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Curriculum vitae
Address
Oliver KirchkampUniversität Jena
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Carl-Zeiss-Str. 3
07743 Jena
GERMANY
Research interests
Laboratory 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)
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- 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
- 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
- Oliver Kirchkamp, J. Philipp Reiß (2008), ``Out-of equilibrium bids in auctions - Wrong expectations or wrong bids'', under revision at Economic Journal
- Oliver Kirchkamp, J. Philipp Reiß, Abdolkarim Sadrieh (2008), ``A pure variation of risk in first-price auctions'', submitted to International Economic Review
- Marco Faravelli, Oliver Kirchkamp, Helmut Rainer, ``Social welfare versus inequality aversion in an incomplete contract experiment'', submitted to American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
- 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, Oliver Kirchkamp, ``Will You Accept Without Knowing What? - A Thuringian Newspaper Experiment of the Yes-No Game'', submitted to Experimental Economics
Recent Working Papers
- Oliver Kirchkamp, J. Philipp Reiß (2008), ``Heterogeneous bids in auctions with rational and markdown bidders-Theory and Experiment''
- Werner Güth, Kirsten Häger, Oliver Kirchkamp, Joachim Schwalbach, ``Testing Forbearance Experimentally - Duopolistic Competition of Conglomerate Firms''
- Niels Grosse, Oliver Kirchkamp, ``Learning from the experiments of others - Simultaneous search and cooperation in R&D and diffusion processes''