In general, my research interests are:
- Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Behavior and Decision-Making under Uncertainty
- Prosocial Behavior and Cooperation
- Simulation and Serious Games
- Interpersonal Closeness
- Participative Pricing Mechanisms, such as Pay-What-You-Want
- Resilience
- Social Norms
- Audience Effect and Social Image Concerns
- Design of Climate Change Negotiations
- Immorality Judgments
Publications and Working Papers
- 2022: Hofmann, Elisa, Lucas Kyriacou, and Klaus M. Schmidt: A Model United Nations Experiment on Climate Negotiations. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics).
- 2022: Gröschke, Daniela, Elisa Hofmann, Nadine D. Müller, and Judith Wolf: Individual and organizational resilience – Insights from health care providers in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology.
- 2021: Müller, Nadine D., Judith Wolf, Elisa Hofmann, and Daniela Gröschke: Integratives Konzept zur ganzheitlichen Förderung von Resilienz in Krankenhäusern. Jena Studies in Intercultural Communication and Interactions, 2021/03, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
- 2021: Hofmann, Elisa, Michael E. Fiagbenu, Asri Özgümüs, Amir M. Tahamtan, and Tobias Regner: Who is watching me? Disentangling audience and interpersonal closeness effects in a Pay-What-You-Want context. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 90.
- 2020: Hofmann, Elisa: The power of close relationships and audiences: Interpersonal closeness and payment observability as determinants of voluntary payments. Jena Economic Research Papers, 2020-016, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
- 2016: Hofmann, Elisa: Zahl doch einfach, was du willst! Warum sich Pay-What-You-Want für deutsche Kinos lohnt. Marburg: Tectum-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8288-3799-7
Work in Progress
- Immorality Judgments and Framing Effects in Voluntary Payment Settings (with Aya Adra and Deliah Bolesta) [Working Paper coming soon]
- Evaluating the Methodological Robustness of Social Norm Measurements (with Deliah Bolesta) [Working Paper coming soon]
- Pay-What-You-Want and Uncertainty (with Tobias Regner) [Working Paper coming soon]
- Strategic Avoidance of Pay-What-You-Want Schemes [Working Paper coming soon]
- Organizational resilience in hospitals before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (with Daniela Gröschke, Nadine D. Müller, and Judith Wolf) [Working Paper coming soon ]
Conferences and Talks
2022:
- 12th Biennial Conference International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR) 2022, Talk and Poster
- International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics (IFKAD) 2022, Online (Talk)
- Planspiel-Forschungs-Forum (PFF) 2022, Online (Participation)
- Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatitively (ReDICo) Conference 2022, Online (Talk)
2021:
- HoloLab #3, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, November 4th, 2021, Online (Invited Input Talk), PDF
- 22nd Intercultural Summer Academy, ReDICo Symposium “Interculturality in (post-)digital contexts, Online (invited Input Talk)
- Barcelona GSE Summer Forum: Workshop on External Validity, Generalizability and Replicability of Economic Experiments, Online (Talk)
- Discrimination and Diversity Workshop, The University of East Anglia, Online (Participation)
- ECONtribute Summer-Workshop 2021 Social Image and Moral Behavior, Online (Participation)
2020:
- 14th Summer School on “Innovation, Digitalization and Structural Change”, Jena, Germany (Participation)
- Annual Conference Verein für Socialpolitik 2020, Online (Participation)
- 21st Intercultural Summer Academy Jena 2020, Online (Participation)
- ESA Global Online Around-the-Clock Meetings 2020 , Online (Participation)
2019:
- 14th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics (NCBEE), Kiel Institute for World Economy , Germany (Talk)
- 12th European ESA Meeting, Burgundy School of Business in Dijon, France (Talk)
- 6th International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS), University Utrecht, Netherlands (Talk)
- 13th IMPRS Uncertainty Summer School
2018:
- 9th Thurgau Experimental Economics Meeting (THEEM), Kreuzlingen, Switzerland (Talk)
- 12th IMPRS Uncertainty Topics Workshop, LUISS Rome, Italy (Talk)
- 12th IMPRS Uncertainty Summer School, Jena, Germany (Poster)
- 11th IMPRS Uncertainty Thesis Workshop, Ringberg, Germany (Talk)
2017:
- 12th Nordic Conference on Behavioural and Experimental Economics (NCBEE), University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Participation)
- Behavioural and Experimental Economics Brown Bag Seminar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Talk)
- 11th IMPRS Uncertainty Topics Workshop, Trento, Italy (Talk)
- 11th IMPRS Uncertainty Summer School, Jena, Germany (Poster)
- 10th IMPRS Uncertainty Thesis Workshop, Gremmelin, Germany, (Talk)
2016:
- 10th IMPRS Uncertainty Topics Workshop, Jena, Germany (Participation)
- 10th IMPRS Uncertainty Summer School, Jena, Germany (Poster)
- 9th IMPRS Uncertainty Thesis Workshop, Berlin, Germany (Talk)