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Martin Dufwenberg

Martin Dufwenberg

Professor of Economics

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Martin Dufwenberg is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at Purdue University. He received his PhD at Uppsala University in 1995 and an Honorary Doctorate at the U of Gothenburg in 2023. His research uses game theory and experiments to incorporate insights from psychology into economic analysis. Much of his work develops and applies a formal framework called psychological game theory, which is useful for modeling, e.g., a host of emotions, reciprocity, social norms, or image concerns. His publications appeared in many scientific outlets including Econometrica, AER, Neuron, REStud, JET, GEB, and JEL. Before becoming a Boilermaker, Martin worked at universities in Tilburg, Uppsala, Stockholm, Bonn, Arizona, Gothenburg, as well as Bocconi University in Milan.