DrVessela Daskalova

Vessela's research fields are Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory, and Political Economy.

Her current work focuses on questions related to bounded rationality, discrimination, social identities, and collective decision making.

She builds theories, conducts experiments, and designs computational models to better understand decision making in both individual and strategic/collective decision situations.

Vessela has been on short term research visits to the University of Essex (2022), Brown University (2019), the Centre for Experimental Social Science in Nuffield College at the University of Oxford (2018), and Stanford University (2015).

She has presented her research in seminars at over 20 Universities around the world and in over 35 international conferences and workshops:

Seminars: Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Bar-Ilan University (online), University of Essex, GATE-LAB seminar Lyon (online), LESSAC at Burgundy School of Business Dijon, Paris - Saclay (online), University College Dublin, Purdue University (online), Sabanci University, Koç University, Université du Québec à Montréal UQAM, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Paris School of Economics, Brown University, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Toulouse School of Economics, Center for Experimental Social Sciences, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, University College London Computer Science Department, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, City University London, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Queen Mary University of London.

Conferences and Workshops: Irish Economic Association Theory Workshop Queen’s University Belfast (2024), 17th Annual Irish Economics, Psychology, and Policy conference – ESRI (2024), Royal Economic Society Conference Glasgow (2023), Barcelona GSE Summer Forum Workshop on Coordination and Social Interaction (2023), Royal Economic Society Conference (online, 2022), International Conference on Social Choice and Voting Theory at Virginia Tech (online, 2021), 13th Annual Irish Economics and Psychology Conference (online, 2020), East Anglia Behavioural Game Theory Workshop (online, 2020), Bayesian Crowd Conference Tinbergen Institute (2019), Barcelona GSE Computational and Experimental Economics (2019), International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences IMEBESS Barcelona (2017), Pyrenean Interdisciplinary Research Event PIREN (2017), Spanish Economic Association conference SAEe (2016), Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (2016), World Congress of the Game Theory Society GAMES (2016), Cambridge-INET Research Day (2016), East Anglia Behavioral Game Theory Workshop (2016), International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences IMEBESS Rome (2016), Spanish Economic Association conference SAEe (2015), Research Unit on Complexity and Economics conference UECE Lisbon (2015), European Economic Association EEA Mannheim (2015), Barcelona GSE Limited Reasoning and Cognition Workshop (2015), Maastricht Behavioral and Experimental Economics Symposium (2015), Royal Economic Society Meeting RES Manchester (2015), Copenhagen Workshop on Attention and Decision-Making (2014), European Economic Association and Econometric Society Meeting EEA-ESEM Toulouse (2014), London Experimental Workshop (2014), Cambridge-INET Workshop in Microeconomics (2014), Economic Science Association ESA Honolulu (2014 x 2), Economic Science Association ESA Cologne (2012), Economic Science Association ESA New York (2012), Computing in Economics and Finance CEF San Francisco (2011), Computing in Economics and Finance CEF London (2010), Santa Fe Institute Workshop in Computational Social Science Modelling and Complexity (2009).

Invited talks at workshops: French Experimental TalkS (online, 2021), Balkanski-Panitza Institute for Advanced Study Summer School (2016), University of Surrey Constructed Complexities Workshop (2014), Amsterdam Symposium on Behavioural and Experimental Economics (2011).

Media coverage of research:

Faculti.net video interview about Daskalova, Vessela, and Nicolaas J. Vriend. "Categorization and coordination".

”Do teams and groups discriminate differently than individuals?”
Episode focusing on Vessela's research on the Brain for Business, Brain for Life podcast, October 2021.

”When do we make unfair decisions? Discrimination and social identity.”
Article focusing on my research in IAST Connect magazine No 11, Winter 2017.

She has acted as a referee for the Keynes Fund, University of Cambridge and Junior Research Fellowships, University of Cambrdige and for journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Experimental Economics, International Law and Public Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Human Capital, Management Science, Mathematical Social Sciences, Political Science Research and Methods, Theory and Decision. 

She also sits on the program committee of the Royal Economic Society Conference and the Irish Economic Association conference.