Associate Professor Ralph Bayer

Biography/ Background

Ralph-C Bayer joined the School of Economics 2002 after completing his PhD at the London School of Economics. Dr Bayer has established AdLab -- the Adelaide Laboratory for Experimental Economics, one of the first experimental laboratories for Economics in Australia. Dr Bayer currently is the director of AdLab.

Dr Bayer's research has been published in leading Economics Journals. He has presented his work at numerous conferences and invited seminars all around the world.

Qualifications

* Ph.D. Economics, 2002, London School of Economics (Advisor: Frank Cowell)

* Diplom Volkswirt (comparable to MA Economics), 1997, University of Cologne, ranked first for the year

Research Interests

Dr Bayer's research focuses on behavioural economics, experimental economics and game theory. Dr. Bayer is particularly interested in explaining why humans' behaviour regularly deviates from what standard game theory predicts. His experimental studies focus on limited cognitive abilities, social preferences and reciprocity. In more traditional work Dr Bayer has worked extensively on topics related to tax evasion of individuals and firms and on questions related to market structure and conduct.

Dr Bayer currently is the principal investigator of an ARC Discovery Project aiming to design methodes and procedures for an "Effective and efficient coporate tax enforcement".

 

Publications

Selected Publications:

 

R.-C. Bayer, E. Renner & R. Sausgruber, "Confusion and Learning in the Public Goods Game", 2012 forthcoming in Experimental Economics. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10683-012-9348-2

R.-C. Bayer & C. Ke, "Are Consumers Fooled by Discounts? An Experimental Test in a Consumer Search Environment", 2011,  Economic Record 87, pp 575-586. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4932.2011.00724.x

R.-C. Bayer, "Intertemporal Price Discrimination and Competition", 2010, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 73(2), pp273-293.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2009.08.013

R.-C. Bayer & F. A. Cowell, "Tax Compliance and Firms' Strategic Interdependence", 2009, Journal of Public Economics 93, pp 1131-1143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.07.007

R.-C. Bayer & M. Sutter, "The Excess Burden of Tax Evasion - An Experimental Detection-Concealment Contest", 2009, European Economic Review, Vol 53(5), pp 527-543.

R.-C. Bayer & M. Chan, "Network Externalities, Demand Inertia, and Dynamic Pricing in an Experimental Oligopoly Market", 2007, Economic Record, Vol 83, pp 405-415.

R.-C. Bayer, "A Contest with the Taxman - The Impact of Tax Rates on Tax Evasion and Wastefully Invested Resources", 2006, European Economic Review, Vol 50(5), pp 1071-1104.

R.-C. Bayer, "Finding out who the crooks are - Tax evasion with sequential auditing", 2006, Singapore Economic Review, Vol 51(2), pp 195-228.

R.-C. Bayer,"Moral Constraints and Evasion of Income Tax", 2006, The ICFAI Journal of Public Finance, Vol. 4(1), pp 7-31.

R.-C. Bayer, and N. Reichl, "Ein Verhaltensmodel zur Steuerhinterziehung" (A Behavioural Model of Tax Evasion) Duncker& Humblot Berlin 1997

For recent working papers please see http://www.economics.adelaide.edu.au/research/papers/

Files

• CV - cv_03-2012.pdf [413.0K] (application/pdf)
• Instructions for the paper "Cognitive abilities and behavior in strategic form games" - supplement.pdf [245.0K] (application/pdf)
• Supplementary material to network externality paper - supplement_network.rar [109.4K] (application/rar)
• Bibtex database - combine.bib [3.0MB] (text/plain)

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 30 Apr 2013