I am Professor of Applied Microeconomics and Dean of the School of Economics and Political Science (SEPS-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen.
News
- SEPS Excellence in Teaching Award 2025
- SSES Annual Congress 2026 (“Industrial Organization and Policy”) at the University of St. Gallen.
Research Interests
Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Game Theory, Antitrust Law and Economics, Regulation, Economic Policy, Marketing.
Recent Working Papers
- Coasian Dynamics or Failures? The Role of Trading-Up Opportunities, with Nicolas Eschenbaum and Severin Lenhard.
- Product Design, End-of-Life Recycling and Waste Footprints in Circular Business Models, with Rachel Chen and Daniel Halbheer.
- ESG in Platform Markets, with Rachel Chen, Daniel Halbheer, and Helen S. Zeng; prepared for the Handbook on Digital Platforms, edited by Anthony Dukes, Daniel Sokol, Tianshu Sun, and Feng Zhu, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
- Dynamic Pricing in Bilateral Relationships: Experimental Evidence, with Thomas Epper, Nicolas Eschenbaum and Roberta Koch.
Selected Publications
- Carbon Footprinting and Pricing Under Climate Concerns, with Marco Bertini, Daniel Halbheer and Donald R. Lehmann, Journal of Marketing, 2022, 86(2), 186-201.
* Winner of the Rigor & Relevance Research Award 2021, Swiss Academy of Marketing Science. - Explaining Escalating Fines and Prices: A Unified Approach, with Nicolas Eschenbaum, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 171, 2020, 153-164.
- Payment Evasion, with Daniel Halbheer and Michael Lechner, Journal of Industrial Economics, 65(4), 2017, 804-832.
- Making Sense of Nonbinding Retail-Price Recommendations, with Dennis L. Gärtner, American Economic Review 103(1), 2013, 335-359.