Max Planck Institute of Economics

	Dr. Sven Fischer
	Research Associate
	Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group Kahlaische Straße 10 D-07745 Jena Germany
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Education

March 2006	Dr. rer. pol. from Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Germany (summa cum laude)
Oct. 1999 - Jan. 2002	Diploma in Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with majors in Econometrics and Corporate Finance
Sep. 1998 - July 1999	Student of Economics, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. (SOKRATES/ERASMUS grant)
Oct. 1996 - Aug. 1998	Student of Economics at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Oct. 1994 - Aug. 1998	Student of Geography at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Positions

since Sep. 2005	Research Associate Max Planck Institute of Economics Jena, Germany
Feb. 2005 - Aug. 2005	Research Position: Flexibility on Heterogenous Markets – Special Research Project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Affiliation: Institut WIOR, Univesität Karlsruhe (TH).
Jan. 2002 - Jan. 2005	Research Fellow (Doctoral student) Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems Jena, Germany.

Research Interests

Reciprocity & fairness, bargaining theory and -behaviour, bounded rationality / behavioural economics, (evolutionary) game theory, labor economics, social dilemma.

Publications

From Ultimatum to Nash Bargaining: Theory and Experimental Evidence (together with Werner Güth and Wieland Müller) Experimental Economics, 9(1), 2006.
Is there As-if Bargaining? (together with Werner Güth and Kerstin Pull) Journal of Socio-Economics, forthcoming.
Evolution in Imperfect Commitment Bargaining – Strategic versus Ignorant Types (together with Werner Güth and Kerstin Pull). Metroeconomica, forthcoming.
Ex Interim Voting: An Experimental Study of Referendums for Public-Good Provision (together with Andreas Nicklisch). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 163(1), 2007.

Working Papers

(Un)Reliable Concessions in Static and Dynamic Bargaining Experiments (together with Luis G. González and Werner Güth) (2005)
Inequality Aversion in Ultimatum Games with Asymmetric Conflict Payoffs - A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis. (2005)
Inequality Aversion in Ultimatum Games with Asymmetric Conflict Vectors. (2003)
Social Networks and Employment - An Experimental Analysis. (together with S. Berninghaus and Werner Güth) (2006)

Some Work in Progress

Does (Mean) Conditional Cooperation Survive Perfect Information? (together with M. Vittoria Levati)
Stated Social Attitudes and Experimental Behaviour - A Comparison with a Representative Sample (together with Christoph Köhler and Olaf Struck)
Effects of Profitable Downsizing on Collective Bargaining (together with Werner Güth, Christoph Köhler and Olaf Struck)
With(out) knowing your aspirations: Principal-agent experiments with(out) cheap talk about aspirations (together with Werner Güth and Jianying Qiu)
Comparing individual working efforts after bankruptcy between two alternative regulation approaches (together with Eva Maria Steiger)
Effects of Wage Differentials on Working Efforts.

Teaching Experience (at Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena)

Winter 2002	Seminar "Experimental Economics"
Summer 2003	Tutorial for the lecture "Economics of Information" (Lecturer: Dr. Luis G. González)
Summer 2004	Seminar "Experimental Economics"
Winter 2006/07	Seminar "Experimental Economics": Analysis of Experimental Data

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