Economic Theory II Dr. Peter Dürsch

Professional Positions

• 2024 - 2026 Interim Full Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung) / Visiting, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg
• 2017 - 2019,
• 2021 - 2025 Interim Full Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung), University of Mannheim, Mannheim
• 2012 - 2013,
• 2019 - 2020 Interim Full Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung), University of Konstanz, Konstanz
• 2008             Research Assistant, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Mannheim
• 2005 - 2017 Research Assistant, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg

Education

• 2005 - 2011 PhD Student, Heidelberg University, PhD Thesis: “ Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics”, supervisor: Jörg Oechssler
• 2004 - 2005 PhD Student, University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics, supervisor: Jörg Oechssler
• 2001             Visiting student, University of Sydney, Australia
• 1999 - 2004 Dipl. Economics, Studies of Economics at the University of Bonn, Diploma Thesis: “On the Behavior of Subjects and Computers in an Internet-Based Cournot-Duopoly” 

Decision Theory, Experimental Economics, Uncertainty, Cognitive Ability, Learning Theories, Inflation

• Is behavior within and between awareness levels related? (with Adam Dominiak and Marie-Louise Vierø)
• Confidence and the Ellsberg three color urn
• Risk Aversion of Newly Arrived Refugees

• Measuring Inflation Expectations in Times of High Inflation: A Reason to Shift Response Scales? (with Christoph Becker and Thomas Eife)
• Fickle Groups: An Experimental Assessment of Time Preferences (with Zain Chaudhry and Karrar Hussain)
• Testing WWARP and the double decoy effect (with Adam Dominiak, Alec Smith and Gerelt Tserenjigmid)
• Executive regulation of economic decision making in schizophrenia (with Daniel V. Hold and Katlehn Baum)

Dynamic Games and Applications / European Economic Review / Economic Inquiry / European Journal of Political Economy / Economics Letters / Economic Theory / Environment & Resource Economics / Games / Games and Economic Behavior / International Economic Review / International Game Theory Review / International Journal of Game Theory / Journal of Dynamic Decision Making / Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization / Journal of Economic Psychology / Journal of Economic Theory / Journal of Public Economics / Management Science / Mathematical Social Sciences / MODSIM / Sustainability / TARK / Theory & Decision / UK Research Council

• Extending the Procedure of Engelberg et al. (2009) to Surveys with Varying Interval-Widths (with Christoph Becker, Thomas Eife, and Alexander Glas), Economic Letters, 113067 (2026)
• Measuring Inflation Expectations: How the Response Scale Shapes Density Forecasts (with Christoph Becker and Thomas Eife), Quantitative Economics, 17, 895-937 (2026)
• Personalizing Probabilistic Survey Scales (with Christoph Becker, Thomas Eife, and Alexander Glas), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 236, 107072 (2025)
• Choice under Uncertainty and Cognitive Load (with Adam Dominiak), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 68, 133-161 (2024)
• Measuring Skill and Chance in Games (with Marco Lambrecht, Joerg Oechssler), European Economic Review, Volume 127 (2020)
• Interactive Ellsberg Tasks: An Experiment (with Adam Dominiak), Journal of Behavior & Organization, Volume 161 (2019)
• Price Competition in an Inflationary Environment (with Thomas Eife), Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 104 (2019)
• Intertemporal Stability of Uncertainty Preferences (with Benjamin Roth, Daniel Römer), Journal of Economic Psychology, Volume 60 (2017) online data
• Bidding for Nothing? The Pitfalls of Overly Neutral Framing (with Julia Müller) Applied Economic Letters, Volume 24, Issue 13 (2017)  pdf (online Appendix)
• Taking Punishment Into Your Own Hands: An Experiment (with Julia Müller), Journal of Economic Psychology, Volume 46, Issue C (2015) (online appendix)
• When is tit-for-tat unbeatable? (with Jörg Oechssler, Burkhard Schipper), International Journal of Game Theory Volume 43, Issue 1 (2014)
• Unbeatable Imitation (mit Jörg Oechssler, Burkhard Schipper), Games and Economic Behavior Volume 76, Issue 1 (2012) (pdf)
• A Dynamic Ellsberg Urn Experiment (mit Adam Dominiak, Jean-Philippe Lefort) Games and Economic Behavior Volume 75, Issue 2 (2012) (pdf) (online data)
• Sick Pay Provision in Experimental Labor Markets (mit Jörg Oechssler, Radovan Vadovic) European Economic Review Volume 56, Issue 1 (2012) (pdf)
• Pure Strategy Equilibria in Symmetric Two-Player Zero-Sum Games (mit Jörg Oechssler, Burkhard Schipper) International Journal of Game Theory Volume 41, Issue 3 (2012) (pdf)
• Rage Against the Machines: How Subjects Learn to Play Against Computers (mit Albert Kolb, Jörg Oechssler, Burkhard Schipper), Economic Theory Volume 43, Issue 3 (2010) (pdf)
• Mandatory Sick Pay Provision: A Labor Market Experiment (mit Stefan Bauernschuster, Jörg Oechssler, Radovan Vadovic) Journal of Public Economics 94 (2010) 870-877 (pdf)
• Incentives for Subjects in Internet Experiments (mit Jörg Oechssler, Burkhard Schipper), Economic Letters 105 (2009) 120-122 (pdf)
• Do People Punish and Reward Less When the Outcomes Are Risky? (mit Maros Servatka), in Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, 1178-1183. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-4-7. Refereed.