Research focuses

Health Economics, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Incentives, Physician Behavior

Curriculum vitae

• 2014 - 2018 University of Oslo, Norway, Institute of Health and Society, Department of Health Management and Health Economics, Researcher (20%)
• 2017 Boston University, USA, Department of Economics, Visiting Researcher
• Since 2015  Associate Professor in Behavioral Service Management, University of Cologne
• Since 2014  Visiting researcher, Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo
• 2013 - 2015  Postdoctoral researcher (Akademischer Rat a.Z.), Department of Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management, University of Cologne
• 2011 - 2013  Consultant, Simon-Kucher & Partners, Strategy and Marketing Consultancy
• 2011 Ph.D. in Economics, Thesis title: „Four Contributions to Experimental Economics“ supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Reinhard Selten
• 2010 Research stay at London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Health
• 2006 Master in Economics (Dipl. Volkswirt), University of Bonn and National University of Singapore 

Selected publications

• The effect of expert feedback on antibiotics provision in pediatrics: Experimental evidence (with Kerstin Eilermann, Katrin Halstenberg, Kyriakos Martakis, Bernhard Roth, and Ludwig Kuntz), Medical Decision Making, forthcoming.

• Dishonesty in Healthcare Practice: A Behavioral Experiment on Upcoding in Neonatology (with Hendrik Jürges and Heike Hennig-Schmidt), Health Economics, 2019, 28, 319-338.

• Behavioral Experiments in Health: An Introduction (with Matteo M. Galizzi), Health Economics, 2017, 26, 3–5.

• The Effects of Introducing Mixed Payment Systems for Physicians: Experimental Evidence (with Jeannette Brosig-Koch, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, and Nadja Kairies-Schwarz), Health Economics, 2017, 26, 243–262.

• Joint Measurement of Risk Aversion, Prudence, and Temperance, (with Sebastian Ebert), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 48, 231-252, 2014.

• Other-regarding Behavior and Motivation in Health Care Provision: An Experiment with Medical and Non-medical Students, with Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Social Science & Medicine, 108, 156-165, 2014.

• Profit or Patients' Health Benefit? Exploring the Heterogeneity in Physician Altruism (with Geir Godager), Journal of Health Economics, 32, 1105-1116, 2013.

• Profit or Patients' Health Benefit? Exploring the Heterogeneity in Physician Altruism, with Geir Godager, Journal of Health Economics, 32, 1105-1116, 2013.

• Testing for Prudence and Skewness Seeking, with Sebastian Ebert), Management Science, 57, 1334-1349, 2011.

• How Payment Systems Affect Physicians' Provision Behavior: An Experimental Investigation (with Heike Hennig-Schmidt and Reinhard Selten), Journal of Health Economics, 30, 637-646, 2011.

• Using artefactual field and lab experiments to investigate how fee-for-service and capitation affect medical service provision, with Jeannette Brosig-Koch, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, and Kairies-Schwarz, forthcoming, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
• Testing for Prudence and Skewness Seeking, with Sebastian Ebert, Management Science, 57, 1334-1349, 2011.
• How Payment Systems Affect Physicians' Provision Behavior: An Experimental Investigation, with Heike Hennig-Schmidt and Reinhard Selten, Journal of Health Economics, 30, 637-646, 2011.