Behavioral Finance and Contract Theory Dr. Christoph K. Becker
Contact
Phone: +49 6221 54 2940
Email: christoph.becker@awi.uni-heidelberg.de
Address: Bergheimer Straße 58 (Room 1.015), 69115 Heidelberg
Office hours by appointment (by email)
Research Interests
I focus primarily on individual expectations and decisions. My research includes projects on decisions from experience, unawareness, inflation beliefs, and wellbeing and happiness. As a member of the management team, I support the operation of the AWI experimental lab.
Publications
Becker, C. K. and S.T. Trautmann (2025). Decisions from Experience. In: S.-H. Chuah, R. Hoffmann, and A. Neelim (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Chapter 41. Edward Edgar Publishing.
Becker, C. K., T. Melkonyan, E. Proto, A. Sofianos, and S.T. Trautmann (2024). Reverse Bayesianism: Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events. Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.
Trautmann, S.T., M. Vollmann, and C.K. Becker (2024). Performance Prediction and Performance-Based Task Allocation. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organzation 220, 354-368.
Becker, C. K., and S. T. Trautmann (2022). Does Happiness Increase in Old Age? Longitudinal evidence from 20 European Countries. Journal of Happiness Studies 23, 3625–3654.
Becker, C. K., E. Ert, S. T. Trautmann, and G. van de Kuilen (2020). Experiencing Risk: Higher-order Risk Attitudes in Description- and Experience-based Decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 47, 727-746.
Becker, C.K., I. Kirchmaier, and S. T. Trautmann (2019). Marriage, Parenthood and Social Network: Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health in Old Age. PLOS ONE 14, e0218704.
Working Papers
Becker, C. K., P. Duersch, T. Eife, and A. Glas (2024). Using point forecasts to anchor probabilistic survey scales. AWI Discussion Paper No. 743.
Becker, C.K., P. Duersch, and T. Eife (2023). Measuring Inflation Expectations: How the Response Scale Shapes Density Forecasts. AWI Discussion Paper No. 727. R&R Quantitative Economics.
Becker, C., Duersch, P., Eife, T. and Glas, A. (2023). Households’ probabilistic inflation expectations in high-inflation regimes. FAU Discussion Papers in Economics 1_2023.
Becker, C.K., P. Duersch, T. Eife and A. Glas (2021). Extending the Procedure of Engelberg et al. (2009) to Surveys with Varying Interval-Widths. AWI Discussion Paper No. 707.
Fehr, D., H. Rau, S. T. Trautmann, Y. Xu and C. K. Becker (2023). Fairness properties of compensation schemes. R&R Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.
Other Activities
My research has been supported by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation.
I support the management of the AWI Experimental Lab.