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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
66
Citations
42477
World Ranking
551
National Ranking
64

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2009 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Economics and Empirical Social Sciences

Overview

Simon Gächter is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and specializes in social sciences with a primary focus on experimental behavioral economics. Their research spans various interconnected fields including sociology and political science, safety research, economics and econometrics, general decision sciences, and social psychology.

Their recent scholarly contributions include papers covering decision-making processes, cooperation, and social behavior published in a range of academic journals. Notable recent publications are:

  • Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices (2021), published in Theory and Decision
  • LIONESS Lab: a free web-based platform for conducting interactive experiments online (2020), published in Journal of the Economic Science Association
  • Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Contextualised strong reciprocity explains selfless cooperation despite selfish intuitions and weak social heuristics (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • Conforming with peers in honesty and cooperation (2022), published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Simon Gächter frequently publishes in several key academic venues, including:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Scientific Reports

Their research interests cover important topics that intersect economics, psychology, and social sciences. These topics include:

  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing

Simon Gächter collaborates regularly with other researchers, with frequent co-authors comprising:

  • Chris Starmer
  • Fabio Tufano
  • Malte Baader
  • Lucas Molleman
  • Niels J. Van Doesum

Simon Gächter has been recognized by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2009 for contributions related to economics and empirical social sciences.

Best Publications

  • Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments

    Ernst Fehr;Simon Gächter

  • Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity

    Ernst Fehr;Simon Gächter

  • Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments

    Ernst Fehr;Simon Gächter;Simon Gächter

  • Are people conditionally cooperative? Evidence from a public goods experiment

    Urs Fischbacher;Simon Gächter;Ernst Fehr

  • Strong Reciprocity, Human Cooperation and the Enforcement of Social Norms

    Ernst Fehr;Urs Fischbacher;Simon Gächter

  • Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments

    Urs Fischbacher;Simon Gächter

  • Reciprocity as a Contract Enforcement Device ? Experimental Evidence

    Ernst Fehr;Simon Gächter;Georg Kirchsteiger

  • Reciprocity and economics: The economic implications of Homo Reciprocans

    Ernst Fehr;Simon Gächter

  • When Social Norms Overpower Competition: Gift Exchange in Experimental Labor Markets

    Ernst Fehr;Erich Kirchler;Andreas Weichbold;Simon Gächter

  • Collective action as a social exchange

    Simon Gächter;Ernst Fehr

  • Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices

    Simon Gächter;Eric J. Johnson;Andreas Herrmann

  • Trust, voluntary cooperation, and socio-economic background: Survey and experimental evidence.

    Simon Gächter;Benedikt Herrmann;Christian Thöni

  • Reputation and Reciprocity: Consequences for the Labour Relation

    Simon Gächter;Armin Falk

  • The Framing of Games and the Psychology of Play

    Martin Dufwenberg;Martin Dufwenberg;Simon Gächter;Heike Hennig-Schmidt

  • The effects of (incentivized) belief elicitation in public goods experiments

    Simon Gächter;Simon Gächter;Elke Renner

  • A simple mechanism for the efficient provision of public goods - experimental evidence

    Josef Falkinger;Ernst Fehr;Simon Gächter;Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

  • Conditional cooperation: Behavioral regularities from the lab and the field and their policy implications

    Simon Gächter

  • Reciprocity as a Contract Enforcement Device

    Ernst Fehr;Simon Gachter;Georg Kirchsteiger

  • Fairness And Retaliation: The Economics Of Reciprocity

    Ernst Fehr;Simon Gächter;Simon Gächter

  • Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment

    Urs Fischbacher;Simon Gächter;Simon Gächter;Ernst Fehr

  • Behavioral Game Theory

    Simon Gächter

  • Reciprocity as a contract enforcement device: experimental evidence

    Georg Kirchsteiger;Ernst Fehr;Simon Gächter

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernst Fehr
Ernst Fehr University of Zurich
Urs Fischbacher
Urs Fischbacher University of Konstanz
Martin Sefton
Martin Sefton University of Nottingham
Arno Riedl
Arno Riedl Maastricht University
Armin Falk
Armin Falk University of Bonn
Andreas Herrmann
Andreas Herrmann RWTH Aachen University
Jean-Robert Tyran
Jean-Robert Tyran University of Vienna
Cristina Bicchieri
Cristina Bicchieri University of Pennsylvania
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Rachel Croson
Rachel Croson University of Minnesota

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