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Spring Behavioural Economics Workshop 2025
Academics from across Europe shall convene at Royal Holloway, University of London’s Central London campus on Monday, 12 May 2025, for the RHUL Spring Workshop in Behavioural Economics, a day-long event spotlighting cutting-edge research. The workshop, organized by Dr. Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon (Royal Holloway), brings together scholars for an exchange of ideas on topics ranging from gender dynamics in cooperation to the strategic use of uncertainty in economic games. Supported by the Royal Holloway Department of Economics and the Leverhulme Trust, the event offers a forum for emerging voices and established names alike in the field of behavioural and experimental economics.
Chaired by Prof. Bengt Kriström (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) and Dr. Marco Persichina (University of Rome Tor Vergata), the workshop shall unfold with a series of 30-minute research presentations. This event reflects growing attention to underrepresented perspectives, especially from the Global South, and a stronger embrace on computational tools and novel data sources to model social preferences more accurately.
Among the highlights in morning sessions:
- Jade Siu (University of Reading) opens the morning with findings from a nationwide experiment in Jordan, exploring how information affects worker formalization.
- Dina Rabie (LSE) discusses the impact of gender beliefs on cooperation and punishment.
- Workshop organizer Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon shares results from a dynamic common-pool experiment in Guinea, focusing on social identity and endogenous shocks.
In the afternoon:
- Konstantinos Georgalos (Lancaster) investigates position uncertainty in Prisoner's Dilemma games.
- Maria Cubel (City St George’s, University of London) presents a novel recombinant estimator approach to assess strategic reasoning.
- Petros Sekeris (Toulouse Business School) explores cooperation in finitely repeated games, while Bjoern Hartig (Royal Holloway) revisits the classic sunk cost effect.
- Claudia Cerrone and Andrew Hunter, affiliated with London institutions City & Holloway respectively, round out the day with timely discussions on information sharing paradoxes and the links between political polarization and democratic values.
As behavioural economics continues to shape policy and research across disciplines, events like this workshop serve as critical junctures for interdisciplinary learning, collaboration, and innovation.
