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Martin Dufwenberg Arrives to the Department of Decision Sciences

, by Laura Fumagalli
Coming from University of Arizona, his studies combine experiments, game theory & psychology

After obtaining his PhD in Economicsin Uppsala in 1995, Martin Dufwenberg was affiliated with universities in Tilburg, Uppsala, Stockholm, Bonn, and Gothenburg. At the University of Arizona he has been Karl & Stevie Eller Professor of Economics (since 2003) and director of the Economic Science Laboratory and of the Institute for Behavioral Economics. Entering the Department of Decision Sciences as a Visiting Professor from September 2013, he will serve as director of the Bocconi Experimental Laboratory in Social Sciences (BELSS).

He currently works on informal agreements, on how to incorporate emotions into economic analysis, on morality in tax evasion, and on the role of reciprocity in settings ranging from banking crises to sweatshops. He is a member of IGIER and the CESifo Behavioural Economics Network. He has been serving on the editorial boards of Experimental Economics, Games & Economic Behavior, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. He has published, among others, in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Neuron, and Games & Economic Behavior.