Sabrina Kierspel
Sabrina Kierspel, M. Sc.
Chair in Empirical Economics
Education
02/2018 – 07/23 | PhD student |
Chair in Empirical Economics, | |
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg | |
10/2012 – 10/2015 | Master of Science in Business Administration |
University of Cologne | |
Focused on Supply Chain Management | |
10/2009 – 07/2012 | Bachelor of Science in Business Administration |
University of Cologne | |
Focused on Finance & Quantitative Methods |
Fields of Interest
Empirical Research, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Game Theory
Current Research Projects
Empirical analysis of behavior in the loss domain
Since decades, distribution of money has been highly relevant in society. Besides the distribution of gains, losses are an important aspect in economics and in real-life. Every human being is confronted with losses, e.g. within a household costs have to be split or companies who cooperate have to allocate their losses and costs. Experimental game theory gives an approach to investigate the question of how to split losses in strategic decision-making situations. The project is motivated by the prospect theory. This theory indicates a different behavior between the loss domain and the gains domain. Moreover, psychological and sociological methods help to investigate the question and gives insights about the factors, e.g. fairness norms that affects these decisions. This project examine human decision-making process and their major influence factors in the loss domain.
This project is partly funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, VO 1677/4-1)