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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
Background

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

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:

"The Role of Payoff Parameters for Cooperation in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma" (with S. Gaechter, K. Lee and M. Sefton), IZA Discussion Paper No. 16814. [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).

Teaching

Undergraduate:

  • Lecturer for Behavioural Economics and Experimental Methods (ECO3005).

Postgraduate taught:

  • Module leader for Behavioural Economics (NBS8616),
  • Lecturer for Experimental Methods in Economics (NBS8615).

Previous teaching experience:

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