Hi. I am Tobias Felix Werner.
I am an Assistant Professor in Economics at Maynooth University. My research combines industrial organisation, the economics of artificial intelligence, and experimental methods.
Before joining Maynooth University, I was an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics at the University of Southampton, where I remain affiliated.
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where I now continue as an Associated Research Scientist. I am also affiliated with the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), where I earned my PhD in 2023. In Spring 2025, I visited the group of David C. Parkes at Harvard University.
Publications
- Recognising and mitigating LLM Pollution in online behavioural research
- Algorithmic cooperation: A comparison with human play in the infinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma
- Algorithmic and Human Collusion
- Algorithmic price recommendations and collusion: Experimental evidence
- Willingness to volunteer among remote workers is insensitive to the team size
- A new sociology of humans and machines
- What drives demand for loot boxes? An experimental study
Working Papers
- The Spoils of Algorithmic Collusion: Profit Allocation Among Asymmetric Firms
- Experimental Evidence That Conversational Artificial Intelligence Can Steer Consumer Behavior Without Detection
- Human-Machine Interactions in Pricing: Evidence from Two Large-Scale Field Experiments
- Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence
- Deceptively Framed Lotteries in Consumer Markets
- LLM-Assisted Replication as Scientific Infrastructure