Staff profile

Andis Sofianos is a Professor in the Economics Department. He joined the department in September 2022 as Associate Professor. He was previously a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the chair of Economic Theory II (Jörg Oechssler) in the Economics Department of the Alfred-Weber Institute at the University of Heidelberg. Andis completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Warwick where he also obtained an MSc in Economics and Psychological Science and a BSc in Economics. In his research, Andis combines theory, experimental methods, and agent-based modelling to study the impact of individual characteristics, such as personality traits and intelligence, on strategic interactions as well as individual decision making. His research interests are interdisciplinary as he combines insights from economics, psychology, and neuroscience in understanding the relationship of intelligence and personality on pro-social behaviours, namely: trust, cooperation, and coordination. More recently, Andis has pursued projects aiming to understand individual attitudes and beliefs when faced with unforeseen events and an experimental study of price bubble formation in cryptocurrency markets.

• Behavioural Economics
• Experimental Economics

Journal Article

• Becker, C. K., Melkonyan, T., Proto, E., Sofianos, A., & Trautmann, S. T. (in press). Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events. Journal of the European Economic Association,
• Sofianos, A. (in press). Intelligence in Experimental Economics. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance,
• Lambrecht, M., Proto, E., Rustichini, A., & Sofianos, A. (2024). Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 16(3), 199-231. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20220245
• Lohse, J., Rahal, R.-M., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., Sofianos, A., & Wollbrant, C. (2024). Investigations of decision processes at the intersection of psychology and economics. Journal of Economic Psychology, 103, Article 102741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2024.102741
• Lambrecht, M., Sofianos, A., & Xu, Y. (2024). Does mining fuel bubbles? An experimental study on cryptocurrency markets. Management Science, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.01238
• Castagnetti, A., Proto, E., & Sofianos, A. (2023). Anger Impairs Strategic Behavior: A Beauty-Contest Based Analysis. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 213, 128-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.06.027
• Sofianos, A. (2022). Self-reported & revealed trust: Experimental evidence. Journal of Economic Psychology, 88, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2021.102451
• Proto, E., Rustichini, A., & Sofianos, A. (2022). Intelligence, Errors, and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions. The Review of Economic Studies, 89(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdab095
• Oechssler, J., Reischmann, A., & Sofianos, A. (2022). The conditional contribution mechanism for repeated public goods – The general case. Journal of Economic Theory, 203, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2022.105488
• Kirchkamp, O., Oechssler, J., & Sofianos, A. (2021). The Binary Lottery Procedure does not induce risk neutrality in the Holt & Laury and Eckel & Grossman tasks. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.02.026
• Proto, E., Rustichini, A., & Sofianos, A. (2019). Intelligence, Personality, and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions. Journal of Political Economy, 127(3), https://doi.org/10.1086/701355