic Review
  • "Self-signaling in voting," 2024, Journal of Public Economics
  • "Civic engagement, the leverage effect and the accountable state," 2023, European Economic Review
  • "Civic Engagement as a Constraint on Corruption," 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Melis Kartal, Kenju Kamei, Edoardo Cefala, Sylvia Kritzinger, and Lydia Mechtenberg. These collaborations have resulted in multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Achieving Compliance when Legal Sanctions are Non-Deterrent

    Jean-Robert Tyran;Lars P. Feld

  • Does money illusion matter

    Ernst Fehr;Jean-Robert Tyran

  • Individual Irrationality and Aggregate Outcomes

    Ernst Fehr;Jean-Robert Tyran

  • Tax Evasion and Voting: An Experimental Analysis

    Lars P. Feld;Jean-Robert Tyran

  • Microfoundations of social capital

    Christian Thöni;Jean-Robert Tyran;Jean-Robert Tyran;Erik Wengström;Erik Wengström

  • Deciding for others reduces loss aversion

    Ola Andersson;Håkan J. Holm;Jean-Robert Tyran;Erik Wengström

  • Testing the Mill hypothesis of fiscal illusion

    Rupert Sausgruber;Jean-Robert Tyran

  • Self-Organization for Collective Action: An Experimental Study of Voting on Sanction Regimes

    Thomas Markussen;Louis Putterman;Jean-Robert Tyran

  • Risk aversion relates to cognitive ability: Preferences or Noise?

    Ola Andersson;Håkan J. Holm;Jean-Robert Tyran;Erik Wengström

  • Limited Rationality and Strategic Interaction: The Impact of the Strategic Environment on Nominal Inertia

    Ernst Fehr;Jean-Robert Tyran

  • Voting when money and morals conflict: an experimental test of expressive voting

    Jean-Robert Tyran

  • A little fairness may induce a lot of redistribution in democracy

    Jean-Robert Tyran;Rupert Sausgruber

  • Behavioral Game Theory. Experiments in Strategic Interaction: Colin F. Camerer, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2003, p. 550, Price $65.00/£42.95, ISBN 0-691-09039-4

    Jean-Robert Tyran

  • Competition fosters trust

    Steffen Huck;Gabriele K. Lünser;Jean-Robert Tyran;Jean-Robert Tyran

  • Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes

    Louis Putterman;Jean-Robert Tyran;Jean-Robert Tyran;Kenju Kamei

  • Money illusion and coordination failure

    Ernst Fehr;Jean-Robert Tyran

  • Give and take in dictator games

    Alexander Wright Cappelen;Ulrik H. Nielsen;Erik Øiolf Sørensen;Bertil Tungodden

  • Fairness is intuitive

    Alexander W. Cappelen;Ulrik Haagen Nielsen;Bertil Tungodden;Jean-Robert Karl Tyran;Jean-Robert Karl Tyran

  • To Buy or Not to Buy? An Experimental Study of Consumer Boycotts in Retail Markets

    Jean-Robert Tyran;Dirk Engelmann

  • The foundations of behavioral economic analysis

    Jean-Robert Tyran

  • Inequality aversion and voting on redistribution

    Wolfgang Höchtl;Rupert Sausgruber;Jean-Robert Tyran;Jean-Robert Tyran

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernst Fehr
Ernst Fehr University of Zurich
Steffen Huck
Steffen Huck Social Science Research Center Berlin
Louis Putterman
Louis Putterman Brown University
Lars P. Feld
Lars P. Feld Walter Eucken Institut
Bertil Tungodden
Bertil Tungodden Norwegian School of Economics
Lorenz Goette
Lorenz Goette National University of Singapore
Simon Gächter
Simon Gächter University of Nottingham
Charles N. Noussair
Charles N. Noussair University of Arizona
Arno Riedl
Arno Riedl Maastricht University
Holger Strulik
Holger Strulik University of Göttingen

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