Matej Lorko

Matej Lorko is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Insurance, Faculty of Economics and Finance, Bratislava University of Economics and Business. He holds a PhD from Macquarie Business School, Sydney. His research focuses on behavioral and experimental economics with emphasis on decision-making processes, project management efficiency, and public policy interventions.

Education: PhD in Economics from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). Active research areas include behavioral nudges in tax compliance, effectiveness of charitable contributions, and improving project planning accuracy through controlled experiments. He runs the Bratislava Behavioral and Economic Experiences for Research Lab (bee4R LAB) and contributes to the SecureDataLab initiative.

Key research programs involve:

• Economic experiments in project management (2016–2020)
• Enhancing charitable contribution effectiveness (since 2019)
• Behavioral tax compliance studies (since 2021)

His work combines laboratory experiments with real-world applications, focusing on how cognitive biases affect decision-making in professional and policy contexts. Notable contributions include demonstrating anchoring effects in project duration estimates and developing interventions to improve schedule accuracy.

Labs/Teams: bee4R LAB (behavioral economics experiments), SecureDataLab (data-driven policy analysis).