Dr. rer. pol. Thomas Giebe

© TU Berlin

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Raum: H 5144

Sprechstunde:

• in der Vorlesungszeit: Montag, 14 -15 Uhr
• in den Semesterferien: nach Vereinbarung

Telefon: +49-30-314-25539

Email

Research

Publications

• Optimal Contracts for Lenient Supervisors
  with Oliver Gürtler
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81(2): 403-420 (2012).
  This paper was awarded the "Walther-Rathenau-Preis 2008" of the German Economic Association for Business Administration.

• License Auctions with Royalty Contracts for (Winners and) Losers
  with Elmar Wolfstetter,
  Games and Economic Behavior, 63(1): 91–106 (2008).

• How to Allocate R&D and Other Subsidies: An Experimentally Tested Policy Recommendation
  with Tim Grebe and Elmar Wolfstetter,
  Research Policy, 35 (9): 1261-1272 (2006)
  Download instructions and screenshots (PDF, 179,1 KB)

Discussion Papers

See my discussion papers and preprints at SSRN

• Consuming your way to efficiency (PDF, 356,2 KB)
  with Paul Schweinzer
  SFB/TR15 Discussion Paper No. 352, revised March 2012


• Speculative Partnership Dissolution with Auctions (PDF, 227,8 KB)
  with Ludwig Ensthaler and Jianpei Li
  Discussion Paper, revised March 2012
  
  
• All-pay aspects of decision making under public scrutiny
  with Paul Schweinzer
  University of York Discussion Paper 11/27


• Innovation Contests with Entry Auction (PDF, 183,3 KB)
  SFB/TR15 Discussion Paper No. 307, 2010

• Effizienzsteigerung bei der FuE-Projektförderung durch wettbewerbliche Vergabeverfahren unter Berücksichtigung des Nachfrageverhaltens der Unternehmen nach Fördermitteln (PDF, 368,4 KB)
  with Tim Grebe and Elmar Wolfstetter in cooperation with Fraunhofer ISI and GIB, for the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), 2004

Curriculum Vitae

Education and Academic Degrees

2009: Dr. rer. pol. (Ph. D. Economics), summa cum laude, Humboldt University at Berlin, Germany,
Supervisors: Prof. Elmar Wolfstetter, Prof. Ulrich Kamecke

2003: Dipl-Volksw. (M.A. Economics), Humboldt University at Berlin, Germany,
Supervisor: Prof. Elmar Wolfstetter

University Career

2011 - present: PostDoc Position, TU Berlin

2011 (Summer): Stand-in professor (Vertretungsprofessur) for Prof. Roland Strausz, Institute of Economic Theory I, Humboldt University, Berlin

2009 - 2011: PostDoc, Institute of Economic Theory I (Prof. Elmar Wolfstetter), Humboldt University, Berlin

2004 - 2009: PhD student & Teaching Assistant, Institute of Economic Theory I (Prof. Elmar Wolfstetter), Humboldt University, Berlin

Research Grants

2004-2011: Participation in SFB/TR 15, project "Auctions and Competition" (Prof. Elmar Wolfstetter)

Refereeing

Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Economica, and the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Teaching Experience

• Industrial Organization (Bachelor, Summer 2012)

• Undergraduate Microeconomics (Summers of 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010; Winter 2010/2011)

• Graduate Microeconomics (Summers of 2005, 2007, Winter 2011/12)

• Auctions and Market Design (Winters of 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009)

• Introduction to the Economics of Contests (Winter 2009/2010, Summer 2011)

• Game Theory (Winters of 2009/2010, 2011/2012, Summer 2011)

• Information Economics (Summer 2011)

Research Activities

• Contests

• Game Theory

• Auctions

• Industrial Organization

Conference Presentations

• 2011: EEA/ESEM Oslo: "How to Allocate Subsidies Optimally"

• 2011: EEA/ESEM Olso: "Speculative Partnership Dissolution with Auctions" (presented by co-autor)

• 2011: "Tournaments, Contests and Relative Performance Evaluation", Raleigh, NC, USA, "The efficient provision of public goods through non-distortionary tax contests" (presented by coauthor)

• 2010: Verein für Socialpolitik, Annual Meeting, Kiel: "Knapsack Procurement"

• 2009: EEA/ESEM Barcelona: "Subsidies, Knapsack Games, and Dantzig's Greedy Heuristic" (presented by coauthor)

• 2009: Verein für Socialpolitik, Annual Meeting, Magdeburg: "Innovation Tournaments with Entry Auction"

Research Visits

• The University of York, UK, 2012

• School of International Trade and Economics, UIBE, Beijing, China, 2011

• The University of York, UK, 2011

• School of International Trade and Economics, UIBE, Beijing, China, 2010