Dr Anders Poulsen
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Lecturer |
A dot Poulsen at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 1066 |
Arts Building 3.44 |
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in Economics in the School of Economics at UEA. I obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Essex.
I am a member of the centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science at UEA and affiliate researcher at the Centre for Experimental Economics, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
I have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Grant for the project, "Understanding Unstructured Bargaining Situations". The project begins on 1 April 2011 and runs for 18 months.
I have been working on an ESRC sponsored research project, "Understanding Focal Points in Bargaining Situations", (grant RES-000-22-3322), on which I am Principal Investigator and my colleague Bob Sugden is Co-Investigator. This project is expected to produce three papers.
I have been awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for the project "Focality and Complexity in Bargaining Situations". The project runs until March 2012.
My personal home page, with downloadable publications and working papers, is available here.
Website
Key Research Interests
My general research interests are game theory, experimental economics and behavioural economics. I use game-theoretic and experimental research methods to analyze bargaining and co-ordination situations, strategic moves, focal points, and monetary reward systems and incentives. See my personal web page for more details.
Journal Articles
"Gender Matching and Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence", joint with Marie Claire Villeval and Nabanita Datta Gupta, ECONOMIC INQUIRY, forthcoming, http:\\dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2011.00378.x
"Do People Make Strategic Commitments? Experimental Evidence on Strategic Information Avoidance", joint with Michael Roos. EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS, 2010, 13 (2), 206-225.
"Prisoner's Dilemma Payoffs and the Evolution of Co-operative Preferences", joint with Odile Poulsen. JOURNAL OF SOCIO-ECONOMICS, 2010, 39 (3), 158-162.
"Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence", joint with Tor Eriksson and Marie Claire Villeval. LABOUR ECONOMICS, 2009, 16 (6), 679-688.
"A note on commitment when there are errors in communication", joint with Odile Poulsen. ECONOMICS BULLETIN, 2008, 3 (74), 1-8.
"Fairness and Reciprocity in the Hawk-Dove Game", joint with Tibor Neugebauer and Arthur Schram. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR AND ORGANIZATION, 2008, 66 (2), 243-250.
"Information Acquisition in the Ultimatum Game – Experimental Evidence", joint with Jonathan Tan. EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS, 2007, 10 (4), p. 391-409.
"Information and Endogenous First Mover Advantages in the Ultimatum Game". JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR AND ORGANIZATION, 2007, 64, p. 129-143.
"Endogenous Preferences and Social Dilemma Institutions", Joint with Odile Poulsen. JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL AND THEORETICAL ECONOMICS, 2006, 162 (4), p. 627-660.
"Social Capital and Endogenous Preferences", joint with Gert Tinggaard Svendsen. PUBLIC CHOICE, 2005, 123 (2), p. 171-196.
"On Efficiency, Tie-Breaking Rules and Role Allocation Procedures in Evolutionary Bargaining", MATHEMATICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2004, 47 (2), p. 233-243.
"On the Evolutionary Stability of 'Tough' Bargaining Behavior", INTERNATIONAL GAME THEORY REVIEW, 2003, 5 (1), p. 63-73.
Contributions to Edited Volumes
"Cooperation: Experimental Evidence". Chapter 3 in Svendsen and Svendsen (eds): Handbook of Social Capital, Edward Elgar, 2009.
PhD Supervision
I am happy to supervise students on novel and interesting topics within economic theory and within experimental and behavioural economics. Feel free to get in touch with me.
Teaching Interests
I lecture on Experimental Economics II, Economics and Society and Strategic Thinking.
External Activities and Indicators of Esteem
- I have refereed for American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Public Choice, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Socio-Economics, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, The Economic Journal, The Cambridge Journal of Economics and The Southern Economic Journal.
- I am a member of the Royal Economic Society and the Game Theory Society.
- I am a member of the ESRC Peer Review College, and have reviewed grants for ESRC and NSF.
Key Responsibilities
I am the School's Postgraduate Research Student Director, and I organise the Internal Workshops. I am also member of the CBESS Executive, and CBESS seminar organizer.
