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Biography

Education

  • Habilitation in Economics (post-doctoral qualification), Free University Berlin
  • Dr. rer. pol. (PhD in Economics), Leibniz University Hannover
  • Master of Science in Economics, Bocconi University, Milan
  • Diploma in Economics & Business Administration, University Hannover

Current Position & Affiliations

Previous Full-Time & Visiting Positions

  • LUISS University, Rome / Italy,
    Visiting Professor (02 - 04/2019)
  • University of California San Diego / USA,
    Visiting Scholar (09 - 12/2018)
  • Harvard University, Cambridge (MA) / USA,
    Visiting Scholar (09 - 10/2015)
  • University of California San Diego / USA,
    Visiting Scholar (03 - 05/2015)
  • Center for Economic Studies (CES), Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität Munich,
    Guest Researcher (10/2014)
  • Berlin School of Economics and Law, Dept. 3,
    Professor of Public Finance (2011 - 2014)
  • Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich,
    Senior Research Fellow (2011)
  • Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB),
    Visiting Scholar (2009 - 2012)
  • Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Division I A 1, Berlin,
    Senior Economist (2010)
  • Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB),
    Senior Research Fellow (2008 - 2009)
  • Leibniz University Hannover / Germany,
    Research Fellow and PhD student (2004 - 2008), PhD in Economics (11/2007, summa cum laude)
  • Studies of economics at the universities of Muenster, of Hannover (degree: Diploma in Economics and Business Administration) and Bocconi, Milan (degree: Master's in Economics)

Publications

The Value of National Defense: Assessing Public Preferences for Defense Policy Options.  European Journal of Political Economy 85, 2024, 102595 (with Salmai QariTobias Börger and Jürgen Meyerhoff)

Who cares when Value (Mis)reporting May Be Found Out? An Acquiring-a-Company Experiment with Value Messages and Information Leaks. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 108, 2024, 102151 (with Daniela Di Cagno, Werner Gueth, Francesca Marazzi, and Lorenzo Spadoni)

Compliance in Teams – Implications of Joint Decisions and Shared Consequences. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 94, 2021, pp. 1 – 13 (with S. A. Simon)

Gender Differences in Face-to-Face Deceptive Behavior.Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 187, 2021, pp. 1 – 15 (with S. Qari)

Pecunia non olet - On the self-selection into (dis)honest earning opportunities. Experimental Economics 24, 2021, pp. 1105 – 1130 (with K. A. Konrad and S. A. Simon)

Do Individuals Successfully Cover up Their Lies? Evidence from a Compliance Experiment. Journal of Economic Psychology 71, 2019, pp. 74 – 87 (with N. Dwenger)

Video recordings in experiments – Are there effects on self-selection or the outcome of the experiment? Economics Bulletin 38, 2018, pp. 1381 – 1394 (with S. Qari)

Deception under Time Pressure: Conscious Decision or a Problem of Awareness? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 146, 2018, pp. 31 – 42 (with K. A. Konrad and S. A. Simon

Compliance with Endogenous Audit Probabilities. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 119, 2017, pp. 821 – 850 (with K. A. Konrad and S. Qari)

Dubious versus trustworthy faces - What difference does it make for tax compliance? Applied Economics Letters 23, 2016, pp. 394 – 401 (with S. Qari)

Are Bad Times Good News for the Securities and Exchange Commission? European Journal of Law and Economics 40, 2015, pp. 33 – 47 (with C. Thomann)

Deception Choice and Self-Selection - The Importance of Being Earnest. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 107, 2014, pp. 25 – 39.  (with K. A. Konrad and S. Qari)

Public Enforcement of Securities and Market Rules: Resource-based evidence from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106, 2014, pp. 197 – 2012. (with R. Pascalau and C. Thomann)

The Objections against Workfare Revised. Review of Economics 65, 2014, pp. 95 – 118.

Gender Differences in Deception Behavior - The Role of the Counterpart.  Applied Economics Letters 21, 2014, pp. 702 – 705. (with S. Qari)

Redistributional Consequences of Early Childhood Intervention. European Journal of Health Economics 4, 2013, pp. 373 – 381. (with P. F. Lutz & C. Thomann)

Public Self-Insurance and the Samaritan’s Dilemma in a Federation. Public Finance Review41, 2013, pp. 92 – 120. (with J. R. Robeldo)

Self-Insurance and Self-Protection as Public Goods. Journal of Risk and Insurance 79, 2012, pp. 57 – 76. (with J. R. Robeldo & U. Schmidt)

Redistributional Consequences of Decentralizing the Tax-Transfer Scheme. Review of Economics 60, 2009, pp. 168 – 180.

Öffentliche Güter mit Versicherungscharakter. Zeitschrift für die gesamte Versicherungswissenschaft Supplement, 2007, pp. 139 – 154. (with J. R. Robeldo & U. Schmidt)

Optimal Taxes and Transfers under Partial Information. Journal of Economics and Statistics 225, 2005, pp. 622 – 629. (with S. Homburg)

  • Interdependent Preferences for Financing and Providing Public Goods – The Case of National Defense. Mimeo (R&R Kyklos; with A. Bolouri and S. Qari)
  • Threat Perceptions and the Value of Defense Policy Instruments. Mimeo (with T. Börger, J. Meyerhoff and S. Qari)
  • Hoch Much Bang for the Buck? An Analysis of the Causal Effect of Ransom Payments on Subsequent Terrorist Attacks in West Africa. Mimeo (with A. Nyga)
  • Soft Regulation for Financial Advisors. Mimeo (R&R Review of Law & Economics; with S. Qari and F. Veittinger)
  • Reducing Financial Misconduct: The Impact of Punishment and Gender Anonymity. Mimeo (with S. Qari and F. Veittinger)
  • Applied Economics
  • Economic Journal
  • European Journal of Health Economics
  • Experimental Economics
  • FinanzArchiv
  • German Economic Review
  • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Journal of Economic Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
  • Journal of Income Distribution
  • Journal of Public Economic Theory
  • Journal of Public Economics
  • Management Science
  • National Science Foundation
  • PLOS ONE
  • Psychological Reports
  • Public Finance Review
  • Southern Economic Journal
  • Theory and Decision
  • Revenues and Tax policy in Europe: Challenges and Chances. 2009, Berlin: Peter Lang (co-editor with K. A. Konrad; in German)
  • Workfare and its Assessment from an Optimal Tax Perspective. 2008 Wiesbaden: Gabler (in German)

Invited & Conference Presentations

2024

  • International Institute of Public Finance, Prague, 22 August
  • German Economic Association, Annual Meeting of the Socio-Economic Panel, University of Mannheim, 25 May
  • Magdeburg University, Faculty of Economics and Management, 15 May

2023

  • Economic Science Association (ESA) World Meeting, Lyon, 27 June

2022

  • Economic Science Association (ESA) European Meeting, Bologna, 1 September

2021

  • Burgundy School of Business, LESSAC seminar, Dijon (digital), 17 June
  • Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics (digital), 21 April
  • University of St. Gallen, Institute of Insurance Economics (digital), 13 April
  • Federal University of Applied Sciences, Department of Financial Administration, Münster, 21 January
  • Free University Berlin, Research Seminar in Economics (digital), 12 January

2020

  • German Economic Association, Cologne (digital), 28 September
  • Workshop "Experimental Studies in Educational and Labor Market Research", Hamburg (digital), 8 June

2019

  • University of Leipzig, Leipzig Colloquium on the Foundations of the Market Order, 19 December
  • University of Freiburg, Workshop "Enforcing Tax Compliance", 7 December
  • Economic Science Association (ESA) European Meeting, Dijon, 6 September
  • GISMA Business School, Hannover, 2 May
  • LUISS University, Department of Economics and Finance, Rome, 11 April
  • LUISS Behavioral Studies Workshop, Rome, 19 March
  • University of Siegen, School of Economic Disciplines, 23 January

2018

  • Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC, 18 November
  • Loyola Marymount University, Department of Economics, Los Angeles, 6 November
  • University of California, Rady School of Management, San Diego, 2 October
  • German Economic Association, Freiburg, 3 September
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 29 August
  • Economic Science Association (ESA) World Meeting, Berlin, 29 June
  • International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS), Florence, 3 May

2017

  • German Economic Association, Vienna, 5 September
  • Economic Science Association (ESA) World Meeting, San Diego, 22 June

2016

  • German Economic Association, Augsburg, 6 September
  • Economic Science Association (ESA) World Meeting, Jerusalem, 8 July
  • Université Toulouse I, IAST, Workshop "The Human Face in Economics", Toulouse, 19 May
  • University of Amsterdam, CREED, Workshop "Incentives and Behavior Change", Amsterdam, 6 May
  • CESifo Area Conference, Munich, 9 April
  • WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar/Germany, 1 February
  • Berlin School of Economics and Law, 25 January

2015

  • Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich 8 July

2014

  • CESifo Group Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 27 October
  • German Economic Association, Hamburg, 9 September
  • International Institute of Public Finance, Lugano/Switzerland, 21 August
  • Association for Public Economic Theory, Seattle/USA, July11
  • Department of Economics, Technical University Dresden, 29 April
  • Conference of the Center for Economic Behavior and Institution Design, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 8 March

2013

  • Leibniz School of Business, Hannover, 13 December
  • Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Workshop "Tax Compliance in Field and Laboratory Experiments", Munich, 4 November
  • European Association of Law and Economics, Warsaw, 27 September
  • German Economic Association, Düsseldorf, 6 September
  • Association for Public Economic Theory, Lisbon, 5 July
  • Berlin School of Economics and Law, 24 January

2012

  • CESifo Group Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 15 October
  • German Economic Association, Göttingen, 10 September
  • International Institute of Public Finance, Dresden, 17 August
  • Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich, 4 July
  • Association for Public Economic Theory, Taipei, 12 June
  • Berlin School of Economics and Law, 7 June

2011

  • CESifo Workshop on Political Economy, Dresden, 2 December
  • Ulm University, 8 July
  • Journée Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Marseille, 21 June
  • Seminar of the Munich Experimental Laboratory for Economic and Social Sciences (MELESSA), LMU Munich, 15 February

2010

  • Berlin School of Economics and Law, 27 May

2009

  • University of Potsdam, Potsdam, 19 October
  • European Economic Association, Barcelona, 23 August
  • University of Magdeburg, Seminar of the Chair of Public Finance, Potsdam, 3 August
  • Association for Public Economic Theory, Galway, 19 June
  • Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Conference „Frontiers in Public Finance“, Munich, 30 April
  • European Public Choice Society, Athens, 3 April
  • Deutscher Verein für Versicherungswissenschaft, Berlin, 5 March (Discussant)

2008

  • CESifo Area Conference “Reform of the Welfare State”, Munich, 1 November (Discussant)
  • German Economic Association, Graz/Austria, 26 September
  • European Economic Association, Milan, 31 August
  • Association for Public Economic Theory, Seoul, 27 June
  • Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, 21 May
  • Royal Economic Society, Warwick, 19 March

2007

  • Social Science Research Center Berlin, Berlin, 18 December
  • German Economic Association, Munich, 11 October
  • International Institute of Public Finance, Warwick, 27 August
  • Association for Public Economic Theory, Nashville/USA, 6 July
  • Deutscher Verein für Versicherungswissenschaft, Stuttgart, 8 March

2006

  • Association of Southern European Economic Theorists, Lisbon, 4 November
  • German Economic Association, Bayreuth, 27 September
  • Association for Public Economic Theory, Hanoi, 2 August

2005

  • German Economic Association, Bonn, 29 September
  • University of Hannover, Hannover, 20 April

2004

  • CESifo Area Conference “Employment and Social Protection”, Munich, 12 June (Discussant)

Teaching

Courses Winter Term 2024/25

  • Behavioral Economics
  • Strategic Behavior in International Markets
  • Public Economics

Courses Summer Term 2024

  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Business Economics
  • Public Economics
  • Topics in Applied Economic Policy Analysis (Freie Universität Berlin)

Courses Winter Term 2023/24

  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Behavioral Economics

Courses Summer Term 2023

Courses Summer Term 2022

  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Business Economics
  • Current Topics on Public Economic Theory (Freie Universität Berlin)

Courses Winter Term 2021/22

  • Public Finance
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Behavioral Economics

Summer Term 2021

  • Public Finance
  • Microeconomics
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Business Economics

Courses Winter Term 2020/21

Courses Summer Term 2020

  • Public Finance
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Behavioral Economics
  • International Economic Policy (Free University Berlin)