Education:

• 2021 - 2023: Master (M.Sc., Ph.D.-Orientation) in Economics, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
• 2022 - 2023: Master (Laurea Magistrale) in Economics & Finance, Università Degli Studi Di Pavia (Double Degree)
• 2017 - 2022: Bachelor (B.Sc.) in Psychology, Ulm University
• 2017 - 2021: Bachelor (B.Sc.) in Mathematics and Economics, Ulm University

 

Teaching:

(Courses in German)

Summer term 2026:

• Economic Policy
• Seminar on Applied Microeconomics (Bachelor) / Special Issues in Applied Microeconomics (Master)
• Seminar on Sports Economics (Bachelor) / Special Issues in Sports Economics (Master)

Winter term 2025/2026:

• Introduction to Economics
• Seminar on Applied Microeconomics (Bachelor) / Special Issues in Applied Microeconomics (Master)

Summer term 2025:

• Economic Policy
• Seminar on Applied Microeconomics (Bachelor) / Special Issues in Applied Microeconomics (Master)
• Seminar on Sports Economics (Bachelor) / Special Issues in Sports Economics (Master)

Winter term 2024/2025:

• Introduction to Economics
• Seminar on Applied Microeconomics (Bachelor) / Special Issues in Applied Microeconomics (Master)

Summer term 2024:

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Winter term 2023/2024:

• Introduction to Economics
• Seminar on Applied Microeconomics (Bachelor) / Special Issues in Applied Microeconomics (Master)

Summer term 2023:

• Economic Policy
• Seminar on Applied Microeconomics (Bachelor) / Special Issues in Applied Microeconomics (Master)

 

Research Interests:

• Applied Microeconomics, especially Experimental and Behavioral Economics

  Empirical Focus: Causal Inference in High-Stakes-Environments (e.g. Sports, Financial Data)

• Replications

 

Working Paper:

• The Negative Productivity of Strategic Flexibility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Football (Version: May 2026) (SSRN) [Job Market Paper]
• Resilient Workers, Biased Evaluators: Disentangling Performance from Assessment (Version: April 2026, with Alexander Rieber and Dennis Steinle)
• Doing Less, Trying Harder: Task Scarcity and Organizational Intensification (Version: April 2026, with Alexander Rieber and Dennis Steinle)

Comments:

• A Comment on ‘The Opportunity Cost of Debt Aversion’ (with Simon Maier, Sabrina Rittinger and Dennis Steinle; December 2024)

Work in Progress:

• Drive Any Car You Want, As Long As It's White: Causal Evidence on Car Color and Accidents from a Natural Experiment in Turkmenistan (with Simon Maier)
• De-Biasing Debt Aversion: The Role of Choice Architecture in Financial Decisions (with Simon Maier, Sabrina Rittinger, Alexander Rieber and Dennis Steinle, Vernon L. Smith Young Talent Award 2025)
• Debt Aversion in the Mortgage Market: Evidence from Administrative Bank Data (with Simon Maier, Sabrina Rittinger, Alexander Rieber, Stefan Schelling and Dennis Steinle, in collaboration with a major German regional bank)

 

Awards & Grants

• Vernon L. Smith Young Talent Award 2025 ($4,000), Society for Experimental Finance (with Simon Maier, Sabrina Rittinger and Dennis Steinle)
• Global Teaching Labs Grants 2026 (39,250 €), Ulm University
  • ULMA Economic Olympiad (20,000€, with Simon Maier and Christoph Kiesl)
  • ULMA Economic Workshop (19,250€, with Simon Maier, Philipp Klotz, Alexander Rieber and Dennis Steinle)
• Quality Assurance (QSM) Funds (ca. 4,500 €) for ULMA Economic Olympiad (with Simon Maier)

Other Activities:

• Instructor for the Open International Internet Olympiads by the TSIEM (with Simon Maier)
• Olympiad Committee for the ULMA Economic Olympiad (with Simon Maier)
• Lead Organisator of the ULMA Economic Workshop (with Simon Maier)