Dr. Zvonimir Bašić

Research Focus

My main research interests lie in the field of behavioral and experimental economics.

1.2019 – 08.2023: Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
10.2013 – 12.2018: PhD in Economics, University of Bonn (BGSE)

Bašić, Z. and Quercia, S. (2022). The Influence of Self and Social Image Concerns on Lying. Games and Economic Behavior, 133, 162-169.
Bašić, Z., Falk, A., and Kosse, F. (2020). The Development of Egalitarian Norm Enforcement in Childhood and Adolescence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 179, 667-680.

Bašić. Z. and Verrina, E. (2022). Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior, MPI Discussion Paper 2020/25, revision requested at Management Science
Bašić, Z., Bindra, P. C., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Romano, A., Sutter, M., and Zoller, C. (2021). The Roots of Cooperation, CESifo Working Papers No. 9404

Heterogeneity in Effort Provision: Evidence From a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment (with Bortolotti, S., Salicath, D., Schmidt, S., Schneider, S., and Sutter, M., preregistered at AEA RCT Registry)
Social Identity and Systematic Biases (with Verrina, E., and Schmidt, S.)
Personal Norms, Social Norms, and Political Preferences (with Verrina, E.)
Self-Image, Social Image, and Prosocial Behavior (with Falk, A. and Quercia, S.)
Quantitative Patterns of Cooperation in Social-Dilemma Experiments with Minimum Identifiability (with Geng, Y., Romić, I., Shi, L., Akiyama, E., Perc, M., Wang, Z., and Jusup, M.)