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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

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 forthcoming (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)

  • Applied Economics
  • Economic Journal
  • European Journal of Health Economics
  • FinanzArchiv
  • German Economic Review
  • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Journal of Economic Psychology
  • Journal of Income Distribution
  • Journal of Public Economic Theory
  • Journal of Public Economics
  • National Science Foundation
  • PLOS ONE
  • Public Finance Review
  • Psychological Reports
  • 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

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 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)