CeDEx
Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics
Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics

Welcome to CeDEx

The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics is a world-leading research group that investigates human decision-making using theoretical and experimental methods.

CeDEx has global reach, produces cutting-edge research with societal impact and is consistently highly ranked in the field of behavioural economics.  

CeDEx laboratories are located in the University of Nottingham's School of Economics, Nottingham University Business School and the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. The Centre’s members are affiliated with international research institutions including the Institute for the Future of Labor, the ESRC Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (NIBS), the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the EC Joint Research Centre and the Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Science.

CeDEx research has been funded by grants from the ERC, ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy and the Nuffield Foundation.  

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25 Years of CeDEx

In 2025, the CeDEx Research Centre marked 25 years since its founding in 2000. The anniversary was celebrated through a special CeDEx 25th Anniversary Seminar Series, featuring speakers with longstanding ties to the group. A dedicated workshop was also held at the University of Nottingham on the 9th and 10th September 2025, with the full programme available to view here. We were delighted that many former CeDEx staff and students were able to join us.

CeDEx Seminars

CeDEx Brown Bag Seminar - Tong Fang

Date
05 February 2026 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A45 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description
Title: An equilibrium explanation for behaviour in the finitely repeated prisoners' dilemma

CeDEx Brown Bag Seminar - TBC

Date
12 February 2026 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A45 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description
Title: TBC

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New CeDEx papers

CeDEx 2026-01: The resilience of rule compliance in a polarized society

Description
Dominik Suri, Simon Gächter, Sebastian Kube and Johannes Schultz

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News

Workshop on Interdisciplinary Advances in Cooperation Research

Description
11th and 12th September 2025
Date:
17 December 2025

CeDEx 25th Anniversary Workshop

Description
9th and 10th September 2025
Date:
08 December 2025

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New CeDEx Publications

The scenicness of historic buildings rivals that of natural features: evidence from crowdsourced photographs of English urban areas by Sidney Sherborne and Eugene Malthouse

Encouraging people to set lower personal carbon budgets: anchoring is more effective than social reference groups by Sarah Lynn Flecke, Erika Aparicio and Eugene Malthouse

No rest for the weary: Pay uncertainty reduces engagement in recovery by Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hernán González, Gordon M. Sayre and Simon Gächter

Why people follow rules by Simon Gächter, Lucas Molleman and Daniele Nosenzo

Luck framing supports the avoidance of collective disaster when inequalities in vulnerability exist by Eugene Malthouse, Charlie Pilgrim, Daniel Sgroi and Thomas T. Hills

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Become a paid volunteer

CeDEx conducts research into how people make decisions. We require the participation of volunteers. No special skills are needed, and most participants will receive a reward.

If you are a registered student at the University of Nottingham you can sign up to be a paid volunteer.
 

Hire our Nottingham labs

CeDEx at Nottingham has two labs (based on two campuses) with a combined total of 72 computer terminals.

With a dedicated Lab Manager, we can offer a professional service for anyone who wants to run experimental and decision-making experiments.

Read more about our Lab Facilities and find out how to contact us.

 

 

Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics

Sir Clive Granger Building
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0)115 951 5458
Enquiries: jose.guinotsaporta@nottingham.ac.uk
Experiments: cedex@nottingham.ac.uk