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Publications Selected Working Papers: Temptation and Self-Commitment. (with D. Houser, J. Winter, and E. Xiao). Revise and resubmit: Games and Economic Behavior. Uncertainty and rounding in survey responses (with P. Ruud and J. Winter). University of Zurich 2011. The Case for Limited Auditor Liability - The Effects of Liability Size on Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion (with C. Koch). University of Zurich 2011. Heterogeneous agents in dynamic choice behavior: Theory and empirical evidence. University of Zurich 2011. Saving motives and saver types in German Households: Survey evidence. University of Zurich 2009. Once bitten, twice shy: On the causal effect of prior experiences on trusting behavior (with M. Naef). University of Zurich 2011.
Published Papers: The relationship between child health, developmental gaps, and parental education: Evidence from administrative data (with M. Salm). Forthcoming: Journal of the European Economic Association. Strategic Responses! A Survey Experiment on Public Opposition against Pension Reforms. (with B. Scheubel and J. Winter). Forthcoming: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. [This paper was awarded the DIA-ZUKUNFTSPREIS 2010.] What is an adequate standard of living during retirement? (with J. Binswanger). Forthcoming: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete (with B. Bartling and E. Fehr). Forthcoming: Experimental Economics. Distinguishing Trust from Risk: An Anatomy of the Investment Game (with D. Houser and J. Winter). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 74, 1-2 (2010), 72-81. Disrupting the prefrontal cortex diminishes the human ability to build a good reputation (with D. Knoch, F. Schneider, M. Hohmann, and E. Fehr). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (shared first authorship with D. Knoch and F. Schneider), 106, 49 (2009), 20895-20899. Behavioral Heterogeneity in Dynamic Search Situations: Theory and experimental evidence. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 33 (2009), 1719-1738. Egalitarianism and Competition (with B. Bartling, E. Fehr, and M. Marechal). American Economic Review, 99 (2), (2009), 93-98. The relationship between risk attitudes and heuristics in search tasks: A laboratory experiment. (with J. Winter). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 71 (2009), 347-360. Social Environments with Competitive Pressure: Gender Effects in the Decisions of German Schoolchildren (with D. Houser). Journal of Economic Psychology, 30, (2009), 634-641. Participation costs for responders can reduce rejection rates in ultimatum bargaining (with P. Wichardt and P. Schmitz). Economics Letters, 103 (2009), 33-35. What Determines the Savings Behavior of German Households? An Examination of Saving Motives and Saving Decisions. Journal of Economics and Statistics, 229, 4 (2009), 467-491. A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm for Multiple Imputation in Large Surveys. Advances in Statistical Analysis, 92 (2008), 101-114. Saving incentives, old-age provision and displacement effects: Evidence from the recent German pension reform (with A. Börsch-Supan and A. Reil-Held). Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 7, 3 (2008), 295-319. Combining Brain and Behavioral Data to Improve Econometric Policy Analysis (with D. Houser and E. Xiao). Analyse & Kritik, 29 (2007), 382–397. Explaining heterogeneity in utility functions by individual differences in preferred decision modes (with C. Betsch). Journal of Economic Psychology, 27, 3 (2006), 386-401. Classification of Human Decision Behavior: Finding Modular Decision Rules with Genetic Algorithms (with F. Rothlauf and J. Pfeiffer). In: H.G. Beyer et al. (eds.), Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2005, ACM Press, New York (2005), 2021-2028. Spatial Dynamic Modeling and Urban Land Use Transformation: A Simulation Approach to Assessing the Fiscal Costs of Urban Sprawl (with B. Deal). Ecological Economics, 51, 1-2 (2004), 79-95. Impacts of a Carbon Tax Policy on Illinois Grain Farms – A Dynamic Simulation Study (with B. Hannon). Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 6, 3 (2004), 221-247.
Books: The German SAVE-Survey: Design and Results (with A. Boersch-Supan, M. Coppola, A. Eymann, and L. Essig). mea-Verlag (2008). 186 pages.
Other publications: Savings and Asset Accumulation in Germany. In: D. Engels and K. Ridder (eds.), Weiterentwicklung der Reichtumsberichterstattung der Bundesregierung. DIW/BMAS (2007). Köln, 53-68. (in German) The German SAVE-Survey: Methodology of a Nationwide Field Survey. MEA-Technical Report 109-06 (2006). MEA - University of Mannheim. Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Evolutionary Modelling. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 8 (2005), 409-413 (in German) Relevance determination in learning vector quantization (with T. Bojer, B. Hammer, K. Tluk von Toschanowitz.). In: M. Verleysen (ed.), European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks ‘2001, D-facto publications (2001), 271-276TeachingExternal teaching:August 2010: Heidelberg Summer School on Neuroeconomics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
July 2010: Graduate summer school, University of Oxford, UK
October/November 2009: CESifo-Graduate student lectures, University of Munich, Germany
July 2009: Mannheim Empirical Research Summer School, University of Mannheim, Germany
July 2008: International Summer School on Behavioral Economics and Retirement Savings, University of Muenster, Germany Regular teaching:Fall Term 2011: Lecture: Principles of Public Economics
Spring Term 2011: Lecture: Advanced Public Policy Fall Term 2010: Lecture: Principles of Public Economics
Spring Term 2010: Lecture: Empirical Methods in Economics Fall Term 2009: Seminar: Experimental and Behavioral Economics Spring Term 2009: Lecture: Empirical Methods in Economics Fall Term 2008: Seminar: Experimental and Behavioral Economics Spring Term 2008: Lecture: Empirical Methods in Economics Winter Term 2005/06: Seminar: Computational methods in econometrics (with A. Ludwig and V. Winschel) Winter Term 2004/05: Seminar: Computational methods in econometrics (with V. Winschel) Summer Term 2004: Excercises & Computer Labs to the course "Empirical Economics" Winter Term 2003/04: Seminar: Computational methods in econometrics (with A. Ludwig and V. Winschel) Summer Term 2003: Computational Econom(etr)ics-Workshop (with A. Ludwig and V. Winschel) Winter Term 2002/2003: Computational Econom(etr)ics-Workshop (with A. Ludwig and V. Winschel) Winter Term 2001/02: Short Course: Introduction to Modeling with Mathematica Summer Term 2000: Short Course: Introduction to Modeling with Mathematica Winter Term 1999/2000: Tutorial to the course: Introduction to Systems Science
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