Ing. Mgr. Vojtěch Zíka, Ph.D.

Room: 225, FSE Moskevská 54
Phone: +420 475 284 725

Teaching: 

• Introduction to behaviour and decision making
• Introduction to experimental research on decision making

Research Interests

Vojtěch graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Economics and the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University. He defended his dissertation on the topic of overconfidence at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics of the Jagiellonian University in 2023 and is currently continuing his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Science of the Charles University. His academic work combines experimental economics with evolutionary biology and psychology to better understand human behaviour and decision-making.

Selected publications:

Fischbacher, U., Grammling, D., Hausfeld, J., & Zíka, V. (2023). Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution. Journal of Public Economics, 222, 104866.

Novakova, J., Machová, K., Sýkorová, K., Zíka, V., & Flegr, J. (2021). Looking Like a Million Dollars: Does Attractiveness Priming Increase Altruistic Behavior in Experimental Games?. Frontiers in Psychology, 1974.

Zíka, V., & Koblovský, P. (2016). Optimism bias and overconfidence effects in managerial decision making. Economics and Business Management in the 21st Century