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Hi. I am a doctoral candidate in economics and lab manager at the University of Cologne, focusing on experimental political economy and computational methods. My research examines paternalism, rule-making, and policy support using choice architecture experiments and surveys. I develop open-source tools that integrate large language models into experiments and other software to expand the methodological boundaries of economic research.
Selected work-in-progress
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Knowledge and Freedom: Evidence on the Relationship Between Information and Paternalism
Job Market Paper
Working paper, podcast (7 min) -
Integrating Machine Behavior into Human Subject Experiments
with Engel, C. & Ockenfels, A.
Revised & resubmitted to Experimental Economics
Working paper, GitHub -
Public Support for the German Heating Law: When Ideology Trumps Knowledge
with Dertwinkel-Kalt, M.
Available upon request -
Paternalism and Deliberation: An Experiment on Making Formal Rules
Working paper -
Composing Optimal Teams
with Kölle, F., Quercia, S. & Sliwka, D.
Implementation stage -
LLM-Assisted Trading
with López Vargas, K.
Implementation stage
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
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Reproducibility in Management Science
by Fišar, M., et al. (consortium co-authorship)
Management Science, 2024
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z-Tree unleashed: A novel client-integrating architecture for conducting z-Tree experiments over the Internet
with Duch, M. L. & Lauer, T.
Journal of Behavioral and Economic Finance, 2020
View paper
Experience
I manage the Cologne Laboratory for Economic Research, one of the largest experimental economics laboratories. I was an Oskar Morgenstern Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. I am a globally experienced professional, having taken part in numerous seminars, conferences, research visits and summer schools abroad.
Technology
Among other things, I developed otree_slider and alter_ego.