Max R. P. Grossmann

I am a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Cologne, focusing on experimental and behavioral political economy. My research examines the economics of freedom, institutional design, and policy acceptance through experiments and surveys. I contribute to open-source research software and integrate large language models and computational methods into experimental protocols.

Selected work-in-progress

• Knowledge and Freedom: Evidence on the Relationship Between Information and Paternalism
  Job Market Paper
  Working paper, podcast (7 min)
• Paternalism and Deliberation: An Experiment on Making Formal Rules
  Working paper
• 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.
  Submitted
• Composing Optimal Teams
  with Kölle, F., Quercia, S. & Sliwka, D.
  Data collection in progress

Publications

1. Reproducibility in Management Science
   by Fišar, M., et al. (consortium co-authorship)
   Management Science, 2024
   View paper
2. 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

Currently, 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.

Technology

Among other things, I developed otree_slider and alter_ego.

Events