Univ.-Prof., Dr. rer. pol.

Address work

Center for Advanced Studies in Law and Economics (CASTLE) Faculty of Law and Economics

University of Bonn Adenauerallee 24-42

53113 Bonn

Curriculum vitae

06/2017 and 09/2018

Visiting researcher at the University Paris – Nanterre, France

Since 10/2015

Professor for Law and Economics at the Center for Advanced Studies in Law and Economics (CASTLE), University of Bonn

11/2012 – 09/2015

Professor for Economics, Applied Microeconomics, at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, University of Düsseldorf

10/2012

Acting Professor for Economics, Applied Microeconomics, at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, University of Düsseldorf

04/2012 - 09/2012

Acting Professor for Economics, Public Economics, University of Tübingen

03/2011 - 05/2011

Visiting scholar at the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

12/2007

Doctorate, Dissertation: „Aspects of Employment Protection“, oral examination on December 19, 2007

01/2007 - 06/2011

Member of the Priority Programme funded by the German Research Foundation “Flexibility in heterogeneous labour markets“, Project: “The real extent of flexibility: Labor market regulation and its avoidance“, Project head: Prof. Dr. Laszlo Goerke 

11/2006 - 03/2012

Research and teaching assistant, Department of Economics, Public Economics, University of Tübingen

09/2003 - 10/2006

Research and teaching assistant, Department of Law and Economics, Economic Policy, University of Mainz

01/2003 - 07/2003

Freelance work, cooperation in the project “Transferable ageing provisions in private health insurance contracts”, performed by the ifo-Institute, Munich

09/2002 - 11/2002

Internship at the ifo-Institute, Munich, Department for Social Security and Labor Markets 

10/1996 - 05/2002

Studies in Economics at the University of Tübingen, final degree: Diplom-Volkswirt

Publications

Refereed Journals

47. Loss-induced emotions and criminal behavior: An experimental analysis, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 159, 134-145 (with Volker Benndorf and Maria Friese)
48. Hide or show? Observability of private precautions against crime when property value is private information, American Law and Economics Review, forthcoming (with Tim Friehe and Philipp Denter)
49. Product liability in markets for vertically differentiated products, American Law and Economics Review, 2018, 29, 46-81 (with Tim Friehe and Alexander Rasch)
50. Crime & punishment under evidentiary uncertainty: Laboratory evidence, Supreme Court Economic Review, 2017, 25, 65 - 104 (with Tim Friehe)
51. On adverse effects of consumers’ attaching greater importance to firms’ ethical conduct,

Games, 2017, 8, 39 (with Tim Friehe)

42. We want them all covered! Collective bargaining and firm heterogeneity. Theory and evidence from Germany, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55, 463-499 (with Tobias Brändle)
43. Imperfect credit markets and crime, Review of Law & Economics, 2017, 13 (with Tim Friehe)
44. Tax enforcement and corporate profit shifting, Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24, 902- 905 (with Achim Buchwald, Tim Friehe, Hanna Hottenrott and John Weche)
45. Allocation of Liability: On the Efficiency of Composite Sharing Rules: Comment, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2017, 73, 44-49 

38. Design standards and technology adoption: welfare effects of increasing environmental fines when the number of firms is endogenous, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2017, Vol. 19, 427-450 (with Tim Friehe)
39. Why product liability may lower product safety, Economics Letters, 2016, Vol. 147, 55-58 (with Tim Friehe and Alexander Rasch)
40. Learning-by-doing in torts: Liability and information about accident technology,

Economics Letters, 2016, Vol. 138, 1-4 (with Tim Friehe)

35. Competitive pressure and corporate crime, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Contributions tier, 2016, Vol. 16 (2), 647-687 (with Tim Friehe)
36. Freier Warenverkehr und unverfälschter Wettbewerb in der Europäischen Union: Der Beitrag der europäischen Produkthaftung, List Forum, 2016, Vol. 41 (2), 173-195
37. Contingent fees with legal discovery, American Law and Economics Review, 2016, Vol. 18, 155-175 (with Tim Friehe)
38. Status concerns as a motive for crime?, International Review of Law and Economics, 2015, Vol. 43, 46-55 (with Tim Friehe)
39. Optimal damages multipliers in oligopolistic markets, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2015, Vol. 171, 622-640 (with Tim Friehe)
40. Status and liability, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2015, Vol 171, 285-307 (with Tim Friehe and Inga Hillesheim)
41. Regulating harmless activity to fight crime, Journal of Economics, 2014, Vol. 113, 79-95 (with Tim Friehe)
42. Innovation, tort law, and competition, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics,

2013, Vol. 169, 703-719 (with Klaus Heine)

27. A note on selection effects of the Hand rule, Bulletin of Economic Research, 2013, Vol. 65, 343-353 (with Tim Friehe)
28. Tax evasion and tacit collusion, Public Finance Review, 2013, Vol. 41, 633-657 (with Tim Friehe)
29. Cheap talk about the detection probability, International Game Theory Review, 2013, Vol. 15, 1-16 (with Tim Friehe)
30. Private protection against crime when property value is private information, International Review of Law and Economics, 2013, Vol. 35, 73-79 (with Tim Friehe)
31. A note on the timing of investments in litigation contests, European Journal of Law and Economics, 2013, Vol. 35, 313-326 (with Tim Friehe)
32. Profit shifting despite symmetric tax rates? A note on the role of tax enforcement,

International Economic Journal, 2013, Vol. 27, 97-108 (with Tim Friehe)

21. Self-Employment, Educational Attainment and Employment Protection Legislation,

Labour Economics, 2012, Vol. 19, 846-859 (with Tobias Brändle)

20. Self-report to self-control? Journal of Socio-Economics, 2012, Vol. 41, 727-729 (with Tim Friehe)
21. Emotions in litigation contests, Economics of Governance, 2012, Vol. 13, 195-215 (with Tim Friehe)

18. Market liberalization, regulatory uncertainty, and investment, German Economic Review,

2012, Vol. 13, 352-361 (with Tim Friehe)

17. On the evasion of employment protection legislation, Labour Economics, 2012, Vol. 19, 9-17 (with Tim Friehe)
18. Contingent fees meet the British rule: an exploratory study, Public Choice, 2012, Vol. 150, 499-510 (with Tim Friehe)
19. On the effects of fair-trade on the welfare of the poor, Journal of International Development, 2012, Vol. 24, 159-172 (with Matthias Oschinski and Nikolai Stähler)
20. Employment protection and temporary work agencies, LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2011, Vol. 25, 308-329 (with Mario Mechtel and Nikolai Stähler)
21. A note on the optimality of (even more) incomplete strict liability, International Review of Law and Economics, 2011, Vol. 31, 77-82 (with Tim Friehe and Kristoffel Grechenig)
22. General ability and specialization: evidence from penalty kicks in soccer, Journal of Sports Economics, 2011, Vol. 12, 81-105 (with Tim Friehe and Michael Wedow)
23. Tax evasion, investment, and firm activity, FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 2010, Vol. 66, 1-14 (with Tim Friehe)
24. Product liability and the virtues of asymmetric information, Journal of Economics, 2010, Vol. 100, 19-32 (with Tim Friehe)
25. On unobserved worker heterogeneity and employment protection, European Journal of Law and Economics, 2010, Vol. 29, 155-175
26. On the interaction of individual and collective crime, Economics Bulletin, 2010, Vol. 30, 2371-2379 (with Tim Friehe)
27. Severance payments as a commitment device, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2010, Vol. 166, 715-734
28. On the economics of contribution evasion, FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 2009, Vol. 65, 162-177 (with Tim Friehe and Marcus Jansen)
29. On the superiority of damage averaging in the case of strict liability, International Review of Law and Economics, 2009, Vol. 29, 138-142 (with Tim Friehe)
30. Union power as a reason for Europe not to introduce experience rating? Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2008, Vol. 164, 568-585 (with Nikolai Stähler)
31. Transferable ageing provisions in individual health insurance contracts, German Economic Review, 2008, Vol. 9, 287-311 (with Volker Maier and Martin Werding)
32. Harassment, corruption and tax policy: a comment on Marjit, Mukherjee, Mukherjee [Eur.
33. Political Economy], European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, Vol. 23,1194-1197
    1. Financing unemployment benefits: dismissal versus employment taxes, LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2006, Vol. 20, 433-452 (with NikolaiStähler)

Contributions to books

3. Liability and information, Encyclopaedia of Law and Economics, Springer, (with Tim Friehe)

2. Public goods, Encyclopaedia of Law and Economics, Springer, (with Tim Friehe)

1. Strict liability when victims choose the value of the asset at risk, in: Thomas J. Miceli und Matthew J. Baker (eds.) Research Handbook of Economic Models of Law, Elsevier, Amsterdam, (with Tim Friehe), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham,2013

Books

2. Aspects of Employment Protection, Dissertation, Köhler Druck, Tübingen,2008
3. Modelle zur Übertragung individueller Altersrückstellungen beim Wechsel privater Krankenversicherer, ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung (14), München, 2004 (with Volker Meier and Martin Werding

Third party funding

Successful application for the Graduate Programme in Competition Economics, funded by the German Research Foundation, located at the University of Düsseldorf, start: October 2014, programme head: Prof. Dr. Hans-Theo Normann

Member of the Priority Programme funded by the German Research Foundation “Flexibility in heterogeneous labour markets“, Project: “The real extent of flexibility: Labor market regulation and its avoidance“, Project head: Prof. Dr. Laszlo Goerke

Memberships and regular duties

Since 01/2018 Appointed referee for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Since 07/2014 Member of the Board of the German Law and Economics Association

Since 03/2015 Member of the Wirtschaftspolitischer Ausschuss of the Verein für Socialpolitik

Presentations

Seminars:

2017 University Paris IX, University of Göttingen 2015 RWI Essen, University of Marburg

2014 Erasmus University Rotterdam (RoM Seminar)

2013 University of Münster, University of Bonn, University of Kassel 2012 IAAEG Trier

2011 University Paris IX, Erasmus University Rotterdam 2008 MPI Bonn

Conferences and workshops:

2018

Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics, Milan Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Freiburg

Annual Conference of the German Association of Law and Economics, Ljubljana Workshop Microeconomics, Marburg

2017

Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics, London Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Wien

Annual Conference of the German Association of Law and Economics, Marburg 4^thInternational Meeting in Law and Economics, Paris

Workshop Microeconomics, Marburg Workshop Microeconomics, Lüneburg