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.
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Updating, Self-Confidence, and Discrimination | Konstanze Albrecht, Juliane Parys, Nora Szech and Emma von Essen | European Economic Review, 2013, Vol. 60, 144-169 DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.02.002 |
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Guilt in Voting and Public Good Games | 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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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants: An experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions | Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Roman M. Sheremeta, Nora Szech |
European Economic Review, vol. 154; 2023; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104327 |
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Institutions and Morals: A Reply | 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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Tie-Breaks and Bid-Caps in All-Pay Auctions | Nora Szech | Games and Economic Behavior, 2015, Vol. 92, 138-149; DOI:10.1016/j.geb.2015.05.008 |
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Becoming a Bad Doctor | Nora Szech |
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011, Vol. 80, 244-257. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2011.03.010 |
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Externalities in Recruiting | 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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Optimal Advertising of Auctions | Nora Szech |
Journal of Economic Theory, 2011, Vol. 146, Issue 6, 2596-2607 DOI:10.1016/j.jet.2011.10.010 |
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Revenues and Welfare in Auctions with Information Release | 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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The Feedback Effect in Two-Sided Markets with Bilateral Investments | 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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Optimal Disclosure of Costly Information Packages in Auctions | Nora Szech |
Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2011, Vol. 47, Issues 4-5, 462-469 DOI:10.1016/j.jmateco.2011.06.004 |
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Rebates in a Bertrand Game | Nora Szech and Philipp Weinschenk | Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2013, Vol. 49, Issue 2, 124-133 DOI:10.1016/j.jmateco.2012.12.004 |
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Performance Bounds for Optimal Sales Mechanisms Beyond the Monotone Hazard Rate Condition | 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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The (In)Elasticity of Moral Ignorance | Marta Serra-Garcia and Nora Szech |
Management Science (featured paper), Vol .68, No 7; DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2021.4153
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Optimal Revelation of Life-Changing Information | Nikolaus Schweizer and Nora Szech |
Management Science, 2018, Vol. 64, No. 11, 4967-5460, DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2017.2913 |
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Incentives and Defaults Can Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions and Test Demand | Marta Serra Garcia and Nora Szech |
Management Science, online in Articles in Advance, 2022; DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2022.4405 |
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Information Nudges and Self Control | Thomas Mariotti, Nikolaus Schweizer, Nora Szech and Jonas von Wangenheim |
Management Science, online in Articles in Advance, 2022; DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2022.4428 |
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Setting Adequate Wages for Workers: Managers' work experience, incentive scheme and gender matter | David Huber, Leonie Kühl and Nora Szech |
PLoS ONE 17(8): e0271762 |
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A Little Good is Good Enough: Ethical Consumption, Cheap Excuses, and Moral Self-Licensing | Jannis Engel and Nora Szech |
PLoS ONE, 2020, Vol. 15 No. 1, e0227036; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227036 |
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The Systematic Place of Morals in Markets - Response | Armin Falk and Nora Szech |
Science, Letter, 2013, Vol. 341, No. 6147, 714, DOI: 10.1126/science.341.6147.714-b |
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Morals and Markets | Armin Falk and Nora Szech |
Science, Research Article, 2013, Vol. 340, No. 6133, 707-711, DOI: 10.1126/science.1231566 |
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Diffusion of Being Pivotal and Immoral Outcomes | 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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The Zoo of Models of Deliberate Ignorance | 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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Normative Implications of Deliberate Ignorance | J. Krueger, U. Hahn, D. Ellerbrock, S. Gächter, R. Hertwig, L. Kornhauser, C. Leuker, N. Szech, M. Waldmann |
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Meat and Color (Fleisch und Farbe) | Anna Becker, Steffen Huck, Julia Schubert and Nora Szech |
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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