Marcus Giamattei

Marcus Giamattei holds a Habilitation (2020) and a PhD in Economics (2015), both from the University of Passau. Before his PhD he completed an M.A. in International Economics and Business (2011), a B.Sc. in Business Computing (2009), and a B.A. in International Cultural and Business Studies (2009) there. Before coming to Berlin, he was an assistant professor at the University of Passau, where he is still an external fellow. He is also affiliated with CeDEx at the University of Nottingham, UK, and has been a visiting researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. His research has appeared in Experimental Economics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Plos One, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. A full CV can be found at giamattei.de.

His research interests are Macroeconomics and Experimental and Behavioral Economics. In the growing field of Experimental Macroeconomics, he focuses on bounded rationality and limited reasoning as an important driver of macroeconomic behavior. His second research area deals with the role of cooperation, ethics and corruption. He developed classEx, a tool for interactive classroom and lab-in-the-field experiments with mobile devices and LIONESS Lab – a tool for online experiments. Those tools enable instructors and researchers to use experiments outside of the lab and for teaching economics. classEx and LIONESS are used in over 50 countries around the world.

Courses taught at Bard College Berlin:

• Macroeconomics (always in Spring term)
• International Monetary Economics (always in Fall term)
• Principles of Economics (always in Fall term)
• Mathematics for Economics (always in Fall term)
• Introduction to Statistics (Spring 2020 and 2022)
• Mathematical Foundation (Spring 2020)
• Experimental Ethics (Spring 2023)

Research Interests

• Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Experimental Macroeconomics, Economics of Corruption and Experimental Ethics, Online, Classroom and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments.

Publications

• Giamattei, M. (2021): Can cold turkey reduce inflation inertia? Evidence on disinflation and level-k from a laboratory experiment. Forthcoming in the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
• Giamattei, M., Yahosseini, K. S., Gächter, S. and Molleman, L. (2020): LIONESS Lab - a Free Web-Based Platform for Conducting Interactive Experiments Online. Journal of the Economic ScienceAssociation. DOI 10.1007/s40881-020-00087-0.
• Dorner, V., Giamattei, M. and Greiff, M. (2020):The Market for Reviews: Strategic Behavior of Online Product Reviewers with Monetary Incentives.Schmalenbach Business Review. DOI 10.1007/s41464-020-00094-y.
• Grundmann, S., Giamattei, M., Lambsdorff, J. Graf (2019): Intentions rather than Money Illusion – Why Nominal Changes Induce Real Effects. European Economic Review 119, 166-178.
• Giamattei, M., Huber, J., Lambsdorff, J. Graf, Nicklisch, A., Palan, S. (2019): Who inflates the bubble? Forecasters and traders in experimental asset markets. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2019.07.004
• Giamattei, M., Lamsbdorff J. Graf (2019): classEx - an Online Tool for Lab-in-the-Field Experiments with Smartphones. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 29: 223-231. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbef.2019.04.008
• Lambsdorff, J. Graf, Giamattei, M. (2019): Makroökonomik - Vorlesung in Volkswirtschaftslehre. 6. Auflage. Course book for macroeconomics in the bachelor program (in German).
• Lambsdorff, J. Graf, Giamattei, M., Werner, K., Schubert, M. (2018): Team reasoning—Experimental evidence on cooperation from centipede games. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0206666.
• Lambsdorff, J. Graf, Giamattei, M., Werner, K. (2017): How Fragile Is Conditional Cooperation? A Field Experiment with Smartphones during the 2014 Soccer World Cup. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 30(2): 492-501. DOI: 10.1002/bdm.1968