Research Focus

• Psychology and Economics: Fairness, Learning, Trust, Uncertainty
• Law and Economics: Norms, Competition, Copyrights

Academic Career

• 08/2010 - 01/2011: Research visit at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Since 01/2008: Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.
• 09/2006 – 08/2007: Master of Science in International Economics with distinction at the Universiteit Maastricht.
  Master Thesis title: “The Equitability of the Spanish National Hydrological Plan of 2001: a Case Study”.
• 09/2005 – 02/2006: Exchange semester at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris.
• 09/2004 – 08/2006: Bachelor of Science in International Economics with beta gamma sigma honours, Universiteit Maastricht.
• 09/2002 – 08/2004: Economics at the University of Bonn.

Professional Career

• 08/2007 – 01/2008: Consultant at a company specialised in mining and environmental consulting. Work experience in India and Kazakhstan.
• 07/2006 – 09/2006: Internship at the financial department of a large European insurance company, HDI – Hannover International, Madrid.
• 08/2002 – 07/2007: Project Assistant at a business consultancy. 

Work in Progress

1. The "Jurisdiction Of The Man Within": Instrinsic Norms in a Public Goods Experiment (with C. Engel)
2. The power of legality – contracts versus promises to the experimental test
   (with S. Tontrup)
3. Learning tacit collusion – price competition between heterogeneous teams
   (with A. Morell and O. Weisel)
4. Customary law in the lab – learning to think normatively
   (with C. Engel)
5. Generosity in a Risky World
6. When do we accept inequality, and when not? (with C. Kurschilgen)

Publications