talks and presentations
2018 |
Verein für Socialpolitik Annual Meeting, Freiburg, Germany Brown Bag Seminar, Karlsruhe, Germany |
2017 |
GEABA - XVIII. Symposium, Hohenheim, Germany EEA-ESEM, Lisbon, Portugal Econometric Society Asian Meeting, Hong Kong, China HeiKaMaX Workshop on Experimental Economics, Karlsruhe, Germany |
2016 |
HeiKaMaxY Young Researchers, Karlsruhe, Germany ESA World Meeting, Jerusalem Doctoral Research Colloquium, Karlsruhe, Germany |
2015 |
Doctoral Research Colloquium, Karlsruhe, Germany |
working papers
A Little Good is Good Enough: Ethical Consumption, Cheap Excuses, and Moral Self-Licensing (joint with Nora Szech)
This paper explores the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one
ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other independent ethical facets of the
product. Opting for a product that fulfills one ethical aspect may thus suffice for keeping a high moral
self-image in agents, and render it easier to ignore other ethically relevant aspects they would
otherwise care about. The use of such cheap excuses could thus lead to a ‘static moral self-licensing’
effect. This would extend the logic of the well-known moral self-licensing over time.
Our experimental study provides empirical evidence that the static counterpart of moral self-licensing
exists. Furthermore, effects spill over to unrelated, ethically relevant contexts later in time. Thus, static
moral self-licensing and moral self-licensing over time can amplify each other. Outsiders, though
monetarily incentivized for correct estimates, are completely oblivious to the effects of moral self-
licensing, both, static and over time.
curriculum vitae
- 2014 - 2019: PhD student and research assistant at the Chair of Political Economy (ECON)
- 2011 - 2014: Master of Science in European Economic Studies at the University of Bamberg
- 2007 - 2010: Bachelor of Arts in European Economic Studies at the University of Bamberg
Title | Type | Semester | Place |
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Übung zu Economics and Behavior | WS 18/19 | ||
Nudging | Seminar (S) | WS 18/19 | |
Are Markets Repugnant? | Seminar (S) | WS 17/18 | |
Übung zu Economics and Behavior | WS 16/17 | ||
Fighting Discrimination | Seminar (S) | WS 16/17 | |
Übung zu Economics and Behavior | WS 15/16 | ||
Development of Economic Behavior | Seminar (S) | WS 15/16 | |
Übung zu Economics and Behavior | WS 14/15 | ||
Development of Economic Behavior | Seminar (S) | WS 14/15 | |
Fighting Discrimination | Seminar (S) | SS 2018 | |
Fostering Social and Environmental Sustainability | Seminar (S) | SS 2017 | |
Fostering environmental and social sustainability | Seminar (S) | SS 2016 | |
Institutions, Morals and Human Behavior | Seminar (S) | SS 2015 | |
Markets & Market Critique | Seminar (S) | SS 2014 |