Egor Bronnikov

Tongersestraat 53,

6211 LM, Maastricht

The Netherlands

I am a PhD Candidate and a Tutor at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University. Together with Till Moritz Vater, I am co-organizing the Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Seminar in Behavioral Sciences. Additionally, I serve as a pro bono Adjunct Professor of Economics at the School of Science at the Brīvā Universitāte (Svobodny University).

My research interests are Behavioural and Experimental Economics, (Behavioural) Game Theory, and Political Economy.

In the 2025–2026 academic year, I will be a U.S.–RAR Fellow.

Furthermore, I am affiliated with the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (UC Berkeley), the Institute for Replication, and Dissernet.

Previously, I worked at Shaninka University, European University at St. Petersburg, Harvard University, Utrecht University, the University of Vienna, HSE University, and Transparency International Russia.

News

Sep 1, 2025	In the fall 2025 semester, I will be a U.S.–RAR Fellow, organized by American Councils for International Education in partnership with Dartmouth College and Brīvā Universitāte.
Aug 30, 2025	In 2025-2026, I will be visiting IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) in Bonn (fall).
Jan 12, 2025	In the spring 2025 semester, I will be visiting CREED and ASE at the University of Amsterdam.
Sep 9, 2024	I am participating in the 10th School Swiss Summer School in Democracy Studies at UZH and UniFr.
May 27, 2024	In 2024-2025, I will serve as a visiting lecturer in the Political Science Department at Shaninka University, while concurrently being a Carl Menger Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Feb 16, 2024	Here is an open letter on the murder of Alexei Navalny I joined.
Sep 1, 2023	In 2023-2024, I will be a visiting lecturer in the Economics Department at the European University at St. Petersburg and will co-supervise MA theses in the Faculty of Psychology at Shaninka University.

Selected Publications

2023

[Psychology]

Book Review of ’The Power Of Experiments: Decision Making In A Data-Driven World’ by Michael Luca & Max H. Bazerman.

Egor Bronnikov

Personnel Psychology, 2023, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 1219-1221

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What should a letter from the National Tax Authority include to maximize tax payments? How can discrimination be minimized in online markets? Is it possible that a brief two-line notification to students’ parents can result in a substantial reduction in class absenteeism? This review essay discusses the new book by Luca & Bazerman (2021) which provides answers to these and numerous other questions.
[Political Science]

Book Review of ’Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion’ by Efrén Pérez & Margit Tavits.

Egor Bronnikov

Democratization, 2023, vol. 30, no. 8, pp. 1628-1630

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Can languages influence political preferences? How can the influence of language be accurately separated from culture? Does language shape public opinion? And why is language important for democracy? This paper reviews a recent book by Pérez and Tavits (2022) that sheds light on these inquiries.
[Economics]

Book Review of ’The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale’ by John List.

Egor Bronnikov

Public Choice, 2023, vol. 194, pp. 229-230

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Can every idea be scaled? Is there an inherent factor in a business or public policy proposal that inherently makes it a winning concept, or is everything contingent on its execution? This review explores the new book by List (2022), which delves into these questions.