Professor, Department of Economics and Law, University of Stuttgart
Associated Researcher, Politics of Inequality Cluster
Co-Founder, Political Economy of Global Development Lab
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Professor, Department of Economics and Law, University of Stuttgart
Associated Researcher, Politics of Inequality Cluster
Co-Founder, Political Economy of Global Development Lab
firstname [.] lastname [at] ivr [.] uni [-] stuttgart [.] de
Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)
Fields of Interest: Behavioral Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy
Behavioral Economics
Fairness Properties of Compensation Systems (with Christoph Becker, Hannes Rau, Stefan Trautmann, and Yilong Xu), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, forthcoming, [link to journal website].
Status, Control, and Risk: How Relative Wealth Perceptions Shape Risk-Taking (with Yannick Reichlin), revise & resubmit Economic Journal
The Bandits’ Dilemma: Taking From One Versus Taking From Many (with Alexander Cappelen, Ingar Haaland, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden)
The Endowment Effect in the General Population (with Dorothea Kübler)
Development Economics / Political Economy
Can International Initiatives Promote Peace? Diamond Certification and Armed Conflicts in Africa (with Christine Binzel and Andreas Link) [CEPR Discussion Paper 18450][VOXeu Column]
Listen to Her: Gender Differences in Information Diffusion within the Household (with Johanna Mollerstrom and Ricardo Perez-Truglia), Journal of Public Economics, Volume 239, 105213, 2024. [appendix][link to journal website][data] [VOXeu column], media coverage: The Guardian, Welt am Sonntag, Welt Online+
Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity (with Guenther Fink and Kelsey Jack), Journal of Political Economy, Volume 130, 2862-2897, 2022. [appendix][link to journal website][data]
Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality (with Johanna Mollerstrom and Ricardo Perez-Truglia), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 14, 232-268, 2022. [link to journal website][data] Media coverage: FAZ, Anderson Review
Inequality, Fairness and Social Capital (with Hannes Rau, Stefan Trautmann, and Yilong Xu), European Economic Review, Volume 129, 2020. [appendix][link to journal website][data]
The Power of Sunspots: An Experimental Analysis (with Frank Heinemann and Aniol Llorente-Saguer), Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 103, 123-136, 2019. [appendix][link to journal website][data]