Martin Dufwenberg

Martin Dufwenberg is the Karl & Stevie Eller Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Behavioral Economics at the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management. He holds a PhD in Economics from Uppsala University (1995) and an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on behavioral economics, game theory, and experimental methods, particularly incorporating emotions and belief-dependent motivations into economic analysis through psychological game theory. He has held academic positions at Uppsala University, Stockholm University, and Bocconi University before joining the Eller College in 2003. He became Department Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Arizona in 2020.

His research explores topics such as moral commitments, tax evasion, social norms, and experimental validation of theoretical models. Notable contributions include work on sequential reciprocity, guilt aversion, and the design of experiments to study human behavior in economic contexts. He has published extensively in top journals like American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Games and Economic Behavior.

Professor Dufwenberg’s awards include the 2003 Royal Economic Society Prize for his work on deductive reasoning in extensive games. He serves on editorial boards for journals such as Games & Economic Behavior and Experimental Economics. His current projects include studies on corruption, pandemic-related decision-making, and peer evaluation tournaments.

In addition to his research, he teaches courses on behavioral game theory and experimental economics. He collaborates with institutions like the Organizational Behavior Laboratory and the Economic Science Laboratory, advancing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding economic behavior.