Simon Gächter is Professor of the Psychology of Economic Decision Making at the University of Nottingham. He previously held the chair in Applied Microeconomics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Simon Gächter received his post-graduate education at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna and his PhD in 1994 from the University of Vienna. He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Vienna and the University of Linz. In 1994 he became an assistant professor at the University of Zürich, and in 2000 a Full Professor in St. Gallen. Simon Gächter's research interests are in the fields of behavioral and experimental economics. He is particularly interested in issues of voluntary provision of public goods and solutions to free rider problems, investigating mechanisms such as social norms and rule following. Simon Gächter has published in Econometrica, American Economic Review, Science, Nature, Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Review, Management Science, Games and Economic Behavior, among others. In 2005 Simon Gächter received the Gossen Prize of the Verein fur Socialpolitik and in 2009 he was elected into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He is also a Fellow of the European Economic Association. Simon Gächter was recently awarded his second European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator Grant on the Behavioural Principles of Large-Scale Cooperation (09/2021-08/2026).
main research interests
Social dilemmas; Voluntary cooperation; Social Preferences; Social Norms; Rule following
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https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Economics/people/simon.gaechter
