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Christian Zehnder

Assistant Professor
Chair of Microeconomics and Experimental Economic Research, Prof. Fehr

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Dr. Christian Zehnder
Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
University of Zurich
Blümlisalpstrasse 10
CH-8006 Zürich

Office BLU-204

Phone: +41 (0)44 634 37 22
Fax: +41 (0)44 634 49 07
Email: zehnder@iew.uzh.ch

CV


Date of birth: 09.07.1976 (in Baden, Switzerland)
Citizenship: Swiss
Education: 1992-1996 Kantonsschule Baden Maturity Type E
1996-2001 Studies of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Zurich
07. 2001 Graduation: lic. oec. publ., summa cum laude
2001-2005 PhD Studies at the University of Zurich
11.2005 PhD Economics, summa cum laude
Work: 2001-2005 Research Assistant for Microeconomics and Experimental Economics at the University of Zurich
2005-present Assistant Professor for Microeconomics and Experimental Economics at the University of Zurich
Major Interests: Labor Economics, Credit Markets, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Game Theory
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Publications


  • "Fairness Perceptions and Reservation Wages - The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wage Laws", with Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr, Quarterly Journal of Economics 121(4), November 2006. [ Download ]

  • "Credit Registries, Relationship Banking and Loan Repayment", with Martin Brown, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, forthcoming. [ Download ]


Working Papers


  • "Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wages", with Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr, IEW-Working Paper No. 247. [ Download ]

  • "Reputation and Performance", with Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr, mimeo, University of Zurich. [ Download ]

  • "Reputation and Credit Market Formation", with Ernst Fehr, NCCR Finrisk Working Paper No. 179. [ Download ]

  • "Credit Registries, Relationship Banking and Loan Repayment", with Martin Brown, IEW-Working Paper No. 240. [ Download ]

  • "The Emergence of Information Sharing in Credit Markets", with Martin Brown, IEW-Working Paper No. 317. [ Download ]

  • "Discrimination and In-group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment", with Armin Falk, IEW-Working Paper No. 318. [ Download ]


Press Coverage


  • "Experiment: Ökonomen untersuchten das Ansehen aller Zürcher Stadtkreise" by Helene Arnet, Tages-Anzeiger (Switzerland), January 25 2005. [ Download ]

  • "Die Reichsten sind nicht die Grosszügigsten" by Helene Arnet, Tages-Anzeiger (Switzerland), February 3 2005. [ Download ]

  • "Lieber gar nichts verdienen als zu wenig" by Eva Matter Schaffner, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), July 20 2005. [ Download ]

  • "Das ist das Mindeste!" by Sabine Kersebaum, Gehirn & Geist (Germany), September 20 2005. [ Download ]

  • "Der Zahnpasta-Effekt auf dem Arbeitsmarkt" by Olaf Storbeck, Handelsblatt (Germany), March 6 2006. [ Download ]

  • "Die Seligkeit des Gebens" by Markus Schneider, Weltwoche (Switzerland), September 28 2006. [ Download ]


Teaching Experience


  • Lecture: Introduction to Management and Economics Part I & II
    Organizational Economics and Principles of Performance Pay

  • Lecture: Personnel and Organisational Economics (with E. Fehr)
    Relational contracts, incentives, vertical integration, competition

  • Seminar: Personnel and Organisational Economics
    Exercise sessions on material of lecture (see above)

  • Seminar: Behavioral Economics
    Time-Inconsistency, Reference Dependence, Addiction

  • External lecture for practitioners: Economics and Cooperation
    Overview: Theoretical and experimental results on cooperation

  • Seminar: Experimental Economics (Empirical Methods)
    Design and conducting of economic experiments

  • Seminar: Advanced Microeconomics Part I & II
    Exercise sessions on advanced microeconomic principles

  • Seminar: Introductory Microeconomics Part I & II
    Exercise sessions on basic microeconomic principles



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