Arne Weiß

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

(Research Assistant)

University of Erfurt
Nordhäuser Str. 63
D-99089 Erfurt, Germany

Lehrgebäude 1
Raum 149
phone: +49 361 737 4526
fax: +49 361 737 4529

E-Mail: arne.weiss (replace ##) uni-erfurt.de

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Master in Economics at the University of St. Gallen 2005 

Diploma in Economics at the London School of Economics 2002

Vordiplom in Economics and Business Administration at Witten/Herdecke University  2000

Selected Previous Positions

Monitor Group (Zurich), Intern 2005 

Frontier Economics (London and Cologne), Temporary Research Assistant 2005

University of St. Gallen, Assistant of Prof. Dr. Baumberger (Economics) 2003 - 2004

International Center for Small Hydro Power (Hangzhou, China), Intern 2001 - 2002

Working Papers

• 'The economic virtues of political competition - how political competition limits confiscatory behaviour'
• 'When Relations Meet Power – Competitive and Strategic Power in Incomplete Contracts Markets' (joint work with Hong Geng and Bettina Rockenbach)
• 'Can Voting Moderate Power and Foster Trust? (joint work with Gari Walkowitz)
• 'The limited Power of Voting to limit Power' (joint work with Hong Geng)

Conferences

• German Society of Experimental Economics,  (GfeW), (October 2008), presentation: 'The economic virtues of political competition - how political competition limits confiscatory behaviour'
• Economic Science Association, European Regional Meeting (September 2008), presentation 'Can Voting Moderate Power and Foster Trust?
• Economic Science Association, European Regional Meeting (September 2008), presentation 'When Relations Meet Power – Competitive and Strategic Power in Incomplete Contracts Markets'

Research Seminars

• University of Zurich, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics (March 2009), presentation: 'When Relations Meet Power – Competitive and Strategic Power in Incomplete Contracts Markets'
• University of Bonn, (July 2008), presentation 'When Relations Meet Power – Competitive and Strategic Power in Incomplete Contracts Markets'

Research Visits and Summer Schools

• Southwest-Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, visiting researcher 2007 and 2008
• Advanced Sino-German Summer School 2008 in Chengdu, China: “Research Frontiers in Management Science and Culture – Experimental Methods and Applications”
• Sino-German Summer School 2007 in Bonn, Germany: “Culture and Behavioral Methods in
  Management – Theory, Experiments, Practice”

Scholarships

• Foundation of German Business, scholarship for doctoral studies 2005 - 2008
• Foundation of German Business, scholarship for university studies 1999 - 2005
• German Academic Exchange Service, scholarship for studying in Great Britain 2000 - 2001

Summer 2009 Public Choice