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This page contains a short CV . Most of my research papers are listed below. I will be spending the academic year 2009/2010 visiting the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley.

Publications

Hiding Information in Electoral Competition (with Johan Lagerlöf), in Games and Economic Behavior, 2003, 42, pp. 48-74.
All Equilibria of the Vickrey Auction (with Andreas Blume), in Journal of Economic Theory, 2004, 114, pp. 170-177.
A Group Bargaining Solution (with Suchan Chae), in Mathematical Social Sciences, 2004, 48, pp. 37-53.
Buyers' Alliances for Bargaining Power (with Suchan Chae), in Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2004, 13(4), 731-754.
On the Desirability of an Efficiency Defense in Merger Control (with Johan Lagerlöf), in International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2005, 23, pp. 803-82; discussed in Competition Law Insight, Issue 6, May 2003, pp. 25-26.
Equilibria in a Dynamic Global Game: The role of cohort effects (with Nicolas Melissas), in Economic Theory, 2006, 28, pp. 531-557.
Private Monitoring in Auctions (with Andreas Blume), in Journal of Economic Theory, 2006, 131, pp. 179-211.
Comments on State Aid Reform – some Implications of an Effects-based Approach (with Rainer Nitsche), in European State Aid Law Quarterly, 2006, 5, pp. 23-34; reprinted in: The More Economic Approach (Conference on New Political Economy 24), eds. D. Schmidtchen, M. Albert, and S. Voigt, 2007, pp. 321-344.
Modeling Tacit Collusion in Auctions, coauthored (with Andreas Blume), in Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2008, 164(1), 163-184.
Competition and Price Variation when Consumers are Loss Averse (with Botond Kőszegi), in American Economic Review, 2008, 98(4), 1245-1268. [Working paper versions: PDF].
All Equilibria of the Multi-Unit Vickrey Auction (with Andreas Blume, Jonathan Lafky, Johannes Münster, and Meixia Zhang), in Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 66, 729-741. [Working paper version: PDF].
Futile Attempts at Self-Control (with Botond Kőszegi), in Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 423-434. [Working paper version: PDF].
Screening and Merger Activity, (with Albert Banal-Estanol, Rainer Nitsche, and Jo Seldeslachts), in: Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming.
Exploiting Naivete about Self-Control in the Credit Market, (with Botond Kőszegi), in: American Economic Review, forthcoming.

Working Papers and Work in Progress

1. Other-Regarding Preferences in General Equilibrium (with Martin Dufwenberg, Georg Kirchsteiger, Frank Riedel, and Joel Sobel), [PDF].

2. The Impact of Consumer Loss Aversion on Pricing (with Botond Kőszegi), [PDF].

3. Learning to Coordinate, (with Andreas Blume and April Franco)

4. Regular Prices and Sales (with Botond Kőszegi)

Other Publications

Essays on Bargaining Power, Ph.D. Thesis, Rice University 2000.
The Effects of Downstream Distributor Chains on Upstream Producer Entry: A Bargaining Perspective (with Suchan Chae), [PDF].
All Equilibria of the Vickrey Auction (with Andreas Blume), 2001. An older version of the paper published in Journal of Economic Theory that contains some additional material. You can download this older version here.
Fusionskontrolle und Anreize zum Lobbying (with Johan Lagerlöf), in Wirtschaftsdienst, 83. Jahrgang, Heft 2, Februar 2003, pp. 121-124.
Essays on Microeconomic Theory, Habilitationsschrift, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2004.
Study on Methods to Analyse the Effects of State Aid on Competition (with Rainer Nitsche), European Economy No. 244, February 2006.
Comment on Exclusionary Bundling and the Effects of a Competitive Fringe (by Caliskan, A., D. Porter, S. Rassenti, V. Smith, and B. Wilson), in Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163(1), pp 138-142.
On the Economic Theory of Illegal Collusive Activity (Comment), in The More Economic Approach (Conference on New Political Economy 24), eds. D. Schmidtchen, M. Albert, and S. Voigt, 2007, pp. 171-178.

Short CV

EDUCATION

Habilitation, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2005.

Ph. D. in Economics, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2000

Masters in Economics, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1993

POSITIONS

Associate Professor for Economic Theory (W2), University of Bonn, Fall 2005-present

Visiting Associate Professor for Economic Theory (W2), University of Bonn, Spring 2005

Research Fellow - Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Germany, 1999-2005

Visiting Scholar - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spring 2003

Visiting Faculty - University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2002

Junior Research Fellow - Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Germany, 1998-1999

RESEARCH INTERESTS

(Applied) Game Theory, (Behavioral) Industrial Organization, Competition Policy, Behavioral Economics

REFEREEING EXPERIENCE

American Economic Review, B.E. Journals in Theoretical Economics, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Mathematical Social Sciences, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Theory and Decision

AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Associate Editor, Economic Theory, 2007-present

Associate Editor, The BE Journals in Theoretical Economics, 2006-present

Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial Eonomics, 2005-present

CEPR Research Affiliate in Industrial Organisation

Member of the Industrieökonomischer Ausschuss des Verein für Socialpolitik

Member of the Arbeitskreis Kartellrecht of the Bundeskartellamt

Econometric Society

Verein für Socialpolitik

Rice University Fellowship, 1994-1998

Seminar Presentations

Cornell University (2009), Maastricht University (2009), University of Vienna/ IHS (2009), Helsinki School of Economics (2009), University of Groningen (2008), London School of Economics (2008), University College London (2008), ECARES (2008), University of Heidelberg (2008), University of Mannheim (2008), University of Bielefeld (2008), University of Zurich (2008), ESMT Berlin (2007), LMU Munich (2007), University of Cologne (2007), University of Frankfurt (2007), University of Innsbruck (2007), University of Freiburg (2007), University of Bonn (2007 and 2005), University of Zurich (2007), LMU Munich (2006), University of Edinburgh (2006), London School of Economics (2006), University of Iowa (2006), WZB-SFB/TR 15 Berlin (2006), HEC Lausanne (2005), Duke University (2005), University of Pittsburgh (2005, 2002, 2002, and 2001), London School of Economics (2004), Ruhr Universität Bochum (2004), University of Hamburg (2004), Royal Holloway, University of London (2004), University of Vienna/ IHS (2004), WZB, Berlin (2004, 2003, 1999, and 1998), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart (2003), University of Leicester (2003), Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI), Stockholm (2003), MIT Theory Lunch (2003), MIT IO Lunch(2003), Harvard/MIT Theory Workshop (2003), Bilkent University (Game Theory and Economic Seminar Series) Ankara (2002), Rice University (2001 and 1998), Free University, Berlin (2001), Humboldt University, Berlin (2001), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2001), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2000)

Conference Presentations

Behavioral Models of Market Competition, Bad Homburg (2009), American Economic Association Meetings, San Francisco (2009), Strategic Information Acquisition and Transmission (Munich 2008), European Economic Association Meetings, Milan (2008), Verein für Socialpolitik, Graz (2008), GESY TR-15 Meeting in Gummersbach (2008), Network of Industrial Economists, Oxford (2007), Workshop on Behavioural & Experimental Economics, Edinburgh (2007); SFB/TR 15 Workshop in Mannheim (2007); EARIE, Amsterdam (2006), Helsinki (2003), Dublin (2001), and Turin (1999); Stanford Institute in Theoretical Economics (2006); CEPR Competition Policy Conference in Brussels (2006); World Congress of the Econometric Soceity, London (2005); Industrieökonomischer Ausschuss, Verein für Socialpolitik, Mannheim (2005) and München (2003); SFB/TR Workshop on “Industrieökonomik und Marktorganisation” (IO and Market Design), Berlin (2005); Verein für Socialpolitik, Dresden (2004) and Magdeburg (2001); European Econometric Society Meetings, Stockholm (2003) and Lousanne (2001); Midwest Economic Theory Meetings, Pittsburgh (2003) and State College (2001); International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston 2003; North American Econometric Society Winter Meetings, Washington (2003) and Boston (2000); European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (ESSET), Gerzensee (2002); II Exploratory Workshop in Bargaining, Barcelona (2001); South Eastern Theory and International Economics Meetings, Houston (2000); CEPR/TMR Workshop on Network Industries, Fontainebleu (1999); DFG-Workshop, Heidelberg (1999)

Conference Organisation

WZB/FU workshop on Advances in Auction Theory (with J. Münster und K. Konrad), Berlin 2004; WZB/CEPR conference on Collusion and Cartels, Berlin 2004; WZB workshop on Behavioral IO (with B. Kőszegi), Berlin 2005, Conference on Strategic Information Acquisition and Transmission (with Sven Rady, Munich 2008), Behavioral Models of Market Competition, Bad Homburg 2009 (with M. Peitz).

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