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Zuzana Brokešová is an Associate professor at the Department of Insurance at the Faculty of Economics, University of Economics in Bratislava. In her research, she deals with issues related to experimental economics, in particular using this method for understanding individuals' risk and uncertainty decisions. Zuzana is a co-author of three monographs and several research papers from which some were awarded (Economicus Prize of the VUB Foundation for the best foreign publication of young researchers for the article: Experimenting with purchase history based price discrimination EU Rector Award in Bratislava). Zuzana also regularly present her work on international conferences and visited several universities (MGSM, Jönköping University, University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Arkansas, University of Strasbourg, University of Hohenheim, University of Pablo de Olavide).

Matej Lorko studied Behavioral and Experimental Economics at Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney. He is affiliated at Faculty of National Economy of University of Economics in Bratislava via Career Integration Fellowship program organized by CERGE-EI institute in Prague. Within his research, he applies his managerial experience gained at U.S. Steel, Košice, but also experiences from daily life. He enjoys thinking about how and why people make their decisions and do what they do. He also likes questioning the status quo, experimenting and proposing institutional improvements. He shares his thoughts and ideas on his blog www.lorko.sk, as well as in public and industry lectures, discussions and workshops.

Tomáš Ondruška is an Assistant professor at the Department of Insurance and vice dean for public and international relations at the Faculty of National Economy, the UE in Bratislava. He started focusing on the topic of consumer behaviour in the insurance market during his studies at the University of Economics in Bratislava and stays abroad at universities in USA, Thailand, South Africa, Albania and more. He also gained a practical experience in the insurance industry as reinsurance specialist. Nowadays he is teaching courses in fields of risk management, insurance and reinsurance.

Jana Péliová works at the Department of Finance, FNE UE in Bratislava, where she is engaged in the field of experimental economics. She successfully completed PhD studies in Finance at the University of Economics in Bratislava in 2008 and in 2015 gained habilitation with lecture on: The behavior of economic agents in conditions of limited losses - experimental approach. She completed one-year research stay at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow as a part of L. Kirkland scholarship program graduating with Master's thesis. She has published in several peer-reviewed scientific journals with impact factor (International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics Psychology - A ranking in ABDC, Economic Review, International Journal of Sustainable Economy). She regularly presents her research results at scientific conferences in Europe and the USA, such as at Economic Science Association Annual Meeting. She attended multiple seminars and workshops on the use of experimental methods in solving economic problems (led by J. Cox and B. Wilson). She visited the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University, as a Fulbright Scholar, led by Professor Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize laureate in economics for the development of laboratory experimental methods in 2012. In 2015, she and her co-authors won Economicus prize of VUB Foundation for the best foreign scientific publication of young scientists with the article: Experimenting with purchase history based price discrimination.

Maroš Servátka is a Professor of Economics at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and the Founding Director of the MGSM Vernon L. Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory. He received his MA in Quantitative Methods from the Warsaw School of Economics and his PhD in Economics from the University of Arizona. He previously held a postdoctoral position at the University of Mannheim and an Associate Professor position at University of Canterbury where he was also the Director of the New Zealand Experimental Economics Laboratory. He held visiting positions at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, and College of Business and Public Policy at University of Alaska Anchorage. Maroš is the Founder and past President of Slovak Economic Association. He serves on the editorial board of Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. He is the 2019 recipient of the Ronald Coase Institute Outstanding Alumni Award. Maroš has experience consulting to industry, government non-profit organizations on behavioral approaches and solutions. He has done work in the areas of charitable giving helping non-profit organizations to raise funds, provided practical recommendations to businesses related to business strategy, customer service, or project planning, advised government agencies on issues related to effective budget execution, studied matching algorithms used by stock exchanges, and explored governance structures of firms and behavior of employees to provide managerial recommendations. He teaches his MBA students to apply experimentation in their companies to learn what works but also what does not.

Cary Deck is a Professor of Economics and Bidgood Chair in Economics at the University of Alabama and the director of The Interactive Decision Experiment (TIDE) Laboratory. Cary holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Arizona (2001). His research uses controlled laboratory experiments to investigate a wide array of topics. He has been published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Review of Economic Studies among others. He is an affiliate of the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University and was previously a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Economics in the Czech Republic, the Distinguished Rasmuson Chair of Economics at the University of Alaska, and an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Jean-Robert Tyran is a professor of public economics at the University of Vienna and director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics. He is a research fellow at various institutions (CEPR, London; EPRU, U Copenhagen) and has held numerous visiting positions (Harvard Kennedy School, London School of Economics, Caltech, among others). Before moving to U Vienna in September 2010, he was at U Copenhagen since 2004, and at U St. Gallen since 1997. He has earned his PhD in economics at the University of Zurich finishing in 1997. In his research, Jean-Robert Tyran mainly investigates how institutions like markets and democracy are shaped by bounded rationality and social preferences. He uses behavioral and experimental economics approaches to investigate issues in Political economy, Public economics, Industrial organization and Decision Making. Jean-Robert Tyran has published more than 50 papers in refereed journals, including field journals such as Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, as well as in general interest journals such American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association and Science.

Rumen Kerekov completed his PhD in Economics at Central European University, Vienna in September, 2022. His main interests lie in Behavioral and Experimental Economics. He is interested in exploring whether individuals exhibit irrational behavior by misperceiving probabilities. More specifically, he is interested in how people respond to uncertain situations, how they learn in such situation, and how they might go astray. Studying probabilistic understanding finds wide applications in fields as diverse as health insurance, financial and human capital investments, and in learning how to behave in new domains where people need to explore new behaviors. In addition to exploring how people perceive probabilities, the applicant has also implemented online projects that investigate the role of expectations in influencing perceptions of money and how fast expectations adjust to new information. Sensations of elation or disappointment can affect significantly inferences on the intrinsic value of a good. Testing whether expectations can alter the perception of monetary value is crucial since this could lead to disturbing spending patterns under specific conditions. On a technical level, the applicant possesses strong programming skills in Python, oTree, R, and STATA.