If you ever wondered about the "ethics" of self-driving cars, read this fascinating paper!

Excellent animation showing how rich people think they are middle class. Barely anybody believes to belong to the top 20% (here in Austria). By Matthias Schnetzer

Fantastic source for those who #TeachBE and those who plan to do exciting research on #fairness and #inequalities: new collection"The Economics of Fairness" ed. by Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden FAIR-The Choice Lab NHH Norwegian School of Economics 🙌🙌

Love this solution to ordering the names of authors in economics, where alphabetical is the norm. Special symbol indicating certified randomization. Now endorsed by AEA Journals pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…

A unique dataset of leaked customer lists from offshore financial institutions matched to administrative wealth records in Scandinavia, shows that offshore tax evasion is highly concentrated among the rich. gabriel-zucman.eu/files/AJZ2019.…

Other than money, what motivates people to do great (and terrible) things that are perhaps understudied in economics? My list: Belonging Sense of purpose/meaning Religion Honor and loyalty Curiosity Thrill seeking Role models and celebrities Power

A great study of impersonal honesty using the lost wallet paradigm in 355 cities spanning 40 countries (17,000 lost wallets). Big variation across cities, but (almost) everywhere people were MORE likely to return the wallet when it had MORE money in it. Michel Maréchal

New WP version with Arno Apffelstaedt 🥳 We show how corrupting democratic institutions by vote buying or voter disenfranchisement (👉Pippa Norris) negatively impacts people’s willingness to comply with elected rules and policies 👇 #Democracy #VoterFraud

Post-Doc Opening at our department, University of Cologne: Join us to work on Behavioral Economics (theory/experiments), preferably with focus on morals/ethics, 3 years (extension possible). Application Deadline: September 15th 👇 stellenwerk-koeln.de/sites/default/…

I guess it’s my time to jump on the JMP-train! So here it is: “The Dark Side of Experts: Ethical Decision-making under Asymmetric Information in Teams”. (link: drive.google.com/file/d/1DWIJUF…) -> (thread 1/6)

Bernd Irlenbusch, Louis Strang, and I are organizing a virtual workshop on "Social Image and Moral Behavior," June 7-9, 2021. Keynotes by Roland Benabou (Princeton) and Christine Exley (HBS). Submit your paper here: bit.ly/378UzZ0 We look forward to your submissions!

We (ECONtribute U Cologne/U Bonn) are organizing a 3-day online workshop on economic approaches to "Autonomy and Paternalism" in June 2022. Keynotes by Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Doug Bernheim (Stanford). We look forward to your contributions. Submit here: bit.ly/36xjwjm