Exeter Prize 2026 – Call for Nominations
Oliver Hauser
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to announce the call for nominations for the 15th annual Exeter Prize for Research in Experimental Economics, Decision Theory, and Behavioural Economics.
The Department of Economics at the University of Exeter Business School will award a prize of £2,000 for the most outstanding article published in a refereed journal in 2025 from the following fields:
- Experimental Economics
- Decision Theory
- Behavioural Economics
Papers can qualify under any one of the following categories:
- Any paper that involves either lab or field experiments.
- Any purely theoretical paper that involves "behavioural" theory (for example, non-expected utility).
- Any empirical work that shows evidence for behavioural models (that fit under 2) or tests/rejects models (that fit under 2).
In addition to the monetary prize, the authors of the winning paper will be invited to present that paper and related research at an in-person workshop organized in the fall of this year.
For more details on the prize: http://business-school.exeter.ac.uk/research/exeter_prize/
We would like to invite you to nominate a paper. To qualify it must be published in 2025 and in one of the above-mentioned fields. The date must be the in-print date rather than the online date. You may send the nomination via an email to the following address: economi...@exeter.ac.uk Please write 'Exeter Prize Nomination' in the subject field and, if possible, we would appreciate it if you could include a link to the published paper or attach a copy of the published paper to the nomination email (but this is not required). Note that you are allowed to nominate your own papers.
We will generate a shortlist of papers from the nominations. The shortlist will be evaluated by a panel, who will then decide the winner. This year our panel members are:
- Pedro Bordalo (University of Oxford)
- Neil Stewart (University of Warwick)
- Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh)
The deadline for submitting a nomination is Tuesday, March 31st 2026.
The winner of the 2025 Exeter Prize was “Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach” by Tomas Jagelka, published in Journal of Political Economy.
The winner of the 2024 Exeter Prize was “Is attention produced optimally? Theory and evidence from experiments with bandwidth enhancements” by Erin Bronchetti, Judd Kessler, Ellen Magenheim, Dmitry Taubinsky and Eric Zwick, published in Econometrica.
The winner of the 2023 Exeter Prize was “When choices are mistakes” by Kirby Nielsen and John Rehbeck, published in the American Economic Review.
The winner of the 2022 Exeter Prize was “What Motivates Paternalism? An Experimental Study” by Sandro Ambuehl, Douglas Bernheim, and Axel Ockenfels, published in the American Economic Review.
The winner of the 2021 Exeter Prize was “What Makes a Rule Complex?” by Ryan Oprea, published in the American Economic Review.
The winner of the 2020 Exeter Prize was “The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence” by J. Aislinn Bohren, Alex Imas, and Michael Rosenberg, published in the American Economic Review.
The winner of the 2019 Exeter Prize was “A Tough Act to Follow: Contrast Effects in Financial Markets” by Samuel M. Hartzmark and Kelly Shue, published in the Journal of Finance.
The winner of the 2018 Exeter Prize was “Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms” by Shengwu Li, published in the American Economic Review.
The winner of the 2017 Exeter Prize was “Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition” by Vojtěch Bartoš, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Filip Matějka, published in the American Economic Review.
The winner of the 2016 Exeter Prize was “Identifying Expertise to Extract the Wisdom of Crowds” by David Budescu and Eva Chen, published in Management Science.
The winner of the 2015 Exeter Prize was “Experimental games on networks: underpinnings of behavior and equilibrium selection” by Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel Melendez, and Matthias Sutter, published in Econometrica.
The winner of the 2014 Exeter Prize was “Temporal Resolution of Uncertainty and Recursive Models of Ambiguity Aversion” by Tomasz Strzalecki, published in Econometrica.
The winner of the 2013 Exeter Prize was “A Continuous Dilemma” by Daniel Friedman and Ryan Oprea, published in the American Economic Review.
The winner of the 2012 Exeter Prize was “Transitivity of Preferences” by Michel Regenwetter, Jason Dana, and Clintin P. Davis-Stober, published in Psychological Review.
We look forward to receiving your nominations!
Sincerely,
Exeter Prize Committee