Researcher

Georg Dura Granic

Research Expertise:My research interests lie in the intersection of Economics, Political Science, and Psychology. I work on two interdependent research lines. 1. I pursue a data-driven approach to study the decision processes that shape economic behavior. I utilize insights from dual-process theories of the mind and response times to uncover decision processes. 2. I study alternative electoral systems and I develop methods to trace preferences of voters and political parties. More recent research activities focus on how to reconcile conflicting interests in collective decision-making and how power asymmetries influence committee decision making.

Keywords:DYNAMIC CHOICE BEHAVIOR, EXPERIMENTAL STUDY, Economics and applied economics

Disciplines:Social perception and cognition, Analysis of collective decision-making, Micro-based behavioural economics, Voting behaviour

Research techniques:Making good choices and wise decisions requires to factor in valid external evidence. But which available data-bases are relevant, how can we make sense of the data, and what are the lessons we can learn from it? As a scientist and educator, I committed myself to finding answers to these questions for a variety of economic and societal problems. My experience has taught me that randomized control trials (or A-B testing) constitute a powerful tool to identify practices capable of improving relevant outcomes. With the right analytical skills and knowledge of the behavioral sciences, randomized control trials deliver the ideal database to design scalable, low-cost solutions for private and public enterprises alike. I acquired a rich skill-set for collecting and analyzing data that is relevant for the methodology courses (MatLab, R, Python).

Users of research expertise:Government, retailers, political parties and candidates