2026 Lorenz Goette: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	45	1733	1558	6	6	127	12354

Overview

Lorenz Goette is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research encompasses a range of topics primarily within social sciences, with a focus on experimental behavioral economics. Their work often intersects with environmental sustainability, health behaviors, and decision-making processes.

The main fields and subfields of study associated with their research include:

Social Sciences
Safety Research
Sociology and Political Science
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Management of Technology and Innovation
Economics and Econometrics

The topics they investigate cover various areas relevant to behavioral economics and public health, such as:

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Environmental Education and Sustainability
Blood donation and transfusion practices
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Antibiotic Use and Resistance
Health disparities and outcomes
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Lorenz Goette demonstrate a focus on behavioral interventions and public health economics:

Blood donations and incentives: Evidence from a field experiment, 2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Biased health perceptions and risky health behaviors-Theory and evidence, 2021, Journal of Health Economics
Appliance-specific feedback and social comparisons: Evidence from a field experiment on energy conservation, 2020, Energy Policy
Prosociality predicts individual behavior and collective outcomes in the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, Social Science & Medicine
The Habit Forming Effects of Feedback: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research activities include:

Ximeng Fang
Egon Tripodi
Daniel Wiesen
Yu Wang
Erte Xiao

Their publications are predominantly found in specialty journals and platforms that emphasize randomized trials, behavioral economics, and social science research, such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Social Science & Medicine
Journal of Health Economics

Best Publications

Reference Points and Effort Provision

Johannes Abeler;Armin Falk;Lorenz Götte;David Huffman

1103
Citations
The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups

Lorenz Goette;David Huffman;Stephan Meier

1036
Citations
Cognitive skills affect economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment.

Stephen V. Burks;Jeffrey P. Carpenter;Lorenz Goette;Aldo Rustichini

818
Citations
Do Workers Work More if Wages Are High? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Ernst Fehr;Lorenz Goette

801
Citations
Do Workers Work More if Wages are High? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Ernst Fehr;Lorenz Goette;Lorenz Goette;Lorenz Goette

728
Citations
How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project

William T. Dickens;Lorenz Goette;Erica L. Groshen;Steinar Holden

670
Citations
The Impact of Social Ties on Group Interactions: Evidence from Minimal Groups and Randomly Assigned Real Groups

Lorenz Goette;David Huffman;Stephan Meier

482
Citations
Numerical ability predicts mortgage default

Kristopher Gerardi;Lorenz Goette;Stephan Meier

455
Citations
A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns

Ernst Fehr;Lorenz Goette;Lorenz Goette;Lorenz Goette;Christian Zehnder

437
Citations
Robustness and Real Consequences of Nominal Wage Rigidity

Ernst Fehr;Lorenz Goette

350
Citations
Reducing Foreclosures: No Easy Answers

Christopher L. Foote;Kristopher Gerardi;Lorenz Goette;Paul Willen

319
Citations
Financial Literacy and Subprime Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from a Survey Matched to Administrative Data

Kristopher Gerardi;Lorenz Goette;Stephan Meier

303
Citations
Overcoming Salience Bias: How Real-Time Feedback Fosters Resource Conservation

Verena Tiefenbeck;Lorenz Goette;Kathrin Degen;Vojkan Tasic

292
Citations
Financial Literacy and Subprime Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from a Survey Matched to Administrative Data

Kristopher Gerardi;Lorenz Goette;Lorenz Goette;Lorenz Goette;Stephan Meier;Stephan Meier;Stephan Meier

288
Citations
Blood donations and incentives: Evidence from a field experiment

Lorenz Goette;Alois Stutzer

259
Citations
Fair Wages and Effort Provision: Combining Evidence from a Choice Experiment and a Field Experiment

Alain Cohn;Ernst Fehr;Lorenz Goette

254
Citations
The Impact of Social Ties on Group Interactions: Evidence from Minimal Groups and Randomly Assigned Real Groups

Lorenz Goette;Lorenz Goette;Lorenz Goette;David Huffman;David Huffman;Stephan Meier;Stephan Meier;Stephan Meier

237
Citations
Overconfidence and Social Signalling

Stephen V. Burks;Jeffrey P. Carpenter;Lorenz Goette;Aldo Rustichini

215
Citations
LOSS AVERSION AND LABOR SUPPLY

Lorenz Goette;David Huffman;Ernst Fehr

198
Citations
Competition Between Organizational Groups: Its Impact on Altruistic and Antisocial Motivations

Lorenz Goette;David Huffman;Stephan Meier;Matthias Sutter

188
Citations
Reference Points and Effort Provision

Johannes Abeler;Johannes Abeler;Armin Falk;Lorenz Goette;Lorenz Goette;Lorenz Goette;David Huffman;David Huffman

139
Citations
Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data

Thomas K. Bauer;Holger Bonin;Lorenz Goette;Uwe Sunde

130
Citations
ROBUSTNESS AND REAL CONSEQUENCES OF NOMINAL WAGE RIGIDITY

Ernst Fehr;Lorenz Götte

125
Citations
Performance pay and worker cooperation: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment

Stephen Burks;Jeffrey Carpenter;Lorenz Goette

114
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Meier Columbia University

Jeffrey P. Carpenter Middlebury College

Ernst Fehr University of Zurich

Aldo Rustichini University of Minnesota

Alois Stutzer University of Basel

Kristopher S. Gerardi Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Paul S. Willen Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Julián Messina University of Alicante

Rafael Lalive University of Lausanne

Jean-Robert Tyran University of Vienna

External Links

Personal website of Lorenz Goette Google Scholar page

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