Prof. Dr. Dorothea Kübler
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D-10785 Berlin
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Dorothea Kübler is the director of the department “Market Behavior” at the WZB and a professor of Economics at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her research uses experimental methods and game theory to examine decision-making and market design. In recent years, her work has concentrated on the design of matching markets, such as the centralized procedure for awarding places at universities in Germany. She also studies the influence of social and moral norms on behavior, as well as educational choices, discrimination, and the role of AI in the labor market. In 2020 Dorothea Kübler was awarded the Schader Prize and in 2023 the Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW).
Dorothea is Vice Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), Department Editor of the journal Management Science, and Vice Chair of the Einstein Foundation Berlin. She is a founding member of the “Matching in Practice” network and a member of the collaborative research center CRC TRR 190 “Rationality and Competition” and the cluster of excellence SCRIPTS. Dorothea studied in Philadelphia, Konstanz, and Berlin, and in 1992 completed her degree in Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin. She graduated with a PhD in 1997 and completed her habilitation in 2003 at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Selected Publications
Preference Discovery in University Admissions: The Case for Dynamic Multi-offer Mechanisms
Julien Grenet, YingHua He and Dorothea Kübler
Journal of Political Economy 130(6), 1427-1476, 2022
How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Booking Systems
Rustamdjan Hakimov, C.-Philipp Heller, Dorothea Kübler and Morimitsu Kurino
American Economic Review, 111(7), 2127-51, 2021
YouTube Clip, IPP Note (in French)
Experiments on Centralized School Choice and College Admissions: A Survey
Rustamdjan Hakimov and Dorothea Kübler
Experimental Economics (2020), abrufbar hier
Previous Version: Experiments on Matching Markets
College admissions with entrance exams: Centralized versus decentralized
Isa E. Hafalir, Rustamdjan Hakimov, Dorothea Kübler and Morimitsu Kurino
Journal of Economic Theory, 176, 886-934, 2018
Clean up your own mess: An experimental study of moral responsibility and efficiency
Michael Jakob, Dorothea Kübler, Jan Christoph Steckel and Roel van Veldhuizen
Journal of Public Economics, 155, 138–146, 2017. Online Appendix. Data Files.
The willingness to pay–willingness to accept gap: A failed replication of Plott and Zeiler
Dietmar Fehr, Rustamdjan Hakimov and Dorothea Kübler
European Economic Review 78, 120–128, 2015
On the failure of hindsight-biased principals to delegate optimally
David Danz, Dorothea Kübler, Lydia Mechtenberg and Julia Schmid
Management Science 61(8), 1938–1959, 2015
Implementing quotas in university admissions:
An experimental analysis
Sebastian Braun, Nadja Dwenger, Dorothea Kübler and Alexander Westkamp
Games and Economic Behavior85, 232–251, 2014
Why votes have a value
Ingolf Dittmann, Dorothea Kübler, Ernst Maug and Lydia Mechtenberg
Games and Economic Behavior 84, 17–38, 2014
Price versus privacy: an experiment into the competitive advantage of collecting less personal information
Sören Preibusch, Dorothea Kübler and Alastair R. Beresford
Electronic Commerce Research 13: 4, 423–455, 2013
Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms
Steffen Huck, Dorothea Kübler and Jörgen Weibull
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 83: 2, 173–185, 2012
Information and Beliefs in a Repeated Normal-form Game
Dietmar Fehr, Dorothea Kübler and David Danz
Experimental Economics 15: 4, 622–640, 2012
Unwillingness to Pay for Privacy: A Field Experiment
Alastair R. Beresford, Dorothea Kübler and Sören Preibusch
Economics Letters 112, 25–27, 2012
Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition
Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel and Dorothea Kübler
Journal of Economic Psychology32, 797–808, 2011
Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off: An Empirical Study of Centralised University Admissions in Germany
Sebastian Braun, Nadja Dwenger and Dorothea Kübler
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 10: 1 (Advances), Article 22, 2010(Direct Link)