Biography

Prof Nobuyuki HANAKI is a professor of economics at Institute of Social and Economic Research, the University of Osaka. He is also the director of Research Center for Behavioral Economics, as well as a Visiting Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at University of Limassol in Cyprus. His main research interest lies on understanding the aggregate consequences of interactions among heterogeneous decision makers. He employs mathematical and computational modelling, as well as controlled laboratory experiments in his research. Results of his research have been published in such journals as Economic Journal, Management Science, Nature Communications, Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, European Economics Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Selected Publications

1. An outside individual option increases optimism and facilitates collaboration with groups form flexibly, (with Ryutaro Mori, Tetsuya Kameda), Nature Communications, 15, Article number: 5520, 2024
2. Two Experiments on Trading Information Goods in a Network, (with Yutaka Kayaba, Jun Maekawa, Hitoshi Matsushima), Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 145, pp. 1-18, 2024
3. Negative tail events, emotions, & risk taking, (with Brice Corgnet, Camille Cornand), Economic Journal, Vol. 134 pp. 538-578, 2024