Klaus is a Professor of Economics and the Director of the newly established Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS). His research background is in experimental and behavioural economics and he received his doctoral degree in May 2000 from the University of Bonn with a thesis on corruption and reciprocity experiments. Before joining UEA, Klaus was Associate Professor in the Centre for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making (CREED) at the University of Amsterdam.

Research

His main research interests are Experimental Economics, Applied Game Theory, Behavioural Economics, Political Economy, Development Economics.

Recent Publications

The Donor Problem; with Matthew Ellman. Forthcoming in the Journal of Development Studies.
The pleasure of being nasty; with Abdolkarim Sadrieh. Forthcoming in Economics Letters.
Sources of Mistrust: An Experimental Case Study of a Central Asian Water Conflict; with Lars Christian Moller and Sarah O’Hara.Forthcoming in Environmental and Resource Economics.
Inter-Group Conflict and Intra-Group Punishment in an Experimental Contest Game; with Jordi Brandts, Benedikt Herrmann, and Henrik Orzen. Forthcoming in the American Economic Review.
24 -- Pricing in Bertrand competition with Increasing Marginal Costs; with Jordi Brandts. Games and Economic Behavior, 63(1), 1-31, 2008.
Option Pricing by Students and Professional Traders: A Behavioral Investigation; with Bettina Rockenbach. Managerial and Decision Economics, 27(6), 497–510, 2006.
Interest Rates in Group Lending: A Behavioural Investigation; with Bernd Irlenbusch and Elke Renner. Pacific Economic Review, 11, 185-199, 2006.
Group Size and Social Ties in Microfinance Institutions; with Bernd Irlenbusch and Elke Renner. Economic Inquiry, 44, 614-628, 2006.
Neutral versus Loaded Instructions in a Bribery Experiment; with Heike Hennig-Schmidt. Experimental Economics, 9, 103-121, 2006.
Majority rip-off in referendum voting. Social Choice and Welfare, 26, 1-22, 2006.
Auctions for Government Securities: A Laboratory Comparison of Discriminatory, Uniform, and Spanish Designs; with Jordi Brandts and Paul Pezanis-Christou. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 61, 284-303, 2006.
Price competition under cost uncertainty: A laboratory analysis; with Jordi Brandts. Economic Inquiry, 43, 636-648, 2005.
An Experimental Test of Design Alternatives for the British 3G / UMTS Auction; with Bernd Irlenbusch, Paul Pezanis-Christou, Bettina Rockenbach, Abdolkarim Sadrieh, and Reinhard Selten. European Economic Review, 49, 505-530, 2005.
Learning Direction Theory and the Winner’s Curse; with Reinhard Selten and Ricarda Cox. Experimental Economics, 8, 5-20, 2005.

Fairness, Public Goods, and Emotional Aspects of Punishment Behaviour; with Abdolkarim Sadrieh and Shmuel Zamir. Theory and Decision, 57, 25-57, 2004.
Staff Rotation as an Anti-Corruption Policy: An Experimental Study. European Journal of Political Economy, 20, 887-906, 2004.
How to Play 3x3-Games – A Strategy Method Experiment; with Reinhard Selten, Joachim Buchta, and Abdolkarim Sadrieh. Games and Economic Behavior, 45, 19-37, 2003.
The Fisherman’s Problem; with Ron Darziv, Zohar Gilula, Harel Goren, Bernd Irlenbusch, Arnon Keren, Bettina Rockenbach, Abdolkarim Sadrieh, Reinhard Selten, and Shmuel Zamir. Journal of Economic Psychology, 24:4, 425-445, 2003.
Asymmetric demand information in uniform and discriminative call auctions: an experimental analysis motivated by electricity markets; with Jordi Brandts and Tanga McDaniel. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 23:2, 125-144, 2003.
The behavioural approach to the strategic analysis of spectrum auctions: The case of the German DCS-1800 auction; with Bernd Irlenbusch, Bettina Rockenbach, Abdolkarim Sadrieh, and Reinhard Selten. ifo Studien, 48:3, 457-480, 2002.
An Experimental Bribery Game; with Bernd Irlenbusch and Elke Renner. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 18, 428-454, 2002.
Adaptive Learning versus Punishment in Ultimatum Bargaining; with Gary E Bolton, Abdolkarim Sadrieh and Fang-Fang Tang. Games and Economic Behavior, 37, 1-25, 2001.
The Moonlighting Game – An Experimental Study on Reciprocity and Retribution; with Bernd Irlenbusch and Elke Renner. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 42, 265-277, 2000.
Money Does Not Induce Risk Neutral Behavior, but Binary Lotteries Do even Worse; with Reinhard Selten and Abdolkarim Sadrieh. Theory and Decision, 46, 211-249, 1999.

Book chapters

Collusion in Growing and Shrinking Markets: Empirical Evidence from Experimental Duopolies; with Jordi Brandts. In J Hinloopen and H-T Normann (eds.): Experiments on Antitrust Policy, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Laboratory Experiments on Corruption. In: Susan Rose-Ackerman (ed): International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption. Edward Elgar Publishers, Northhampton US and Cheltenham UK, 2007.
Fair Salaries and the Moral Costs of Corruption. In: Kokinov, Boicho (ed): Advances in Cognitive Economics. NBU Press Sofia, 2005.
Der Fluch der Erfahrung – Professionelle Trader versus Studenten in einem Optionsbewertungsexperiment; mit Bettina Rockenbach. In: Hehn, Elisabeth (Hrsg.): Innovative Kapitalanlagekonzepte. Gabler-Verlag Wiesbaden, 2000.

Papers under revision

The Zambia Maize Marketing Policy: An Experimental Case Study; with Thomas S Jayne and Lars Christian Moller. Invited resubmission to the Journal of Development Studies.
Political Autonomy and Independence: Theory and Experimental Evidence; with Jordi Brandts. Invited resubmission to the Economic Journal.

Submitted papers

Pointless Vendettas; with Benedikt Herrmann.
Reference Point Effects in Antisocial Preferences; with David Masclet and Matthijs van Veelen.
Trust on the Brink of Armageddon: The First Strike Game; with Thomas de Haan.
The Moral Costs of Nastiness; with Benedikt Herrmann.
Inequality and Riots – Experimental Evidence; with David Masclet and Daniel Mirza.
Determinants of Revolt: Evidence from Survey and Laboratory Data; with Silvia Pezzini.

Work in progress

An Experimental Study on Nepotism in Naturally Occurring Groups; with Donna Harris.
Parochial altruism in group rent-seeking; with Jordi Brandts, Benedikt Herrmann, and Henrik Orzen.
The experimenter-demand effect and the joy-of-destruction game; with Benedikt Herrmann and Abdolkarim Sadrieh.
An Experimental Study on High-value Payment Systems; with Ronald Bosman, Ronald Heijmans and Frans van Winden.
The Balance of Paranoia; with Henrik Orzen.

Software

RatImage - Research Assistance Toolbox for Computer-Aided Human Behavior Experiments; with Abdolkarim Sadrieh, SFB 303 Discussion Paper No. B-325, University of Bonn, 1995.
RatDemo - A Ready-to-Run Experiment in 99 Program Lines; with Abdolkarim Sadrieh, SFB 303 Discussion Paper No. B-354, University of Bonn, 1996.
RatImage 3.30 ‑ Updating Addendum to the Research Assistance Toolbox for Computer-Aided Human Behavior Experiments; with Abdolkarim Sadrieh, SFB Discussion Paper B‑417, University of Bonn 1997.

PhD supervision

Karen Kong on “Loss Aversion in Financial Markets”, since 2003.
Ping Zhang on “Experimental Analysis of IPO Mechanisms”, 2002-2006.

Presentations at conferences

ESA Annual Meeting, Washington 2009, Pasadena 2008, Montréal 2005, Amsterdam 2004, Pittsburgh 2003, Barcelona 2001, New York 2000
International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioural Economics (IMEBE), Granada 2009, Valencia 2005
ESA European Meeting, Lyon 2008, Nottingham 2005, Erfurt 2003, Strasbourg 2002, Amsterdam 2000, Grenoble 1999
CREED/Waseda Workshop, Tokyo 2007
ESA Asian Meeting, Shanghai 2007
European Workshop on Experimental and Behavioural Economics (EWEBE), Valencia 2006
Wandertagung zum 75. Geburtstag von Reinhard Selten, Maria Laach 2006
International Conference on Cognitive Economics, Sofia 2005
Polarisation and Conflict (PAC) Network Meeting, Milan 2005, Konstanz 2005
ENCORE Workshop "Experiments on Antitrust Policies", Hilversum 2005
Workshop “Experimental Methods in Economics and Finance”, Hong Kong 2004
Network of Industrial Economists Workshop, Lancaster 2004
ESRC Workshop on Game Theory and Applications, London 2003
Econometric Society European Meeting, Stockholm 2003
Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Warwick 2003
International Industrial Organisation Conference, Boston 2003
Public Economics Weekend, Oxford 2005, Bristol 2002
Workshop at the Max-Planck Institut zur Erforschung von Wirtschaftssystemen, Jena 2002
ENDEAR Workshop, Jena 2002, Barcelona 2000, Bari 1999
CEEL Workshop on Experimental Economics, Siena 2002, Grenoble 2001
CESifo conference on Spectrum Auctions and Competition in Telecommunications, Munich 2001
Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Magdeburg 2001
Ninth Social Dilemma Conference, Chicago 2001
Workshop at the University of Haifa, 1998
GEW-Workshop on Experimental Economics, Meißen 1998, Berlin 1996
Amsterdam Workshop on Experimental Econom­ics 1997, 1996
Bielefelder Nebeltagung zur experi­mentellen Wirtschaftsfor­schung 1995

Presentations in seminars

Universitat Autònona de Barcelona, 2009; University of Osnabrück, 2009; CERGE-EI Prague, 2008; University of Magdeburg, 2007; Université de Rennes I, 2007; Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2006; University of Manchester, 2005; University of Amsterdam, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005; Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa, Iruña (Pamplona) 2004; University of East Anglia 2009, 2004; University of Exeter 2003; University of Oxford 2003, 2001; Royal Holloway College, University of London 2003; Tilburg University 2001; University of Nottingham 2003, 2001; Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC, Barcelona 2004, 2001; University of Cologne 1999; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 1999; University of Bonn 1999; Humboldt-Universität Berlin 1996

Refereeing

American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economic Theory, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, European Science Foundation (Review Panel member for LogiCCC programme), Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Game Theory, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Journal of the European Economic Association, Metroeconomica, Social Choice and Welfare, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Spanish Economic Review

Personal awards, grants, contract research

De Nederlandse Bank, for ‘An Experimental Study on High-value Payment Systems’, 2007, €26934.40
Tinbergen research fellowship, University of Amsterdam, 2006.
University of Nottingham (Asia Fund, 2004), for “Conflict or Co-operation over Central Asian Waters”, £3950
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain), sabbatical grant (2004), €23600
CREA (BarcelonaEconomics), sabbatical grant (2004), €4000
University of Nottingham (Water Initiative Fund, 2004), for “Transboundary River Conflicts: A Laboratory Analysis”, £3950
University of Nottingham (Quick Response Fund, 2004), for “An Investigation into the Microfoundations of Conflict”, £1920
British Academy (2003), for “The Microfoundations of Conflict”, £4680
Royal Economic Society (2003), for “Revolutionary Actions: A Laboratory Experiment”, £500
Nuffield Foundation (2003), for “A laboratory analysis of microfinance institutions”, £4002
University of Nottingham (New Lecturers’ Fund, 2003), for “Analysing development policies: A laboratory approach”, £6600
University of Nottingham (Overseas Conference Fund, 2003), £500

International collaboration

Experiments on Governance and Politics (EGAP), 2009-present.
“Experimental Economics at the Institute for Economic Analysis”, sponsored by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, 2003-2005
European Union TMR Project ENDEAR, 1998-2003
Projects of the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), 1995-2000

Consulting

The Zambia Maize Marketing Policy Experiment, for the World Bank, 2007
Optimal Incentives in Local Transport Policy, for ITS Leeds, 2005-2007
UMTS / IMT-2000 spectrum auction in Germany, 1999-2000
GSM-1800 spectrum auction in Germany, 1999
3G / UMTS spectrum auction in Great Britain, 1998
Interactive training seminars for managers and political decision makers, 1998-1999, 2007
DCS-1800 spectrum auction in the Netherlands, 1998