Academic Career

• 1998 – 2002: Student of Economics at the University of Bonn
• 2002: Granted a diploma in Economics at the University of Bonn, Diploma thesis „Experimental Investigation of a Currency Union“, supervised by Prof. Selten (final grade „Sehr Gut“, excellent, A)
• 2004: Awarded the „Heinz Sauermann Preis zur Experimentellen Wirtschaftsforschung“ for the diploma thesis
• 2002-2003: Research assistant at the Bonn Laboratory of Experimental Economics and at the Centre for European Integration Studies
• 2002-2003: Research assistant at “SURVIVE”, a project about traffic control in North Rhine-Westphalia funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the direction of Prof. Dr. Reinhard Selten (University of Bonn) and Prof. Dr. Michael Schreckenberg (University of Duisburg/Essen)
• 2003-2006: Affiliated researcher at “Experimental Investigation of a Currency Union”, a project funded by the DFG (German Research Association) under the direction of Prof. Dr. Reinhard Selten (University of Bonn) and Prof. Dr. Jürgen von Hagen (University of Bonn)
• 2003-2007: research and teaching assistant at the Department of Economics (chair Prof. Dr. Clemens Puppe), University of Karlsruhe
• 2007: Granted a Doctor in Economics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Dissertation thesis „homo oeconomicus vs homo aequus – Experimental Investigations of Social Preferences“, supervised by Prof. Puppe, Prof. Selten and Prof. Weinhardt (final grade “summa cum laude”, distinction).
• Since 2007: Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn.
• Since 2008: IZA Research Fellow
• Since 2009, Professor for Behavioral Economics at the University of Bonn

Working Papers

• Treating Equals Unequally – Incentives, Motivation and Production Technology in Teams.
  (with Sebastian Goerg and Ro’i Zultan)
• The Currency of Reciprocity – Cash, Perks and Workers’ Motivation in the Field.
  (with Clemens Puppe and Michel André Maréchal)
• Elections and Deceptions: Theory and Experimental Evidence.
  (with Luca Corazzini and Michel André Maréchal).
• Do Wage Cuts Damage Work Morale? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment.
  (with Clemens Puppe and Michel André Maréchal).

Current Projects

Application of Behavioral Economics to Social and Public Choice Problems

• Probabilistic Public Goods (with Ro’i Zultan)
• Unpacked Public Goods (with Luca Corazzini)
• Democratic Elections (with Michel Maréchal and Luca Corazzini)
• Mild Sanctions vs Self Governance (with Christian Traxler)

Optimal Incentives

• Production Technology (with Ro'i Zultan and Sebastian Goerg)
• Incentive Reversal (with Eyal Winter, Ro'i Zultan, and Esteban Khor)
• Reciprocity in the Field (with Michel Maréchal and Clemens Puppe)
• (Counter-) Punishment (with Christoph Engel and team)

Indoctrination of Economists

Teaching

• WS 03/04 Seminar: Fair Division and Collective Welfare
• SS 04 Seminar: Experimental Social Choice Theory
• WS 04/05 teaching assistant: Microeconomics
• SS 05 Seminar: Principal-Agent models: Theory and Experiments
• WS 05/06 Seminar: Empirical relevance of selected Social Choice problems
• WS 05/06 teaching assistant: Undergraduate Microeconomics
• SS 06 Seminar: Suggested Retail Price
• WS 06/07 Seminar: Reciprocity and Work Relationships
• supervisor for diploma theses

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