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Staff Profile

Dr Till Weber

Lecturer in Economics

  • Email: till.weber@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 2802
  • Address: Newcastle University Business School
    5 Barrack Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4SE
Background

Till is a Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University Business School. His research is in the area of behavioural and experimental economics focusing on the driving factors of cooperation and norm enforcement in social dilemmas. He is currently the Business School Behavioural Lab Lead and Degree Programme Director for the MSc Behavioural and Experimental Economics. Till joined Newcastle University Business School in 2020. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University College Dublin School of Economics and UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham, a MSc in Behavioural Economics from the University of Nottingham and a BSc in Economics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.

Research

Research overview:

Till's main research interests are in the areas of behavioural and experimental economics. He is particularly interested in the study of human cooperation, norm enforcement and investigating cross-cultural differences in decision making.

Current research:

"Relationship closeness and team reasoning in asymmetric coordination games" (with Melanie Parravano),

"Sustaining cooperation: a comparative evaluation of cooperative preferences, peer pressure and formal punishment" (with S. Gaechter and O. Weisel),

"Oneness, cooperation and coordination: a lab-in-the-field experiment with Swiss soldiers" (with S. Gaechter, C. Starmer, C. Thoeni and F. Tufano).

PhD supervision interests:

I am happy to supervise PhD students in the fields of behavioural and experimental economics who are interested in conducting research on human cooperation, coordination, cross-cultural decision making, or pro-environmental actions. Please send me an email if you are considering applying for our PhD programme.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

  • Lecturer for Behavioural Economics and Experimental Methods (ECO3005).

Postgraduate taught:

  • Module leader for Behavioural Economics (NBS8616),
  • Lecturer for Experimental Methods in Economics (NBS8615).

Previous teaching experience:

  • 2020-2023: Module leader for Economics of Regulation (ECO2011),
  • 2018/2019: Module leader for Experimental Economics (ECON30390) at University College Dublin.
Publications