Professor Ralph-Christopher Bayer

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2015 - ongoing	Professor of Economics	University of Adelaide
  2011 - 2014	Associate Professor of Economics	University of Adelaide
  2007 - 2011	Senior Lecturer	University of Adelaide

• Language Competencies

  Language	Competency
  English	Can peer review
  German	Can peer review
  Italian	Can read and understand spoken

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  	University of Cologne	Germany	Diplom in Economics and Social Sciences (equivalent to Bachelor plus Masters)
  	London School of Economics	United Kingdom	PhD in Economics

• Research Interests

  Applied Economics Economic Theory Experimental Economics Microeconomic Theory Public Economics- Publically Provided Goods

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2023	Zhang, S. X., & Bayer, R. -C. (2023). Delegation based on cheap talk. Theory and Decision, 94(2), 333-361. DOI Scopus1 WoS2
  2022	Bayer, R. C. (2022). The double dividend of relative auditing—Theory and experiments on corporate tax enforcement. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 24(6), 1433-1462. DOI Scopus1
  2020	Bayer, R., Hodler, R., Raschky, P. A., & Strittmatter, A. (2020). Expropriations, property confiscations and new offshore entities: evidence from the Panama Papers. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 171, 132-152. DOI Scopus2
  2020	Wu, Q., Bayer, R. C., & Lenten, L. J. A. (2020). Conditional Pension Funds to Combat Cheating in Sporting Contests: Theory and Experimental Evidence. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 89, 1-13. DOI Scopus4 WoS5
  2018	Zhang, S. X., & Bayer, R. C. (2018). Does suspending an English Auction increase revenues?. Economics Letters, 162, 98-100. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
  2018	Bayer, R., & Ke, C. (2018). What causes rockets and feathers? An experimental investigation. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 153, 223-237. DOI Scopus4
  2018	Bayer, R. C., Dong, C., & Wu, H. (2018). The impact of the number of sellers on quantal response equilibrium predictions in Bertrand oligopolies. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28(4), 787-793. DOI
  2017	Bayer, R., & Loch, A. (2017). Experimental evidence on the relative efficiency of forward contracting and tradable entitlements in water markets. Water Resources and Economics, 20, 1-15. DOI Scopus14 WoS11
  2017	Lenten, L. J. A., Smith, A. C. T., & Bayer, R. C. (2017). Adding conditional superannuation to the antidoping policy mix. Journal of Sport Management, 31(6), 591-604. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
  2016	Deer, L., & Bayer, R. (2016). Pledges of commitment and cooperation in partnerships. Games, 7(1), 4-1-4-16. DOI Scopus4
  2016	Bayer, R. (2016). Cooperation and distributive conflict. Games and Economic Behavior, 97, 88-109. DOI Scopus1
  2016	Bayer, R., & Renou, L. (2016). Logical omniscience at the laboratory. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 64, 41-49. DOI Scopus5
  2016	Bayer, R., & Renou, L. (2016). Logical abilities and behavior in strategic-form games. Journal of Economic Psychology, 56, 39-59. DOI Scopus10 WoS7
  2016	Bayer, R. (2016). Cooperation in partnerships: the role of breakups and reputation. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 172(4), 615-638. DOI Scopus6
  2016	Bayer, R., & Cowell, F. (2016). Tax compliance by firms and audit policy. Research in Economics, 70(1), 38-52. DOI Scopus10 WoS7
  2015	Wu, H., & Bayer, R. (2015). Learning from inferred foregone payoffs. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 51, 445-458. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
  2015	Bayer, R., Oberhofer, H., & Winner, H. (2015). The occurrence of tax amnesties: theory and evidence. Journal of Public Economics, 125, 70-82. DOI Scopus24
  2014	Bayer, R., Wu, H., & Chan, M. (2014). Explaining price dispersion and dynamics in laboratory Bertrand markets. Pacific Economic Review, 19(3), 278-295. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
  2013	Bayer, R. C., & Ke, C. (2013). Discounts and consumer search behavior: the role of framing. Journal of Economic Psychology, 39, 215-224. DOI Scopus16
  2013	Bayer, R., Renner, E., & Sausgruber, R. (2013). Confusion and learning in the voluntary contributions game. Experimental Economics, 16(4), 478-496. DOI Scopus30
  2011	Bayer, R., & Ke, C. (2011). Are consumers fooled by discounts? An experimental test in a consumer search environment. Economic Record, 87(279), 575-586. DOI Scopus3
  2010	Bayer, R. (2010). Intertemporal price discrimination and competition. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 73(2), 273-293. DOI Scopus8
  2009	Bayer, R., & Sutter, M. (2009). The excess burden of tax evasion - An experimental detection-concealment contest. European Economic Review, 53(5), 527-543. DOI Scopus15
  2009	Bayer, R. C., & Cowell, F. (2009). Tax compliance and firms' strategic interdependence. Journal of Public Economics, 93(11-12), 1131-1143. DOI Scopus35 WoS31
  2007	Bayer, R., & Chan, C. (2007). Network externalities demand inertia and dynamic pricing in an experimental oligopoly market. Economic Record, 83(263), 405-415. DOI Scopus14
  2006	Bayer, R. (2006). Finding out who the crooks are - tax evasion with sequential auditing. Singapore Economic Review, 51(2), 195-228. DOI Scopus1
  2006	Bayer, R. (2006). Moral constraints and evasion of income tax. The ICFAI Journal of Public Finance, 4(1), 7-31.
  2006	Bayer, R. (2006). A contest with the taxman - the impact of tax rates on tax evasion and wastefully invested resources. European Economic Review, 50(5), 1071-1104. DOI Scopus24

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2010	Bayer, R., & Cowell, F. (2010). Tax compliance by firms and audit policy. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (pp. 1-16). Scotland: EEA.
  2009	Bayer, R., & Ke, C. (2009). Asymmetric price adjustment with costly consumer search: a laboratory study. In Proceedings of the 38th Australian Conference of Economists (pp. 1-10). Adelaide: University of Adelaide.
  2009	Bayer, R., Renner, E., & Sausgruber, R. (2009). Confusion and reinforcement learning in experimental public goods games. In Proceedings of EEA 2010 (pp. 1-31). www: EEA.
  2008	Bayer, R., Renner, E., & Sausgruber, R. (2008). Revisiting kindness and confusion in public goods experiments: Comment. In Proceedings of the Markets and Models: Policy Frontiers in the AWH Phillips Tradition (pp. 1-17). New Zealand: NZAE.
  2007	Bayer, R., & Chan, C. (2007). The dirty faces game revisited. In Alicia Rambaldi (Ed.), Proceedings of ESAM07 (pp. 1-26). Australia: University of Queensland.
  2007	Bayer, R., & Renou, L. (2007). Measuring the depth of iteration in humans. In Lex Oxley (Ed.), Proceedings of MODSIM 2007 (pp. 1-7). Australia: Modelling & Simulation Society of Australia & NZ. Scopus2
  2006	Bayer, R. (2006). Intertemporal Price Discrimination and Competition. In 21st Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, August 2006, Vienna, Austria. Vienna, Austria.
  2005	Bayer, R., & Cowell, F. (2005). Tax compliance and firms' strategic interdependence. In J. Freebairn, & B. Griffiths (Eds.), Proceedings of the Economic Society of Australia - 34th Conference of Economists (pp. 1-24). Melbourne, Australia: The University of Melbourne.
  2004	Bayer, R., & Chan, C. (2004). Network externalities, demand inertia, and dynamic pricing in an experimental oligopoly market. In K. McLaren, & D. Poskitt (Eds.), Proceedings of the Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society 2004 (pp. www 1-www 30). http://ideas.repec.org/p/ecm/ausm04/108.html: Econometric Society.

• Working Paper

  Year	Citation
  2014	Bayer, R. -C., Oberhofer, H., & Winner, H. (2014). The Occurrence of Tax Amnesties: Theory and Evidence.

I typically teach courses in Microeconomics, Game Theory, Behavioural Game Theory and Experimental Economics and Australian Economic History on different levels.

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2022	Principal Supervisor	The Role of NGOs as Intermediaries in Informational Lobbying	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Panharidh Kun
  2022	Principal Supervisor	The Behavioral Economics of Betting	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Rubayat Sarwar

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2020 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	Price Setting Rules and Competition	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Mia Katina Tam
  2019 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	Bidding Behaviour and Efficiency in First-Price Sealed-Bid Auctions with Unknown Value Distributions	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Rui Zhang
  2015 - 2016	Co-Supervisor	Health or Wealth: Decision Making in Health Insurance	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Hamish William Gamble
  2015 - 2018	Co-Supervisor	Three essays on first-price auctions with independent private values	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Ye Han
  2014 - 2019	Principal Supervisor	Three Essays on Unethical Behaviour and Deterrence Mechanisms in Contests	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Qin Wu
  2012 - 2017	Principal Supervisor	Three Essays on Experimental Economics	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Sookie Zhang
  2012 - 2017	Co-Supervisor	Strategic Analysis of Bureaucratic Corruption	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Lin Hu
  2011 - 2012	Principal Supervisor	Expansion of Levy Process Functionals and its Application in Econometric Estimation	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Chaohua Dong
  2010 - 2012	Principal Supervisor	Commitment and Cooperation in Partnerships	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Lachlan Deer
  2010 - 2013	Principal Supervisor	Essays on Pricing and Learning in Bertrand Markets	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Hang Wu
  2009 - 2016	Principal Supervisor	Tax Audit Rules and Firm Behaviour	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr David John Hoey
  2008 - 2015	Principal Supervisor	A Game-Theoretic Approach to Modelling Crop Royalties	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mrs Anne Arnold
  2008 - 2012	Principal Supervisor	Is Joint Liability Lending More Efficient than Individual Lending?: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Nok Shatragom
  2005 - 2010	Principal Supervisor	Three Essays on Consumer Search Behaviour in Experimental Market Environments	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mrs Changxia Ke
  2004 - 2007	Co-Supervisor	Marginal Cost Water Pricing: Welfare Effects and Policy Implications using Minimum Cost and Benchmarking Models, with Case Studies from Australia and Asia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr David Altmann
  2004 - 2007	Principal Supervisor	Iterative Rationality in the Dirty Faces Game	Master of Economics	Master	Full Time	Mr Chi-Yung Chan
  2004 - 2008	Principal Supervisor	Inequality-Aversion, contracts and Incentives	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Bin Guan
  2004 - 2012	Principal Supervisor	Environmental Amenities and Local Development in Australia: Spatial Hedonic Pricing and Regional Economic Models	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Dr Parvin Mahmoudi
  2003 - 2007	Co-Supervisor	Commitment Devices, Saving and Household Superannuation Decisions: Theory and Evidence	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Patricia Sourdin
  2002 - 2004	Principal Supervisor	Does Private Schooling Make a Difference in Tertiary Entrance Performance?	Master of Economics	Master	Full Time	Mr Liang Wang

• Editorial Boards

  Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
  2016 - ongoing	Editor	Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics	-	-

• Position: Professor
• Phone: 83134666
• Email: ralph.bayer@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 82231460
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Nexus 10, floor 4
• Org Unit: Economics