Max Planck Institute of Economics

	Dr. Ondřej Rydval
	Research Associate
	Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group Kahlaische Straße 10 D-07745 Jena Germany
	phone:	+49 - 3641 - 686 641
	fax:	+49 - 3641 - 686 667
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Employment
07/2007-present	Research Associate, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group, Jena, Germany
09/2007-present	Postdoctoral Fellow, Economics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
09/2004-08/2007	Junior Researcher, Economics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
02/2006-04/2006	Visiting Student Researcher, California Institute of Technology
01/2002-08/2004	Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic

Education
06/2007	Ph.D. in Economics, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
09/2003	M.A. in Economics, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
06/2001	B.A. in Economics, University of Cambridge, UK

Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Experimental Methods, Cognitive Sciences

"How Certain Is the Uncertainty Effect" (with Andreas Ortmann, Sasha Prokosheva and Ralph Hertwig), Experimental Economics, 12(4), 473-487, 2009. [previous versions: CERGE-EI Working Paper 385, 07/2009, Jena Economic Research Paper 2009-002 titled "Uncertainty Effect Revisited Using Physical Lottery Format", and Jena Economic Research Paper 2007-038 and CERGE-EI Working Paper 334, 07/2007, both titled "Valuing a Risky Prospect Less than Its Worst Outcome: Uncertainty Effect or Task Ambiguity"] View Experimental Instructions here.
"Three Very Simple Games and What It Takes to Solve Them" (with Andreas Ortmann and Michal Ostatnicky), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 72(1), 589-601, 2009. [Jena Economic Research Paper 2007-092, 11/2007, and CERGE-EI Working Paper 347, 01/2008 (revised version)]
"Loss Avoidance as Selection Principle: Evidence from Simple Stag-Hunt Games" (with Andreas Ortmann), Economics Letters, 88 (1), 101-107, 2005. [CERGE-EI Working Paper 245, 12/2004]
"How Financial Incentives and Cognitive Abilities Affect Task Performance in Laboratory Settings: An Illustration" (with Andreas Ortmann), Economics Letters, 85 (3), 315-320, 2004. [CERGE-EI Working Paper 221, 02/2004]

Providing Health Services (contributor), in Hanousek, J., Kocenda, E., and L. Lizal, Eds. Tale of The Czech Transition: Understanding The Challenges Ahead, MatfyzPress, Prague, 2004.
Health Care, in Dusek, L., and S. Jurajda, Eds., Czech Republic 2003/2004: Entering the EU, CERGE, Charles University, Economics Institute, ASCR, Prague, 2004.
Book review of Colin F. Camerer (2003), Behavioral Game Theory. Experiments in Strategic Interaction (with Andreas Ortmann), Journal of Economic Psychology, 25 (5), 671-674, 2004.
Book review of Paul W. Glimcher (2003), Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain. The Science of Neuroeconomics (with Andreas Ortmann), Journal of Economic Psychology, 25 (6), 891-894, 2004.

The Effect of Financial Incentives and Task-specific Cognitive Abilities on Task Performance, Jena Economic Research Paper 2011-050, 11/2011.
Uncertainty effect revisited using physical lottery format(with Andreas Ortmann, Sasha Prokosheva and Ralph Hertwig), Jena Economic Research Paper 2009-002, 01/2009.
Three Very Simple Games and What It Takes to Solve Them(with Andreas Ortmann and Michal Ostatnický), Jena Economic Research Paper 2007-092, 11/2007.
Financial Incentives and Cognitive Abilities: Evidence from a Forecasting Task with Varying Cognitive Load, Jena Economic Research Paper 2007-040 and CERGE-EI Discussion Paper 173, 01/2007.
The Interaction between Financial Incentives and Task-specific Cognitive Capital: More Evidence in Support of Camerer and Hogarth (1999), Jena Economic Research Paper 2007-039 (previously circulated as Capital and Labor Effects in a Recall Task: More Evidence in Support of Camerer and Hogarth (1999), CERGE-EI Working Paper 264, 06/2005).
Valuing A Risky Prospect Less Than Its Worst Outcome: Uncertainty Effect or Task Ambiguity?(with Andreas Ortmann, Alexandra Prokosheva and Ralph Hartwig), Jena Economic Research Paper 2007-038, 07/2007.
The Impact of Financial Incentives on Task Performance: The Role of Cognitive Abilities and Intrinsic Motivation, CERGE-EI Discussion Paper 112, 12/2003.

Secretary search under the microscope (with Astrid Matthey)
Explicit sanctions in mimimum-effort coordination games (with Fabrice Lelec)
Ultimatum bargaining over earned income: Does common knowledge of income source matter? (with Andreas Ortmann)

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