Author: Markus

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University of Münster
Am Stadtgraben 9
48149 Münster

markus.dertwinkel-kalt@wiwi.uni-muenster.de
Phone: +49-221-470-4434

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News

• 09/2023: New publication: “Why “Energy Price Brakes” Encourage Moral Hazard, Raise Energy Prices, and Reinforce Energy Savings” is forthcoming in the RAND
• 09/2023: New publication: “Optimal Stopping in a Dynamic Salience Model” is forthcoming in the IER
• 09/2023: New publication: “On Correlated Lotteries in Economic Applications” is forthcoming in the JEBO
• 09/2023: Markus starts DFG-project “Designing & Structuring Financial Products to Exploit Retail Investors with Limited Attention“
• 09/2023: Markus starts DFG-project “Firms’ Response to Non-Directed Attention Allocation“
• 07/2023: New publication: “Oligopolistic Third-Degree Price Discrimination When Markets Are Covered” is published in the JINDEC
• 03/2023: New publication: “Resale Price Maintenance in a Successive Monopoly Model” is forthcoming in the JINDEC
• 12/2022: BMBF research project “ClimLabels – Transition labels in climate finance” approved
• 08/2022: Markus starts DFG-project “Defining what the relevant market is: A new method for (digital) antitrust“

CV

Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt is Professor of Behavioral and Digital Economics at the University of Münster, working on Industrial Organization and Behavioral Economics. Moreover, he is Senior Research Fellow at the MPI Bonn, CESifo Fellow, and External Lecturer at the University of Cologne. Prior to joining Münster, he was a Full Professor at the University of Konstanz and Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Markus has published in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, RAND Journal of Economics, and International Economic Review.

CV of Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt (2023)

Links

• Homepage at the University of Münster
• Homepage at the MPI Bonn
• Homepage at the DFG
• Homepage at the University of Cologne (C-SEB)
• Homepage at SSRN
• Homepage at the CESifo
• Profile at Google Scholar
• Twitter

Publications

24. Why “Energy Price Brakes” Encourage Moral Hazard, Raise Energy Prices, and Reinforce Energy Savings
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Christian Wey
RAND Journal of Economics, forthcoming

23. Optimal Stopping in a Dynamic Salience Model
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Jonas Frey
International Economic Review, forthcoming

22. On Correlated Lotteries in Economic Applications
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Sebastian Ebert, and Mats Köster
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, forthcoming 

21. Resale Price Maintenance in a Successive Monopoly Model
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Christian Wey
Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming

20. Oligopolistic Third-Degree Price Discrimination When Markets Are Covered
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Christian Wey
Journal of Industrial Economics, 71, 2023, 464-490

19. Concentration Bias in Intertemporal Choice
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Holger Gerhardt, Gerhard Riener, Frederik Schwerter, and Louis Strang
Review of Economic Studies 89, 2022, 1314-1334

18. Attention to Online Sales: The Role of Brand Image Concerns
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Mats Köster
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 31, 2022, 64–89
Coverage: WWU Münster

17. Evidence Production in Merger Control: The Role of Remedies
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Christian Wey
Review of Industrial Organization 59, 2021, 1–12

16. To buy or not to buy? Price Salience in an Online Shopping Field Experiment
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Mats Köster, and Matthias Sutter
European Economic Review 130, 2020, Article 103593

Coverage: Harvard Business Manager

Supplementary Material: Slides, Video Presentation

15. Salience and Skewness Preferences
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Mats Köster
Journal of the European Economic Association 18, 2020, 2057-2107 (lead article)

Supplementary Material: Slides, Online Appendix, Replication (2021)

14. Multi-Product Bargaining, Bundling, and Buyer Power
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Christian Wey
Economics Letters 188, 2020, Article 108936

Supplementary Material: Slides, Online Appendix

Working Papers

Salient Cues and Complexity (August 2023)
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Mats Köster
Revise & Resubmit at Management Science

Skewness Preferences: Evidence from Online Poker (June 2022)
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Johannes Kasinger, and Dmitrij Schneider
Revise & Resubmit at Games and Economic Behavior

What Drives Demand for Loot Boxes? An Experimental Study (February 2023)
Simon Cordes, Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, and Tobias Werner

Third-Party Funded Projects

• Defining what the relevant market is: A new method for (digital) antitrust (DFG, 2022-2025)
• Firms’ Response to Non-Directed Attention Allocation (DFG, 2023-2027)
• Designing & Structuring Financial Products to Exploit Retail Investors with Limited Attention (DFG, 2023-2027)
• ClimLabels – Transformation Labels for Sustainable Finance (BMBF, 2022-2025)

Teaching

SoSe 23 at WWU Münster:
– Behavioral Economics (BSc)
– Advanced Behavioral Economics (MSc)
– Seminar: Topics in Digital Economics (MSc) (MSc)
– Seminar: Media Bias (BSc)

Jobs

Interested in a job at our chair, either as a student assistant or as a doctoral researcher? Then feel free to write us an email!