Dr Wolfgang Luhan

I am a princial lecturer in economics and the research lead for the Economics and Finance subject group in the Faculty of Business and Law. My main are of research is behavioural economics and I am part of a research network pioneering work on behavioural and experimental macroeconomics (see, e.g., my papers from 2013 and 2016) which was included in vol. 2 of the Handbook of Experimental Economics.

In 2018 I have co-founded a research network on decision making for others. With my colleague Sascha Füllbrunn, I have organized an international research conference and guest-edited a special issue of the journal of economic Psychology on this topic

I have worked in the fields of economics, political science, and in economic psychology and I am aiming to include all aspects of social and strategic behaviour in my research.

I hold a Ph.D. in Economics (Dr.rer.soc.oec) from the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and a M.Sc. in Economics (Mag.rer.soc.oec) from the University of Linz (Austria). Before joining Portsmouth Business School I was the director and co-founder of the experimental research laboratories at the Ruhr-University of Bochum and the University of Oldenburg and a visiting professor at the University of Hamburg. I joined the University of Portsmouth in 2016 and have co-founded the behavioural research group and the economic research lab here. Since September 2019 I am the research lead for the Economics and Finance subject group.

I am interested in people’s behaviour, what factors influence their decisions, and why the standard economic model is mostly wrong. I study how we behave on markets, while bargaining, and when deciding for others.

My current research interests include:

• decision making for others
• behavioural and experimental macroeconomics
• bargaining
• group decisions
• experimental political economics
• social preferences
• experimental methods
• lying aversion

I teach several undergraduate modules and I am currently module coordinator for Behavioural Economics and Game Theory. I am the dissertations coordinator for the B.Sc. programmes Economics, Business Economics, and Economics Finance and Banking and for the B.A. programme Economics and Management. I am also teaching postgraduate classes in experimental methods.

Ph.D. Stutends:

Georgia Buckle, "Economic Decision Making for Other"
Pavlin Shipkov, "Legal Services Act 2007"
Kate Whitman (second supervisor), "Understanding and Preventing Online Piracy"

I am happy to take calls and emails from the media on my research, and am aware of the needs to respond to journalists in a timely manner. Please contact me directly on either wolfgang.luhan@port.ac.uk or 023 92 844129.