Daniel Martínez-Felip

About Me

I am a PhD candidate at the UWA Centre for Environmental Economics & Policy, supervised by Steven G.M. Schilizzi, Chi Nguyen, and David J. Pannell. Using laboratory experiments and agent-based modelling, I study the role of social norms and incentive mechanisms in shaping cooperative behaviour and collective action. My job market paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.

Research Interests

My research interests include the economics of behaviour and behavioural change, collective action, social change, and the role of AI in shaping economic and social dynamics. More specifically, my current work focuses on the modelling and experimental study of the interplay between actual behaviour and normative expectations in collective action problems: which norms emerge and under what conditions, how they are sustained or destabilised, and when prosocial norms can arise endogenously without continuous external enforcement. I am also particularly interested in the drivers of endogenous behavioural change, both prosocial and antisocial, and the social enforcement mechanisms behind such dynamics, including norm breakdown and polarisation. A related interest is how AI transforms the contexts in which norms form, and how people revise their sense of appropriate behaviour as AI systems become embedded in economic and social life.