Georg Weizsacker
Reader in Economics, LSE (on
leave)
Research Director, DIW
Research Fellow, ELSE
Research Fellow, IZA
Associate Editor, Economic Journal
Associate Editor, Management Science
Member of the Editorial Board, Review of Economic Studies
Member of the Editorial Board, Experimental Economics
Welcome to my LSE Personal Web Page, version October 2009
Research Interests: Experimental Economics, Decision Theory, Game Theory, Applied Microeconomics
Link to conference on "Laboratory Economics and the Field": LEaF 2005, LEaF 2006, LEaF 2007
Publications and Working Papers:
"Do we follow others when we should? A simple test of rational expectations", forthcoming, American Economic Review.
"Narrow bracketing and dominated choices" (with Matthew Rabin), 2009, American Economic Review 99, 1508-1543.
"Stated beliefs and play in normal form games" (with Miguel Costa-Gomes), 2008, Review of Economic Studies 75, 729-762.
"Advance purchase commitments for vaccines against neglected diseases: Estimating costs and effectiveness" (with Ernst Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine, and Heidi Williams), 2007, Health Economics 16, 491-511.
"Are longer cascades more stable?" (with
Dorothea Kübler), 2005, Journal of the European Economic Association (Papers
and Proceedings) 3, 330-339.
"Teaching auction strategy using experiments
administered via the Internet" (with John Asker, Brit Grosskopf, Nick
McKinney, Muriel Niederle, and Alvin Roth), 2004, Journal of Economic Education 35,
330-342.
"Beliefs about
other players: Experimental evidence", 2004, PhD thesis,
"Limited depth of
reasoning and failure of cascade formation in the laboratory" (with
Dorothea Kübler), 2004, Review of
Economic Studies 71, 425-441.
Reprinted in: Carbone, E., and C. Starmer (eds.), 2007, New
Developments in Experimental Economics – The International Library of
Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar. Also reprinted in: Sadrieh,
A., and J. Weimann (eds.), 2008, Experimental Economics in
"Information
cascades in the labor market" (with Dorothea Kübler), 2003, Journal of Economics 80, 211-229.
"Ignoring the rationality of others: Evidence from experimental normal-form games", 2003, Games and Economic Behavior 44, 145-171.
"Do players correctly estimate what others do? Evidence of conservatism in beliefs" (with Steffen Huck),
2002, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization 47, 71-85.
"Renegotiation in the repeated amnesty dilemma:
With economic applications" (with Joseph Farrell), 2001, in: K. Chatterjee
and W. Samuelson (eds.), Game Theory and
Business Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
"Risk,
complexity, and deviations from expected value maximization" (with Steffen
Huck), 1999, Journal of Economic
Psychology 20, 699-715.