Staff Profile
Dr Till Weber
Lecturer in Economics
- Email: till.weber@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 2802
- Address: Newcastle University Business School
5 Barrack Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4SE
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).
Current teaching:
Economics of Regulation (ECO2011), Behavioural Economics and Experimental Methods (ECO3005).
Previous teaching experience:
2018/2019: 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.
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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.
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Working Paper
- Weber TO, Fooken J, Herrmann B. Behavioural economics and taxation. European Commission Taxation Papers 2014, 41.