2025 Exeter Prize winner

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Oliver Hauser

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Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the winner of the 2025 Exeter Prize for the best paper published in the previous calendar year in a peer-reviewed journal in the fields of Experimental Economics, Behavioural Economics and Decision Theory.

The winner is Tomas Jagelka for his paper “Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach”, published in Journal of Political Economy.

The winning paper was selected by the panel of Professors Erik Eyster (UC Santa Barbara), Yan Chen (University of Michigan) and Neil Stewart (University of Warwick).

This year was again exceptionally competitive with a large number of outstanding nominations. We are happy to share that this year’s shortlist was (in alphabetical order of first authors’ last names):

Imas, A., & Madarász, K. (2024). Superiority-seeking and the preference for exclusion. Review of Economic Studies, 91(4), 2347-2386.
Jagelka, T. (2024). Are economists’ preferences psychologists’ personality traits? A structural approach. Journal of Political Economy, 132(3), 910-970.
Kaufmann, M., Andre, P., & Kőszegi, B. (2024). Understanding markets with socially responsible consumers. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 139(3), 1989-2035.
Scholten, M., Walters, D. J., Fox, C. R., & Read, D. (2024). The unified tradeoff model. Psychological Review.