Vice President for Research (Vizepräsidium)
Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Behavioral Science (CEREB)
Scientific Director of the Laboratory for experimental Economics (eLab)
Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn (MPI)
Curriculum Vitae
| since 2000 | Chair in Microeconomics at the University of Erfurt |
| 1999 - 2000 | Visiting Professor at CentER for Economic Research, Tilburg University, NL |
| 1999 | Habilitation in economics at the University of Bonn (Supervisor Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Reinhard Selten) |
| 1994 - 1995 | Consultant at Prof. Dr. Feilmeier & Junker, München |
| 1993 | Visiting Professor at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA |
| 1993 | Ph.D. in economics at the University of Bonn (Supervisor Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Reinhard Selten) |
| 1992 | Visiting Associate at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA |
| 1988 | Diploma in Mathematics (with minors economics and computer science) at the University of Bonn |
| 1982 | High School degree (Abitur), Irmgardis Gymnasium Cologne |
Recent Publications
Monitoring in Teams: Using Laboratory Experiments to Study a Theory of the Firm [pdf]
forthcoming Journal of the European Economic Association
(joint with Stefan Große und Louis Putterman)
Motivating Teammates: The Leader's Choice of Positive and Negative Incentives [abstract] [pdf]
Journal of Economic Psychology Vol. 30/4, (2009), 591-607
(joint with Özgür Gürerk und Bernd Irlenbusch)
In Search of Workers' Real Effort Reciprocity – A Field and a Laboratory Experiment [pdf]
Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming
(joint with Heike Henning-Schmidt and Abdolkarim Sadrieh )
How to treat thoose of ill repute
Nature Vol. 457 , (2009), 39-40
(joint with Manfred Milinski)
Egalitarianism in young children[abstract][press release ][press comments ]
Nature Vol. 454 , (2008), 1079-1084
(joint with Ernst Fehr and Helen Bernhard)
Not just hot air: Normative codes of conduct induce cooperative behavior
Review of Managerial Science, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2008), 183-197, [pdf]
(joint with Thomas Lauer and Peter Walgenbach)
Punisher pays
Nature, Vol. 452, (2008), 297–298 [abstract]
(joint with Manfred Milinski)
Spying on Others Evolves
Science, Vol. 317, no. 5837, (2007), 464–465 [abstract][full text htm][full text pdf][press release ]
(joint with Manfred Milinski)
Teams Take the Better Risk
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 63 (2007), 412–422 [abstract]
(joint with Abdolkarim Sadrieh and Barbara Mathauschek)
Fairness Crowded Out by Law: An Experimental Study on Withdrawal Rights: Comment
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 163(1) (2007), 106-108 [pdf]
The efficient interaction of indirect reciprocity and costly punishment
Nature: Vol. 444, 718-723, (2006), [abstract][press comments]
(joint with Manfred Milinski)
The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions
Science, Vol. 312. no. 5770, (2006), 108-111 [abstract][full text htm][full text pdf][supporting material][press comments]
(joint with Özgür Gürerk and Bernd Irlenbusch)
Option Pricing by Students and Professional Traders: A Behavioural Investigation
Managerial and Decision Economics Vol. 27 (6), 497–510, (2006) [pdf]
(joint with Klaus Abbink )
A Strategic Analysis of Speculative Trade in a two-sided Asset Market with Information Diversity
International Game Theory Review, Vol. 7 (2), (2005), 151-170 [pdf]
An Experimental Test of Design Alternatives for the British 3G / UMTS Auction
European Economic Review Vol. 49 (2005), 503-530 [pdf]
(joint with Klaus Abbink, Bernd Irlenbusch, Paul Pezanis-Christou, Abdolkarim Sadrieh, and Reinhard Selten)
Collusion under Yardstick Competition, An Experimental Study
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 22 (2004), 1017-1038 [pdf]
(joint with Jan Potters, Abdolkarim Sadrieh and Eric van Damme)
Human Altruism: Economic, Neural, and Evolutionary Perspectives
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14 (2004), 784-790 [pdf]
(joint with Ernst Fehr)
The Behavioral Relevance of Mental Accounting for the Pricing of Financial Options
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 53 (2004), 513-527 [pdf]
Detrimental Effects of Sanctions on Human Altruism
Nature, 422, 137-140 (2003) [pdf] [press comments]
(joint with Ernst Fehr)
The Fisherman's Problem: Exploring the tension between cooperative and non-cooperative concepts in a simple game
Journal of Economic Psychology, 24 (4), (2003), 425-445 [pdf]
(with Klaus Abbink, Ron Darziv, Zohar Gilula, Harel Goren, Bernd Irlenbusch, Arnon Keren, Abdolkarim Sadrieh, Reinhard Selten, Shmuel Zamir)
Working Papers
Voting with Feet: Community Choice in Social Dilemmas (2009)
(With Özgür Gürerk and Bernd Irlenbusch) [pdf]
Institution design in social dilemmas: How to design if you must? (2009)
(With Irenaeus Wolff) [pdf]
We Are Not Alone:The Impact of Externalities on Public Good Provision (2009)
(With Christoph Engel) [pdf]
Sharing Information (2009)
(With Abdolkarim Sadrieh) [pdf]
