Current Position: Lecturer in Economics Room: 3.44 Telephone: +44 (0) 1603 591066 Email: a.poulsen@uea.ac.uk

I am a 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 (http://www.uea.ac.uk/ssf/cbess) and affiliate researcher at the Centre for Experimental Economics, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (http://www.econ.ku.dk/cee/ ).

I currently work on a new 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.

My personal home page, with downloadable publications and working papers, is available here.

Research

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.

Journal Articles

"Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence", joint with Tor Eriksson and Marie Claire Villeval. LABOUR ECONOMICS, forthcoming.

"Prisoner's Dilemma Payoffs and the Evolution of Co-operative Preferences", joint with Odile Poulsen. JOURNAL OF SOCIO-ECONOMICS, forthcoming.

"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

I lecture on Experimental Economics II, Economics and Society and Strategy and Risk.

Professional Activity

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 and Cambridge Journal of Economics. I am a member of the Economic Science Association, the International Society for Dynamic Games, and the Royal Economic Society.

I have reviewed several ESRC grant proposals.

Administration

I am the School's Undergraduate Admissions Officer.