Ananish Chaudhuri

Publications

Books

Chaudhuri, Ananish. (2022). Nudged into lockdown? Behavioural Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Chaudhuri, Ananish (2021). Behavioural Economics and Experiments; forthcoming in 2021. London and New York: Routledge.

Chaudhuri Ananish. (2009). Experiments in Economics: Playing Fair with Money. London and New York: Routledge.

Refereed Journal Articles

Li, Y., Sbai, E. and Chaudhuri, A. (2021). An experimental study of gender differences in agency relationships. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Volume 90. February 2021.

Sundborn, G., Thornley, S., Jackson, M., Morris, G., Blackham, M. Schofield, G., Doehring, R., Goedeke, R., Morris, A., and Chaudhuri, A (2020).

Chasing elimination through lockdowns is stamping out livelihoods and lives. Journal of Primary Health Care, 020;12(4):298–301. (With formal response from Chief Science Advisor of the Ministry of Health in conjunction with Chief Economic Advisor of NZ Treasury.)

Claessens, S., Fischer, K., Chaudhuri, A., Sibley, C. and Atkinson, Q. (2020). Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Ideology. Nature Human Behavior, 4, 336–345 (2020).

Dickinson, D., Chaudhuri, A and Greenaway-McGrevy, R. (2020). Trading while sleepy? Circadian mismatch and excess volatility in a global experimental asset market. Experimental Economics, 23, 526-553.

Chaudhuri, A. (2018). Heterogeneous beliefs and the re-start effect in a public goods game. Games (Special Issue: Social Norms and Games), 2018, 9(4).

So, T., Brown, P., Chaudhuri, A. Ryvkin, D. and Cameron, L. (2017). Piece-rates and tournaments: implications for productivity and learning in a cognitively challenging task. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 142, October 2017, 11-23.

Chaudhuri, A. and Paichayontvijit, T. (2017). On the long-run efficacy of punishments and recommendations in a laboratory public goods game. Nature Scientific Reports, 7: 12286. September 2017.

Chaudhuri, A., So, T. and Sbai, E. (2017). Wage cuts and layoffs in the minimum effort coordination game. Economics Bulletin, 37(3), September 2017, 1-18.

Chaudhuri, A., Paichayontvijit, T. and Smith A. (2017). Belief heterogeneity and contributions decay among conditional cooperators in public goods games. Journal of Economic Psychology, 58, February 2017, 15-30.

Chaudhuri, A., Li, Y. and Paichayontvijit, T. (2016). What’s in a frame? Goal framing, trust and reciprocity. Journal of Economic Psychology, 57, December 2016, 117-135.

Chaudhuri, A., Paichayontvijit, T. and Sbai, E. (2016). The impact of framing, inequity and history in a corruption game: experimental evidence. Games, 7(2), June 2016.

Chaudhuri, A. (2016). Recent advances in experimental studies of social dilemma problems. Games, 7(1), February 2016. Re-printed as Introduction, pages IX-XXIV in Chaudhuri, A. (Ed.), Recent advances in experimental studies of social dilemma problems, 2016. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI AG

Chaudhuri, A., Cruickshank, A. and Sbai, E. (2015). Gender differences in personnel management: experimental evidence. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 58, October 2015, 20-32.

Chaudhuri, A., Paichayontvijit, T. and So, T. (2015). Team versus individual behavior in the minimum effort coordination game. Journal of Economic Psychology, 47(2), April 2015, 85-102.

Chaudhuri, A., Paichayontvijit, T. and Shen. D. (2013). Gender differences in trust and trustworthiness: Individuals, single Sex and mixed sex groups. Journal of Economic Psychology, 34, February 2013, 181-194.

Chaudhuri, A. (2011). Sustaining cooperation in laboratory public goods experiments: a Selective Survey of the Literature. Experimental Economics, 14 (1), March 2011, 47-83.

Chaudhuri, A. and Sbai, E. (2011). Gender Differences in Trust and Reciprocity in repeated gift exchange games. New Zealand Economic Papers: Special Issue in Economic Psychology and Behavioural Economics, 45 (1-2), 81-95, April-August, 2011. Re-printed as Chapter 7, pages 81–96 in Simon Kemp and Gabrielle Wall (Eds.), Economic Psychology and Experimental Economics, 2013, Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Chaudhuri, A. and Paichayontvijit, T. (2010). Recommended Play and Performance Bonuses in the 6 Minimum Effort Coordination Game. Experimental Economics, 13(3), September 2010, 346-363.

Cameron, L., Chaudhuri, A., Erkal, N. and Gangadharan, L. (2009). Propensities to Engage in and Punish Corrupt Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia and Singapore. Journal of Public Economics, 93(7-8), August 2009, 843-851.

Alatas, V., Cameron, L., Chaudhuri, A., Erkal, N. and Gangadharan, L. (2009). Subject pool effects in a corruption experiment: A comparison of Indonesian public servants and Indonesian students. Experimental Economics, 12(1), March 2009, 113-132.

Chaudhuri, A., Schotter, A. and Sopher, B. (2009). Coordination in Inter-generational Minimum Effort Games with Private, Almost Common and Common Knowledge of Advice. Economic Journal, Volume 119, January 2009, 91-122.

Alatas, V., Cameron, L., Chaudhuri, A., Erkal, N. and Gangadharan, L. (2009). Gender and Corruption: Insights from an Experimental Analysis. Southern Economic Journal, Volume 75, Number 3, January 2009, 663-680.

Chaudhuri, A. and Gangadharan, L. (2007). An Experimental Analysis of Trust and Trustworthiness. Southern Economic Journal, April 2007, 73(4), 959-985.

Chaudhuri, A., Schotter, A. and Sopher, B. (2006). Learning in Tournaments with Intergenerational Advice. Economics Bulletin, September 2006, 3(26), 1 – 16.

Chaudhuri, A., Graziano, S. and Maitra, P. (2006). Social Learning and Norms in an Experimental Public Goods Game with Inter-Generational Advice. Review of Economic Studies, April 2006, 73(2), 357-380.

Chaudhuri, A. and Paichayontvijit, T. (2006). Conditional Cooperation and Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good. Economics Bulletin, April 2006, 3(8), p. 1-15.

Bangun, L., Chaudhuri, A., Prak, P. and Zhou, C. (2006). Common and Almost Common Knowledge of Credible Assignments in a Coordination Game. Economics Bulletin, January 2006, 3(1), p. 1-10.

Chaudhuri, A. Chen, D., Graziano, S, McIntire, F. and Winkler, D. (2004). To Free-Ride or Not To Free-ride: The Role of Patterning and Feedback in the Public Goods Game. ARTHANITI, 3(1-2), December 2004, p. 86-105.

Chaudhuri, A., Khan, S., Lakshmiratan, A., Py, A-L. and Shah, L. (2003). Trust and Trustworthiness in a Sequential Bargaining Game. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 16(5), December 2003, p. 331-340.

Chakrabarty, D., Chaudhuri, A. and Spell, C. (2002). Information Structure and Contractual Choice in Franchising. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 58 (4), December 2002, p. 638-663.

Chaudhuri, A. and Maitra, P. (2002). On the Choice of Tenancy Contracts in Rural India. Economica, Vol. 69, Issue 275, August 2002, p. 445-459.

Chaudhuri, A., Sopher, B. and Strand, P. (2002). Cooperation in Social Dilemmas, Trust and Reciprocity. Journal of Economic Psychology, Volume 23(2), March 2002, p. 231 – 249.

Chaudhuri, A. (2002). A Simple Algebraic Approach to Teaching Oligopoly Models. The American Economist, Vol. XXXXVI, No. 1, Spring 2002, p. 36-41.

Chakrabarty, D. and Chaudhuri, A. Formal and Informal Sector Credit Institutions and Interlinkage. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 46 (3), November 2001, p. 312- 325.

Chaudhuri, A. and Maitra, P. (2001). Tenant Characteristics and the Choice of Tenurial Contracts in Rural India. Journal of International Development, Vol. 13 (2), March 2001, p. 169- 181.

Chaudhuri, A., Ghosh, P. and Spell, C. (2001). A Location Based Theory of Franchising. Journal of Business and Economic Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2001, p. 54-67.

Chaudhuri, A. (2000). Endogenous Quality Choice and the Impact of Quantitative Restrictions. The International Trade Journal, Volume XIV (4), Winter 2000, p. 377-397.

Chaudhuri, A. and Maitra, P. (2000). Sharecropping Contracts in Rural India: A Note. Journal of Contemporary Asia, Volume 30(1), February 2000, p. 99-107.

Chaudhuri, A. (1998). The Ratchet Principle in a Principal Agent Game with Unknown Costs: An Experimental Analysis. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 37(3), November 1998, p. 291-304.

Chapters in Books

Chaudhuri, A. (2021). “Introduction to Research Agenda in Experimental Economics”, Chapter 1 in Chaudhuri, A. (Editor), Research Agenda in Experimental Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (forthcoming).

Fischer, K., Atkinson, Q and Chaudhuri, A. (2021). “Experimental approaches to political psychology”, Chapter 4 in Chaudhuri, A. (Editor), Research Agenda in Experimental Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (forthcoming)

Claessens, S., Chaudhuri, A., Sibley, C and Atkinson, Q. (2021). “An Evolutionary Approach to Political Ideology”, in Sibley C. and Osborne, D. (Editors), Handbook of Political Psychology, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Chaudhuri, A. (2015). “Altruistic Punishments”, Pages 10-12 in Morris Altman (Editor), Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopaedia of Behavioral Economics, ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2015.

Chaudhuri, A. (2013). “Experimental Economics” in the Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems, UNESCO, New York. NY. 2013

Chaudhuri, A., (2012). “Gender and corruption: a survey of the experimental evidence”, Chapter 2, pages 13-49 in Danila Serra and Leonard Wantchekon (Editors), Research in Experimental Economics Volume 15: New Advances in Experimental Research on Corruption, 2012, Bingley, UK: Emerald Publications.

Chaudhuri, A. and Paichayontvijit, T. (2011). “Recommended Play and Costly Punishments in a Laboratory Public Goods Experiment” in Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar, Hiranya Mukhopadhyay and Uday Bhanu Sinha (Eds.), Dimensions of Economic Theory and Policy: Essays for Anjan Mukherji, New Delhi: Oxford University Press

Non-Refereed Publications

Chaudhuri, A. (2016). Is the price right? Fair play and economics. University of Auckland Business Review, 19(1), Autumn 2016.

Chaudhuri, A. (2010). Reflections of a journal editor. New Zealand Economic Papers, 44(3), December 2010, 211-215.

Chaudhuri, A. (2009b). Editor’s Introduction. New Zealand Economic Papers, 41(1), 227.

Chaudhuri, A. (2009a). Editor’s Introduction. New Zealand Economic Papers, 43(1), 1-2.

Chaudhuri, A. (2008). Editor’s Introduction. New Zealand Economic Papers, 42(2), 151-154.

Chaudhuri, A. (2007b). Editor’s Introduction. New Zealand Economic Papers, 41(2), 1-2.

Chaudhuri, A. (2007a). Editor’s Introduction. New Zealand Economic Papers, 41(1), 1-2. 9

Chaudhuri, A. (2001). A Simple Investment Game Experiment for the Classroom. Classroom Expernomics, Vol. 10, Fall 2001.

Chaudhuri, A. (1996). Published abstract: The Ratchet Principle in a Principal Agent with Unknown Costs: An Experimental Analysis. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 40 (4), December 1996, p. 371-371.

Op-Eds

“Opt-out” option can help reduce vaccine hysteria, New Zealand Herald, August 16, 2021.

Why we could not just “trust the science” when it came to Covid-19, New Zealand Herald, July 22, 2021.

Why NZ proposed hate speech law is authoritarian, Newsroom, July 13, 2020.

When does a zero Covid stance end? New Zealand Herald, June 28, 2021.

Why would China leak Covid-19? New Zealand Herald, June 4, 2021.

A lesson for our government; bringing the next Sergey Brin to NZ. Newsroom, June 2, 2021.

Minimum wage increase not behind inflationary pressures. New Zealand Herald, April 27, 2021.

Travel bans and unconscious bias. Newsroom, April 16, 2021.

Government policies must catch up with latest data on Covid-19. The BFD. March 30, 2021.

Fixing the gender gap in the work-place. Newsroom, March 29, 2021.

Wide Capital Gains Tax including on family home best answer to inequality, Stuff.co.nz, March 3, 2021.

Despite claims NZ policing is too ‘woke’, crime rates are largely static and even declining, The Conversation, March 1, 2021.

Latest NZ unemployment figure may not give a true picture of the number of people out of work, The Conversation, February 18, 2021.

The simple math problem may not be so simple after all, New Zealand Herald, February 10, 2021.

Raising the minimum wage to $20 an hour in April 2021, New Zealand Herald, January 7, 2021.

US elections: Joe Biden needs to understand Trump’s Support Base, New Zealand Herald, November 12, 2020.

Covid-19 vaccine has a few hurdles yet to clear, New Zealand Herald, November 2, 2020.

Why the government can’t simply cancel its pandemic debt by printing more money. The Conversation. October 22, 2020.

Time to Walk the Talk, Minister, New Zealand Herald, September 22, 2020

Beware of being damned with faint praise, New Zealand Herald, September 15, 2020.

Government smart to pivot away from Covid-19 elimination policy, New Zealand Herald, September 7, 2020.

Why countries with female leaders fared better under Covid-19. New Zealand Herald, July 22, 2020.

Should Kiwis pay for Quarantine? Newsroom, July 22, 2020.

Don’t make Kiwis pay for Covid-19 quarantine, Newsroom, June 29, 2020.

Changing your mind on cannabis, Newsroom, May 22, 2020.

The contrarian view on the Covid-19 pandemic, Newsroom, May 16, 2020.

Air New Zealand pilot layoffs – there is a better way, New Zealand Herald, April 15, 2020.

A different perspective on the Covid-19 pandemic, Newsroom, April 8, 2020.

“Racial Bias unlikely in resuscitating premature babies”, New Zealand Herald, October 30, 2018.

“Let’s explode some myths about immigration”, New Zealand Herald, April 6, 2017.

“Deporting students cruel and unusual”, New Zealand Herald, February 16, 2017.

“Automatic enrolment in retirement plans has big impact”, New Zealand Herald, June 2, 2015.

“Reforms blind to universities’ aims”, New Zealand Herald, April 16, 2014.

“Do women need to be more aggressive in the work-place”, New Zealand Herald, November 7, 2013.

“Does having kids increase your options?”, New Zealand Herald, August 13, 2013.

“Getting People to use public transport”, New Zealand Herald, October 30, 2012.

“Help the world – educate the girls”, New Zealand Herald, October 12, 2012.

“Women key to cutting corporate corruption”, New Zealand Herald, September 27, 2012.

“Price discrimination and the Black Jersey”, New Zealand Herald, August 10, 2011.

“Digital currency debt threat”, Sunday Star-Times, July 24, 2011.

“True reasons behind the gender wage gap”, New Zealand Herald, June 25, 2011

“Banks put vulnerable at risk from predatory lending”, New Zealand Herald, June 1, 2011.

“Does the 90-day employee trial law really benefit businesses?”, Sunday Star-Times, October 10, 2010.

“Paying peanuts to teachers a gamble we cannot afford”, New Zealand Herald, September 21, 2010.

“Reality Check: on Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize in Economics”, The Telegraph of Calcutta, October 19, 2009.

“Electricity backlash will come - sooner or later”, New Zealand Herald, June 2, 2009.

“Weighing up wage cuts versus layoffs”, Wellington Dominion Post, May 21, 2009.

“Bad Sports”, Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, June 23, 2002

“The Quirks of Behavior, as Part of Economics”, Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, March 4, 2001

“Tax Cut Consequences”, Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, January 25, 2001

“The Trial in Pakistan”, Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, April 15, 2000

“Game Shows Thrive on New ‘Greed’”, Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, November 14, 1999

“Inscrutable Trade”, Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, February 21, 1999

“The GOP lost its Chance to Censure Clinton”, Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, February 6, 1999.

Book Reviews

”The Economics of Small Things” by Sudipta Sarangi, Penguin Random House, India, 2020, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, forthcoming.

“Feeling Smart: Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We think”, by Eyal Winter, Public Affairs, New York, 2016, Journal of Economic Psychology, 59, April 2017, 171-173.

“Misbehaving: The making of behavioral Economics”, by Richard Thaler, W.W. Norton, 2015, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 60, February 2016, 64-65.

“Give and Take” by Adam Grant, Viking, 2014, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 52, October 2014, 1-3.

“The Why Axis” by Uri Gneezy and John List, Public Affairs, 2013, Journal of Economic Psychology, 44, October 2014, 47-49

“The Darwin Economy” by Robert Frank, Princeton University Press, 2011, New Zealand Economic Papers, 46(2), 185-188.

“Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules” by Nicholas Bardsley, Robin Cubitt, Graham Loomes, Peter Moffatt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, Princeton University Press, 2009, Journal of Economic Psychology, 31(6), December 2010, 1057-1060.

“Moral Sentiments and Material Interests”, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, Herbert Gintis and Ernst Fehr (Editors), MIT Press, 2006, European Journal of Political Economy, 24(1), March 2008, 280 – 282.

“Game Theory: 5 Questions”, Vincent F. Hendricks and Pelle G. Hansen (Editors), Automatic Press, 2005, Journal of Economic Psychology, 28 (5), August 2007, 625-627.

“Experimental Business Research”, Rami Zwick and Amnon Rapoport (Editors), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Journal of Economic Psychology, 23(6), December 2002, p. 793- 796.

“Strategic Foundations of General Equilibrium” by Douglas Gale, First Edition, Cambridge University Press, Eastern Economic Journal, 28(2), May 2002, p. 275-277.

“Rural Development: Principles, Policies and Management” by Katar Singh, Second Edition, Sage Publishers, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 30(4), January 2001, p. 600-602.

Edited Volumes

Chaudhuri, Ananish (Ed.) (2021) Research Agenda in Experimental Economics; Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. This adventurous collection samples widely from interesting domains of economics experiments. It touches all the important themes in why lab control is so extraordinarily useful for understanding general economic principles, and what we can look forward to. Colin Camerer Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics Director, T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience, Caltech

Chaudhuri, Ananish (Ed.) (2016). Recent Advances in Experimental Studies of Social Dilemma Games, Basel: MDPI.

Academic Positions

Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, January – June 2020.

Head (Chairperson) of the Department of Economics, University of Auckland; February, 2013 – January 2020.

Professor of Experimental Economics, Department of Economics, University of Auckland, September 2009 onwards. Associate Professor, October 2005 - August 2009; Senior Lecturer, February 2003 – September 2005.

Visiting Research Scholar, Centre for Economic Studies, University of Munich, July – August 2018.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, August 2001-December 2002.

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Washington State University, August 1998 – May 2003.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, IN, August 1997 – May 1998.

Courses Taught

Graduate

Harvard University: Behavioral Decision Making

Washington State University: Managerial Economics (MBA), Statistics for Business (MBA)

University of Auckland: Experimental Economics

Undergraduate

University of Auckland: Behavioural Economics, Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, International Trade, International Economics, Understanding the Global Economy

Wellesley College: Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Economic Development, Behavioral Decision Theory

Washington State University: Theory of the Firm and Market Policy, International Trade and Finance, Behavioral Decision Theory, Labor Economics

Rutgers University: Introduction to Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, International Trade, Economic Development, Managerial Economics

Keynote/Invited Lectures

Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP), Harvard Kennedy School, April 8, 2021.

Amity University, India, December 9, 2020.

Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School, October 2, 2020.

Spring Week on Campus, Public Lecture, November 28, 2019

Centre for Digital Enterprise (CODE), University of Auckland, Research Symposium on Disruptive Technologies, November 1, 2019.

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, August 29, 2019.

NZ Commerce and Economics Teachers Main Event, June 13, 2019.

Presidency University, Kolkata, India; delivered 2 public lectures of 3 hours each, January 18 and 28, 2019.

Centre for Economic Studies, University of Munich; delivered a set of three 90-minute on “Experiments in Social Preferences”, July 17, 18, 19, 2018.

Conference on Social Dilemma Games, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, May 15-16, 2015.

International Conference on Public Finance, Public Economics and Public Policy, Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy, Kolkata, India, December 11-12, 2014.

52nd Annual meeting of the New Zealand Association of Economists, Wellington, New Zealand, June 29 – July 1, 2011.

International Workshop on Experimental Economics and Finance, Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE) Xiamen University - Xiamen, China, December 15-16, 2010.

Great Minds and Big Ideas Lecture Series at the University of Auckland, May 14, 2011.

Winter Week on Campus; University of Auckland; set of five public lectures; July 2, 4, 4, 5 and 6, 2007.

Editorial Appointments

Senior Editor, Oxford Open Economics, 2021 -

Editor-in-chief, New Zealand Economic Papers, Routledge, 2007-2010. (Editorial Board Member, 2020 -)

Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Elsevier, 2011-2015.

Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, 2007-2019.

Book Review Editor, Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, 2016-2018.

Associate Editor (de facto Editor on assigned papers), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Elsevier, 2013 onward. (Editorial Board Member, 2009 – 2012).

Editorial Board Member (de facto Editor on assigned papers), Games, 2017 onward.

Editor Board Member (de facto Editor on assigned papers), Nature Scientific Reports, 2018-2021.

Editor, Games - Special Issue: Experimental studies of social dilemma problems, 2015; subsequently published as Chaudhuri, A. (Ed.), Recent advances in experimental studies of social dilemma problems, 2016, Basel, Switzerland: MDPI AG

Other Professional Appointments

Member, Economics and Human & Behavioral Sciences (EHB) Panel, Royal Society NZ Marsden Fund Grants, 2018-2019.

Founder and Director; DECIDE – University of Auckland Business School Decision Making Lab, 2010 - .

Research Fellow, CESifo, University of Munich, Germany, 2018 onward.

Invited Visiting Scholar; Centre for Economic Studies, University of Munich, Germany; July-August 2018.

Research Associate, Center for Economic Behavior, Institutions and Design, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2011 - .

MCJ Foundation Pre-Doctoral Visiting Fellow, Economic Science Laboratory, University of Arizona, Summer 1995.

Service Roles

Member, 3-person Senior Leadership Delegation from University of Auckland Business School to leading Indian Universities and Business Schools; August 2019.

Member of Senate Working Party, a working party of ten professors set up to look at the structure, role and function of the University of Auckland Senate as well as revitalize the role of the Senate, 2011-2012.

Member, University of Auckland Staffing Committee for Non-Faculty Academics, 2010- 2012.

Member, University of Auckland Business School Faculty Staffing Committee, 2009 – 2012.

Member, University of Auckland Business School Research Committee, 2010-2011.

Member, University of Auckland Business School Research Excellence Awards Committee, 2009, 2011.

Member, University of Auckland Business School Distinguished Contribution Award Committee, 2019.

University PBRF Evidence Portfolio Assessment Panel Member, 2006, 2012.

Faculty Panel member for EQUIS and AACSB accreditation, 2004, 2009, 2014.

External referee for numerous promotion and tenure applications in leading institutions around the world including applications to full Professor.

Grants

Principal Investigator, Royal Society NZ Marsden Fund Grant, 2018-2021 (with Quentin Atkinson and Chris Sibley), November 2017. Project: Political gaming: using economic games to understand the foundations of political ideology; NZ $835,000.

Associate Investigator, Royal Society NZ Marsden Fund Grant, 2018-2021 (with Thomas Pfeiffer (PI), Yiling Chen, Anna Dreber and Arkadii Slinko, November 2017. Project: Decision Markets; NZ $735,000.

Associate Investigator, Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Grant, 2006-2009 (with L. Gangadharan, N, Erkal and L. Cameron, all at the University of Melbourne), November 2005. Project: The Economics of Corruption and Institutional Change: Theory and Experiments; Approx. AU $250,000.

Principal Investigator, University of Auckland Vice-Chancellor’s University Development Fund Grant to set up DECIDE, the University of Auckland Behavioural Decision Making Lab, August 2011. Approx. NZ $30,000.

Principal Investigator, University of Auckland Vice-Chancellor’s University Development Fund Grant for project on gender and cultural differences in corruption, June 2004; approx. NZ $54,000.

PI on numerous Faculty Research Development Fund grants from the University of Auckland since 2003; most recent ones for NZ $33,600 between 2020 and 2022; NZ $37,000 between 2017 and 2019; NZ $30,000 between 2014 and 2016 and NZ $48,000 between 2012 and 2014.

Awards

“A” (Highest) rating in NZ Government’s Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF) exercise in all rounds including the most recent one, 2018-19.

Distinguished Contribution Award from the University of Auckland Faculty of Business and Economics for sustained contribution to the faculty, August 2018.

Special Service Award from the Council of the New Zealand Association of Economists for “outstanding work raising the quality and profile of the New Zealand Economic Papers” during my term as editor, 2007-2010, July 2010.

Sustained Research Excellence Award, University of Auckland Business School, 2008

Research Excellence Award for outstanding research performance, University of Auckland Business School, 2018, 2010.