I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of St. Gallen.

My main interests are in industrial organization, particularly contracts, auctions, and contests.

I also study incentives in blockchain markets and in cryptographic protocols.

I am affiliated with the Zurich Center for Market Design.

 

Publications

Working for References (with Curtis Taylor).
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 15(3), 2023, 33-77.

Risk Aversion in Share Auctions: Estimating Import Rents from TRQs in Switzerland.
Quantitative Economics, 14(2), 2023, 419-470. [Replication Files].

On Young Turks and Yes Men: Optimal Contracting for Advice (with Curtis Taylor).
The RAND Journal of Economics, 53(1), 2022, 63-94.

Eternal Peace in the Tug-of-War?
Economic Theory, 74, 2022, 1570–1101. (Online first: 2020.)

Sorting in Iterated Incumbency Contests (with Georg Nöldeke).
Economic Theory, 74, 2022, 1103–1140. (Online first: 2019.)

Stable Biased Sampling.
Games and Economic Behavior, 107, 2018, 109-122.

A Tug-of-War Team Contest.
Games and Economic Behavior, 104, 2017, 372-391.

Payoff Shares in Two-Player Contests (with Georg Nöldeke).
Games, Volume 7(3), 2016, p. 25.

 

Working Papers

Price Gouging and the Monopoly Option (with Curtis Taylor)
First Version: October 2024. Latest Version: October 2025.

The Candle Auction in the Field and in the Lab (with Jonas Gehrlein and Jörg Oechssler)
First Version: January 2025. Latest Version: August 2025.

Front-Running and Candle Auctions (with Alistair Stewart)
First Version: Mai 2021. Latest Version: June 2025.

Optimal Compensation in Competitive Labor Markets with Heterogeneous Employers and Workers (with Niklas Häusle, Winfried Koeniger, and Alexander Braun).
First Version: November 2024. Latest Version: September 2025.

Shakeouts and Staggered Exits from an R&D Race with Moral Hazard.
First Version: March 2020. Latest Version: September 2023.

 

Teaching

Introduction to Market Design (Bachelor).

Microeconomics for CS (Bachelor).

Blockchain Markets (Master).

Corporate Finance (Master).