Dr. Stephan Müller, AkadR a.Z.
Chair of Microeconomics
Research Associate
Education
Master in Economics, University of Mannheim (2002)
Master in Mathematics, Georg-August-University Göttingen (2009)
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Kassel (2015)
Research Interests
Evolutionary Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Organizational Economics
Selected Publications
The Effects of Betrayal Aversion on Effort Provision when Incentives are Fragile (with Volker Benndorf und Holger Rau), Management Science, forthcoming
The Evolution of Morals under Indirect Reciprocity (with Alexia Gaudeul und Claudia Keser), Games and Economic Behavior, 126, 251-277, 2021
Economic Preferences and Compliance in the Social Stress Test of the COVID-19 Crisis (with Holger Rau), Journal of Public Economics, 194, 104322, 2021
Decisions under Uncertainty in Social Contexts (with Holger Rau), Games and Economic Behavior, 116, 73-95, 2019
The Relation of Risk Attitudes and Other-Regarding Preferences: A Within-Subjects Analysis (with Holger Rau), European Economic Review, 85, 1-7, 2016
Other Publications in Refereed Journals
Governance Structures, Cultural Distance, and Socialization Dynamics: Further Challenges for the Modern Cooperation (with Christian Cordes, Sarianna M. Lundan and Georg Schwesinger), Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 32, 2022
Motivational Crowding Out Effects in Charitable Giving: Experimental Evidence (with Holger Rau), Journal of Economic Psychology, 76, 2020
Too Cold for Warm Glow? Christmas-Season Effects in Charitable Giving (with Holger Rau), PloS ONE, 14(5): e0215844, 2019
The impact of market innovations on the evolution of social norms: the sustainability case (with Georg von Wangenheim), Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 27(4), 663-690, 2017
Quality competition and entry deterrence: When to launch an extra brand (with Georg Götz), Managerial and Decision Economics , 38(8), 1201-1215, 2017
Working Papers
The Hazards and Benefits of Condescension in Social Learning (with Itai Arieli, Yakov Babichenko, Farzad Pourbabaee, Omer Tamuz)
Sequential Social Learning with Inferential Biases
Coevolution of Cooperation, Preferences, and Cooperative Signals in Social Dilemmas (with Georg von Wangenheim)
Selection into Leadership and Dishonest Behavior of Leaders: A Gender Experiment (with Kerstin Grosch, Holger Rau and Lilia Zhurakhovska)
Bargaining Behavior and the Role of Negotiators’ Competitiveness (with Claudia Keser, Emmanuel Peterlé and Holger Rau)
