I am a senior researcher at the Department of Economics of the University of Vienna. I am also lab manager of the Vienna Centre for Experimental Economics, along with Philipp Külpmann.

You can access my full CV here.

I have put together a list of resources that I have found helpful when starting in academia. If you know any other, please let me know.

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

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