Curriculum vitae

Affiliations:

• Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
  Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
  Carl-Zeiss-Str. 3
  07743 Jena
  GERMANY
• CESifo Research Network
  Poschingerstrasse 5
  81679 München

Research interests

Empirical methods, experiments, game theory, auctions and markets.

Habilitation

19 December 2001 at Universität Mannheim. Venia für Volkswirtschaftslehre (Economics)

Ph.D.

2. May 1996 within the “European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics” at Universität Bonn and at EHESS and DELTA on “Evolution and Learning in Spatial Models”.

Diploma

November 1990 at Universität Bonn. Title: Diplom Volkswirt. Topic: Optimal Taxation with Incomplete Competition.

Employments and Scholarships

since 2006:

Chair of Experimental and Empirical Economics at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Germany.

2005-2006:

Chair of Microeconomics at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

2004-2005

Interim Chair of Macroeconomics and Economic Policy at the Universität Mannheim.

2002-2004

Interim Chair of Microeconomic Theory at the Universität Mannheim.

1997-2005:

Head of the experimental laboratory (Project Z2) at the SFB 504 (Concepts of rationality, decision making, and economic modelling) at Universität Mannheim.

1996/1997:

Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

1992-1996:

Research Assistant at Universität Bonn.

1991/1992:

Scholarship of the European Community (SPES) for a stay at DELTA in Paris.

1990/1991:

Research Assistant at Universität Bonn.

Funded research projects

2008-2012

Jena Graduate School Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change (financial support through the state of Thuringia), principal investigator.

2006-2011

IMPRS Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World (financial support through Max Planck Society).

2006-2010

DFG RTG 1411 Innovative Change (financial support through Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft), deputy chair.

2003-2005

“Modelling expectations in the context of micro- and macroeconomics'', Project B6 within SFB 504

Teaching

Teaching Award

Fachschaftslehrpreis der Fakultät VWL der Universität Mannheim

Lectures (1.+2. year)

• Microeconomics 2, fall 01/02; fall 02/03; fall 03/04; fall 04/05.
• EC1002 Microeconomics (together with John Beath), fall 05/06
• Statistics 2, fall 07/08
• Empirical and Experimental Economics, fall 09/10

Lectures (3.+4. year, 5+6. year)

• Advanced Econometrics (discrete choice), spring 07, spring 08, spring 09
• Mixed Effects Models, spring 09
• Workflow of statistical data analysis, spring 09
• Auction Theory, spring 2004, fall 06/07, spring 08, spring 09
• Bargaining Theory, spring 2004, fall 06/07, 07/08, 08/09
• EC4203: Contemporary Issues - Auctions, spring 2006
• Behavioral Labor Markets, spring 2008 (together with Armin Falk)
• Experimental economics, fall 03/04, spring 05, fall 06/07, 07/08.
• EC4506: Experiments in Economics (together with Shane Bonetti), spring 2006
• Practical Experimental economics, spring 07.
• Experimental Contests spring 08.
• Econometrics, spring 07, 08
• Game theory, fall 00/01, 02/03, 03/04, 04/05, 05/06, spring 07, 08.
• Statistics for Graduate Students fall 07/08
• EC5501: Thinking Strategically (together with Gavin Reid), fall 05/06

Smaller courses and contributions to lectures

• Classroom experiment: The experimental stock market within the context of the lecture "introduction into financial economics", fall 98/99, spring 99, fall 99/00, spring 00, fall 00/01, fall 01/02, fall 02/03.
• WWW experiments and questionnaires, spring 00
• Introduction to experimental economics, spring 98

Seminars

...in economic theory, evolutionary game theory, experimental and behavioural economics, game theory, labour markets: spring 93, spring 94, spring 95, fall 95/96, fall 03/04, 04/05, 06/07. 2007. 07/08.

Publications in journals

• Oliver Kirchkamp, J. Philipp Reiß (2011), “Out-of equilibrium bids in auctions - Wrong expectations or wrong bids”, Economic Journal, Vol. 121/557, pp. 1361-1397
• Fabian Bornhorst, Andrea Ichino, Oliver Kirchkamp, Karl H. Schlag, Eyal Winter (2010), “Similarities and Differences when Building Trust: the Role of Cultures”, Experimental Economics, Vol. 13/3, pp. 260-283.
• Hannah Hörisch, Oliver Kirchkamp (2010), “Less fighting than expected - experiments with wars of attrition and all-pay auctions”, Public Choice, Vol. 144/1, pp. 347-367.
• Michele Bernasconi, Oliver Kirchkamp, Paolo Paruolo (2009), “Do fiscal variables affect fiscal expectations? Experiments with real world and lab data”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, Vol. 70(1-2), pp. 253-265.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Eva Poen, J. Philipp Reiß (2009), “Outside options: Another reason to choose the first-price auction”, European Economic Review, Vol. 53(2), pp. 153-169.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Rosemarie Nagel (2007), “Naive learning and cooperation in network experiments”, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 58/2, pp. 269-292.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (2006), Review of “Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation”, by Don Ross, Journal of Economics, Vol. 89(1), pp. 85-90.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Benny Moldovanu (2004), “An experimental analysis of auctions with interdependent valuation”, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 48/1, pp. 54-85.
• Christian Dustmann, Oliver Kirchkamp (2002), “The Optimal Migration Duration and Activity Choice after Re-migration”, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 67, pp. 351-372.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Rosemarie Nagel (2001), “Repeated Game Strategies in Local and Group Prisoners' Dilemmas Experiments: First Results”, Homo Ökonomicus, XVIII(2), pp. 319-336.
• Michele Bernasconi, Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), “Why do monetary policies matter? An experimental study of saving and inflation in an overlapping generations model”, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 46, pp. 315-343.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), “Spatial Evolution of Automata in the Prisoners' Dilemma”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Vol. 43, pp. 239-262.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), Review of “Individual Strategy and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Theory of Institutions”, by H. Peyton Young, The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Volume 3, Issue 4.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (1999), “Simultaneous Evolution of Learning Rules and Strategies”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Vol. 40/3, pp. 295-312.

Contributions to books

• Oliver Kirchkamp (2009), “Do People Update Beliefs? A Critical Review and Some New Evidence”, Korreferat zum Beitrag von Anja Achtziger und Carlos Alós-Ferrer, in Wolfgang Franz, Werner Güth, Hans Jürgen Ramser, Manfred Stadler, Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren (38), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, pp. 119-124.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Benny Moldovanu (2008), “An experimental analysis of auctions with interdependent valuation”, in Abdolkarim Sadrieh and Joachim Weimann, Experimental Economics an Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. A collection of papers in honor of Reinhard Tietz, metropolis, Marburg, pp. 499-524.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), “Evolution of Learning Rules in Space”, in Ramzi Suleiman, Klaus G. Troitzsch and G. Nigel Gilbert, Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation, Physika Verlag, Heidelberg.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (1996), “Spatial Evolution of Automata in the Prisoners' Dilemma - Preliminary Results”, in K. G. Troitzsch, U. Mueller, G. N. Gilbert, J. E. Doran, Social Science Microsimulation, Springer.

Submitted and under revision

• Werner Güth, Oliver Kirchkamp, “Will You Accept Without Knowing What? - A Thuringian Newspaper Experiment of the Yes-No Game”, under revision at to Experimental Economics
• Oliver Kirchkamp, J. Philipp Reiß, Abdolkarim Sadrieh (2008), “A pure variation of risk in first-price auctions”, under revision at International Economic Review
• Marco Faravelli, Oliver Kirchkamp, Helmut Rainer, “Social welfare versus inequality aversion in an incomplete contract experiment”, submitted to Economic Journal
• Robert Böhm, Klaus Rothermund, Oliver Kirchkamp (2010), “Minimal Conditions for Interindividual-Intergroup Discontinuity: Disentangling the Impact of Identity Salience and Outcome Interdependence”, submitted to Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• Werner Güth, Kirsten Häger, Oliver Kirchkamp, Joachim Schwalbach (2010) “Testing Forbearance Experimentally - Duopolistic Competition of Conglomerate Firms”, submitted to RAND Journal of Economics

Recent Working Papers

• Katharina Eckartz, Oliver Kirchkamp, Daniel Schunk (2011), “How do Incentives affect Creativity?”
• Oliver Kirchkamp, J. Philipp Reiß (2008), “Heterogeneous bids in auctions with rational and markdown bidders-Theory and Experiment”
• Niels Grosse, Oliver Kirchkamp, “Learning from the experiments of others - Simultaneous search and cooperation in R&D and diffusion processes”

Ph.D. Students

• Jianying Qiu (submitted in 2008), "Developments in Capital Asset Pricing: Theory and Experiments" (with Werner Güth).
• Tobias Uske (submitted in 2008), "The Perception of Uncertainty and its Impact on Strategic Interactions --- Analysis and Experimental Investigations" (with Werner Güth).
• Nadine Chlaß (submitted in 2009), "Purely Procedural Aspects of Games --- Fairness and Reciprocity" (with Werner Güth).
• Stefan Bauernschuster (submitted in 2010), "Empirical Strategies in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research" (with David Audretsch).
• Robert Böhm (submitted in 2010), "Minimal Conditions for the Discontinuity Effect" (with Klaus Rothermund).
• Niels Große (submitted in 2010), "Decision Making in Groups and Networks: The Case of Experimental Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research" (with Werner Güth).
• Kirsten Häger (submitted in 2010), "Experiments on Models of Cooperative Micro-Economic Behavior" (with Werner Güth).
• Tatiana Plotnikova (submitted in 2010), "Firm Growth Through Diversication: Analysis of Innovation Portfolios in Bio Pharmaceutical Industry" (with Uwe Cantner).
• Vera Popova (submitted in 2010), "Experiments on cooperation and markets with asymmetric information" (with Werner Güth).
• Alice Becker (submitted in 2011), "Fair Division, Compensation and Accountability" (with Werner Güth).
• Charlotte Klempt (submitted in 2011), "Asymmetric Information in Bargaining" (with Werner Güth).
• Linan Diao (submitted in 2011), "Behavioural Heuristics and Portfolio Choice" (with Jörg Rieskamp).
• Lauri Sääksvuori (submitted in 2011), "On Human Nature and the Empirics of Collective Action" (with Werner Güth).
• Fang Wang (submitted in 2011), "International Trade, Learning, and Firms’ Heterogeneous Performance: Theory and Evidence from Developing Economies" (with Uwe Cantner).
• Simon Wiederhold (submitted in 2011), "The Role of Public Procurement in Innovation: Theory and Empirical Evidence" (with Uwe Cantner).

Refereeing for journals

American Economic Review; Annals of Operations Research; European Economic Review; Games and Economic Behavior; Experimental Economics; German Economic Review; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation; International Migration Journal; Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik; Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation; Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Journal of Economic Surveys; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Evolutionary Economics; Journal of Financial Intermediation; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics; Journal of Population Economics; Labour Economics; Land Use Policy; Public Choice; Regional Science and Urban Economics; Southern Economic Journal.

Refereeing for research funding agencies (selection)

ANR Agence Nationale de la Recherche; BSF United States - Israel, Binational Science Foundation; DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Fritz Thyssen Stifung; FWF Austrian Science Fund; SSHRC Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Member of committees

Sozialwissenschaftlicher Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik since 2003

Invited seminars:

Innsbruck (15.12.2011), Berlin (27.10.2011), Maastricht (22. 4. 2010), Erfurt (29. 1. 2009), Frankfurt (15. 10. 2008), Ottobeuren (14. 9. 2008), St Andrews (10. 9. 2008), Mannheim (26. 5. 2008), IK2008-Behavioral Economics (9.3.2008), Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft Annual Conference on Physics of Socio-Economic Systems (28. 2. 2008), Helsinki Center of Economic Research (5. 10. 2007), HU Berlin (5. 2. 2007), Uni Erfurt (1. 2. 2007), MPI Bonn (12. 3. 2007), University of Aberdeen (31. 5. 2006), Heriot Watt University (Edinburgh, 17. 2. 2006), University of Dundee (1. 2. 2006), Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM, Rotterdam, 1. 3. 2004), Tinbergen Seminar “Institution and Decision Analysis” (CREED, Amsterdam, 7. 3. 2003), European Central Bank (Frankfurt, 3. 7. 2002), Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Wirtschaftssystemen (Jena, 27. 7. 2002), Österreichische Nationalbank (Wien, 11. 5. 2001), CERGE-EI (Prag, 6. 12. 2001), ZiF Making Choices (Bielefeld, 29. 6. 2000), UPF (Barcelona, 15. 5. 2000), ENDEAR Summerschool (Bari, 10. 9. 1999), HU Berlin (7. 7. 1999), Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung (Berlin, 8. 7. 1999), UPF (Barcelona, 12. 1. 1999), Universidad de Alicante (17. 1. 1996), European University Institute (15. 12. 1994).

Presentations given on conferences and workshops:

2011: CESifo Area Conference on Behavioural Economics, Sozialwissenschaftlicher Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik (Erfurt), Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (Essen), 2010: Opening workshop of mLab (Mannheim), 2009: Verein für Socialpolitik (Magdeburg), Sozialwissenschaftlicher Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik (Koblenz), Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (Essen), 2008: Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (Mannheim), Sozialwissenschaftlicher Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik (Frankfurt); 2007: Sozialwissenschaftlicher Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik (Magdeburg), Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (Goslar), Verein für Socialpolitik (München); 2006: ESEM/EEA (Wien), Verein für Socialpolitik (Bayreuth); 2005: Sozialwissenschaftlicher Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik (Graz), ESA (Montreal), 5th ZEW Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies (Mannheim), Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (Köln), Verein für Socialpolitik (Bonn); 2004: Sozialwissenschaftlicher Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik (Graz), ESA (Amsterdam), Games (Marseille), ESEM/EEA (Madrid), Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (Prag); 2003: Sozialwissenschaftlicher Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik (Fribourg), ZEW Conference Information and Communication Technologies (Mannheim), ESA European Meeting (Erfurt), Verein für Socialpolitik (Zürich); 2002: Sozialwissenschaftlicher Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik: (Fribourg), GEW (Halle-Wittenberg), ZEW Conference Information and Communication Technologies (Mannheim), ESEM (Venedig); 2001: Verein für Socialpolitik (Magdeburg), GEW (Magdeburg), Sozialwissenschaftlicher Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik (Koblenz), ZEW ICT Conference (Mannheim); 2000: EEA (Bozen), Verein für Socialpolitik (Berlin), GEW (Magdeburg), ESA (New York), CEPR/DFG/ZEW (Mannheim); 1999: ESEM (Santiago de Compostella), Verein für Socialpolitik (Mainz), ESA (Grenoble), GEW (Wittenberg); 1998: ESEM (Berlin), Verein für Socialpolitik (Rostock), ESA (Mannheim), GEW (Dresden); 1997: ESA (Tuscon), Social Science Microsimulation (Dagstuhl); 1996: Workshop Evolutorische Ökonomik (Buchenbach); 1995: Social Science Microsimulation (Dagstuhl), EDP-Jamboree (Bonn); 1994: ESEM (Mastricht), Fifth Jerusalem Summer School in Economic Theory, Summer in Tel Aviv, EDP-Jamboree (LSE, London); 1993: EDP-Jamboree (DELTA, Paris).