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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CeDEx Seminars

CeDEx Seminar - Paul Schaefer (University of Leicester)

Date: 23 October 2024 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: TBC
Description: Tbc

CeDEx Seminar - Devin Pope (University of Chicago and NBER)

Date: 06 November 2024 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: This talk we be online
Description: Tbc

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New CeDEx papers

CeDEx 2024-06: Attribution of responsibility for currupt decisions

Description: Maria Montero, Alex Possajennikov, and Yuliet Verbel

CeDEx 2024-05: Location Invariance and Games with Ambiguity

Description: Lorenz Hartmann and David Kelsey

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News

CeDEx Student Successes

Date:: 12 June 2024

CCC Conference 2024: Programme now available

Description: UEA hosting event 13th and 14th May 2024
Date:: 10 May 2024

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New CeDEx Publications

The prototypical UK blood donor, homophily and blood donation: Blood donors are like you, not me by Eamonn Ferguson, Sarah Bowen, Richard Mills, Claire Reynolds, Katy Davison, Claire Lawrence, Roanna Maharaj, Chris Starmer, Abigail Barr, Tracy Williams, Mark Croucher, and Susan R. Brailsford

The role of payoff parameters for cooperation in the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma by Simon Gächter, Kyeongtae Lee, Martin Sefton, and Till O. Weber

Introducing IOS₁₁ as an extended interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale to estimate relationship closeness by Malte Baader, Chris Starmer, Fabio Tufano and Simon Gächter

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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.

Watch our video to find out more (opens in an external window).

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