Matej Lorko – researcher, lecturer, consultant
Areas of expertise: behavioral economics, economic experiments, behavioral interventions, individual decision-making, strategic interactions and game theory, market design, incentives and nudge, project management, change management
Please contact me at matej@lorko.sk if interested in
- lectures, workshops or managerial training in decision-making and behavioral project management
- collaboration on experimental research in economics
- design and testing of behavioral interventions in business and public policy
Education
| 2016 – 2020 | Ph.D. degree from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), Sydney, Australia – Experimental and behavioral economics |
| 2008 – 2010 | Master’s degree from Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic – Company Management and Economics |
| 2005 – 2008 | Bachelor’s degree from Brno University of Technology, Czech republic – IT Management |
| 2008 | One semester at TAMK University of Applied Sciences, Tampere, Finland – International Business |
Professional experience
| 2023 – | Research Affiliate, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech republic |
| 2022 – | Researcher, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| 2019 – | Assistant Professor, University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia |
| 2020 – 2023 | Behavioral interventions consultant, Allianz, Slovakia |
| 2016 – 2019 | Research Assistant, MGSM, Sydney, Australia |
| 2010 – 2016 | IT Project Manager, U. S. Steel Košice, Slovakia |
Teaching experience
| Behavioral Economics | Wirtschaftsuniversität, Vienna, Austria (2021) University of Economics in Bratislava (from 2022) Masaryk Unversity, Brno, Czech republic (guest lecturer, from 2020) Technical University in Košice (2018) |
| Experimental Economics | University of Economics in Bratislava (from 2022) Guest lectures: ISCTE (Lisbon), University of Latvia (Riga) |
| Microeconomics | University of Economics in Bratislava (from 2018) |
| Economic Context of Management |
Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney Teaching Assistant (MBA Course Unit, MGSM 845) Guest Lecturer – Decision-making under risk and uncertainty (2017), Experimental labor economics (2018) |
| Behavioral Public Finance | University of Economics in Bratislava (2019-2021) |
| Economics research methodology and effective writing | University of Economics in Bratislava (2020-2021) |
| Presentation and communication skills | University of Economics in Bratislava (2020) |
Public workshops and seminars
| Behavioral economics for enterpreneurs | For Slovak Business Agency (2020,2022) |
| (I)rrationality from the perspective of behavioral economics | For Vedátor_sk (2020) Link to video lecture |
| Introduction to behavioral finance | For Investors club (2019) |
| Decision-making from the viewpoint of behavioral economics | For Allianz, U.S.Steel, Martinus, SAP Ariba, Taste, ITB, JTI, Slovak association of psychology students, Coworking co-Šicke etc. (from 2018) |
Grants and scholarships
| 2023 | National Bank of Slovakia, Russo-Ukraine war fake news: the effect of debunking against prebunking, GV-2023-7-P12 |
| 2022 | Czech Science Foundation, Three experiments on using salience towards sustainable tax compliance, GA23-07136S |
| 2022 | Slovak Research and Development Agency, Improving the coordination of volunteers and efficiency of altruistic markets, APVV-21-0388 |
| 2019 | CERGE-EI Career Integration Fellowship for 6 years |
| 2018 | Postgraduate Research Funding (PGRF) at Macquarie University for scientific training. |
| 2017 | Grant for consultancy on behavioural experiments in public finance from Behavioural Insights Unit, Department of Premier & Cabinet, New South Wales. |
| 2016 | International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship for 3 years to conduct PhD research at MGSM, Sydney. MGSM belongs to the world’s top 50 business schools according to Financial Times and the Economist. |
Scientific workshop participation
| 2020 | ECMCRC Summer School on behavioral and neuroscientific research for Economics and Finance, Dublin, Ireland (Online) Link to video lecture |
| 2019 | Career Integration Fellows Teaching Principles and Practices for Economics Course, Prague, Czech republic |
| 2019 | Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics, Chapman University, Orange, California |
| 2018 | Ronald Coase Institute: Workshop on Institutional Analysis, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| 2017 | Max Planck Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, Berlin, Germany |
Scientific publications
| 2025 | Relying on intuition increases receptivity to bullshit | With Mária Hromadová and Vladimíra Čavojová Journal of Cognitive Psychology |
| 2025 | Why do some nudges work and others not? | With Tomáš Miklánek and Maroš Servátka Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization |
| 2025 | A Better Way to Avoid Project Delays | With Maroš Servátka and Lyla Zhang MIT Sloan Management Review |
| 2024 | Reproducibility in Management Science | Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration Management Science |
| 2024 | Reasoning vs. prior beliefs: The case of COVID-19 fake news | With Vladimíra Čavojová and Jakub Šrol Applied Cognitive Psychology |
| 2023 | Hidden inefficiency: Strategic inflation of project schedules | With Maroš Servátka and Lyla Zhang Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization |
| 2021 | Improving the Accuracy of Project Schedules | With Maroš Servátka and Lyla Zhang Production and Operations Management |
| 2019 | Anchoring in project duration estimation | With Maroš Servátka and Lyla Zhang Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization |
| Working papers | ||
| Intertemporal Coordination in Volunteer Markets | With Robert Slonim, Maroš Servátka and Michal Ďuriník | |
| Timing matters: Three-study test of the effects of debunking vs. prebunking on trust in disinformation | With Vladimíra Čavojová, Jakub Šrol, Richard Priesol, Paulína Jalakšová, and Berenika Tužilová Revise & Resubmit at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin |
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| Brief, conservative and effective: media literacy tips improve fake news discernment | With Vladimíra Čavojová and Jakub Šrol Revise & Resubmit at International Journal of Public Opinion Research |
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| Designing Donor Registries: Behavioral Drivers of Enrollment and Giving | With Robert Slonim and Maroš Servátka | |
| Indirect effects of simplified tax description on compliance | With Dagmara Celik Katerniak and Lubomír Cingl |
Conference presentations
| 2025 | Economic Science Association Africa | Nairobi, Kenya |
| 2025 | Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Meeting | Osaka, Japan |
| 2024 | Economic Science Association European Meeting | Helsinki, Finland |
| 2024 | Economic Science Association World Meeting | Bogotá, Colombia |
| 2024 | International Conference on Thinking | Milan, Italy |
| 2024 | Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Meeting | Singapore |
| 2023 | Economic Science Association Africa | Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2023 | Science of Philanthropy Initiative Conference | Chicago, USA |
| 2023 | Economic Science Association World Meeting | Lyon, France |
| 2023 | Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Meeting | Seoul, South Korea |
| 2022 | Economic Science Association European Meeting | Bologna, Italy |
| 2021 | Young Economist Meeting | Brno, Czech republic |
| 2020 | Slovak Economic Association Meeting | (Online) |
| 2020 | Economic Science Association Global Around-the-Clock Virtual Conference | (Online) Link to video lecture |
| 2019 | Czech Economic Society and Slovak Economic Association Meeting | Brno, Czech republic |
| 2019 | Economic Science Association World Meeting | Vancouver, Canada |
| 2019 | Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Meeting | Abu Dhabi, UAE |
| 2018 | Slovak Economic Association Meeting | Bratislava, Slovakia |
| 2018 | Economic Science Association World Meeting | Berlin, Germany |
| 2018 | Young Economist Meeting | Brno, Czech republic |
| 2018 | Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Meeting | Brisbane, Australia |
| 2017 | Slovak Economic Association Meeting | Košice, Slovakia |
| 2017 | Economic Science Association European Meeting | Vienna, Austria |
Academic refereeing
| 2022 – 2024 | Scientific Reports (Nature journal) |
| 2021 | National Science Center Poland, Sonata grant scheme |
| 2020 | International Review of Economics |
| 2019 | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics |
Professional affiliations
| From 2017 | Economic Science Association – member |
| From 2017 | Slovak Economic Association – member |
| From 2014 | Project Management Institute – certified Project Management Professional (PMI) |
In media
| SAV podcast (SK) | Spoločnosť potrebuje viac altruizmu |
| Science Slam (SK) | Sila vatikánskej meny, alebo „pán Boh, zaplať“ |
| The Lighthouse (EN) | About time: How to pull off a complex project without delays |
| RTVS (SK) | Interview about my return to Slovakia |
| Aktuality (SK) | Interview about my research |
| Vedátor (SK) | When EUR 0 is more than EUR 10 |
| Svet medzi riadkami (SK) | Podcast about behavioral economics |
| RTVS (SK) | Behavioral economics and experiments |
| The Lighthouse (EN) | Budget blowouts and broken promises: how to avoid project failures |
| Forbes (SK) | Interview with my supervisor & mentor Maroš Servátka about Behavioral Economics |
| Forbes (SK) | Six suggestions from my research for better project planning |
| Denník N (SK) | Why projects suffer from overoptimistic time estimates? |
| Macquarie University (EN) | Why people and companies keep repeating the same planning mistakes? |
