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Professor Klaus Abbink

Organisation:

Department of Economics
Title: Professor

 
Qualifications: Klaus Abbink is a Professor of Economics. His research background is in experimental and behavioural economics and he received his doctoral degree in May 2000 from the University of Bonn with a thesis on corruption and reciprocity experiments, supervised by Professor Reinhard Selten. Before joining Monash, Klaus held positions at the universities of Nottingham (UK), Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and East Anglia (UK), where he was Director of the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS). He has worked on many areas including (anti-)social preferences, conflict, political economy and corruption, auctions and markets and development economics.

 
Office: Clayton Campus
Room E857, Building 11
Monash University Vic 3800
Telephone: +61 3 9902 0857
Fax: +61 3 9905 5476
E-mail:  klaus.abbink@monash.edu 

 
Research Interests: Experimental and behavioural economics, applied game theory, development economics

 
Selected Publications: Abbink, K., Jayne, T.S., & Moller, L.C. (Forthcoming). The Relevance of a Rules-Based Maize Marketing Policy:  An Experimental Case Study of Zambia. Journal of Development Studies.

Abbink, K., Brandts, J., Herrmann, B., & Orzen, H. (2010). Inter-Group Conflict and Intra-Group Punishment in an Experimental Contest Game. American Economic Review, 100(1), 420-447.

Abbink, K., & Sadrieh, A. (2009). The pleasure of being nasty. Economics Letters, 105(3), 306-308.

Abbink, K., & Brandts, J. (2008). 24 -- Pricing in Bertrand competition with Increasing Marginal Costs. Games and Economic Behavior, 63(1), 1-31.

Abbink, K., Irlenbusch, B., & Renner, E. (2006). Group Size and Social Ties in Microfinance Institutions. Economic Inquiry, 44, 614-628.

Abbink, K., Irlenbusch, B., Pezanis-Christou, P., Rokenbach, B., Sadrieh, A., & Selten, R. (2005). An Experimental Test of Design Alternatives for the British 3G / UMTS Auction. European Economic Review, 49, 505-530.

Abbink, K., Sadrieh, A., Buchta, J., & Selten, R. (2003). How to Play 3x3-Games - A Strategy Method Experiment. Games and Economic Behavior, 45, 19-37.

Abbink, K., Irlenbusch, B., & Renner, E. (2002). An Experimental Bribery Game. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 18, 428-454.

Abbink, K., Irlenbusch, B., & Renner, E. (2000) The Moonlighting Game - An Experimental Study on Reciprocity and Retribution. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 42, 265-277.