2026 Theo Offerman: 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	34	3121	2834	87	80	111	4711

Overview

Theo Offerman is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research contributions span several topics within behavioral and experimental economics, focusing notably on decision-making processes, risk attitudes, and economic valuations.

Their recent published papers include:

Do measures of risk attitude in the laboratory predict behavior under risk in and outside of the laboratory? (2020, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty)
Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes? (2021, The Review of Economics and Statistics)
Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes? (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
On the effect of anchoring on valuations when the anchor is transparently uninformative (2020, Journal of the Economic Science Association)
Morals in Multi-Unit Markets (2024, Journal of the European Economic Association)

Theo Offerman frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

Jeroen van de Ven
Giorgia Romagnoli
Boris van Leeuwen
Andreas Ziegler
Uri Gneezy

Their publications are commonly featured in several academic venues, among which are:

Harvard Dataverse
SSRN Electronic Journal
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
The Review of Economics and Statistics
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The research fields and subfields related to their work include:

Safety Research
General Decision Sciences
Economics and Econometrics
Management Science and Operations Research
Organic Chemistry

Among the main topics covered in their work are:

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Auction Theory and Applications
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Ethics in Business and Education
Deception detection and forensic psychology
Game Theory and Applications

Best Publications

Value orientations, expectations and voluntary contributions in public goods

T.J.S. Offerman;J.H. Sonnemans;A.J.H.C. Schram

518
Citations
Public good provision and public bad prevention: the effect of framing

J.H. Sonnemans;A.J.H.C. Schram;T.J.S. Offerman

395
Citations
Hurting hurts more than helping helps

T.J.S. Offerman

376
Citations
Imitation and Belief Learning in an Oligopoly Experiment

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

319
Citations
A truth serum for non-Bayesians : correcting proper scoring rules for risk attitudes

T.J.S. Offerman;J.H. Sonnemans;G. van de Kuilen;P.P. Wakker

281
Citations
Competitive Bidding in Auctions with Private and Common Values

Jacob K. Goeree;Theo Offerman

259
Citations
Strategic Behavior in Public Good Games: When Partners Drift Apart.

J.H. Sonnemans;A.J.H.C. Schram;T.J.S. Offerman

197
Citations
Efficiency in Auctions with Private and Common Values: An Experimental Study

Jacob K. Goeree;Theo Offerman

188
Citations
Learning by experience and learning by imitating successful others.

Theo Offerman;Joep Sonnemans

139
Citations
Do measures of risk attitude in the laboratory predict behavior under risk in and outside of the laboratory

Gary Charness;Thomas Garcia;Thomas Garcia;Theo Offerman;Marie Claire Villeval

122
Citations
What's Causing Overreaction? An Experimental Investigation of Recency and the Hot-hand Effect*

Theo Offerman;Joep Sonnemans

92
Citations
Does Auctioning of Entry Licences Induce Collusion? An Experimental Study

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

91
Citations
Encouraging compliance: bonuses versus fines in inspection games

D. Nosenzo;T. Offerman;M. Sefton;A. van der Veen

90
Citations
Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes?

Benjamin Enke;Uri Gneezy;Brian Hall;David C. Martin

85
Citations
Noisy signaling: Theory and experiment

Thomas de Haan;Theo Offerman;Randolph Sloof

77
Citations
Fighting collusion in auctions: An experimental investigation

Audrey Hu;Theo Offerman;Sander Onderstal

68
Citations
Hurting Hurts More Than Helping Helps: The Role of the Self-Serving Bias

T.J.S. Offerman

67
Citations
Imitation and luck: an experimental study on social sampling

Theo Offerman;Andrew Schotter

67
Citations
Demand reduction and preemptive bidding in multi-unit license auctions

Jacob K. Goeree;Theo Offerman;Randolph Sloof

64
Citations
Quantal response models in step-level public good games

T.J.S. Offerman;A.J.H.C. Schram;J.H. Sonnemans

63
Citations
Ethical Free Riding: When Honest People Find Dishonest Partners.

Jörg Gross;Margarita Leib;Theo Offerman;Shaul Shalvi

62
Citations
Beliefs and decision rules in public good games

T.J.S. Offerman

29
Citations
Does auctioning of entry licences induce collusions? An experimental study

T.J.S. Offerman;Jan Potters

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Potters Tilburg University

Joep Sonnemans University of Amsterdam

Jacob K. Goeree University of New South Wales

Werner Güth Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Andrew Schotter New York University

Uri Gneezy University of California, San Diego

Charles N. Noussair University of Arizona

Martin Sefton University of Nottingham

Marie Claire Villeval Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Andreas Ziegler University of Kassel

External Links

Personal website of Theo Offerman

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