Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Judgment & Decision Making
• Methods: Causal Inference, Natural & Field Experiments, Experimental Economics, Reproducibility & Replication

Education

• Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Ulm University (08/2023 – Present)
  Advisor: Georg Gebhardt
• Laurea Magistrale (M.Sc. equiv.) in Economics and Finance, University of Pavia (Double Degree) (09/2022 – 07/2023)
• M.Sc. in European Economics, University of Tübingen (10/2021 – 07/2023)
• B.Sc. in Psychology, Ulm University (10/2017 – 05/2022)
• B.Sc. in Mathematics and Economics, Ulm University (10/2017 – 09/2021)

Grants & Research Funding

• Global Teaching Labs Grant (€20,000), Ulm University | ULMA Economic Olympiad (2026)
  With S. Maier & C. Kiesl
• Global Teaching Labs Grant (€19,250), Ulm University | ULMA Economic Workshops (2026)
  With S. Maier, A. Rieber, P. Klotz & D. Steinle
• Quality Assurance (QSM) Funds (~€4,500), WiMa Foundation \& Ulm University | ULMA Economic Olympiad (2024 – 2025)
  With S. Maier
• Conference & Mobility Grants (Total ~€2,300), Ulm University (2024 – 2025)

Honors & Scholarships

• Vernon L. Smith Young Talent Award ($4,000), Society for Experimental Finance (2025)
  For the research proposal “De-Biasing Debt Aversion”
• Teaching Bonus Economics (€2,000), Ulm University (2025)
  With S. Maier for outstanding teaching (ULMA)
• I.S.E.O. Summer School Partial Scholarship (~€1,600), I.S.E.O. Institute (2024)
• e-fellows.net Scholarship, e-fellows.net (2017 – Present)
• Erasmus+ Mobility and Santander Scholarship (€500), Erasmus+ Mobility (2023)

Research

Job Market Paper

• “The Negative Productivity of Strategic Flexibility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Football”
  Single Authored.
  Working Paper available on SSRN
  Abstract: This paper exploits an exogenous rule change in professional football to isolate the causal effect of strategic flexibility on team performance. Using an instrumental variable approach, I show that increased choice in loss frames actually reduces productivity, highlighting a novel behavioral friction in high-stakes environments.

Working Papers

• “Resilient Workers, Biased Evaluators: Disentangling Performance From Assessment”
  With A. Rieber \& D. Steinle
  Working Paper available.
• “Doing Less, Trying Harder: Task Scarcity and Organizational Intensification”
  With A. Rieber \& D. Steinle
  Working Paper available.
• “A Comment on ‘The Opportunity Cost of Debt Aversion’”
  With S. Maier, S. Rittinger \& D. Steinle | I4R Discussion Paper.

Selected Work in Progress

• “De-Biasing Debt Aversion: The Role of Choice Architecture in Financial Decisions”
  With S. Maier, A. Rieber, S. Rittinger \& D. Steinle
  Awarded the Vernon L. Smith Young Talent Award 2025.
• “Debt Aversion in the Mortgage Market: Evidence from Administrative Bank Data”
  With S. Maier, A. Rieber, S. Rittinger, S. Schelling \& D. Steinle
  In collaboration with a major German regional bank.
• “Drive Any Car You Want, As Long As It’s White: Car Color and Accidents in Turkmenistan”
  With S. Maier
• “The Price of Trust: Isolating Demand Shocks Following the 737 MAX Crashes”
  Single Authored.

Conferences, Workshops & Summer Schools

• 2026: Forum Young Researchers (Mainz, invited by Daniel Schunk); Young Economist Meeting (Brno)
• 2025: Chicago School in Experimental Economics (Chicago, virtual); ESA European Meeting (Brno); SABE Conference (Trento); Behavioral Workshop (Ulm); Bavarian Micro Day (Bamberg, Regensburg); Online LLM Workshop (UEA)
• 2024: Replication Games (Munich); ETH Zurich Text-as-Data Workshop; FEBT Summer School (Split); I.S.E.O. Summer School (Iseo, Nobel Laureate Lectures); Bavarian Micro Day (Fürth)
• 2023: Bavarian Micro Day (Ingolstadt)

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant: Sports Economics (Seminar), Ulm University (Summer 2025, 2026)
  Bachelor and Master level
• Teaching Assistant: Applied Microeconomics (Seminar), Ulm University (Each Semester 2023 – 2026)
  Bachelor and Master level
• Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Economics, Ulm University (Winter 2023 – 2026)
  Bachelor level
• Teaching Assistant: Economic Policy, Ulm University (Summer 2023, 2025, 2026)
  Bachelor level
• Lecturer: Introductory Math, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Ravensburg (Winter 2023/24)
  Bachelor level

Skills, Engagement & Memberships

• Languages: German (Native), English (Fluent/C1), Italian (Basic)
• Software: R (Advanced), MATLAB (Good), Stata, Python
• Engagement: Organizer of ULMA Economic Olympiad \& ULMA Economic Workshops; Executive Chairman, Börsenforum Ulm e.V. (Student Finance Association)
• Memberships: European Economic Association, Royal Economic Society, Society for Experimental Finance, Economic Science Association, Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics