Institute of Social and Economic Research

Recent Publications

Destructive Behaviour, Judgement, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress

Ingvild Almås,

Maximilian Auffhammer,

Tessa Bold,

Ian Bolliger,

Aluma Dembo,

Solomon M Hsiang,

Shuhei Kitamura,

Edward Miguel,

Robert Pickmans

The Economic Journal,

Jan 20, 2025

Informal Incentives and Labour Markets

Matthias Fahn,

Takeshi Murooka

The Economic Journal,

Volume:135

Number:665

p.144-179

Dec 10, 2024

Optimal Trade Mechanisms with Adverse Selection and Inferential Naivety

Takeshi Murooka,

Takuro Yamashita

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics,

forthcoming

Examining the Replicability of Online Experiments Selected by a Decision Market

Felix Holzmeister,

Taisuke Imai,

et al.

Nature Human Behaviour,

Volume:9

Number:2

p.316-330

Mar 1, 2025

Beliefs in Repeated Games: An Experiment

Masaki Aoyagi,

Guillaume R. Fréchette,

Sevgi Yuksel

The American Economic Review,

Volume:114

Number:12

p.3944-3975

Jan 1, 2025

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Destructive Behaviour, Judgement, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress

Ingvild Almås,

Maximilian Auffhammer,

Tessa Bold,

Ian Bolliger,

Aluma Dembo,

Solomon M Hsiang,

Shuhei Kitamura,

Edward Miguel,

Robert Pickmans

The Economic Journal,

Jan 20, 2025

Informal Incentives and Labour Markets

Matthias Fahn,

Takeshi Murooka

The Economic Journal,

Volume:135

Number:665

p.144-179

Dec 10, 2024

Optimal Trade Mechanisms with Adverse Selection and Inferential Naivety

Takeshi Murooka,

Takuro Yamashita

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics,

forthcoming

Examining the Replicability of Online Experiments Selected by a Decision Market

Felix Holzmeister,

Taisuke Imai,

et al.

Nature Human Behaviour,

Volume:9

Number:2

p.316-330

Mar 1, 2025

Beliefs in Repeated Games: An Experiment

Masaki Aoyagi,

Guillaume R. Fréchette,

Sevgi Yuksel

The American Economic Review,

Volume:114

Number:12

p.3944-3975

Jan 1, 2025

International Economic Review

In collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania (USA), we edit and publish the International Economic Review (IER).

World-leading Researchers

Members of ISER have had their papers published in leading international journals.

News

Apr 7th, 2025

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Apr 6th, 2025

"Financial Forecasting in the Lab and the Field: Qualified Professionals vs. Smart Students", Professor Nobuyuki Hanaki (with Te Bao, Brice Corgnet, Katsuhiko Okada, Yohanes E. Riyanto, Jiahua Zhu) has been accepted for publication in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.

Apr 3rd, 2025

"Destructive Behaviour, Judgement, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress", Associate Professor Shuhei Kitamura (with Ingvild Almås, Maximilian Auffhammer, Tessa Bold, Ian Bolliger, Aluma Dembo, Solomon M Hsiang, Edward Miguel, Robert Pickmans) has been accepted for publication in The Economic Journal.

Mar 25th, 2025

"Freedom counts: Cross country empirical evidence", Professor Nobuyuki Hanaki (with João V Ferreira, Fabrice Le Lec, Erik Schokkaert, Benoît Tarroux) has been accepted for publication in European economic review.

Mar 24th, 2025

Professor Jean-Baptiste Michau (Ecole Polytechnique) is visiting us from Mar 24, 2025 to Apr 30, 2025.

Upcoming Event

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4/21

Lorenz Goette

National University of Singapore(Professor)

ISER Seminar

Large Language Models are overconfident and amplify human bias

13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)

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4/25

Chien-Yu Lai

National Taiwan University(Assistant Professor)

Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series

Cancellation Clauses and Hold-up with Incomplete Contract: Theory and Experimental Evidence

10:30 ~ 12:30 (Online)

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5/12

Donald R. Davis

Columbia University

ISER Seminar

Segregation, Spillovers, and the Locus of Racial Change (joint with Matthew Easton and Stephan Thies)

14:00 ~ 15:30 (A301)

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5/12

Maurizio Iacopetta

SKEMA Business School

ISER Seminar

Common Ownership, Investment, and Economic Growth: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis

10:30 ~ 12:00 (A301)

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5/16

Michalis Drouvelis

University of Birmingham

Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series

TBA

16:30 ~ 18:00 (Online)

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5/19

Jean-Paul L'Huillier

Brandeis University

ISER Seminar

TBA

13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)

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5/26

Armon Rezai

Vienna University of Economics and Business

ISER Seminar

TBA

13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)

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6/2

Atsushi Yamagishi

Hitotsubashi University(Associate Professor)

ISER Seminar

Martyrs, Morale, and Militarism: The Political Impact of Devastation and Slaughter

13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)

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6/9

Daiki Kishishita

Hitotsubashi University

ISER Seminar

TBA

13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)

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6/9

Helios Herrera

University of Warwick(Professor)

ISER Seminar

TBA

10:30 ~ 12:00 (A301)

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6/13

Jeffrey Zeidel

New York University, Abu Dhabi

Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series

TBA

16:30 ~ 18:00 (Online)

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7/4

Lu Dong

Southern University of Science and Technology

Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series

TBA

10:30 ~ 12:00 (Online)

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7/14

Jun Nakabayashi

Kyoto University

ISER Seminar

A Field Experiment on Antitrust Compliance (with Kei Kawai)

13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)

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7/25

Zheng (Michael) Song

Chinese University of Hong Kong

ISER Seminar

TBA

13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)

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7/25

Alejandro Martínez-Marquina

University of Southern California

Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series

TBA

10:30 ~ 12:30 (Online)

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9/5

Daniel Martin

University of California, Santa Barbara(Associate Professor)

Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series

TBA

10:30 ~ 12:30 (Online)

Research Highlights

Destructive Behaviour, Judgement, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress

Ingvild Almås,

Maximilian Auffhammer,

Tessa Bold,

Ian Bolliger,

Aluma Dembo,

Solomon M Hsiang,

Shuhei Kitamura,

Edward Miguel,

Robert Pickmans

The Economic Journal,

Jan 20, 2025

DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueae116

Informal Incentives and Labour Markets

Matthias Fahn,

Takeshi Murooka

The Economic Journal,

Volume:135

Number:665

p.144-179

Dec 10, 2024

DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueae063

Optimal Trade Mechanisms with Adverse Selection and Inferential Naivety

Takeshi Murooka,

Takuro Yamashita

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics,

forthcoming

Examining the Replicability of Online Experiments Selected by a Decision Market

Felix Holzmeister,

Taisuke Imai,

et al.

Nature Human Behaviour,

Volume:9

Number:2

p.316-330

Mar 1, 2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-02062-9

Beliefs in Repeated Games: An Experiment

Masaki Aoyagi,

Guillaume R. Fréchette,

Sevgi Yuksel

The American Economic Review,

Volume:114

Number:12

p.3944-3975

Jan 1, 2025

DOI: 10.1257/aer.20220639

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