Nisvan Erkal

Leadership selection: Can changing the default break the glass ceiling?

Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, Erte Xiao

Journal article  |  2022  |  LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY

Leadership selection often requires candidates to actively choose to express their interest. Using a series of incentivized experi..

By chance or by choice? Biased attribution of others' outcomes when social preferences matter

Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, Boon Han Koh

Journal article  |  2021  |  EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS

UNLABELLED: Decision makers in positions of power often make unobserved choices under risk and uncertainty. In many cases, they fa..

Putting relational contract theory to the test: experimental evidence

Nisvan Erkal, Steven Y Wu, Brian E Roe

Journal article  |  2021  |  EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS

We investigate a number of canonical predictions that arise from relational contract theory. Employing an experimental design with..

Replication: Belief elicitation with quadratic and binarized scoring rules

Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, Boon Han Koh

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Economic Psychology

Researchers increasingly elicit beliefs to understand the underlying motivations of decision makers. Two commonly used methods are..

Aggregative games and oligopoly theory: short‐run and long‐run analysis

Simon Anderson, Nisvan Erkal, Daniel PICCININ

Journal article  |  2020  |  RAND Journal of Economics

We compile an IO toolkit for aggregative games and use inclusive best reply functions to deliver oligopoly comparative statics and..

Monetary and Non-Monetary Incentives in Real-effort Tournaments

N Erkal, L Gangadharan, BH Koh

Journal article  |  2018  |  European Economic Review

Results from laboratory experiments using real-effort tasks provide mixed evidence on the relationship between monetary incentives..

Reimagining innovation theory: Suzanne Scotchmer and the ideas model

N Erkal, SM Maurer, D Minehart

Book Chapter  |  2017

This book presents eleven classic papers by the late Professor Suzanne Scotchmer with introductions by leading economists and lega..

Impact of Rebates and Refunds on Contributions to Threshold Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Matthew Donazzan, Nisvan Erkal, Boon Han Koh

Journal article  |  2016  |  SOUTHERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL

We investigate the impact of rebates and refunds on contributions to threshold public goods using evidence from a field experiment..

Welfare Receipt and the Intergenerational Transmission of Work-Welfare Norms

JD Barón, DA Cobb-Clark, N Erkal

Journal article  |  2015  |  Southern Economic Journal

This article investigates the role of welfare receipt in shaping norms regarding work and welfare using unique Australian data fro..

Cultural integration: Experimental evidence of convergence in immigrants' preferences

Lisa Cameron, Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, Marina Zhang

Journal article  |  2015  |  JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION

Cultural traits play a significant role in the determination of economic outcomes and institutions. This paper presents evidence f..