Joël van der WEELE is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and political Decision making (CREED) at the University of Amsterdam, and a Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute and the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition center.

His research is on diverse issues at the intersection of economics and psychology, using the tools of experimental economics and game theory. Topics include motivated cognition in economic decisions, the interaction of laws and social norms and the measurement of beliefs. In 2017, Joël van der WEELE was awarded an important VIDI grant by the Dutch Science Foundation for his research project on "Selective Attention and Economic Decisions".

Joël van der WEELE will present a paper, joint with Peter SCHWARDMANN and Egon TRIPODI, at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:

Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at Two International Debating Competitions (read paper)

More about Joël van der WEELE and his research

The next Departmental Seminar will host Nicolas SCHUTZ on February 24th.

Date: Mon, 2020/02/10 - 14:45 - 16:15
Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères - ROOM H 405