Research Interests
Behavioral and Experimental Economic, applied questions in microeconomics, environmental economics, and management
Short Bio
2019 - Postdoc Department of Economics, Axel Ockenfels, University of Cologne
2017 - 2019 Associate Professor (non tenured), Department of Economics, University of Cologne
2015 - 2017 Postdoc, Chair Economics: Design and Behavior, Matthias Sutte, University of Cologne
2012 - 2015 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), ERC Advanced Grant "Cooperation" ( Simon Gächter), &Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (NIBS), University of Nottingham
2013 Ph.D. in Economics (summa cum laude), Cologne Graduate School of Management, Economics, and Social Sciences (CGS), University of Cologne, Supervisors: Dirk Sliwka and Bettina Rockenbach
2009 - 2012 Research Assistant, Seminar of Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management, Dirk Sliwka, University of Cologne
2008 M.Sc. in Economics (Diplom Volkswirt) University of Bonn Supervisor: Armin Falk
Working Papers
- "Climate Leaders", with J. Lohse
- “Promises in an Uncertain World”, with S. Schudy and S. Rittinger
- "Betrayal, Risk Taking, and Redistribution", with S. Bortolotti, I. Soraperra, and M. Sutter
- "Paternalism, Decision Autonomy & Gender", with A. Läufer and L. Strang
- "How to compose Teams" with M. Grossmann, S. Quercia, and D. Sliwka
Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals
- “Groups are more Libertarian than Individuals”, with P. Doerrenberg, C. Feldhaus, and A. Ockenfels
Management Science (accepted)
- "Social Preferences under the Shadow of the Future", with S. Quercia and E. Tripodi
Experimental Economics (forthcoming) - “Impartial policymakers prefer to impose carbon pricing to capping, especially when combined with offsets”, with D. Kübler and A. Ockenfels
Ecological Economics (2024), 126, 108348 - “Understanding Cooperation in an Intertemporal Context”, with T. Lauer
Management Science (2024), p. 1-20 - “Is Generosity Time-inconsistent? Present Bias across Individual and Social Contexts", with L. Wenner
Review of Economics and Statistics (2023), 105(3), p. 683-699 (Working Paper Version) - “Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods”, with S. Gächter and S. Quercia
Games and Economic Behavior (2022), 135, p. 338-355 - "Governance and Competition"
European Economic Review (2022), 148 - "On the Persistence of Dishonesty" with S. Bortolotti and L. Wenner
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2022), 200, p. 1053-1065 - "Investigating the failure to best respond in experimental games", with D. Alempaki, A. Colman, G. Loomes, and B. Pulford
Experimental Economics (2022), 25, p. 656-679 - "The Influence of Empirical and Normative Expectations on Cooperation", with S. Quercia
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2021), 190, p. 691-703 - “Not all Group Members are created Equal: Heterogeneous Abilities in Intergroup Contests”, with F. Fallucchi, E. Fatas, and O. Weisel
Experimental Economics (2021), 24, p. 669-697 - "People prefer Coordinated Punishment in Cooperative Interactions", with S. Gächter, L. Molleman, and C. Starmer
Nature Human Behavior (2019), 3, p. 1145-1153 - "Promoting voter registration: the effects of low-cost interventions on behavior and norms", with T. Lane, D. Nosenzo, and C. Starmer
Behavioral Public Policy (2019), 1-24 - "Reciprocity and the Tragedies of Maintaining and Providing the Commons", with S.Gächter and S.Quercia
Nature Human Behavior (2017), 1, p. 650-565, (News and views by Herbert Gintis) (Editorial) - "Bonus versus Penalty: How Robust are the Effects of Contract Framing?", with J. de Quidt, F. Fallucchi, D. Nosenzo, and S. Quercia
Journal of the Economic Science Association (2017), 3(2), p. 174-182 - "Affirmative Action, Cooperation, and the Willingness to work in Teams"
Journal of Economic Psychology (2017), 62, p. 50-62 - "Inequality, Inequity Aversion, and Group Performance", with D. Sliwka and N. Zhou
Social Choice and Welfare (2016), 46(2), p. 263-286 - "Heterogeneity and Cooperation: The Role of Capability and Valuation on Public Goods Provision"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2015), 109, p. 120-134 - "Conditioning on What? The Effects of Heterogeneous Contributions on Cooperation", with B. Hartig and B. Irlenbusch
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (2015), 55, p. 48-64