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Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems (2022)
Journal Article
Gächter, S., Starmer, C., Thöni, C., Tufano, F., & Weber, T. O. (2022). Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems. Economics Letters, 216, Article 110552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110552

Experimental research has shown that ordinary people often perform remarkably well in solving coordination games that involve no conflicts of interest. While most experiments in the past studied such coordination games among socially distant anonymou... Read More about Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems.

One size does not fit all: Plurality of social norms and saving behavior in Kenya (2021)
Journal Article
Fromell, H., Nosenzo, D., Owens, T., & Tufano, F. (2021). One size does not fit all: Plurality of social norms and saving behavior in Kenya. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 192, 73-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.09.028

Using the Krupka–Weber norm-elicitation technique in a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Kenya, we measure the social norms that regulate the trade-off between wealth accumulation through saving and sharing income with kin and neighbors. We find a... Read More about One size does not fit all: Plurality of social norms and saving behavior in Kenya.

The differential impact of friendship on cooperative and competitive coordination (2020)
Journal Article
Chierchia, G., Tufano, F., & Coricelli, G. (2020). The differential impact of friendship on cooperative and competitive coordination. Theory and Decision, 89(4), 423-452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-020-09763-3

Friendship is commonly assumed to reduce strategic uncertainty and enhance tacit coordination. However, this assumption has never been tested across two opposite poles of coordination involving either strategic complementarity or substitutability. We... Read More about The differential impact of friendship on cooperative and competitive coordination.

Are Victims Truly Worse Off in the Presence of Bystanders? Revisiting the Bystander Effect (2019)
Journal Article
Fromell, H., Nosenzo, D., Owens, T., & Tufano, F. (2019). Are Victims Truly Worse Off in the Presence of Bystanders? Revisiting the Bystander Effect. Revue Economique, 70(6), 927-944. https://doi.org/10.3917/reco.706.0927

Previous studies have shown that individuals are less likely to help a person in need when there are “bystanders” present who can also offer help. We designed an experiment to re-examine this “bystander effect” using modified dictator games. We find... Read More about Are Victims Truly Worse Off in the Presence of Bystanders? Revisiting the Bystander Effect.

Reexamining How Utility and Weighting Functions Get Their Shapes: A Quasi-Adversarial Collaboration Providing a New Interpretation (2019)
Journal Article
Alempaki, D., Canic, E., Mullett, T., Skylark, W., Starmer, C., Stewart, N., & Tufano, F. (2019). Reexamining How Utility and Weighting Functions Get Their Shapes: A Quasi-Adversarial Collaboration Providing a New Interpretation. Management Science, 65(10), 4451-4949. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3170

Stewart, Reimers and Harris (2015, SRH hereafter) demonstrated that shapes of utility and probability weighting functions could be manipulated by adjusting the distributions of outcomes and probabilities on offer, as predicted by the theory of Decisi... Read More about Reexamining How Utility and Weighting Functions Get Their Shapes: A Quasi-Adversarial Collaboration Providing a New Interpretation.

On the priming of risk preferences: the role of fear and general affect (2019)
Journal Article
Alempaki, D., Starmer, C., & Tufano, F. (2019). On the priming of risk preferences: the role of fear and general affect. Journal of Economic Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2018.12.011

Priming is an established tool in psychology for investigating aspects of cognitive processes underlying decision making and is increasingly applied in economics. We report a systematic attempt to test the reproducibility and generalisability of prim... Read More about On the priming of risk preferences: the role of fear and general affect.

The research reproducibility crisis and economics of science (2017)
Journal Article
Maniadis, Z., & Tufano, F. (in press). The research reproducibility crisis and economics of science. Economic Journal, 127, Article F200-F208. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12526

We provide a brief summary of two areas where cross-fertilization across economics and other disciplines is likely to have far-reaching benefits. The increasing concern about research reproducibility entails that economic design has much to contribut... Read More about The research reproducibility crisis and economics of science.

To replicate or not to replicate?: exploring reproducibility in economics through the lens of a model and a pilot study (2017)
Journal Article
Maniadis, Z., Tufano, F., & List, J. A. (in press). To replicate or not to replicate?: exploring reproducibility in economics through the lens of a model and a pilot study. Economic Journal, 127, Article F209-F235. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12527

The sciences are in an era of an alleged ‘credibility crisis’. In this study, we discuss the reproducibility of empirical results, focusing on economics research. By combining theory and empirical evidence, we discuss the import of replication studie... Read More about To replicate or not to replicate?: exploring reproducibility in economics through the lens of a model and a pilot study.

The value of vulnerability: the transformative capacity of risky trust (2017)
Journal Article
Bruni, L., & Tufano, F. (in press). The value of vulnerability: the transformative capacity of risky trust. Judgment and Decision Making, 12(4),

In an experimental gift-exchange game, we explore the# transformative capacity of vulnerable trust, which we define as trusting untrustworthy players when their untrustworthiness is common knowledge between co-players. In our experiment, there are tw... Read More about The value of vulnerability: the transformative capacity of risky trust.

The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation (2017)
Journal Article
Nosenzo, D., & Tufano, F. (2017). The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 142, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.07.009

We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation may foster cooperation through a mechanism of assortative selection of interaction partners based on false consensus bias, or throug... Read More about The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation.

Measuring the closeness of relationships: a comprehensive evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' scale (2015)
Journal Article
Gaechter, S., Starmer, C., & Tufano, F. (2015). Measuring the closeness of relationships: a comprehensive evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' scale. PLoS ONE, 10(6), Article e0129478. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129478

Understanding the nature and influence of social relationships is of increasing interest to behavioral economists, and behavioral scientists more generally. In turn, this creates a need for tractable, and reliable, tools for measuring fundamental asp... Read More about Measuring the closeness of relationships: a comprehensive evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' scale.

How to make experimental economics research more reproducible: lessons from other disciplines and a new proposal (2015)
Book Chapter
Maniadis, Z., Tufano, F., & List, J. A. (2015). How to make experimental economics research more reproducible: lessons from other disciplines and a new proposal. In C. A. Deck, E. Fatas, & T. Rosenblat (Eds.), Replication in Experimental Economics. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0193-230620150000018008

Efforts in the spirit of this special issue aim at improving the reproducibility of experimental economics, in response to the recent discussions regarding the “research reproducibility crisis.” We put this endeavour in perspective by summarizing the... Read More about How to make experimental economics research more reproducible: lessons from other disciplines and a new proposal.

One swallow doesn’t make a summer: reply to Kataria (2014)
Journal Article
Maniadis, Z., Tufano, F., & List, J. A. (2014). One swallow doesn’t make a summer: reply to Kataria. Econ journal watch, 11(1),

In this paper we reply to Mitesh Kataria’s comment, which criticized the simulations of Maniadis, Tufano, and List (2014, Am. Econ. Rev.104(1), 277-290). We view these simulations as a means to illustrating the fact that we economists are unaware of... Read More about One swallow doesn’t make a summer: reply to Kataria.

One swallow doesn't make a summer: new evidence on anchoring effects (2014)
Journal Article
Maniadis, Z., Tufano, F., & List, J. A. (2014). One swallow doesn't make a summer: new evidence on anchoring effects. American Economic Review, 104(1), https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.1.277

Some researchers have argued that anchoring in economic valuations casts doubt on the assumption of consistent and stable preferences. We present new evidence that explores the strength of certain anchoring results. We then present a theoretical fram... Read More about One swallow doesn't make a summer: new evidence on anchoring effects.