Malte Dewies

Previous appointments

Prior to joining Cambridge Judge Business School and the El-Erian Institute, Malte Dewies obtained his PhD at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Publications

• Dewies, M., Schop-Etman, A., Merkelbach, I., Rohde, K.I.M. and Denktaş, S. (2025) “Call first, pay later: stimulating debtors to contact their creditors improves debt collection in the context of financial scarcity.” Behavioural Public Policy (DOI: 10.1017/bpp.2022.7) (published online Mar 2022)
• Dewies, M., Denktaş, S., Giel, L., Noordzij, G. and Merkelbach, I. (2022) “Applying behavioural insights to public policy: an example from Rotterdam.” Global Implementation Research and Applications, 2: 53–66 (DOI: 10.1007/s43477-022-00036-5)
• Dewies, M., Merkelbach, I., van der Scheer, W.K., Rohde, K.I.M. and Denktaş, S. (2022) “Do you consider human behaviour to be stable or malleable? Your answer can influence your preferences for policy instruments.” Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 5(1): 1-9 (DOI: 10.30636/jbpa.51.276)
• Dewies, M., Schop-Etman, A., Rohde, K.I.M. and Denktaş, S. (2022) “Nudging is ineffective when attitudes are unsupportive: an example from a natural field experiment.” Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 43(4): 213-225 (DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2021.1917412)
• Merkelbach, I., Dewies, M. and Denktaş, S. (2021) “Committing to keep clean: nudging complements standard policy measures to reduce illegal urban garbage disposal in a neighborhood with high levels of social cohesion.” Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 660410 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.660410)