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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 03/11/2025

📉 Result 2 (Prices): Pro-competitive effects of AI! We thought the collusive AI would raise prices. However, by the end, prices are significantly lower in both AI treatments than in the human-only BASELINE.

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 03/11/2025

📈 Result 1 (Adoption): Participants delegate a lot. But control matters. Adoption is significantly higher when participants can override the AI (RECOMMENDATION).

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 01/09/2025

First day in the office! Excited to join the University of Southampton as an Assistant Professor/Lecturer

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 05/08/2025

We map three invasion paths for LLMs: 1. Partial Mediation: LLM assists with rephrasing or answering. 2. Full Delegation: Agents like OpenAI Operator handle everything. 3. Spillover: Humans act differently due to bot expectations. (See figure below.)

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 31/07/2025

Last day of my postdoc with some of the best colleagues I could have hoped for.

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 08/07/2025

Thrilled to share that this September I’ll be joining @sotonecon.bsky.social at @unisouthampton.bsky.social pton.bsky.social as a Lecturer 🎉 I look forward to continuing my research in IO, experimental economics, and human-AI interactions, and to engaging more with the UK econ community.

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 02/05/2025

Being in Philly for the #IIOC2025 reminds me how much my connection to US history comes entirely from American movies. Looking at Independence Hall, all I can picture is Nicolas Cage sprinting across the roof in National Treasure.

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 17/04/2025

Our paper "Algorithmic Price Recommendations and Collusion" is forthcoming in Experimental Economics! Big congrats to Matthias Hunold for co-authoring with not one, but two Werners. Talk about excellent taste. 😎

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 05/03/2025

Excited to spend the next three months at Harvard University! Thanks to David C. Parkes and the EconCS group for hosting me. If you're around and interested in discussing the topics at the intersection of Economics and AI, especially IO-related work, please reach out!

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 08/01/2025

Happy to present our joint work on the steering capabilities of LLMs in consumer markets today at DIW in the Firms and Markets department. Thank you for inviting me and for having me, @tomasoduso.bsky.social and @hannesullrich.com. You can find a short thread about the paper I presented here 👇🏻

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 06/01/2025

Fellow economists and pricing managers, it seems we still have value - even on the brink of AGI!

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 05/12/2024

Curious about the everyday performance but the pricing is next level 💸

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 08/11/2024

📢 I am on the economic job market 🚀 My JMP "Algorithmic and Human Collusion" shows pricing algorithms can be more collusive than humans and explores their interaction. Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Other research: tfwerner.com #EconSky #EconJM #JMP

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 19/09/2024

Excited to share our new paper! "Experimental Evidence That Conversational Artificial Intelligence Can Steer Consumer Behavior Without Detection" Co-authored with Ivan Soraperra, Emilio Calvano, David C. Parkes, and Iyad Rahwan. 👉 Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2409.12143

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 05/02/2024

Delighted to return to the MPI Coll and present our research on cooperation of GPTs and RL algorithms in the prisoner's dilemma. It marks a full circle from my days as a RA here, where my interest in experimental economics first took root. Thanks for the invitation!

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 05/10/2023

Last week, the video game developer EA SPORTS was forced to rebrand their football simulation 'FIFA' to 'EA FC'. Yet, one enduring tactic remains: Deceptive loot box mechanics designed to siphon your wallet. Perfect timing to revisit our paper on the topic: Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 25/09/2023

Being real in Regensburg at VfS Jahrestagung. Hope to see many of the German Econsky community later at the Dinner reception

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 24/09/2023

Hello world Econsky On the way to Regensburg for the VfS conference. Join us on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. for the Algorithms session with contributions from Rainer Michael Rilke, Simon Martin, Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel, and myself. Looking forward!

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