Andis Sofianos

📣 Call for Papers – 3rd Development Economics Workshop (DEW 2026)

📍 Durham University Business School, UK | 🗓 9–10 June 2026

🎤 Keynote: Prof. Oded Galor (founder of Unified Growth Theory and author of the Journey of Humanity)

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Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events Abstract. Bayesian updating is the dominant theory of learning. However, the theory is silent about how individuals react to events that were previously un

Forthcoming article "Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events" by Christoph K Becker, Tigran Melkonyan @eugenioproto.bsky.social @andissofianos.bsky.social Stefan T Trautmann
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Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat...

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Excited for our Experimental Methods and Behavioural Research Centre (EMBR) to be hosting this!

Many thanks to @diegomarinofages.bsky.social for the initiative to securing hosting this next year!

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We are delighted to be hosting you!

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How do attitudes and beliefs shape whether people cooperate for the common good when there is no chance of future return? @diegomarinofages.bsky.social , @durham-university.bsky.social , @durhameconomics.bsky.social , discusses: faculti.net/beliefs-grou...
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We are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2026 and ranked third overall in its Good University Guide. Congratulations to our global university community on this success. 🎉

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Very happy that this is finally out!

Very proud of Lex for this achievement. It was a pleasure to supervise him. In fact, he needed very minimal guidance on his dissertation. Well done Lex!

Big-Team-Science ermöglicht strukturierte, gemeinsame Forschung Big-Team-Science zeichnet sich durch eine koordinierte Zusammenarbeit vieler Forschungsteams aus, die jeweils definierte Beiträge entlang...

„Big-Team Science enables structured, collaborative research.“ In his interview in the ZBW Open Science Magazine, Lab² member David Albrecht reflects on what makes Big-Team Science valuable.
👉 Read the full interview (in German):
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If you care about higher education in the UK, read the @britishacademy.bsky.social 's response to the Government's Immigration White Paper. It is well worth the time.

Our experiments are only as strong as their ability to be replicated

Pleased to see our 2022 study on intelligence & strategy in repeated games validated by a high-powered experiment.

Thanks to Michalis & Graeme.

Last week the Centre for Macroeconomic Policy (CEMAP) hosted its annual conference on June 19th-20th. Thanks to all the speakers for an exciting two days!

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Hosted the 2nd Development Economics Workshop (DEW 2025) on June 18th & 19th. Thanks to our keynotes Marcel Fafchamps and Karen Macours, and an excellent line-up of speakers

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Intelligence and strategy choice in indefinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma games: A replication of Proto, Rustichini & Sofianos (2022) We provide a close replication of the original study of Proto et al. (2022) which examines the link between intelligence, strategy choice and errors i…

Very happy to see our paper with @eugenioproto.bsky.social and Aldo replicated by Michalis (@mdrouvelis.bsky.social) & Graeme!

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Very proud of our excellent students!

Had a great time hosting our friends from Newcastle University for the third iteration of our Durham-Newcastle Behavioural & Experimental Economics Mini-Workshop

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Kicking off our workshop on "Rules, Norms, and Complexity" hosted by the Centre for Experimental Methods and Behavioural Research (EMBR) shortly. We have some interesting talks from both economists and psychologists.

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Can vouch for a great work environment and great city to live in. Jörg was a great mentor to have!

📢 Call for Papers– 2nd Development Economics Workshop (DEW) 2025 at @durham-university.bsky.social

🗓️ 18-19 June 2025
📍 Durham University, UK
🎤 Keynotes: Marcel Fafchamps, Karen Macours, Maitreesh Ghatak

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The Third Wuhan Cherry Blossom Workshop in Experimental Economics kicking off. Happy that members of our behavioural and experimental group are helping organise and participating #EconBlueSky

Our paper with Marco Lambrecht and Yilong Xu is part of the March issue of this year in Management Science.

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After Trump´s disgraceful behavior last week, we thought we need to do something to help Ukraine directly. And you can help too…

Experimentally-validated mechanism design in action @oechssler.bsky.social @andissofianos.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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I have written a review article on the research within experimental economics studying the impact of intelligence on economic decision making.

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Starting today a short research visit at the
@wzb.bsky.social - many thanks to @leventneyse.bsky.social for hosting!