Staff Profile

Till is a Lecturer in Economics and the Business School Behavioural Lab Lead. He joined Newcastle University Business School in 2020. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University College Dublin School of Economics and UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. Till's research explores the driving factors of cooperation and norm enforcement in social dilemmas. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham, a MSc in Behavioural Economics from the University of Nottingham and a BSc in Economics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.

Research overview:

Till's main research interests are in the areas of behavioural and experimental economics. He is particularly interested in the study of human cooperation, norm enforcement and investigating cross-cultural differences in decision making.

Recent working papers:

"Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems" (with S. Gaechter, C. Starmer, C. Thoeni and F. Tufano), CeDEx Discussion Paper No. 2021-09. [Available here]

"Risk, Temptation, and Efficiency in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma" (with S. Gaechter, K. Lee and M. Sefton), CESifo Working Paper No. 9449. [Available here]

"The Behavioural Mechanisms of Voluntary Cooperation in WEIRD and Non-WEIRD Societies" (with B. Beranek, S. Gaechter, F. Lambarraa and J.F. Schulz), CeDEx Discussion Paper No. 2021-03. [Available here]

Current research:

"Sustaining cooperation: a comparative evaluation of cooperative preferences, peer pressure and formal punishment" (with S. Gaechter and O. Weisel).

"Oneness, cooperation and coordination: a lab-in-the-field experiment with Swiss soldiers" (with S. Gaechter, C. Starmer, C. Thoeni and F. Tufano).

Undergraduate modules:

• Module leader for Economics of Regulation (ECO2011),
• Lecturer for Behavioural Economics and Experimental Methods (ECO3005).

Previous teaching experience:

• 2018/2019: Module leader for Experimental Economics (ECON30390) at University College Dublin.

• Articles

  • Gächter S, Starmer C, Thöni C, Tufano F, Weber TO. Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems. Economics Letters 2022, 216, 110552.
  • Lades LK, Laffan K, Weber TO. Do economic preferences predict pro-environmental behaviour?. Ecological Economics 2021, 183, 106977.
  • Weber TO, Weisel O, Gächter S. Dispositional free riders do not free ride on punishment. Nature Communications 2018, 9, 2390.

• Research Datasets/Databases

  • Gächter S, Starmer C, Thöni C, Tufano F, Weber TO. Data from: Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems. 2022. Charlottesville, VA: OSF / Center for Open Science, 23.4KB.
  • Weber TO, Weisel O, Gaechter S. Data from: Dispositional free riders do not free ride on punishment. 2019. Dryad.

• Working Papers

  • Weber TO, Beranek B, Gächter S, Lambarraa-Lehnhardt F, Schulz JF. The Behavioural Mechanisms of Voluntary Cooperation in WEIRD and Non-WEIRD Societies. CeDEx Discussion Papers 2021, 2021-03.
  • Gaechter S, Starmer C, Thoeni C, Tufano F, Weber TO. Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems. CeDEx Discussion Paper Series 2021, 2021-09.
  • Gaechter S, Lee K, Sefton M, Weber TO. Risk, Temptation, and Efficiency in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma. CESifo Working Papers 2021, 9449.
  • Lades LK, Laffan K, Weber TO. Do economic preferences predict pro-environmental behaviour?. UCD Geary Institute Working Papers 2020, 1-45.
  • Weber TO, Fooken J, Herrmann B. Behavioural economics and taxation. European Commission Taxation Papers 2014, 41.