Wisse Bos

AFFILIATION

I am a PhD student in Experimental Economics at GATE / CNRS and emlyon business school, in Lyon, France.

GATE, affiliated with CNRS, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, and emlyon business school, is an internationally recognized research center in economics, with strong expertise in behavioral economics, experimental economics, game theory, networks, decision-making, and applied microeconomics.
Emlyon business school provides a dynamic research environment at the intersection of economics, management, behavioral science, and data-driven approaches to organizations and markets.

THESIS

My PhD research studies how information sharing and network formation are shaped by distrust, social distance, group boundaries, and AI. It combines theoretical modeling, behavioral and experimental economics, computational approaches, and incentivized experiments. More broadly, my research interests include social and economic networks, game theory, information acquisition, trust and distrust, social learning, AI and organizations, and behavioral economics.

SUPERVISOR(S)

Astrid Hopfensitz is Professor at emlyon business school and a member of GATE. She has recognized expertise in behavioral and experimental economics, with a particular focus on trust, emotions, social ties, altruism, and decision-making in social and organizational contexts.

Frédéric Moisan is Associate Professor at emlyon business school and Research Associate at GATE-LAB, CNRS. He has strong expertise in social and economic networks, experimental economics, computational social science, and the study of collective behavior.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Distrust, specialization, and information sharing in social networks

The first project studies how distrust and specialization shape information sharing and network formation. It examines when individuals rely on others for complementary knowledge, when cross-group links are maintained, and when networks become more segregated.

The research combines theoretical modeling with a planned incentivized experiment to analyze how linking costs, group boundaries, and distrust affect the emergence of integrated, separated, or hybrid network structures.