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Home | People | Klarita Gërxhani
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Klarita Gërxhani

Research Fellow

University
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Research field
Behavioral Economics
Interests
Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Field Experiments, Inequality, Organizational Economics, Personnel Economics

Biography

Klarita Gërxhani is Professor in Socio-Economics and head of the department of Ethics, Governance and Society, at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Before joining the VU she was professor at the department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute (EUI). Professor Gërxhani’s work is strongly interdisciplinary, for which she has pursued a combination of field surveys with laboratory-, field-, and survey-experiments. She is the author of various articles published in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Political Economy, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Networks, Experimental Economics, Journal of Institutional Economics, European Economic Review, etc.

List of publications

Sarsons, H., Gërxhani, K., Reuben, E. and Schram, A. (2021). Gender differences in recognition for group work Journal of Political Economy, 129(1):101--147.

Brandts, J., Gërxhani, K. and Schram, A. (2020). Are there gender differences in status-ranking aversion? Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 84:.

Schram, A., Brandts, J. and Gërxhani, K. (2019). Social-status ranking: a hidden channel to gender inequality under competition Experimental Economics, 22(2):396--418.

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, A. and Gërxhani, K. (2016). Tax evasion and well-being: A study of the social and institutional context in Central and Eastern Europe European Journal of Political Economy, 45:149--159.

Schram, A., Brandts, J. and Gërxhani, K. (2010). Information, bilateral negotiations, and worker recruitment European Economic Review, 54(8):1035--1058.

Brandts, J., Gërxhani, K., Schram, A. and Ygosse-Battisti, J. (2010). Size doesn't matter! Gift exchange in experimental labor markets Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 76(3):544--548.

Gërxhani, K. and Schram, A. (2009). Clientelism and polarized voting: Empirical evidence Public Choice, 141(3):305--317.

Fidrmuc, J. and Gërxhani, K. (2008). Mind the gap! Social capital, East and West Journal of Comparative Economics, 36(2):264--286.

Gërxhani, K. and Schram, A. (2006). Tax evasion and income source: A comparative experimental study Journal of Economic Psychology, 27(3):402--422.

Gërxhani, K. (2004). Tax evasion in transition: Outcome of an institutional clash? Testing Feige's conjecture in Albania European Economic Review, 48(4):729--745.

Gërxhani, K. (2004). The informal sector in developed and less developed countries: A literature survey Public Choice, 120(3-4):267--300.