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Ola Andersson

Associate Professor

Ola Andersson received his doctorate in economics in 2008 at Lund University. Between 2008 and 2011 he was a researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics and between 2012 and 2016 he was a research affiliate at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in Stockholm. He is currently Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department of Economics, Uppsala University and affiliated to IFN.

Affiliated Researcher

Contact

Ola Andersson

Uppsala University

+46 (0)70 432 2450

ola.andersson@nek.uu.se

Research interests: Auctions, Behavioral economics, Game theory, Industrial organization, Private equity, venture capital, Risk management

Among the questions that Ola Andersson tries to answer with his research:

How do we take a risk on behalf of other people?
What are the patterns of behavior in auctions with multiple goods?
When does communication hurt/help cooperation?
How do we design an efficient school choice?
What shapes attention in decision making?

Current writings

16 June 2022

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

The Impact of Stay-at-Home Policies on Individual Welfare

Journal Article

by Ola Andersson, Pol Campos-Mercade, Fredrik Carlsson, Florian Schneider, Erik Wengström

06 October 2021

Economic Journal

Differences Attract: An Experimental Study of Focusing in Economic Choice

Journal Article

by Ola Andersson, Jim Ingebretsen Carlson, Erik Wengström

27 September 2021

Journal of Health Economics

Anticipation of COVID-19 Vaccines Reduces Willingness to Socially Distance

Journal Article

by Ola Andersson, Pol Campos-Mercade, Armando N. Meier, Erik Wengström

Published at IFN

Journal Articles

16 June 2022 Andersson, Ola, Pol Campos-Mercade, Fredrik Carlsson, Florian Schneider and Erik Wengström (2022). “The Impact of Stay-at-Home Policies on Individual Welfare”. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 124(2), 340–362. doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12470

06 October 2021 Andersson, Ola, Jim Ingebretsen Carlson and Erik Wengström (2021). “Differences Attract: An Experimental Study of Focusing in Economic Choice”. Economic Journal 131(639), 2671–2692. doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab032

27 September 2021 Andersson, Ola, Pol Campos-Mercade, Armando N. Meier and Erik Wengström (2021). “Anticipation of COVID-19 Vaccines Reduces Willingness to Socially Distance ”. Journal of Health Economics 80, 102530. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102530

01 April 2020 Andersson, Ola, Håkan J. Holm, Jean‐Robert Tyran and Erik Wengström (2020). “Risking Other People's Money: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Incentives and Personality Traits”. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 122(2), 648–674. doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12353

01 January 2020 Andersson, Ola, Håkan J. Holm and Erik Wengström (2020). “Grind or Gamble? An Experiment on Effort and Spread Seeking in Contests”. Economic Inquiry 58(1), 169–183. doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12852

01 January 2018 Andersson, Ola, Cédric Argenton and Jörgen W. Weibull (2018). “Robustness to Strategic Uncertainty in the Nash Demand Game”. Mathematical Social Sciences 91, 1–5. doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2017.10.007

10 December 2017 Andersson, Ola and Tommy Andersson (2017). “Timing and Presentation Effects in Sequential Auctions”. Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design 2(1), 39–55. doi.org/10.22574/jmid.2017.12.002

01 September 2017 Andersson, Ola, Topi Miettinen, Kaisa Hytönen, Magnus Johannesson and Ute Stephan (2017). “Subliminal Influence on Generosity”. Experimental Economics 20(3), 531–555. doi.org/10.1007/s10683-016-9498-8

01 January 2017 Andersson, Ola, Marieke Huysentruyt, Topi Miettinen and Ute Stephan (2017). “Person–Organization Fit and Incentives: A Causal Test”. Management Science 63(1), 73–96. doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2015.2331

01 October 2016 Andersson, Ola, Håkan J. Holm, Jean-Robert Tyran and Erik Wengström (2016). “Risk Aversion Relates to Cognitive Ability: Preferences or Noise?”. Journal of the European Economic Association 14(5), 1129–1154. doi.org/10.1111/jeea.12179

01 January 2016 Andersson, Ola, Håkan J. Holm, Jean-Robert Tyran and Erik Wengström (2016). “Deciding for Others Reduces Loss Aversion”. Management Science 62(1), 29–36. doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2014.2085

01 May 2014 Andersson, Ola, Cédric Argenton and Jörgen W. Weibull (2014). “Robustness to Strategic Uncertainty”. Games and Economic Behavior 85, 272–288. doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2014.01.018

30 August 2013 Andersson, Ola and Håkan J. Holm (2013). “Speech is Silver, Silence is Golden”. Games 4(3), 497–507. doi.org/10.3390/g4030497

01 March 2013 Andersson, Christer, Ola Andersson and Tommy Andersson (2013). “Sealed Bid Auctions versus Ascending Bid Auctions: An Experimental Study”. Review of Economic Design 17(1), 1–16. doi.org/10.1007/s10058-012-0129-3

01 January 2012 Andersson, Ola and Erik Wengström (2012). “Credible Communication and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Multi–Stage Games”. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81(1), 207–219. doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2011.10.002

Working Papers

07 January 2021 Andersson, Ola, Pol Campos-Mercade, Armando N. Meier and Erik Wengström (2021). “Anticipation of COVID-19 Vaccines Reduces Social Distancing”. IFN Working Paper No. 1378. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

28 September 2020 Andersson, Ola, Håkan J. Holm, Jean-Robert Tyran and Erik Wengström (2020). “Robust Inference in Risk Elicitation Tasks”. IFN Working Paper No. 1358. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

26 May 2020 Andersson, Ola, Pol Campos-Mercade, Fredrik Carlsson, Florian Schneider and Erik Wengström (2020). “The Individual Welfare Costs of Stay-at-Home Policies”. IFN Working Paper No. 1340. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

11 January 2017 Andersson, Ola, Håkan J. Holm and Erik Wengström (2017). “Grind or Gamble? An Experimental Analysis of Effort and Spread Seeking in Contests”. IFN Working Paper No. 1149. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

14 December 2016 Andersson, Ola, Jim Ingebretsen Carlson and Erik Wengström (2016). “Differences Attract: An Experimental Study of Focusing in Economic Choice”. IFN Working Paper No. 1145. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

05 October 2015 Andersson, Ola and Tommy Andersson (2015). “Decomposing the Afternoon Effect: An Empirical Investigation of Sequential Train Ticket Auctions”. IFN Working Paper No. 1085. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

18 September 2015 Andersson, Ola, Topi Miettinen, Kaisa Hytönen, Magnus Johannesson and Ute Stephan (2015). “Subliminal Influence on Generosity”. IFN Working Paper No. 1084. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

27 February 2014 Andersson, Ola, Marieke Huysentruyt, Topi Miettinen and Ute Stephan (2014). “Person-Organization Fit and Incentives:
A Causal Test”. IFN Working Paper No. 1010. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

19 November 2013 Andersson, Ola, Håkan J. Holm, Jean-Robert Tyran and Erik Wengström (2013). “Risking Other People’s Money: Experimental Evidence on Bonus Schemes, Competition, and Altruism”. IFN Working Paper No. 989. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

17 September 2013 Andersson, Ola, Håkan J. Holm, Jean-Robert Tyran and Erik Wengström (2013). “Deciding for Others Reduces Loss Aversion ”. IFN Working Paper No. 976. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

17 April 2013 Andersson, Ola, Jean-Robert Tyran, Erik Wengström and Håkan J. Holm (2013). “Risk Aversion Relates to Cognitive Ability: Fact or Fiction?”. IFN Working Paper No. 964. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

30 March 2012 Andersson, Ola, Cédric Argenton and Jörgen W. Weibull (2012). “Robustness to Strategic Uncertainty”. IFN Working Paper No. 910. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

19 September 2011 Andersson, Ola and Erik Wengström (2011). “Credible Communication and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Multi-stage Games ”. IFN Working Paper No. 883. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

19 September 2011 Andersson, Christer, Ola Andersson and Tommy Andersson (2011). “Sealed Bid Auctions vs. Ascending Bid Auctions: An Experimental Study”. IFN Working Paper No. 882. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

Articles in Swedish

22 September 2021 Andersson, Ola, Pol Campos-Mercade and Erik Wengström (2021). “Attityder och beteenden under covid-19-pandemin”. Ekonomisk Debatt 49(6), 5–18.

Op-Eds

26 January 2021 Andersson, Ola, Pol Campos-Mercade, Armando Meier and Erik Wengström (2021). “Information om vaccin riskerar minska social distansering”. Altinget, January 26.

16 May 2016 Andersson, Ola and Tommy Andersson (2016). “Med datorisering blir gemensam skolkö effektiv”. Dagens Nyheter, May 16.