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
• Since 2010: Affiliated researcher at the Center for Economics & Neuroscience

Working Papers

• More money, less effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams
  (with Esteban Klor, Ro'i Zultan, and Eyal Winter)
• Choosing Your Object of Benevolence: A Field Experiment on Donation Options
• (with Bodo Aretz)
• Can we manage first impressions in cooperation problems? An experimental study on "Broken (and Fixed) Windows"
  (with Christoph Engel and Michael Kurschilgen)
• The benefits of latent payback in social dilemmas
  (with Andreas Glöckner and Andreas Nicklisch)
• 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

• Communication under incomplete contracts  (with Marco Kleine)
• (Endogenous) work goals (with Sebastian Goerg)
• What triggers conditional cooperation? (with Luca Corazzini, Teresa Schüter and Ro'i Zultan)
• Unpacked Work Tasks and Unpacked Public Goods (with Georg von Heusinger)
• Legal Sanctions vs Self Governance (with Christian Traxler)

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
• SS 09  Seminar: Behavioral Public Choice
• SS 09  lecture: Experimental Economics
• SS 09  PhD topics course: Experimental Economics
• WS 09/10  lecture: Introductory Microeconomics
• WS 09/10  Seminar: Experimental Economics
• WS 09/10  PhD topics course: Empirical Economics
• SS 10  Seminar: Happiness and Economics
• SS 10  lecture: Experimental Economics
• SS 10  PhD topics course: Management and Applied Microeconomics
• WS 10/11 lecture: Introductory Microeconomics
• WS 10/11: Seminar: Management and Applied Micro
• supervisor for diploma theses

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