Professor Michalis Drouvelis

Professor Michalis Drouvelis

The Department of Economics
Professor of Behavioural Economics

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 6040
Email
m.drouvelis@bham.ac.uk
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Address
The Department of Economics
University House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Michalis Drouvelis is a Professor of Behavioural Economics at the University of Birmingham, Department of Economics. He joined the Department of Economics in 2010 as a Lecturer and became a Senior Lecturer in 2012, a Reader in 2013 and a Professor in 2018. Before coming to Birmingham, he was part of the experimental centres at the University of York, EXEC (where he worked from 2008-2010) and the University of Nottingham, CeDEx (where he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Robin Cubitt and Simon Gaechter).

Michalis' research interests lie in the area of behavioural and experimental economics. Recent research has focused on social preferences, on voluntary cooperation in the presence of free rider incentives, on expression of emotions and on coordination games. His work has been published in Games & Economic Behavior, Journal of Public Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Psychology, Experimental Economics, Theory and Decision, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Economics Letters.

Michalis is also affiliated with CESifo (Munich) and serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Coordinating Editor for Theory and Decision.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Economics, University of Nottingham,  2009
  • MSc in Economics, University of Nottingham, 2004
  • B.Sc. in Economic and Regional Development, Panteion University (Greece)

Teaching

  • Risk, Uncertainty and Information, (postgraduate module)
  • Behavioural and Experimental Economics, (third year undergraduate module)

Research

  • Behavioural and Experimental Economics
  • Psychology of Decision Making, Public Economics
  • Group Decision Making

Other activities

  • CESifo Network Research Fellow, Munich, Germany (since September 2017)
  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK (since September 2012)
 

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Drouvelis, M & Pearce, G 2025, 'Intelligence and strategy choice in indefinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma games: A replication of Proto, Rustichini & Sofianos (2022)', European Economic Review, vol. 178, 105075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105075

Bokhari, FAS, Brodeur, A & Drouvelis, M 2025, 'Introduction to the symposium on reproducibility and replicability in economics: Part II', Economic Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70026

Bokhari, FAS, Brodeur, A & Drouvelis, M 2025, 'Introduction to the symposium on reproducibility and replicability in economics: Part I', Economic Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13285

Harris, C, Lohse, J, Drouvelis, M & Lasserson, DS 2025, 'Novel assessment of risk tolerance in acute healthcare settings: a questionnaire-based study investigating risk tolerance of service users and staff in ambulatory care and front-door services', BMJ open, vol. 15, no. 11, e099032. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-099032

Drouvelis, M & Qiu, Z 2025, 'Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons: A replication and an extension to income inequality', Economic Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13297

Drouvelis, M & Mohtashami Borzadaran, H 2025, 'Social distance and delegation: Does anonymity matter?', Economic Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70035

Drouvelis, M & Pearce, G 2025, 'Task Difficulty and Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Evidence From Botswana', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12656

Derbyshire, D, Drouvelis, M & Grosskopf, B 2025, 'The poor, the rich and the middle class: Experimental evidence from heterogeneous public good games', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 231, 106913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106913

Cartwright, E & Drouvelis, M 2024, 'Social framing effects in leadership by example: Preferences or beliefs?', Economic Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13249

Drouvelis, M 2023, 'Dictator giving and taking: Evidence from Africa', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 209, pp. 326-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.03.021

Arroyos-Calvera, D, Drouvelis, M, Lohse, J & Mcdonald, R 2023, 'Improving compliance with COVID-19 guidance: a workplace field experiment', Behavioural Public Policy, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2023.31

Drouvelis, M & Pearce, G 2023, 'Is there a link between intelligence and lying?', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 206, pp. 182-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.12.008

Drouvelis, M, Gerson, J, Powdthavee, N & Riyanto, YE 2023, 'Large losses from little lies: Strategic gender misrepresentation and cooperation', PLOS One, vol. 18, no. 3, e0282335. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282335

Drouvelis, M & Pearce, G 2023, 'Leadership under the shadow of the future: intelligence and strategy choice in infinitely repeated games', European Economic Review, vol. 152, 104372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104372

Editorial

Adena, M, Drouvelis, M & Huck, S 2023, 'Introduction to the special issue on ‘new directions in understanding philanthropic activities’', Oxford Economic Papers. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpad035

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