Research Focus

• Behavioral & Experimental Economics
• Law & Economics
• Psychology & Economics
• Public Economics
  In particular:
  • Authorities
  • Communication
  • Incentives
  • Information
  • Cooperation

Academic Career

• 2012 – 2013 Visiting Researcher, University of California, San Diego
• 2010 – 2013 (expected) Ph.D. in Economics, University of Cologne & IMPRS (The International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World), Germany Supervisor: Bettina Rockenbach & Christoph Engel
• 2005 – 2009 Diplom-Volkswirts (equivalent to Master in Economics), University of Bonn, Germany, Supervisor: Armin Falk
• 2006 – 2007 Exchange semester, University of Växjö, Sweden
• 2004 – 2005 Diploma Student economics, University of Munich (LMU), Germany

Teaching

2011

• Supervision of one Bachelor’s and one Master’s thesis in economics, University of Bonn, Germany
• Tutorial in Economics and Financial Politics, University of Bonn, Germany

2008

• Tutorial in Economics and Financial Politics, University of Bonn, Germany

Professional Career

• since 1999 Assistant translator (Russian, Ukrainian, German) with the translation agency Valeryi Zhurakhovskyi, Cologne, Germany
• 2007 Internship at the branch office of the Ukrainian embassy in Remagen, Germany
• 2005 Internship at the health insurance company AOK (Controlling), Hürth and Düsseldorf, Germany

Publications

Engel C., Zhurakhovska L., You Are In Charge. Experimentally Testing the Motivating Power of Holding a (Judicial) Office, 2013. Abstract Full Text

Engel C., Zhurakhovska L., Harm on an Innocent Outsider as a Lubricant of Cooperation – An Experiment, issue 2012/02, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2012. Abstract SSRN Full text

Engel C., Zhurakhovska L., When is the Risk of Cooperation Worth Taking? The Prisoner’s Dilemma as a Game of Multiple Motives, issue 2012/16, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2012. Abstract Full text

Engel C., Zhurakhovska L., Oligopoly as a Socially Embedded Dilemma. An Experiment, issue 2011/01, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2011. Abstract Full text

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