Behavioral and Experimental Economics Research Group

Our research group (formerly Applied Ethics and Morality Research Group) at the Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Business and Economics, includes scholars working in the fields of behavioral and experimental economics, experimental psychology, and business ethics (see our publications). The group uses an in-house laboratory and has a large database of participants.

Our Team

Researchers	Štěpán Bahník [mail] Head of the research group; Associate Professor at the Department of Management; specializes in judgment and decision-making, social and moral psychology, programming, methodology, and statistical analysis
	Petr Houdek [mail] Associate Professor at the Department of Management; specializes in behavioral economics (dishonesty and cheating), behavioral interventions, and forensic economics
	Marek Hudík [mail] Associate Professor at the Department of Managerial Economics; focuses on game theory, microeconomics, and experimental economics
	Tomáš Miklánek [mail] Research Associate at the Department of Managerial Economics; specializes in research of pro-social behavior and tax morale using experimental methods
	Lubomír Cingl [mail] Associate Professor at the Department of Managerial Economics; focuses on behavioral and experimental economics, with an interest also in neuroeconomics, cognitive science of religion, and public economics
Alumni	Puneet Arora — Management Development Institute, Gurgaon Nikola Frollová Marek Vranka — Charles University, Prague

Selected Publications

2024

• Bauer, M., Cahlíková, J., Celik-Katreniak, D., Chytilová, J., Cingl, L. & T. Želinský. (2024). Nastiness in Groups. Journal of European Economic Association 22(5), 2075–2107.
• Efendić, E., Van de Calseyde, P. P., Bahník, Š., & Vranka, M. A. (2024). Taking algorithmic (vs. human) advice reveals different goals to others. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 40, 45-54.
• Frollová, N., Tkáčik, M., & Houdek, P. (2024). The leadership fallacy: How misattribution of leadership leads to a blaming game. Journal of Economic Psychology, 104, 102753.
• Houdek, P. (2024). Nudging in organizations: How to avoid behavioral interventions being just a façade. Journal of Business Research, 182, 114781.
• Houdek, P., Bahník, Š., Vrbová, L., & Hájek, J. (2024). Perspective-Taking Does Not Reduce Victim Blaming in Work-Related Situations. Deviant Behavior, 1–13. doi: 10.1080/01639625.2024.2354349
• Hudík, M. (2024). Externality as a coordination problem. Public Choice, 1-16.
• Vranka, M., & Houdek, P. (2024). Moral hypocrisy and the dichotomy of hypothetical versus real choices in prosocial behavior. Journal of Economic Psychology, 105, 102772.
• Zickfeld, J. H., Ścigała, K. A., Elbæk, C. T., Michael, J., Tønnesen, M. H., Levy, G., … Bahník, Š., … Mitkidis, P. (2024). Effectiveness of ex ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content. Nature Human Behaviour. doi: 10.1038/s41562-024-02009-0

2023

• Bahník, Š., & Vranka, M. (2023). How does probabilistic harm affect dishonesty? An experiment. Finance Research Letters, 58, 104373.
• Bajzíková, S. & Cingl, L. (2023). Measuring stereotypes in effort tasks: A multiple-price list approach. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 105, 102032
• Cingl, L., Lichard, T., & Miklánek, T. (2023). Tax designation effects on compliance: An online experiment with taxpayers. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 214, 615-633.
• Fišar, M., Cingl, L., Reggiani, T., Kundtová-Klocová, E., Kundt, R., Krátký, J., Kostolanská, K., Bencúrová, K., Kudličková Pešková, M., Marečková, K. (2023). Ovulatory Shift, Hormonal Changes, and No Effects on Incentivized Decision‐Making. Journal of Economic Psychology, 98, 102656.
• Houdek, P. (2023). The deep roots of cross-cultural differences in organizational behavior: Do human resource management education has to respect them? The International Journal of Management Education, 21, 100876.
• Hudík, M. (2023). Nash meets Samuelson: the comparative-statics interpretation of Nash equilibrium. Journal of Economic Methodology, 30(2), 122-134.
• Hudík, M., Karlíček, M., & Říha, D. (2023). Do consumers appreciate promotional gifts? Journal of Consumer Marketing, 40(3), 305-314.
• Katuščák, P., & Miklánek, T. (2023). What drives conditional cooperation in public good games? Experimental Economics, 26(2), 435-467.
• Urban, J., Bahník, Š., & Braun Kohlová, M. (2023). Pro-Environmental Behavior Triggers Moral Inference, Not Licensing by Observers. Environment and Behavior, 55, 74-98.

  2022

• Bahník, Š., & Vranka, M. (2022). No evidence of moral licensing in a laboratory bribe-taking task. Scientific Reports, 12, 13860.
• Bahník, Š., & Vranka, M. A. (2022). Experimental test of the effects of punishment probability and size on the decision to take a bribe. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 97, 101813.
• Chadimová, K., Cahlíková, J., & Cingl, L. (2022). Foretelling What Makes People Pay: Predicting the Results of Field Experiments on TV Fee Enforcement. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 100, 101902.

2021

• Frollová, N., Vranka, M., & Houdek, P. (2021). A qualitative study of perception of a dishonesty experiment. Journal of Economic Methodology, 28(3), 274–290.
• Houdek, P., Bahník, Š., Hudík, M., & Vranka, M. (2021). Selection Effects on Dishonest Behavior. Judgment and Decision Making, 16(2), 238–266.
• Prochazka, J., Fedoseeva, Y., & Houdek, P. (2021). A field experiment on dishonesty: A registered replication of Azar et al. (2013). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 90, 101617.
• Suseno, Y., Chang, C., Hudík, M., Fang, E., & Liu, N. (2021). Why do employees engage in counterproductive work behaviours? Cultural values and white-collar employees in China. Motivation and Emotion, 45, 397–421.
• Urban, J., Braun Kohlová, M., & Bahník, Š. (2021). No Evidence of Within-Domain Moral Licensing in the Environmental Domain. Environment and Behavior, 53, 1070–1094.
• Vranka, M. A., Hudík, M., Frollová, N., Bahník, Š., Sýkorová, M., & Houdek, P. (2021). Honesty of Online Workers: A Field Experiment shows no Evidence of Self-Selection of Cheaters to a Cheating-enabling Work Environment. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 94, 101730.

  2020 and older

• Cahlíková, J., Cingl, L. & Levely, I. (2020). “How Stress Affects Performance and Competitiveness across Gender” Management Science 66(8) 3295–3310.
• Cingl, L., & Korbel, V. (2020). External validity of a laboratory measure of cheating: Evidence from Czech juvenile detention centers. Economics Letters, 191, 109094.
• Urban, J., Bahník, Š., & Braun Kohlová, M. (2019). Green consumption does not make people cheat: Three attempts to replicate moral licensing effect due to pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 63, 139–147.
• Vranka, M., Frollová, N., Pour, M., Novakova, J., & Houdek, P. (2019). Cheating customers in grocery stores: A field study on dishonesty. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 83, 101484.
• Bahník, Š., & Vranka, M. (2018). Predictors of Bribe-Taking: The Role of Bribe Size and Personality. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1511.
• Houdek, P. (2017). Is Behavioral Ethics Ready for Giving Business and Policy Advice? Journal of Management Inquiry, 28(1), 48–56.

Funding

• Center for Inequality and Open Society, as a partner of Charles University, Johannes Amos Comenius Programme, 2025-2028
• Population ageing and related challenges for health and social systems, as a partner of Masaryk University, Johannes Amos Comenius Programme, 2025-2028
• Strategic Moralization in Organizations: Experiments in the Lab and Virtual Reality, PI: Petr Houdek, Czech Science Foundation, 2025-2027
• Cognitive biases and fallacies in information handling and strategies to prevent them, The field of education. Co-PI: Petr Houdek, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, 2023-2026.
• Causal role of environmental identity in pro-environmental behavior, Co-PI: Štěpán Bahník, Czech Science Foundation, 2023-2025
• Why don’t birds of a feather always flock together? Imperfect selection of cheaters in cheating-enabling environments, PI: Štěpán Bahník, Czech Science Foundation, 2023-2025
• Role of social preferences in cooperative behavior, PI: Tomáš Miklánek, Czech Science Foundation, 2022-2024
• Behavioral Organizational Politics: Experiments in Prosocial Political Behavior, PI: Petr Houdek, Czech Science Foundation, 2022-2024
• Experimental study of predictors of corrupt behavior, PI: Štěpán Bahník, Czech Science Foundation, 2019-2022
• Testing External Validity of Experiments on Dishonest Behavior, PI: Petr Houdek, Czech Science Foundation, 2018-2021

Research Seminars

We used to host research seminar with a number of guests, including Coby Morvinsky, Gergely Hajdu, Marie Claire Villeval, Michael Zürn, Margarita Leib, Tom Gordon-Hecker, Yochanan Bigman, Avner Ben-Ner, Simon Columbus, Karolina Aleksandra Scigala, Michał Białek, Armenak Antinyan, Nils Köbis, Christian Truelsen Elbæk, Christoph Schild, and Katarzyna Cantarero.