Staff Profile:Dr Nick Bardsley

Name:

Dr Nick Bardsley

Job Title:

Lecturer in Climate Change Economics

Responsibilities:

• Module convenor for the Ecological Economics of Climate Change
• Programme director MSc Climate Change and Development

Areas of Interest:

My research focuses on two areas. Firstly, I am researching the economics of climate change, and am interested in particular in insights from ecological economics and behavioural economics. For example, a current research project uses experimental methods to study household energy use, aiming, for example, for insight into the 'rebound' phenomenon. Secondly, I have been conducting experimental investigations of decision making, and have also addressed related methodological issues. For example, I have been looking at evidence contradicting received theories of economic behaviour and testing alternative theories, particularly ones positing 'social preferences' or collective rationality. The methodological work has concerned both the concepts involved in such enquiries, and issues for the conduct and interpretation of experiments involving human subjects.

I would welcome inquiries from research students in my areas of interest.

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

I have recently co-authored a book on experimental methodology:

• Bardsley N, Cubitt R, Loomes G, Moffatt P, Starmer C and Sugden R, 2010. Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules, Princeton University Press.

Journal Articles

• Buchs, Milena; Bardsley, Nicholas; Duwe, Sebastian, 2011 (forthcoming), Who Bears the Brunt? Distributional Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Policies. Critical Social Policy, Vol 31.
• Bardsley, Nicholas. 2010. (forthcoming) Sociality and External Validity in Experimental Economics. Mind and Society.
• Bardsley, Nicholas, Judith Mehta, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden (2009) Explaining Focal Points: Cognitive Hierarchy Theory versus Team Reasoning. The Economic Journal, 120, 40-79.
• Bardsley, Nicholas. (2008). Dictator Game Giving: Altruism or Artefact? Experimental Economics, 11, 122-133
• Bardsley, Nicholas. (2007). On Collective Intentions: Collective Action in Economics and Philosophy. Synthese , 157, 141-159
• Bardsley, Nicholas and Peter Moffatt. (2007). The Experimetrics of Public Goods: Inferring Motivations from Contributions. Theory and Decision, 62, 161-193
• Bardsley, Nicholas. (2005). Experimental Economics and the Artificiality of Alteration. Journal of Economic Methodology, 12, 239-251
• Bardsley, Nicholas and Rupert Sausgrüber. (2005). Conformity and Reciprocity in Public Good Provision. Journal of Economic Psychology, 26, 664-681