Peter Schwardmann

Peter is a behavioral economist. Prior to joining CMU, he was an assistant professor at the University of Munich (LMU). He received his PhD from the Toulouse School of Economics and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Town.

Much of Peter's research is concerned with why people so frequently hold biased beliefs about themselves and the world around them. He is also interested in how biased beliefs shape outcomes in markets and affect how we communicate. His research uses both laboratory and field experiments.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics
• MPhil in Economics at TSE (DEEQA)

PUBLICATIONS

• Learning about one’s self, with Yves Le Yaouanq, forthcoming Journal of the European Economic Association

• Competition Over Cursed Consumers, with Alessandro Ispano, forthcoming Journal of Industrial Economics

• Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at Two International Debating Competitions, with Egon Tripodi and Joël van der Weele, forthcoming American Economic Review

• Spin Doctors: An Experiment on Vague Disclosure, with Marvin Deversi and Alessandro Ispano, European Economic Review, 2021, volume 193

• Gender differences in social interactions, with Guido Friebel, Marie Lalanne, Bernard Richter and Paul Seabright, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, 2021, 183, p. 33-45

• Deception and self-deception, with Joël van der Weele, Nature Human Behavior, 2019, 3, p.1055 - 1061

• Motivated health risk denial and preventative health care investments, Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 65, p.78 -92

• Cooperating over losses and competing over gains: a social dilemma experiment, with Alessandro Ispano, Games and Economic Behavior, 2017, 105, p. 329 -348