AG Heinzelmann, 16.01.2026 Topic TBA

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Moumita Deb is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Alfred Weber Institute for Economics, University of Heidelberg. Her work centers on behavioural and experimental economics, with a particular focus on information acquisition, committee and voting dynamics, and the public economics of collective decision-making. Recent working papers include “The Swing Voter’s Curse Revisited: Transparency’s Impact on Committee Voting” (2024), as well as studies on information acquisition in threshold public goods games and the impact of social media on traditional news consumption.

Moumita Deb

Theo Alysandratos is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Economics at Heidelberg University, specializing in experimental economics. His research explores the interplay between information, groups, and institutions, including experiments on group vs. individual judicial decision-making, the market dynamics of reputation in credence goods, norms, corruption, and learning. His notable publications include “Rice Farming and the Origins of Cooperative Behavior” (Economic Journal, 2023) and “Reputation vs Selection Effects in Markets with Informational Asymmetries” (Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming).

Theo Alysandratos