Behavioral and Experimental Economics
The research group includes scientists from economics, management, and psychology background. In their research, they use experimental approaches to study a variety of topics related to human judgment and decision-making, including:
- Why people behave dishonestly and how is it possible to reduce dishonest behavior in groups and organizations?
- How can judgment and decision-making in organizations be improved?
- What influences cooperation in social dilemmas?
Main directions of the research:
- Judgment and decision-making
- Dishonesty, cheating, morality
- Behavioral interventions, nudges
#behavioral economics, #experimental economics, #behavioral ethics
Representatives of the research team
Top publications of the team
- Cingl, L., Lichard, T., & Miklánek, T. (2023). Tax designation effects on compliance: An online experiment with taxpayers. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 214, 615-633.
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Houdek, P., Bahník, Š., Hudík, M., & Vranka, M. (2021). Selection Effects on Dishonest Behavior. Judgment and Decision Making, 16, 238–266.
- Vranka, M., Frollová, N., Pour, M., Novakova, J., & Houdek, P. (2019). Cheating customers in grocery stores: A field study on dishonesty. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 83, 101484.
Selected research projects
- Why don’t birds of a feather always flock together? Imperfect selection of cheaters in cheating-enabling environments, PI: Štěpán Bahník, Czech Science Foundation, 2023-2025
- Role of social preferences in cooperative behavior, PI: Tomáš Miklánek, Czech Science Foundation, 2022-2024
- Behavioral Organizational Politics: Experiments in Prosocial Political Behavior, PI: Petr Houdek, Czech Science Foundation, 2022-2024
Contact
stepan.bahnik@vse.cz
im.vse.cz/cevyz/english/applied-ethics-and-morality-research-group