Jonas Pilgaard Kaiser

Jonas Pilgaard Kaiser

Postdoc in Economics

Technical University of Berlin

About me

I am a postdoc in economics at the Technical University of Berlin since September 2023. I am endlessly fascinated by human behaviour, and my research focuses on social norms, polarisation, and fairness. As I delve into these topics, I admire the synergies between the behavioural disciplines, which enable us as economists to understand and model how people act and think.

I am a co-organiser of the Berlin Behavioral Economics Seminar Series, and I am an affiliated researcher at the Berlin School of Economics, the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies and the Copenhagen Network of Experimental Economists.

Interests

  • Behavioural Economics
  • Experimental Economics
  • Behavioural Political Economy

Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2023

    Aarhus University

  • MS in Economics, 2021

    Aarhus University

  • BA in Economics, 2018

    Aarhus University

Publications

Do External Threats Reduce Affective Polarization? An Experiment on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
with Markus Seier
Journal of Politics, 2026, 88(2), 526–540

Does Goal Revision Undermine Self-Regulation Through Goals? An Experiment
with Alexander K. Koch and Julia Nafziger
Experimental Economics, 2024, 27(3)

Do Economists Punish Less?
with Kasper S. Pedersen and Alexander K. Koch
Games, 2018, 9(4)

Working Papers

Altruistic Bluffing: An Experiment on Indirect Signalling
with Juliane Koch
Revise & Resubmit, Experimental Economics

How People Misunderstand Growth and Inequality — and the Effects of Correcting Their Beliefs
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Under Watchful Eyes: Observation by In-Group Leaders Promotes Intergroup Cooperation in Natural Groups
with Juliane Koch
Under review

Work in Progress

Social Norms in Collective Decision-Making
with Susann Adloff and Juliane Koch
Writing manuscript

The Social Norm of Punishment: A Crowdsourced Experiment
with Simon Dato, Alexander K. Koch, Jenny Kragl, Julia Nafziger, Daniele Nosenzo, and 11 contributors
Writing manuscript

The Stories We Tell: Societal Narratives and Support for the Far Right
with Malte Baader, Kai Barron, and Anna Hochleitner
Data analysis

Decision Difficulty and the Case for Paternalism
with Marco Runkel
Design

Developing a Multidimensional Measure of Social Norms
with Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger, and Daniele Nosenzo
Design

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External seminars, conferences, and workshops

Click to see the list of previous presentations

2026 · Aarhus University · FAIR (NHH, Bergen) · Wageningen University

2025 · Aarhus–Kiel Workshop · ESA Brno · Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences · Lund University · RF Berlin · Workshop in Behavioral Public Economics and Political Economy (Vienna)

2024 · ECWE (Verona) · ESA Helsinki · Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics

2023 · Aarhus University · Institute of Economics and Law, TU Berlin · Thurgau Experimental Economics Meeting

2022 · Department of Political Science, Aarhus University · FAIR (NHH, Bergen) · Fairness and the Moral Mind Workshop (FAIR, NHH) · Workshop for the Danish Graduate Programme in Economics (DGPE)

2021 · Copenhagen Network of Experimental Economics · Max Planck Summer School on the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution · Workshop for the Danish Graduate Programme in Economics (DGPE)

2020 · Copenhagen Network of Experimental Economics · Interacting Minds Centre · Workshop for the Danish Graduate Programme in Economics (DGPE)

Teaching

Average student evaluation: 4.6/5

Click to see my teaching and supervision

Supervisor, Technical University of Berlin

Bachelor’s theses: 9 students
Master’s theses: 2 students

Lecturer, Technical University of Berlin

Advanced Microeconomics
Wirtschaftspolitik (Economic Policy)
Öffentliche Finanzen (Public Economics)
Ungleichheit & Umverteilung (Inequality & Redistribution)

Supervisor, Aarhus University

Bachelor’s theses, Business Administration: 3 students
Bachelor’s theses, Economics: 7 students
Master’s topic, Economics: 1 student
Master’s theses, Economics: 1 student

Lecturer, Aarhus University

Game Theory
Micro 1

Teaching Assistant, Aarhus University

Game Theory
International Trade
Mathematics for Economists
Principles of Micro and Macro

Student Teacher, The Mobile University

Game Theory

Service

Organising & Service

Seminar organiser, Berlin Behavioral Economics Group (2025–present)
PhD Representative, Departmental Forum, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University (2021–2023)

Peer Review

Applied Economics Letters, British Journal of Political Science, European Economic Review, Frontiers in Social Psychology, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Management Science, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics

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