There are many things that you are supposed to know when you start your academic career but that no one really explains. Thankfully, you can inform yourself on the Internet.
I am a postdoc at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, in Veronika Grimm’s chair of economic theory.
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PhD in Economics, 2017
University of Nottingham
MSc in Economics, 2012
Toulouse School of Economics
BSc in Economics, 2010
Toulouse School of Economics
BA in Sociology, 2010
Université Toulouse 2-Jean Jaurès
Choice consistency and the attraction effect
The attraction effect violates consistency requirements at the heart of rational choice, but despite its profound implications it has barely attracted attention in economics.
I present a laboratory experiment aimed at testing the attraction effect and at disentangling some of its explanations using novel manipulations.
I find the attraction effect and I also uncover a new ‘range effect’ that runs against it.
This range effect lends support to recent theories based on focusing and salience.
Range effect and preference reversals across domains
Similar anomalies have been documented in risky choice and intertemporal choice.
I explain the similarity with the range effect, which says that people care more about attributes that differ more in their choice set.
The range effect explains the common ratio effect, the common difference effect, and the magnitude effect.
It also provides a characterisation of procedural preference reversals between choice and valuation.
Finally, I apply the model to social distances and predict new anomalies, one of which I confirm in a laboratory experiment.
On the ubiquity of social norms, with Lawrence Choo and Veronika Grimm
Group dishonesty and collaborative evasion, with Lawrence Choo and Veronika Grimm
Incorporating social distances in economic analysis, with Benjamin Beranek
Explaining the effect of the take option in dictator games
Decoy effects under ambiguity
Examining the effect of probability format
Experimental currency units and money illusion
There are many things that you are supposed to know when you start your academic career but that no one really explains. Thankfully, you can inform yourself on the Internet.
In the past I have been teaching microeconomics, mathematical economics and financial economics as a graduate teaching assistant. I am now teaching behavioural and experimental economics seminar modules. I am also supervising bachelor theses.