Nora Szech

Prof. Dr. Nora Szech

  • (1980 - 2023)

Nora Szech hold the Chair of Political Economy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) until 2023. She worked on market and competition design, with a focus on information design, AI and morals, combining theoretical as well as empirical research methods. The applications of her work ranged from auction design over labor markets and diversity to ethical consumption and health. Her work was published in leading interdisciplinary outlets as well as in leading field journals (such as Science, Management Science, The Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory). Various international and national media outlets reported on her work (such as The Wallstreet Journal, Huffington Post, Forbes, as well as Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die ZEIT). Nora had received the Reinhard Selten Award from the Verein für Socialpolitik. The magazine Capital ranked her “Top 40 under 40“ in the category Society and Science in 2018. Before she joined the KIT in 2013, Nora was Professor for Industrial Economics at the University of Bamberg. She did her postdoc (Akademischer Rat) at the Chair of Benny Moldovanu at the University of Bonn (from 2010 to 2012), where she also did her PhD - as a scholar of the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE). Her thesis was awarded the best thesis of the year (2010) at University of Bonn across all fields.

Publications
Title Authors Journal

Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Roman M. Sheremeta, Nora Szech

European Economic Review, vol. 154; 2023;

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104327

Marta Serra-Garcia and Nora Szech

Management Science (featured paper), Vol .68, No 7; DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2021.4153 

 

David Huber, Leonie Kühl and Nora Szech

PLoS ONE 17(8): e0271762
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271762

Thomas Mariotti, Nikolaus Schweizer, Nora Szech and Jonas von Wangenheim

Management Science, online in Articles in Advance, 2022; DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2022.4428

Marta Serra Garcia and Nora Szech

Management Science, online in Articles in Advance, 2022; DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2022.4405

Armin Falk, Thomas Neuber and Nora Szech

The Review of Economic Studies (featured paper), 2020, vol. 87, 2205-2229; DOI:10.1093/restud/rdz064

  

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Jannis Engel and Nora Szech

PLoS ONE, 2020, Vol. 15 No. 1, e0227036; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227036

Deniz Dizdar, Benny Moldovanu and Nora Szech 

Journal of Economic Theory, 2019, Vol 182, 106-142; DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2019.04.002

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Nikolaus Schweizer and Nora Szech

Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2019, Vol. 82, 202-213; DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2019.02.007

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Nikolaus Schweizer and Nora Szech

Management Science, 2018, Vol. 64, No. 11, 4967-5460, DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2017.2913

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Dominik Rothenhäusler, Nikolaus Schweizer and Nora Szech

European Economic Review, 2018, Vol. 101, 664-681, DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.08.001

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Nikolaus Schweizer and Nora Szech 

Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, Vol. 170, 86-111; DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2017.04.005

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Nora Szech

Games and Economic Behavior, 2015, Vol. 92, 138-149; DOI:10.1016/j.geb.2015.05.008

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Armin Falk and Nora Szech

European Journal of Political Economy, 2015, Vol. 40, 391-394; DOI:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2015.07.003

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Matthias Kräkel, Nora Szech and Frauke von Bieberstein 

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, Vol. 107, 123-135 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2014.08.008

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Armin Falk and Nora Szech

Science, Research Article, 2013, Vol. 340, No. 6133, 707-711, DOI: 10.1126/science.1231566

Science Research Article 2013 Vol. 340 No. 6133

Armin Falk and Nora Szech

Science, Letter, 2013, Vol. 341, No. 6147, 714, DOI: 10.1126/science.341.6147.714-b

Science 2013
Konstanze AlbrechtJuliane Parys, Nora Szech and Emma von Essen 

European Economic Review, 2013, Vol. 60, 144-169 DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.02.002

European Economic Review 2013 Vol. 60
Nora Szech and Philipp Weinschenk

Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2013, Vol. 49, Issue 2, 124-133 DOI:10.1016/j.jmateco.2012.12.004

Journal of Mathematical Economics 2013 Vol. 49

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Journal of Economic Theory, 2011, Vol. 146, Issue 6, 2596-2607 DOI:10.1016/j.jet.2011.10.010

Journal of Economic Theory, 2011, Vol. 146, Issue 6

Nora Szech

Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2011, Vol. 47, Issues 4-5, 462-469 DOI:10.1016/j.jmateco.2011.06.004

Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2011, Vol. 47

Nora Szech

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011, Vol. 80, 244-257. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2011.03.010

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2011 Vol. 80
Books and Book Chapters
Title Authors

P. Trimmer, R. McElreath, S. Auster, G. Brown, J. Dana, G. Gigerenzer, R. Golman, C. Hilbe, A. Kandler, Y. Kareev, L. Schooler, N. Szech

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J. Krueger, U. Hahn, D. Ellerbrock, S. Gächter, R. Hertwig, L. Kornhauser, C. Leuker, N. Szech, M. Waldmann

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Anna Becker, Steffen Huck, Julia Schubert and Nora Szech 

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Awards, Grants, Fellowships, and Editorial Activities

  • KIT Fakultätslehrpreis (€ 10,000 for teaching, 2022)
  • KD2 School (Graduate School)
  • Hector Grant (€ 500,000 for research, 2019 - 2024)
  • BMBF Grant on Digitization and Ethics in Health Markets (€ 760,000, with Steffen Augsberg and Matthias Braun, 2020 - 2023)
  • Future Fields Grant Level 2, Digital Citizen Science (€ 380,000 Euro with Alexander Mädche, Petra Nieken, Benjamin Scheibehenne, Melanie Volkamer, Christof Weinhardt and Alexander Woll, 2021-2022)
  • Food System Research Fund ($ 30.000, with Jacy Reese-Anthis, Josh Tasoff and Laura Thomas-Walters, 2021)
  • Future Fields Grant Level 2, Energy Market Design (€ 90,000 with Wolf Fichtner, Martin Klarmann and Marliese Uhrig-Homburg, 2020-2021)
  • Future Fields Grant Sonderausschreibung Investitionen, Digital Citizen Science (€ 154,000 with Alexander Mädche, Petra Nieken, Benjamin Scheibehenne, Melanie Volkamer, Christof Weinhardt and Alexander Woll, 2020)
  • Seed money for the prepartion of an ITN (Horizon 2020) (€ 27,000 with Pablo Brañas Garza, Nicolas Jacquement, Martin Kocher, Michal Wiktor Krawczyk, Arno Riedel, Alexander Sebald and Erik Sørensen, 2020-2021)
  • Member COVID19 Expert circle of the Helmholtz Association (2020-2022)
  • Guest Editor of the Research Topic article collection on Honesty and Moral Behavior in Economic Games, Frontiers in Psychology (2020-2023)
  • Young Elite: Top 40 under 40 in Society and Science (Capital, 2018)
  • Teaching Award (with Jannis Engel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2018)
  • Trust Professor of the German Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, 2018-2021)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the European Economic Review (2018-2023)
  • Teaching Award (with Jannis Engel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2016)
  • Member of the Committee for Economic Theory (Theoretischer Ausschuss), Verein für Socialpolitik (2015-2023)
  • KIT Expert (2015-2023)
  • CESifo Research Network Fellow (2014-2023)
  • Member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO, Chicago, IL, 2013-2023)
  • WZB-Fellow (2013-2023)
  • Reinhard Selten Award 2011
  • Dissertation Prize of the Bonn University Society 2011 (Best Dissertation at the University of Bonn in 2010)
  • Best Tutor Award 2010 (at the Economics Department in Bonn)
  • Alumna of the German Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

 

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