Curriculum Vitae

• • September 2025

Research Areas

• • Microeconomic Theory: Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Decision Theory, Political Economy

  • Experimental Economics: Belief Formation, Decision Making

Published or Accepted Papers

• • "Time Preferences and Bargaining," Econometrica, Vol. 86, No. 1 (January 2018), 173–217; see also its Supplement

  • "Obviousness Around the Clock" (with Y. Breitmoser), Experimental Economics, Vol. 25, No. 2 (April 2022), 483–513

  • "The Bargaining Trap," Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 136 (November 2022), 249–254; for preprint see  CESifo Working Paper, March/August 2022

  • "Bounded Rationality, Beliefs, and Behavior," chapter prepared for The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective ed. by L. Lenel, A. Nützenadel, I. Köhler, and J. Streb (forthcoming);  see also Berlin School of Economics Discussion Paper, April 2024

  • "Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination: A Hiring Experiment" (with K. Barron, R. Ditlmann, and S. Gehrig), Management Science , Vol.  71, No. 2 (February 2025), 1600–1622; see also Berlin School of Economics Discussion Paper, November 2023/March 2024

  • "Beliefs and Self-Control," entry prepared for the Encyclopedia of Experimental Social Science (Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences) ed. by B. Kebede (forthcoming); preprint available upon request

  • "Political Salience, Endogenous Bandwagoning, and Regime Resilience" (with S. Huck and M. Humphreys), Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming Vol. 154 (December 2025), 79–96); see also this Repository

Working Papers and Mimeos

• • "Separate Housework Spheres" (IZA Discussion Paper, July 2024), with J. Jessen, F. Weinhardt, and  J. Berkes -- R&R at the Journal of Labor Economics

  • "Beliefs as a Means of Self-Control? Evidence from a Dynamic Student Survey" (CESifo Working Paper, March 2024), with F. Bönisch, T. König, and G. Weizsäcker -- R&R at the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

  • "Patience Is Power: Bargaining and Payoff Delay" (Mimeo, August 2024, see also earlier Discussion Paper), with J. Kim and W. Lim -- R&R at the Journal of the European Economic Association

  • "Principled Mechanism Design with Evidence" (CESifo Working Paper, April 2025), with R. Strausz

  • "Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Does the Perceived Gender Domain of the Task Matter? Experimental Evidence,” with K. Barron and D. Stelzeneder -- currently revising, Mimeo (February 2023) available upon request 

  • "A Note on the Welfare of a Sophisticated Time-Inconsistent Decision-Maker" (WZB Discussion Paper, February 2015) -- currently dormant

Drafts Currently in Preparation

• "How Anticipation Shapes Belief Formation and Information Preferences -- Experimental Evidence," with K. Barron and F. Bönisch  

• "Competition and Prices in the Airline Industry: Evidence from Alaska," with T. Lehmann and J. Tuhkuri

• "Price Parity Clauses and Rebates: Is Platform Competition Well-Defined?" with M. Hahnen

Current PhD Supervisees

• • Rongrong Fu, Maren Hahnen, Jiawei Zhang

Current Teaching

• • HU Berlin, see AGNES

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Further Affiliations/Roles

• • CESifo Research  Network (Behavioral Economics), Affiliate Member 

  • Berlin IO Day, Co-Organizer

  • Berlin School of Economics, Faculty and Research Associate

  • Collaborative Research Center Transregio “Rationality and Competition” (CRC TRR 190), Member in Project Area A02 (previously also A06)

  • Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP), Fellow