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
- 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)
- 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)
- Product liability in markets for vertically differentiated products, American Law and Economics Review, 2018, 29, 46-81 (with Tim Friehe and Alexander Rasch)
- Crime & punishment under evidentiary uncertainty: Laboratory evidence, Supreme Court Economic Review, 2017, 25, 65 - 104 (with Tim Friehe)
- On adverse effects of consumers’ attaching greater importance to firms’ ethical conduct,
Games, 2017, 8, 39 (with Tim Friehe)
- 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)
- Imperfect credit markets and crime, Review of Law & Economics, 2017, 13 (with Tim Friehe)
- Tax enforcement and corporate profit shifting, Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24, 902- 905 (with Achim Buchwald, Tim Friehe, Hanna Hottenrott and John Weche)
- Allocation of Liability: On the Efficiency of Composite Sharing Rules: Comment, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2017, 73, 44-49
- 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)
- Why product liability may lower product safety, Economics Letters, 2016, Vol. 147, 55-58 (with Tim Friehe and Alexander Rasch)
- Learning-by-doing in torts: Liability and information about accident technology,
Economics Letters, 2016, Vol. 138, 1-4 (with Tim Friehe)
- Competitive pressure and corporate crime, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Contributions tier, 2016, Vol. 16 (2), 647-687 (with Tim Friehe)
- Freier Warenverkehr und unverfälschter Wettbewerb in der Europäischen Union: Der Beitrag der europäischen Produkthaftung, List Forum, 2016, Vol. 41 (2), 173-195
- Contingent fees with legal discovery, American Law and Economics Review, 2016, Vol. 18, 155-175 (with Tim Friehe)
- Status concerns as a motive for crime?, International Review of Law and Economics, 2015, Vol. 43, 46-55 (with Tim Friehe)
- Optimal damages multipliers in oligopolistic markets, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2015, Vol. 171, 622-640 (with Tim Friehe)
- Status and liability, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2015, Vol 171, 285-307 (with Tim Friehe and Inga Hillesheim)
- Regulating harmless activity to fight crime, Journal of Economics, 2014, Vol. 113, 79-95 (with Tim Friehe)
- Innovation, tort law, and competition, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics,
2013, Vol. 169, 703-719 (with Klaus Heine)
- A note on selection effects of the Hand rule, Bulletin of Economic Research, 2013, Vol. 65, 343-353 (with Tim Friehe)
- Tax evasion and tacit collusion, Public Finance Review, 2013, Vol. 41, 633-657 (with Tim Friehe)
- Cheap talk about the detection probability, International Game Theory Review, 2013, Vol. 15, 1-16 (with Tim Friehe)
- Private protection against crime when property value is private information, International Review of Law and Economics, 2013, Vol. 35, 73-79 (with Tim Friehe)
- A note on the timing of investments in litigation contests, European Journal of Law and Economics, 2013, Vol. 35, 313-326 (with Tim Friehe)
- 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)
- Self-Employment, Educational Attainment and Employment Protection Legislation,
Labour Economics, 2012, Vol. 19, 846-859 (with Tobias Brändle)
- Self-report to self-control? Journal of Socio-Economics, 2012, Vol. 41, 727-729 (with Tim Friehe)
- Emotions in litigation contests, Economics of Governance, 2012, Vol. 13, 195-215 (with Tim Friehe)
- Market liberalization, regulatory uncertainty, and investment, German Economic Review,
2012, Vol. 13, 352-361 (with Tim Friehe)
- On the evasion of employment protection legislation, Labour Economics, 2012, Vol. 19, 9-17 (with Tim Friehe)
- Contingent fees meet the British rule: an exploratory study, Public Choice, 2012, Vol. 150, 499-510 (with Tim Friehe)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Tax evasion, investment, and firm activity, FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 2010, Vol. 66, 1-14 (with Tim Friehe)
- Product liability and the virtues of asymmetric information, Journal of Economics, 2010, Vol. 100, 19-32 (with Tim Friehe)
- On unobserved worker heterogeneity and employment protection, European Journal of Law and Economics, 2010, Vol. 29, 155-175
- On the interaction of individual and collective crime, Economics Bulletin, 2010, Vol. 30, 2371-2379 (with Tim Friehe)
- Severance payments as a commitment device, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2010, Vol. 166, 715-734
- On the economics of contribution evasion, FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 2009, Vol. 65, 162-177 (with Tim Friehe and Marcus Jansen)
- 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)
- 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)
- Transferable ageing provisions in individual health insurance contracts, German Economic Review, 2008, Vol. 9, 287-311 (with Volker Maier and Martin Werding)
- Harassment, corruption and tax policy: a comment on Marjit, Mukherjee, Mukherjee [Eur.
- Political Economy], European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, Vol. 23,1194-1197
- 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
- Liability and information, Encyclopaedia of Law and Economics, Springer, (with Tim Friehe)
- Public goods, Encyclopaedia of Law and Economics, Springer, (with Tim Friehe)
- 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
- Aspects of Employment Protection, Dissertation, Köhler Druck, Tübingen,2008
- 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 4thInternational Meeting in Law and Economics, Paris
Workshop Microeconomics, Marburg Workshop Microeconomics, Lüneburg