Associate Professor Experimental Market Design (W2), KIT
Senior Researcher Market Design, ZEW
KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie; ZEW - Leibniz Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung Mannheim
I am currently the director of ZEW Co-Design a platform to enable research with and within organizations
Before, I was a member of the Max Planck Research Group "Mechanisms of Normative Change" (link)
contact: adrian.hillenbrand(at)zew.de
Enabling Research with and within Organizations
Steering and Price Discrimination in Digital Markets
Digital Markets, Algorithmic Pricing and Platform Competition
Cooperation and coordination when the group size is uncertain (supported by the German Research Foundation, DFG)
Strategic Inattention in Product Search, Special Issue on The Human-Algorithm Connection, Management Science, 2025 (with Svenja Hippel) [freely accessible version]
press coverage: Fiese Filter, Harvard Business Manager (in German, subscription)
Willingness to Volunteer Among Remote Workers Is Insensitive to the Team Size, Special Issue in Memory of Amnon Rapoport, Experimental Economics, 2025 (with Tobias Werner and Fabian Winter) (formerly circulated under "Volunteering at the Workplace under Incomplete Information: Teamsize Does Not Matter")
The asymmetric effect of narratives on prosocial behavior, Games and Economic Behavior, 2022 (with Eugenio Verrina)
Gain-Loss Framing in Interdependent Choice, Games and Economic Behavior, 2020 (with Susann Fiedler) [data, older version]
Volunteering under population uncertainty, Games and Economic Behavior, 2018 (with Fabian Winter) [data, freely accessible version]
Beyond information: Disclosure, distracted attention, and investor behavior, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2017 (with André Schmelzer)
Leadership Effectiveness and Institutional Frames, Experimental Economics, 2016 (with Gerrit Frackenpohl and Sebastian Kube)
Using impatience to improve environmental subsidies
[working on analysis]How the Stability of Social Relations Shapes the Emergence of Latent Norms (with Fabian Winter)
[working paper in progress]Cooperation with lists (read if you always struggle to find organizers for the faculty party)
Reproducibility in Management Science. Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A. I., & Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration. 2024. Management Science, 70(3), 1343-1356. Note: Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration
Price subsidies may impair competition in retail market for natural gas. ZEW policy brief, 2022, (with Atabek Atayev)
Tapping into people's impatience for better environmental subsidies. ZEW policy brief, 2023 (with Atabek Atayev, Gian Caspari & Thilo Klein)
Mit Ungeduld zu besseren Subventionen für umweltfreundliche Produkte, Wirtschaftsdienst, 2025 (with Atabek Atayev, Gian Caspari & Thilo Klein)