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
Kölle, F., & Lauer, T. (2024). Understanding Cooperation in an Intertemporal Context. Management Science, 70(11), 7791–7810. DOI
Kölle, F., Quercia, S., & Tripodi, E. (2023). Social Preferences Under the Shadow of the Future. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI
Kölle, F., & Wenner, L. (2023). Is Generosity Time-Inconsistent? Present Bias across Individual and Social Contexts. Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(3), 683–699. DOI
Kölle, F. (2022). Governance and competition. European Economic Review, 148, 104199. DOI
Gächter, S., Kölle, F., & Quercia, S. (2022). Preferences and perceptions in Provision and Maintenance public goods. Games and Economic Behavior, 135, 338–355. DOI
Bortolotti, S., Kölle, F., & Wenner, L. (2022). On the persistence of dishonesty. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 200, 1053–1065. DOI
Kölle, F., Kübler, D. F., & Ockenfels, A. (2022). Impartial Policymakers Prefer to Impose Carbon Offset Measures Over Other Climate Policies. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI
Alempaki, D., Colman, A. M., Kölle, F., Loomes, G., & Pulford, B. D. (2022). Investigating the failure to best respond in experimental games. Experimental Economics, 25(2), 656–679. DOI
Kölle, F., & Quercia, S. (2021). The influence of empirical and normative expectations on cooperation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 190, 691–703. DOI
Fallucchi, F., Fatas, E., Kölle, F., & Weisel, O. (2021). Not all group members are created equal: heterogeneous abilities in inter-group contests. Experimental Economics, 24(2), 669–697. DOI
Kölle, F. (2020). Governance and Group Conflict. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI
KÖLLE, F., LANE, T., NOSENZO, D., & STARMER, C. (2019). Promoting voter registration: the effects of low-cost interventions on behaviour and norms. Behavioural Public Policy, 4(1), 26–49. DOI
Molleman, L., Kölle, F., Starmer, C., & Gächter, S. (2019). People prefer coordinated punishment in cooperative interactions. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(11), 1145–1153. DOI
Kölle, F., & Lauer, T. (2018). Cooperation, Discounting, and the Effects of Delayed Costs and Benefits. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI
Kölle, F., & Wenner, L. (2018). Time-Inconsistent Generosity: Present Bias Across Individual and Social Contexts. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI
de Quidt, J., Fallucchi, F., Kölle, F., Nosenzo, D., & Quercia, S. (2017). Bonus versus penalty: How robust are the effects of contract framing? Journal of the Economic Science Association, 3(2), 174–182. DOI
Kölle, F. (2017). Affirmative action, cooperation, and the willingness to work in teams. Journal of Economic Psychology, 62, 50–62. DOI
Gächter, S., Kölle, F., & Quercia, S. (2017). Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(9), 650–656. DOI
Kölle, F., Sliwka, D., & Zhou, N. (2015). Heterogeneity, inequity aversion, and group performance. Social Choice and Welfare, 46(2), 263–286. DOI
Hartig, B., Irlenbusch, B., & Kölle, F. (2015). Conditioning on what? Heterogeneous contributions and conditional cooperation. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 55, 48–64. DOI
Kölle, F. (2015). Heterogeneity and cooperation: The role of capability and valuation on public goods provision. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 109, 120–134. DOI