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Curriculum Vitae - J. Philipp Reiss

Research interests

Auction Theory and Experiments, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics,
Experimental Economics, Economic Growth

Academic positions

since 09/2006 Assistant Professor for Microeconomics (tenure-track), Maastricht University
04/2006-08/2006 Assistant Professor for Theoretical and Experimental Microeconomics (Juniorprofessor W1), University of Magdeburg
04/1999-03/2006 Research and teaching associate, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gerhard Schwödiauer, Chair of Economic Theory, University of Magdeburg

Education

09/2005

Ph.D. in Economics (summa cum laude)
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

Heinz-Sauermann-Prize of the German Society for Experimental Economics (GEW) for best Ph.D. thesis in years 2004 and 2005

Prize of the Faculty of Economics & Management for best Ph.D. thesis

 

Ph.D. thesis title: "Auctions and Outside Options -
Economic Theory and Experimental Evidence"
Thesis committee: Werner Güth, Karim Sadrieh, Gerhard Schwödiauer, Ludwig von Auer, Joachim Weimann

07/2003 Participant in the Mannheim Empirical Research Summer School on "Experimental Economics", University of Mannheim

09/2000

Participant in the European Economic Association’s Summer School on "The Sources of European Growth", Universidad Autónoma, Barcelona, Spain

09/1998

Diploma in Economics, University of Magdeburg

Award: Best graduate in the Faculty of Economics & Management

09/1995 - 09/1998

Graduate student at the Economics Department

10/1997 - 09/1998

Student at the Mathematics Department

07 - 08/1997

Summer class student at the London School of Economics (LSE), London, Great Britain

08/1996 - 05/1997

Exchange student at the graduate school of the Economics Department of the Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, USA, German Academic Exchange Fellowship (DAAD)

09/1995

Bachelor in Economics (Vordiplom), University of Magdeburg

Publications in refereed journals

  forthcoming

First-price equilibrium and revenue equivalence in a sequential procurement auction model

Economic Theory

(with Jens Robert Schöndube)

  2009 Outside options: Another reason to choose the first-price auction
European Economic Review 53(2), 153-169.
(with Oliver Kirchkamp, Eva Poen)
2007 Entry decisions and bidding behavior in sequential first-price procurement auctions: An experimental study
Games and Economic Behavior 58(1), 50-74
(with Jeannette Brosig)
2006 The size and performance of public sector activities: an overview
Acta Oeconomica 56(4)
(with Heinz Handler, Bertrand Koebel, Margit Schratzenstaller)
  2005 Entrepreneurs, moral hazard, and endogenous growth
Journal of Macroeconomics 27(1), 69-86
(with Lutz Weinert)

Book

forthcoming Auktionen und Transaktionsalternativen: Ökonomische Theorie und Experimentelle Evidenz, Duncker & Humblot

Selected Working Papers

  11/2008 A pure variation of risk in private-value auctions
(with Oliver Kirchkamp, Karim Sadrieh)
  08/2008 Heterogeneous bids with rational and markdown bidders -
Theory and Experiment

(with Oliver Kirchkamp)
  12/2007 Non-monotonic repayment contracts are superior: Experimental evidence
(with Irenaeus Wolff)
07/2006 Out-of-equilibrium bids in auctions -
Wrong e
xpectations or wrong bids?
(with Oliver Kirchkamp)
01/2009 Allocating Conference Displays: A Natural Field Experiment

12/2004

Optimal Auctions with Public Outside Options
FEMM Working Paper No. 04-25

Conference Speeches & Invited Talks

  07/2008 3rd World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Northwestern University
  06/2008 International Economic Science Association Meetings (ESA), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
  10/2007 Annual Congress of the German Economic Association (VfS), University of Munich (LMU)
  07/2007 International Economic Science Association Meetings (ESA), Roma
  07/2007 Economics Brown Bag Seminar, University of Erfurt
(Bettina Rockenbach)
  06/2007 Annual Symposium of the German Society for Experimental Research (GfEW), Goslar
  04/2007 Economics Colloquium, University of Cologne
(Axel Ockenfels and Achim Wambach)
  03/2007 ESI Spring Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems (Strategic Interaction Group), Jena
09/2006 European Meeting of the Economic Science Association (ESA), Nottingham
06/2006 International Economic Science Association Meetings (ESA), Atlanta
05/2006 METEOR colloquium, Maastricht University
(Jean-Jacques Herings)
11/2005 Guest Lecture, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena (Werner Güth)
09/2005 Annual Congress of the German Economic Association (VfS), University of Bonn
06/2005 International Economic Science Association Meetings (ESA), Montréal
06/2005 Economics Seminar at the University of Bochum
(Justus Haucap)
05/2005 1st Cologne Workshop on Experimental Economics (GEW), University of Cologne
01/2005 Brown Bag Seminar at the Institute of Economic Theory I (Elmar Wolfstetter), HU Berlin
11/2004 Zeuthen Workshop on auctions (with Eric Maskin and Dan Levin), University of Copenhagen
10/2004 Seminar at Consip, Rome
(Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo)
08/2004 19th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association jointly with ESEM 2004, Madrid (Universidad Carlos III)
07/2004 2nd World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Marseille (GREQAM)
06/2004 International Economic Science Association (ESA) Conference, University of Amsterdam
04/2004 2004 Royal Economic Society Conference, Swansea
09/2003 4th Symposium on the Economic Analysis of Firms (GEABA), University of Frankfurt/Main
09/2003 Extracurricular Colloquium, University of Dresden
(Alexander Karmann)
09/2003 Operations Research 2003 (GOR), University of Heidelberg
07/2003 MERSS 2003, University of Mannheim

04/2003

8th Spring Meeting of Young Economists, University of Leuven

09/2002 Extracurricular Colloquium, University of Fribourg
(Robert F. Göx)

04/2001

2001 Royal Economic Society Conference, University of Durham

03/2001 Seminar of the Economics Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(Theodore Palivos)
09/2000 EEA Summer School on Economic Growth, Universidad Autónoma, Barcelona

08/2000

15th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Free University of Bozen, Italy

04/1999

4th Spring Meeting of Young Economists, University of Amsterdam

Teaching:

Lectures/Extended tutorials:

  • Economics and Business (L, block coordinator)

  • Internet Economics (L, block coordinator)

  • Mathematical Economics (L)

  • Principles of Microeconomics (L)

  • Intermediate Microeconomics (L)

  • Intermediate Macroeconomics (E)

  • Introductory Statistics (E)

Seminars:

  • Experimental Auction Research

  • Topics in Bargaining Theory

  • Economic Analysis of Auctions

  • Unemployment

  • Economic Growth