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

I am a microeconomist by training. My main interests are in contract theory, contest theory, and auction theory. I also analyze incentives in blockchain markets and in cryptographic protocols.

I am affiliated with the Zurich Center for Market Design.

Publications

• Risk Aversion in Share Auctions: Estimating Import Rents from TRQs in Switzerland.
  Accepted for Publication at Quantitative Economics.
  [Supplementary Appendix] [Replication Files].
• Working for References (with Curtis Taylor).
  Accepted for Publication at American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
• 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.

Current Research:

• Shakeouts and Staggered Exits from an R&D Race between Externally-Funded Startups.
  First Version: March 2020. Latest Version: March 2023.
• Optimal Decentralization and Service Provision on a Base-Layer Blockchain under Market Frictions.
  First Version: November 2021. Latest Version: March 2023.
• Front-Running, Smart Contracts, and Candle Auctions (with Alistair Stewart).
  First Version: Mai 2021. Latest Version: August 2021.