Professor Brit Grosskopf

Professor of Experimental Economics

Department of Economics

Contact details

Telephone (0121) 415 8216

Fax +44 (0) 121 414 7377

Email b.grosskopf@bham.ac.uk

The Department of Economics
JG Smith Building
University of Birmingham
B15 2TT

About

Professor Grosskopf received her PhD from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona in 2000.  After a post-doc with Professor Al Roth at Harvard Business School and some MBA teaching there, she spent 8 years at the Department of Economics Texas A&M University, where she was granted tenure in 2009 . She joined the Department of Economics of the University of Birmingham in September 2011.

Personal website

Birmingham Experimental Economics Laboratory website

Qualifications

MSc, PhD (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Research

Professor Grosskopf's research is in the area of experimental economics and concerns human decision-making and its effect on economic exchange. Her work incorporates concepts from psychology into economic research. She has worked on issues related to bargaining, cheap talk, contract and market design, expression of emotions, fairness, happiness and reputation.

Other activities

Professor Grosskopf is currently building a new experimental laboratory at the University of Birmingham. Find out more at birmingham.ac.uk/econexperiments

Member: American Economic Association, Economic Science Association, Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung, The Econometric Society.

Publications

"Choosing between Lotteries: Perfect Coordination without Communication," with Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Simone Moran and Dolly Chugh, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, forthcoming 

"Is Reputation Good or Bad? An Experiment," with Rajiv Sarin, American Economic Review, 100, 2010, 2187 - 2204.   

"If you were offered the Right of First Refusal, Should you Accept? An Investigation of Contract Design," with Alvin E. Roth, Games and Economic Behavior, 65, 2009, 176 - 204.   

"Simultaneous versus Sequential Public Good Provision and the Role of Refunds - An Experimental Study," with Jennifer Coats and Timothy Gronberg, Journal of Public Economics, 93, 2009, 326 - 335.   

"The Two-Person Beauty Contest," with Rosemarie Nagel, Games and Economic Behavior, 62 (1), 2008, pp. 93 - 99. 

"Overcoming the Winner's Curse: An Adaptive Learning Perspective," with Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21 (1), 2008, pp. 15 - 27.

"Foregone with the Wind: Indirect Payoff Information and its Implications for Choice," with Ido Erev and Eldad Yechiam, International Journal of Game Theory, 34 (2), 2006, pp. 285 - 302. 

"Cheap Talk, Information and Coordination - Experimental Evidence," with Gary Charness, Economics Letters, 83, 2004, pp. 383-389. 

"Overcoming Focusing Failures in Competitive Environments," with Max Bazerman, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Dolly Chugh, Lorraine Idson and Simone Moran, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 17, 2004, pp. 159-172. 

"Reinforcement and Directional Learning in the Ultimatum Game with Responder Competition", Experimental Economics, 6(2), 2003, pp. 141-158. 

"Happiness and Relative Payoffs - An Experimental Study", with Gary Charness, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 45(3) , 2001, pp. 301-328.

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