🚨 POSTDOC WANTED 🚨 Join the Behavioral Economics of Crime & Conflict Group at MPICSL in Freiburg! We're seeking a behavioral scientist with PhD in economics, psychology, or related. Experience with experiments is key. Full time, 2 years, no teaching. Apply now! tinyurl.com/FGR251 #EconSky
Thomas Meissner
@thomasmeissner.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics at Maastricht University. Behavioral Economist. Tape Artist Research: tmeissner.com Art: tapethatcollective.com
🚨Call for papers🚨 Join us for M-BEES and M-BEPS in Maastricht this year, on June 10 & 11 2025! Deadline: March 1 We have some amazing keynote speakers this year: Rachel Kranton Guillaume Fréchette Marc Gurgand Axel Ockenfels More details👇 tinyurl.com/58a5c75v #EconSky
M-BEES & M-BEPS
Keynote Speakers 17th Maastricht Behavioral and Experimental Economics Symposium (M-BEES, June 10, 2025): Rachel Kranton (Duke University) Guillaume Fréchette (New York University) 10th Maastricht...
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🚨🚨New Paper Alert🚨🚨 We embed a within-subject experiment with two lying paradigms in the 2020 German Socio-Economic Panel. The difference between paradigms? *Observability* 🔍 In one, we know if you lied to win more money; in the other, we do not. papers.boschrosa.com/Observabilit...
📢 Our belief elicitation tool is now available for oTree and Qualtrics! 🎉 It lets you elicit parametric belief distributions with just two sliders. 👉 Try it out or download here: tmeissner.com/tools Big thanks to my coauthors @pgonzalezfernandez.bsky.social and @boschrosa.bsky.social #econsky
So I asked ChatGPTo1 to create 3 new Cognitive Reflection Test questions - absolutely impressed with the first two! Third is meh, but overall amazing. Earlier models were quite bad a this, just rephrasing the original questions. Awesome progress.
I have added a number of posters to the behavioural economics starter pack. Please let me know if you want to be added too. go.bsky.app/Ku4zvbT
Okay, Not sure what is happening with all the new followers, but here is a cool new paper 🚨 We propose a new method to elicit full belief distributions with a simple tool using only two sliders. It works really well compared to standard methods to measure inflation beliefs. tinyurl.com/mr24w3wf
🚨 Job Ad 🚨 Come work with Hannes Rusch, myself and team on the behavioral economics of exploitation. We are looking for a postdoc to join the team at MPICSL Freiburg. Position is full-time, 3-yr. fixed-term, no teaching. Deadline: November 12, 2023 tinyurl.com/3br5uy9k #EconSky
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