Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Political Economy, Organization Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, Development Economics

Jana Cahlíková is a PostDoc Research Fellow at the Institute for Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bonn. Before joining the Cluster of Excellence and the University of Bonn she was a research Fellow at the Max Plank Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich. Prior, she completed her PhD in Economics and Econometrics at CERGE-EI in Prague in 2016. Her research interests lie with behavioral and experimental economics, often in intersection with political economy and organizational economics. Jana runs economic experiments to study how social and institutional environments affect human behavior, with the focus on antisocial behavior and group biases.

Published papers

• Nastiness in Groups

  Bauer, M., Cahlíková, J., Katreniak, D. C., Chytilová, J., Cingl, L., & Želinský, T. (2023). Nastiness in Groups. Journal of the European Economic Association.

• Can you Spot a Scam? Measuring and Improving Scam Identification Ability

  Kubilay, E., Raiber, E., Spantig, L., Cahlíková, J., & Kaaria, L. (2023). Can you Spot a Scam? Measuring and Improving Scam Identification Ability. Journal of Development Economics.

• Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating

  Bauer, M., Cahlíková, J., Chytilová, J., Roland, G., & Zelinsky, T. (2023). Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating. The Economic Journal.

Policy briefs

• Financial fraud in developing countries: Common scam detection tips do not help distinguish scam from non-scam messages

• Scapegoating of ethnic minorities: Experimental evidence