Wieland Müller, Professor of Economics
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Contents: [ Address | CurriculumVitae | CV as pdf | Teaching | Publications | Working Papers | Links to co-authors | Photo ]
Department of Economics
Tilburg University
Postbus 90153
5000LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 13 466 3460
Fax: +31 13 466 3042
Email: w.mueller {at} uvt.nl
born ...
- Research Interests
Experimental Economics, (Evolutionary) Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Microeconomics in general
Education
- Habilitation in Economics (German Venia Legendi), Humboldt University Berlin, 2003.
- Ph.D. (Economics), Humboldt University Berlin, 1999 (s.c.l.).
- M.A. (Mathematics), Technical University Berlin, 1995 (minor subject: computer science).
Academic Positions
- 2006 -
- Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Tilburg University.
- 2004 - 2006:
- Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Tilburg University.
- 2003 - 2004:
- Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tilburg University.
- 2001 - 2003 :
- Research Scholarship from the German Science Foundation (DFG).
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, New York University.
- 1996 - 2000:
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Humboldt University Berlin.
- 1993 - 1995:
- Teaching Assistant, Technical University Berlin.
Awards and Grants
- 2005 - 2009:
- Dutch Science Foundation (NWO): VIDI grant (ca. € 649,000).
- 2001 - 2003:
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Research Fellowship, DFG grants Mu 1631/1-1 and Mu 1631/1-3.
- 2000:
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Sequential markets: Experimental tests, DFG grants Mu 1631/1-2 and Mu1631/1-4.
- 2000:
- Heinz Sauermann Prize for Experimental Economics (from the German Society for Experimental Economics, GEW).
Teaching Experience
- Industrial Organization, Microeconomics, Game Theory, Experimental Economics
Publications
Book(s):
Commitment: Experimental studies on games
with (im)perfectly observable actions, Aachen: Shaker 1999.
Articles in refereed journals:
Signaling without a common prior: Results on experimental equilibrium selection, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming (with Michail Drouvelis and Alex Possajennikov)
Collusion through price ceilings? In search of a focal-point effect, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming (with Dirk Engelmann) abstract pdf
The Miracle as a Randomization Device: A Lesson from Richard Wagner's Romantic Opera Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, Economics Letters 102, 2009, 33-35 (with Heike Harmgart and Steffen Huck) abstract pdf
Workaholics and Dropouts in Organizations, Journal of the European Economic Association 8 (2010), 717-743 (with Andrew Schotter). abstract pdf
Oligopoly limit pricing: Experimental evidence, Games and Economic Behavior 66 (2009), 373-393 (with Yossi Spiegel and Yaron Yehezkel) abstract pdf
Job market signaling and screening: An experimental comparison, Games and Economic Behavior 64, 2008, 219'236 (with Dorothea Kübler and Hans-Theo Normann). abstract pdf
The merger paradox and why aspiration levels let it fail in the laboratory, The Economic Journal 117, 2007, 1073'1095 (with Steffen Huck, Kai A. Konrad and Hans-Theo Normann). abstract pdf
Conjectural variations and evolutionary stability in finite populations, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 17, 2006, 53'61 (with Hans-Theo Normann) abstract pdf
Endogenous timing with observable delay in duopoly: Experimental evidence, International Journal of Game Theory 34, 2006, 443-456 (with Miguel Fonseca and Hans-Theo Normann) abstract pdf
Spatial Voting with Endogenous Timing, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 162(4), 2006, 557-570 (with Steffen Huck and Vicki Knoblauch). abstract pdf
Endogenous preemption onboth sides of a market, Economics Letters 93, 2006, 126-131 (with Werner Güth and Jan Potters) abstract pdf
Noisy leadership: An experimental approach, Games and Economic Behavior 57, 2006, 37-62 (with Werner Güth and Yossi Spiegel). abstract pdf
From Ultimatum to Nash Bargaining: Theory and experimental evidence, Experimental Economics 9(1), 2006, 17-33 (with Sven Fischer, Werner Güth, and Andreas Stiehler). abstract pdf
Allowing for two production periods in the Cournot duopoly: Experimental evidence, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 60, 2006, 100-111. abstract pdf
Conjectural variations and evolutionary stability: A rationale for consistency, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 161(3), 2005, 491-502 (with Hans-Theo Normann). abstract pdf
Burning money and (pseudo) first-mover advantages: An experimental study on forward induction, Games and Economic Behavior 51, 2005, 109-127 (with Steffen Huck). abstract pdf
Strategic Delegation in Experimental Markets, International Journal of Industrial Organization 22(4), 2004 561-574. (with Steffen Huck and Hans-Theo Normann). abstract pdf
Profitable horizontal mergers without cost advantages: The role of internal organization, information, and market structure, Economica 71, 2004, 575-587 (with Steffen Huck and Kai A. Konrad). abstract pdf
Onthe Profitability of Collusion in Location Games, Journal of Urban Economics 54(3), 2003, 499-510. (with SteffenHuck and Vicki Knoblauch). abstract pdf
Attitudes towards risk: An experiment, Metroeconomica, 54(1), 2003, 89-124. (with Jürgen Eichberger and Werner Güth) abstract pdf
Merger and collusion in contests, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 158 (4), 2002, 563-575. (with Steffen Huck and Kai A. Konrad) abstract pdf
Absent-minded drivers in the lab: Testing Gilboa's model, International Game Theory Review, 4 (4), 2002, 435-448. (with Steffen Huck) abstract pdf
Simultaneous and sequential price competition onheterogeneous duopoly markets: Experimental evidence, International Journal of Industrial Organization 20, 2002, 1437-1460. (with Dorothea Kübler) abstract pdf
Tax liability side equivalence in an experimental posted offer market, Southern Economic Journal 68 (3), 2002, 672-682. (with Rainald Borck, Dirk Engelmann, and Hans-Theo Normann) abstract pdf
To commit or not to commit: Endogenous timing in experimental duopoly markets, Games and Economic Behavior 38, 2002, 240-264. (with Steffen Huck and Hans-Theo Normann) abstract pdf
The East End, the West End, and King's Cross: On clustering in the four-player Hotelling game, Economic Inquiry 40 (2), 2002, 231-240. (with Steffen Huck and Nick Vriend) abstract pdf
Big fish eat small fish: On merger in Stackelberg markets, Economics Letters 73 (2), 2001, 213-217. (with Steffen Huck and Kai A. Konrad) abstract pdf
Why firms should care for customers, Economics Letters 72, 2001, 47-52. (with Manfred Königstein) abstract pdf
Stackelberg beats Cournot: On collusion and efficiency in experimental markets, Economic Journal 111 (474), 2001, 749-765. (with Steffen Huck and Hans-Theo Normann) abstract pdf
The relevance of equal splits in ultimatum games, Games and Economic Behavior 37, 2001, 161-169. (with Werner Güth and Steffen Huck) abstract pdf
Divisionalization in contests, Economics Letters 70 (1), 2001, 89-93. (with Steffen Huck and Kai A. Konrad) abstract pdf
Strategies, heuristics and attitudes towards risk in a dynamic decision problem, Journal of Economic Psychology 22 (4), 2001, 493-522. abstract pdf
The quality of the signal matters: A note on imperfect observability and the timing of moves, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 45 (1), 2001, 99-106. abstract pdf
An experimental analysis of intertemporal allocation behavior, Experimental Economics 3 (2), 2000, 137-152. (with Vital Anderhub, Werner Güth, and Martin Strobel) abstract pdf
Why the rich are nastier than the poor: A note on the distribution of wealth when individuals care for payoff differentials, Kyklos 53 (Fasc.2), 2000, 153-160. (with Steffen Huck) abstract pdf
Combining rational choice and evolutionary dynamics: The indirect evolutionary approach, Metroeconomica 51(3), 2000, 235-256. (with Manfred Königstein) abstract pdf
Perfect versus imperfect observability: An experimental test of Bagwell's result, Games and Economic Behavior 31 (2), 2000, 174-190. (with Steffen Huck) abstract pdf
Other articles
On the emergence of attitudes towards risk: Some simulation results, in: Computational Techniques for Modelling Learning in Economics , ed. T. Brenner, Dordrecht: Kluwer 1999. (with Steffen Huck and Martin Strobel) abstract
Fairness in Stackelberg Games, in: Advances in Understanding Strategic Behaviour: Game Theory, Experiments, and Bounded Rationality: Essays in Honour of Werner Güth, ed. S. Huck, Basingstoke: Palgrave, forthcoming (with Steffen Huck and Manfred Königstein).
Strategien der Erlösung: Über Aspekte der Rationalität in Richard Wagners 'Tannhäuser,' Wagnerspectrum, Heft 1/2007 (with Heike Harmgart and Steffen Huck)
Mergers without Cost Advantages, in: Issues in Competition Law and Policy, American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law, 2008, 1575-1588 (with Steffen Huck and Kai A. Konrad). abstract pdf
Abuse of a dominant position: cases and experiments, in: Experiments and Competition Policy,, eds.: Jeroen Hinloopen, Hans-Theo Normann, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (with Eric van Damme and Pierre Larouche) pdf
Bertrand competition with convex costs in symmetric and asymmetric markets: Results from a pilot study, in: Wolfgang Franz, Werner Güth, Hans Jürgen Ramser and Manfred Stadler (eds), Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung. Wirtschaftswissenschatfliches Seminar Ottobeuren 38, 2009 (with Cédric Argenton)
Working Papers
Private information, risk aversion, and the evolution of market research (with Sandra Güth and Werner Güth) abstract
Allais for all: Revisiting the paradox (with Steffen Huck) abstract pdf
The distribution of harm in price-fixing cases (with Jan Boone) abstract pdf
Tannhäuser's Dilemma: A Study in Rational Choice Hermeneutics (with Heike Harmgart and Steffen Huck) pdf
Naked exclusion: Towards a behavioral approach to exclusive dealing (with Jan Boone and Sigrid Suetens) abstract pdf
Collusion in experimental Bertrand duopolies with convex costs: the role of information and cost asymmetry (with Cédric Argenton) abstract pdf
Taxation and market power (with Kai A. Konrad and Florian Morath) abstract pdf
Who is (More) Rational? (with Syngjoo Choi and Shachar Kariv) abstract pdf
Work in progress
Bertrand competition with asymmetric costs: Experimental evidence (with Jan Boone and Amrita Chaudhuri)
Who frames narrowly (with Eline van der Heijden, Tobias Klein, and Jan Potters)
Bundling: Experimental Evidence (with Jeroen Hinloopen and Hans-Theo Normann)
Cournot competition with incomplete cost information: Experimental evidence for the textbook example (with Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel)
Links to co-authors
Cédric Argenton (Tilburg University)
Jan Boone (Tilburg University)
Rainald Borck (University of Pssau)
Michalis Drouvelis (University of York)
Jürgen Eichberger (Heidelberg University)
Dirk Engelmann (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Sven Fischer (MPI Jena)
Miguel Fonseca (University of Exeter)
Werner Güth (MPI Jena)
Heike Harmgart (EBRD)
Steffen Huck (University College London)
Manfred Königstein (Erfurt University)
Vicki Knoblauch (University of Connecticut)
Kai A. Konrad (MPI Munich)
Dorothea Kübler (Technical University Berlin)
Florian Morath (MPI Munich)
Hans-Theo Normann (University of Frankfurt)
Jan Potters (Tilburg University)
Alex Possajennikov (University of Nottingham)
Andrew Schotter (New York University)
Yossi Spiegel (University of Tel Aviv)
Sigrid Suetens (University of Tel Aviv)
Martin Strobel (Maastricht University)
Nick Vriend (Queen Mary & Westfield College, London)
Yaron Yehezkel (University of Tel Aviv)
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