Marcus Giamattei

Professor of Economics (Education) • Professor

Professor of Economics (Education)

Marcus Giamattei is Professor of Economics (Education) at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Previously, he was Professor of Macroeconomics at Bard College Berlin. From 2015 to 2019, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Passau, where he remains an External Fellow. He is also a member of CeDEx at the University of Nottingham. He earned his PhD and Habilitation in Economics at the University of Passau.

His research interests include macroeconomics, experimental economics and behavioural economics. His work focuses on bounded rationality as a key driver of macroeconomic behaviour, as well as the role of cooperation, ethics and corruption. His research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, PLOS ONE, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making and Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.

He developed classEx, a tool for conducting interactive experiments in lecture halls and in the field using mobile devices, and LIONESS Lab, a platform for online experiments. Both tools enable instructors and researchers to conduct experiments outside traditional laboratory settings and incorporate them into teaching. classEx and LIONESS Lab are used in more than 70 countries worldwide.

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Curriculum Vitae

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PUBLICATIONS

Giamattei, M., Werner, K., 2024. Gender differences in post-competition honesty: an experimental analysis, Frontiers in Behavioral Economics Vol. 3.

Greiff, M., Giamattei, M., 2024. Spillovers from incentive schemes on distributional preferences and expectations, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Vol. 112(102241).

Giamattei, M., 2022. Can Cold Turkey Reduce Inflation Inertia?: Evidence on Disinflation and Level-k Thinking from a Laboratory Experiment, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Vol. 54(8), pp. 2477-2512.

Giamattei, M., Yahosseini, K., Gächter, S., Molleman, L., 2020. LIONESS Lab: a Free Web-Based Platform for Conducting Interactive Experiments Online, Journal of the Economic Science Association Vol. 6(1), pp. 95-111.

Dorner, V., Giamattei, M., Greiff, M., 2020. The Market for Reviews: Strategic Behavior of Online Product Reviewers with Monetary Incentives, Schmalenbach Business Review Vol. 72(3), pp. 397-435.

Giamattei, M., Huber, J., Graf Lambsdorff, J., Niklisch, A., Palan, S., 2020. Who Inflates the Bubble?: Forecasters and Traders in Experimental Asset Markets, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Vol. 110(103718).

Grundmann, S., Giamattei, M., Graf Lambsdorff, J., 2019. Intentions rather than Money Illusion: Why Nominal Changes Induce Real Effects, European Economic Review Vol. 119, pp. 166-178.

Giamattei, M., Graf Lambsdorff, J., 2019. classEx - an Online Tool for Lab-in-the-Field Experiments with Smartphones, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Vol. 22, pp. 223-231.