Geoffrey Castillo

Interests. Decision theory, experimental economics, behavioural economics, microeconomics.
I am a senior researcher at the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics of the University of Vienna. I am also lab manager of our lab, along with Philipp Külpmann.
I have put together a list of resources that I have found helpful when starting in academia. If you know any other, please let me know.

Publications

Are groups always more dishonest than individuals? The case of salient negative externalities, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022. with Lawrence Choo and Veronika Grimm [last working paper version] [appendix] [data and code]
Preference reversals with social distances, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2021. [last working paper version] [appendix] [data and code]
The attraction effect and its explanations, Games and Economic Behavior, 2020. [last working paper version] [data]

Working papers

The stability of norms elicited with coordination games with Lawrence Choo and Veronika Grimm We investigate the stability of norms elicited with the Krupka-Weber norm-elicitation task. We define stability as norms being invariant to the experience, role, or type of subjects. We measure social norms in a game played among two teams who have different information regarding the size of a pie to be divided. We find that the norms are largely independent of these three aspects and conclude that social norms are indeed stable. This result further validates the use of this norm-elicitation task to measure norms.

In progress

Incorporating social distances in economic analysis
with Benjamin Beranek
Context effects under ambiguity
with Ola Andersson and Erik Wengström
How does lottery representation affect risk attitudes?
with Chris Starmer
Market and bank runs
with Lawrence Choo and Todd Kaplan