Prof. Dr. Steffen Huck
Contact
Natalia Linke
fon: +49 30 25491 420
fax: +49 30 25491 423
mail: natalia.linke@wzb.eu
D-10785 Berlin
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since 2012 Director of the Research Unit "Economics of Change" at the WZB
since 2003 Professor of Economics, University College London
2008 - 2011 Head of the Department of Economics, University College London
2005 - 2008 Deputy Head of the Department of Economics, University College London
2002 - 2003 Reader in Economics, University College London
2000 - 2001 Senior Lecturer in Economics, Royal Holloway
1998 - 1999 Research Scholarship of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
1995 - 1997 Research Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin
1993 - 1994 Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Selected Publications
2024
Charitable giving by the poor: A field experiment in Kyrgysztan, Management Science, 2024, Vol. 70, 633-646 (with Maja Adena and Rustamdjan Hakimov).
2023
How Trump triumphed: Multi-candidate primaries with buffoons, European Economic Review, 2023, Vol. 157, 104506 (with Micael Castanheira, Johannes Leutgeb and Andrew Schotter).
Discrimination, narratives, and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, Vol. 105, 1008-1016 (with Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter).
2022
Personalized fundraising: A field experiment on threshold matching of donations, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, Vol. 200, 1-20 (with Maja Adena).
Voluntary ‘donations’ versus reward-oriented ‘contributions’: Two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms, Experimental Economics, 2022, Vol. 25, 1399-1417, (with Maja Adena).
2021
Discrimination, Narratives and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021 (with Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter).
The Standard Portfolio Choice Problem in Germany, Economic Journal, 2021, Vol. 131, 2413-2446 (with Christoph Breunig, Tobias Schmidt, and Georg Weizsäcker).
2020
Online fundraising, self-image, and the long-term impact of ask avoidance, Management Science, 2020, Vol. 66, Iss. 2, 722-743 (with Maja Adena).
2017
Payoff Information Hampers the Evolution of Cooperation, Nature Communications, 2017, Vol. 8, Article No. 15147, 1-5 (with Johannes Leutgeb and Ryan Oprea).
2015
From imitation to collusion: Long-run learning in a low-information environment, Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, Vol. 155, 185–205 (with Dan Friedman, Ryan Oprea, and Simon Weidenholzer).
Comparing charitable fundraising schemes: Evidence from a natural field experiment and a structural model, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, Vol. 7, 326-369 (withImran Rasul and Andrew Shephard).
2014
Beliefs and actions in the trust game: Creating instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect, Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, Vol. 88, 298-309 (with Miguel A. Costa Gomes and Georg Weizsäcker).
2012
Competition fosters trust, Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, Vol. 76, 195-209 (with Gabriele K. Lünser and Jean-Robert Tyran).
2011
Deferred compensation in multi-period labor contracts: An experimental test of Lazear's Model, American Economic Review, 2011, Vol. 101, 819-843 (with Andrew Seltzer and Brian Wallace).