GSDS Graduates

Jule Beck
Food Insecurity : Causes, Consequences and Ways Forward
22.01.2024

Juho Alasalmi
“Three Essays in Microeconomics”
12.06.2023

Deepti Bhatia
“Three Essays in Behavioral Economics: On Identity-based Discrimination and Collective Decision Making”
27.04.2023

Henrike Biehl
"Three Essays on Decision-Making in Financial Reporting"
10.11.2023

Aras Canipek
Three Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance
20.09.2023

Marlene Koch
Essays in Finance
08.09.2023

Christian Mücher
“Three Essays on Estimating, Filtering, and Predicting Financial Volatility”
27.04.2023

Livia Shkoza
“Three Essays on Social Networks in Economics”
27.01.2023

Simon Roth
“Biased Machines in the Realm of Politics”
01.12.2022

Michelle Jordan
GSDS Member 10/2016 - 07/2022
Date of Graduation: 01/07/2022
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays in Behavioral Economics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Fischbacher, Prof. Dr. Goldlücke, Prof. Dr. Fehrler

Gerhard Fechteler
GSDS Member 10/2018 - 07/2022
Date of Graduation: 14/07/2022
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Time Series Analysis and Neural Networks in Econometrics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Brüggemann, Prof. Dr. Pohlmeier, Prof. Dr. Grigoryeva

Alina Greiner
GSDS Member 10/2018 - 05/2022
Date of Graduation: 27/05/2022
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Social Legacies of Civil War: Gendered Consequences of Conflict
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Anselm Hager, Prof. Dr. Anke Hoeffler, Prof. Dr. Scott Gates (Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO))

Nadiia Makarina
GSDS Member 10/2015 - 06/2022
Date of Graduation: 03/06/2022
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Attention as an Integral Part of Information Processing in Judgment and Decision Making
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Janina Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher

Kai Merkel
GSDS Member 10/2016 - 06/2022
Date of Graduation: 02/06/2022
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Resistance is Not Futile - Factors predicting Nonviolent Activism in the Nepalese Civil War
Supervisors: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Karsten Donnay, Prof. Dr. Anke Höffler, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Johannes Vüllers

Tjasa Omerzu
GSDS Member 10/2017 - 01/2022
Date of Graduation: 27/01/2022
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: The Art of Making Judgments: The Role of Feedback, Learning and Cognitive Representations in Judgments
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Janina Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Lyudmila Grigoryeva (University of Warwick)

Simon Roth
GSDS Member 10/2018 - 12/2022
Date of Graduation: 01/12/2022
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Biased Machines in the Realm of Politics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Susumu Shikano, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Karsten Donnay, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Lyudmila Grigoryeva (University of Warwick)

Kevin Tiede
GSDS Member 10/2017 - 01/2022
Date of Graduation: 20/01/2022
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: An Ecological Perspective on Decisions under Risk : How the Structure of the Environment Shapes Information Processing 
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Prof. Dr. Ellen Peters, University of Oregon

Nona Bledow

GSDS Member 10/2016 - 09/2021
Date of Graduation: 09/09/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Labor Unions in the Contemporary Welfare State : Preferences, Salience, Positions 
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Marius Busemeyer, Prof. Dr. Sven Jochem, Asst. Prof. Dr. Michael Becher (IE University Madrid)

Enzo Brox

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 09/2021
Date of Graduation: 25/06/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays in Empirical Economics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Guido Schwerdt, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Maurer, Prof. Dr. Ulf Zölitz (University of Zurich)

Sascha Göbel

GSDS Member 10/2017 - 03/2021
Date of Graduation: 26/03/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Methodological Contributions to the Study of Political Participation
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Peter Selb, Prof. Dr. Andreas Jungherr (University of Bamberg), Prof. Dr. Simon Munzert (Hertie School, Berlin)

Tamara Gomilsek

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 02/2021
Date of Graduation: 09/02/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: The role of Retreival Fluency - In Memory Based Decisions
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gaissmaier, Prof. Dr. Hoffmann (University of Bath), Prof. Dr. Marewski (University of Lausanne)

Nico Gradwohl

GSDS Member 10/2017 - 08/2021
Date of Graduation: 18/08/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Decision making in a social world: Coordination, recommendation, and ressource allocation
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gaissmaier, Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller, Prof. Dr. Hoffmann (University of Bath)

Lukas Kawerau

GSDS Member 10/2017 - 11/2021
Date of Graduation: 26/11/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Governments and the Net: Defense, Control, and Trust in the Fifth Domain
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Weidmann, Prof. Dr. Schneider, Prof. Dr. Gohdes (Hertie School in Berlin)

Dalila Lindov

GSDS Member 10/2017 - 09/2021
Date of Graduation: 27/09/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ursprung, Jun. Prof. Dr. Maurer, Prof. Dr. Potrafke (LMU München/ifo Institut)

Moritz Janas

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 03/2021
Date of Graduation: 24/03/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Four Essays in Microeconomic Theory and Experimental Economics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Fehrler, Prof. Dr. Gerald Eisenkopf (University of Vechta)

Bihemo Kimasa

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 01/2021
Date of Graduation: 11/01/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Essays on Firm Dynamics and Labor Market Flows
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Leo Kaas, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Findeisen, Jun. Prof. Dr. Haomin Wang

Theresa Küntzler

GSDS Member 10/2017 - 01/2021
Date of Graduation: 25/06/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Emotions. Facial Expressions as a Measurement & Effects on Political Attitude
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Susumu Shikano, Prof. Dr. Karsten Donnay (University of Zurich) Prof. Dr. Nicholas Valentino (University of Michigan)

Julie Schnaitmann

GSDS Member 10/2016 - 01/2021
Date of Graduation: 16/07/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Essays in Modern Time Series Econometrics with Applications in Macroeconomics and Finance
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann, Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier, Prof. Dr. Joachim Grammig (University of Tübringen)

Anastasia Simmet

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 07/2021
Date of Graduation: 20/07/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: GSDS Member 10/2016 - 01/2021
Date of Graduation: 16/07/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Estimation Techniques for Econometric Models with Endogeneity
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier, Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann, Dr. Helmut Farbmacher (TUM School of Management)

Simon Stehle

GSDS Member 10/2016 - 06/2021
Date of Graduation: 17/06/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays in Real Estate Finance and Economics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Marcel Fischer, Prof. Dr. Jens Jackwerth, Prof. Dr. Roland Füss (University of St. Gallen)

Maurizio Strazzeri

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 01/2021
Date of Graduation: 29/01/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays in the Economics of Migration and Education
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Guido Schwerdt, Prof. Dr. Luna Bellani, Prof. Dr. Hornung (University of Cologne)

Dirk Streeb

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 07/2021
Date of Graduation: 02/07/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Human Reasoning in Visualization and Visual Analytics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Prof. Dr. Ulrik Brandes (ETH Zürich)

Ruchira Suresh

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 03/2021
Date of Graduation: 23/03/2021
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: All's well that ends well : How do people perceive sequential percentage changes?
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Ass.-Prof. Dr. Janina Hoffmann

Maurizio Daniele

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 07/2020
Date of Graduation: 29/07/2020
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Regularization Methods in High-Dimensional Facotor Models
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann, Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier, Jun. Prof. Dr. Lyudmila Grigoryeva

Stephan Eckstein

GSDS Member 10/2017 - 11/2020
Date of Graduation: 16/11/2020
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Uncertainty and stochastic optimization : numerical methods, regularization and asymptotic analysis
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Michael Kupper, Prof. Dr. Jan Obloj, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Lyudmila Grigoryeva

Felix Gaisbauer

GSDS Member 10/2016 - 07/2020
Date of Graduation: 23/07/2020
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Distributed Choice Problems
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaißmaier, Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Prof. Dr. Gordon Brown (University of Warwick)

David Grammling

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 07/2020
Date of Graduation: 21/07/2020
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Heterogeneity of Social Norms
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Jun. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Fehrler, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaißmaier

Philipp Kling

GSDS Member 10/2016 - 12/2020
Date of Graduation: 04/12/2020
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: The Effects of Social Media on Opinion Formation Processes
Supervisors: Jun. Prof. Karsten Donnay, Prof. Dr. Peter Selb, Prof. Dr. Pablo Barberá (University of Southern California)

Mario Krauser

GSDS Member 10/2016 - 09/2020
Date of Graduation: 23/09/2020
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: From resource control to major assets: How Actors in command of mineral and oil extraction shape local development
Supervisors: Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, University of Essex, Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider, Prof. Dr. Tim Krieger  (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

Philipp Lutscher

GSDS Member 10/2016 - 01/2020
Date of Graduation: 27/01/2020
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Censor & Contend: The Use of Denial-of-Service Attacks in Autocracies
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Nils Weidmann, Jun. Prof. Dr. Karsten Donnay, Prof. Dr. Margaret E. Roberts (University of California, San Diego)

Sandra Morgenstern

GSDS Member 10/2017 - 12/2020
Date of Graduation: 17/12/2020
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Political Information & Migration
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christian Breunig, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anselm Hager (né Rink), Prof. Dr. Martin Ruhs (European University Institute Florence)

Max Reinwald

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 03/2020
Date of Graduation: 09/03/2020
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Diversity at Work - Drivers, Consequences, and Interventions
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Florian Kunze, Prof. Dr. Sabine Boerner, Prof. Dr. Stephan Böhm (University of St. Gallen)

Julian Schüssler

GSDS Member 10/2016 - 12/2020
Date of Graduation: 11/12/2020
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Causal Graphs in Political Methodology
Supervisors: Jun.-Prof. D. Anselm Hager (né Rink), Prof. Dr. Peter Selb, Prof. Dr. Macartan Humphrey (Columbia University New York)

Johannes Zaia

GSDS Member 10/2016 - 12/2020
Date of Graduation: 04/12/2020
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance and Governance
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Axel Kind, Prof. Dr. Jens Jackwerth, Prof. Dr. Florian Kunze

Robin Braun

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 01/2019
Date of Graduation: 11/07/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Identification in Structural Vector Autoregressive Models
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann, Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier, Jun. Prof. Dr. Lyudmila Grigoryeva

Sara Colella

GSDS Member 10/2016 - 12/2019
Date of Graduation: 19/12/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Positive Spillover Effect in Attention Dynamics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ulrik Brandes, Jun. Prof. Dr. Andreas Jungherr, Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher

YiYi Chen

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 09/2019
Date of Graduation: 28/08/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Mediation Paradoxes Revisited: Selection Issues in the Mediation of Violent Disputes
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider, Prof. Dr. Kathrina Holzinger, Prof. Dr. Torsten Svensson (Uppsala University)

Johannes Doerflinger

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 01/2019
Date of Graduation: 04/01/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Motivational Aspects of Moral Dicision Making
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Peter Gollwitzer, Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Prof. Dr. Frank Wieber (ZHAW Gesundheit, Winterthur)

David Dohmen

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 03/2019
Date of Graduation: 11/03/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Heterogeneity, Stability, and Cognitive Foundations of Social Preferences
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Prof. Dr. Peter Gollwitzer

Lucia Görke

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 07/2019
Date of Graduation: 11/07/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Leadership and Team-Regulation Effects on Performande
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Peter Gollwitzer, Dr. Lukas Thürmer, Prof. Dr. Florian Kunze

Phillip Heiler

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 10/2019
Date of Graduation: 25/10/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Statistical Inference and Estimation for Heterogeneous Causal Effects in Economics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier, Prof. Dr. Guido Schwerdt, Prof. Dr. Christoph Rothe (University of Mannheim)

Sebastian Hellmeier

GSDS Member 10/2016 - 12/2019
Date of Graduation: 06/12/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: The Causes and Consequences of Pro-Government Mobilization in Authoritarian Regimes
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Nild Weidmann, Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider, Prof. Dr. Joseph Wright (Pennsylvania State University)

Ekaterina Kazak

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 07/2019
Date of Graduation: 11/07/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Robust Inference in Economics and Finance
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier, Jun. Prof. Dr. Lyudmila Grigoryeva, Prof. Dr. Yarema Okhrin (University of Augsburg)

Tommy Krieger

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 05/2019
Date of Graduation: 20/05/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Machine Learning Indices, Political Institutions, and Economic Development
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Ursprung, Prof. Dr. Guido Schwerdt, Prof. Dr. Martin Gassebner (University of Hannover)

Lisa Leschnig

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 07/2019
Date of Graduation: 31/07/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Four Essays on Economics of Education
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Guido Schwerdt, Jun. Prof.  Dr. Luna Bellani, Jun. Prof. Dr. Tobias Kärner

Jana Mareckova

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 07/2019
Date of Graduation: 12/07/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Regularization and Machine Learning
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier, Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann, Prof. Dr. Martin Spindler (University of Hamburg)

Marco Menner

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 01/2019
Date of Graduation: 27/01/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Essays on Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jens Jackwerth, Prof. Dr. Axel Kind, Prof. Dr. Michael Kupper

Hendrik Platte-Burghardt

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 09/2019
Date of Graduation: 17/09/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Lobbyists Abroad? : Diaspora Influence on the Relations Between the Home and the Host Country
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dirk Leuffen, Prof. Dr. Nils Weidmann, Prof. Dr. Michael Becher (Institute for Advanced Study Toulouse)

Baiba Renerte

GSDS Member 10/2015 - 10/2019
Date of Graduation: 01/10/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays in Behavioral Economics : On Motives, Beliefs and Motivated Beliefs 
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Jun. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Fehrler, Dr. Susanne Fiedler (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)

Patrick M. Weber

GSDS Member 10/2016 - 11/2019
Date of Graduation: 29/11/2019
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: The Imposition and Effectiveness of Sanctions: ‘It’s the Economy, Stupid!’ 
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider, Prof. Dr. Dirk Leuffen, Prof. Dr. Clifton Morgan (Rice University, Houston)

Sebastian Bayer

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 03/2018
Date of Graduation: 19/03/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Improving Financial Risk Estimation, Forecasting and Backtesting
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier, Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann, Prof. Dr. Francesco Audrino (University of St. Gallen)

Franziska Deutschmann

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 01/2018
Date of Graduation: 10/01/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Socio-economic Transitions: The Case of East and West Germany
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Breyer, Prof. Dr. Georgi Kocharkov, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hinz

Timo Dimitriadis

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 12/2018
Date of Graduation: 13/12/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Estimation, Forecasting and Evaluation of Financial Risk
Supervisors: Dr. Roxana Halbleib, Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier, Prof. Dr. Yarema Okhrin (University of Augsburg)

Fabian Dvorak

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 11/2018
Date of Graduation: 28/11/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Heterogeneity in Conformity and Cooperation - Two Experiments and Statistical Software
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Prof. Dr. Susumu Shikano, Prof. Dr. Armin Falk (University of Bonn)

Anastasia Ershova

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 07/2018
Date of Graduation: 25/07/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Not so Powerless After All: Assessing the EU Commissions's Discretionary Power
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider, Prof. Dr. Fabio Franchino (Università degli Studi di Milano), Prof. Dr. Dirk Leuffen

Julia Göhringer

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 09/2018
Date of Graduation: 19/09/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Hot Air or Costly Commitment? Natural Resources and Sustainability Requirements
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Koos, Prof. Dr. Jale Tosun (University of Heidelberg)

Patrick Hauf
GSDS Member 10/2014 - 12/2018
Date of Graduation: 11/12/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Selected topics in Finance
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Marcel Fischer, Prof. Dr. Axel Kind, Prof. Dr. Johannes Schropp

Yvonne Hegele

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 05/2018
Date of Graduation: 08/05/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Bureaucratic Coordination in Horizontal Intergovernmental Relations: The Case of Germany
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Nathalie Behnke, Prof. Dr. Dirk Leuffen, Prof. Dr. Ulrik Brandes

Konstantin Käppner

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 10/2018
Date of Graduation: 22/10/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Disentangling Endogenous Dynamics in Turnout and Vote Choice
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Susumu Shikano, Prof. Dr. Peter Selb, Prof. Dr. Marco Steenbergen (University of Zurich)

Carl Maier

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 05/2018
Date of Graduation: 28/05/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Prices, Public Goods and Politics. Three Essays in Public Economics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Breyer, Prof. Dr. Michael Becher, Prof. Dr. Heinrich Ursprung

Arash Naghavi

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 07/2018
Date of Graduation: 03/07/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on the Economics of Government Intervention: Education, Jurisdiction, and Infrastructure
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Guido Schwerdt, Prof. Dr. Heinrich Ursprung, Prof. Dr. Michael Becher

Christian Neumeier

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 01/2018
Date of Graduation: 11/01/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Gender Inequality in Education and Income
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eylem Gevrek, Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hinz

Nathalie Popovic

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 10/2018
Date of Graduation: 19/10/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Judgments and Decisions about Risk: The Influence of Affect  and Stress
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier,  Prof. Dr. Jens Pruessner, Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher

Nadja Younes

GSDS Member 10/2014 - 07/2018
Date of Graduation: 20/07/2018
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Selected Topics in Corporate Finance
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Axel Kind, Prof. Dr. Marcel Fischer, Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips

Dominik Bauer

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 12/2017
Date of Graduation: 15/12/17
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Essays on Beliefs in Behavioral Economics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Prof. Dr. Susanne Goldlücke, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier

Daniela Beyer

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 07/2017
Date of Graduation: 20/07/2017
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: The Policy Consequences of the European Project: From Politics to Policies in the EU and the Member States
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christian Breunig, Prof. Dr. Dirk Leuffen, Prof. Dr. Matthew Gabel (Washington University St. Louis)

Peter Haffke

GSDS Member: 11/2012 - 06/2017
Date of Graduation: 30/06/2017
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Dynamics of information processing in risky choices: Making thorough use of behavioral data
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ronald Hübner, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Prof. Dr. Peter. N. C. Mohr (Freie Universität Berlin)

Jan Hausfeld

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 08/2017
Date of Graduation: 29/08/2017
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: How Pressure Affects Decision Making
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Prof. Dr. Ronald Hübner, Prof. Dr. Gerald Eisenkopf (University of Vechta)

Konstantin von Hesler

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 12/2017
Date of Graduation: 14/12/2017
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Three Economic Experiments on Norm Enforcement, Honesty, and Strategic Gaze
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Prof. Dr. Peter Gollwitzer, Prof. Dr. Gerald Eisenkopf (University of Vechta)

Friederike Luise Kelle

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 02/2017
Date of Graduation: 14/02/2017
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: To Claim or not to Claim? Territory, Violence, and Framing in Subnational Demands for Self-Determination
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider, Prof. Dr. Nils Weidmann, Prof. David Carter, Ph.D., (Princeton University)

Arpita Khanna

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 05/2017
Date of Graduation: 16/05/2017
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: The Oil Curse Revisited: Ownership Matters.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Luna Bellani, Dr. Michael Becher (IAST Toulouse)

Dominik Lober

GSDS Member 10/2014 – 12/2017
Date of Graduation: 18/12/2017
Title of the Doctoral Thesis:  Self-Interest and Solidarity in the "Silver Age" of the Welfare State: Older People's Preferences for Youth-Oriented Social Spending in Times of Scarce Resources
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Marius Busemeyer, Prof. Dr. Christian Breunig, Prof. Dr. Achim Goerres (Universität Duisburg-Essen)

Annerose Nisser

GSDS Member 05/2014 - 11/2017
Date of Graduation: 10/11/2017
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Cross-Ethnic Interactions and the Influence of Politics Evidence from Online Spaces and a Field Experiment in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Nils B. Weidmann, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christina Zuber, Prof. Dr. Ulrik Brandes

Anja Weiergräber

GSDS Member 10/2013 - 05/2017
Date of Graduation: 19/05/2017
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Ignoring and Avoiding Alcohol Stimuli: Cognitive Bias Modification Helps to Change One's Attitutedes
Supervisor(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Gollwitzer, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Prof. Dr. Peter. N. C. Mohr (Freie Universität Berlin)

Niklas Harder

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 07/2016
Date of Graduation: 19/07/2016
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Intrinsic Motivation in Party Politics: Explaining the full range of political behavior
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Susumu Shikano, Prof. Dr. Peter Selb, Prof. Dr. Peter Gollwitzer

Verena Mack

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 07/2016
Date of Graduation: 20/07/2016
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: The Fingerprints of Fraud: An In-depth Study of Election Forensics with Digit Tests
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Susumu Shikano, Prof. Dr. Nils B. Weidmann, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hinz

Sabine Otto

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 02/2016
Date of Graduation: 29/02/2016
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: The Grass is always Greener? Armed Groups Side Switching in Civil Conflicts
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Nils Weidmann, Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider, Prof. Dr. Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham (University of Maryland)

Espen Geelmuyden Rød

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 03/2016
Date of Graduation: 01/03/2016
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Protest Dynamics in Autocracies
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Nils Weidmann, Prof. Dr. Håvard Hegre (Uppsala University), Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider

Keshun Zhang

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 07/2016
Date of Graduation: 19/10/2016
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Fuel in the Fire: The Effects of Anger on Risky Decision Making
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Thomas Götz, Prof. Dr. Sarah Martiny (University of Tromsø, Norway), Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher

Maik Bieleke

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 09/2015
Date of Graduation: 21/09/2015
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: The self-regulation of information processing and decision making
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Peter Gollwitzer, Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher, Prof. Gabriele Oettingen (New York University)

Maria Breitwieser

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 04/2015
Date of Graduation: 17/04/2015
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Reciprocity in Labor Relationships
Supervisors: Prof Dr. Anja Schöttner, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Gerald Eisenkopf, Prof. Dr. Florian Englmair (LMU München)

Simon Munzert

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 07/2015
Date of Graduation: 09/07/2015
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Contributions to the Measurement of Public Opinion in Subpopulations
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Peter Selb, Prof. Dr. Susumu Shikano, Prof. Michael D. Ward, PhD (Duke University)

Constantin Ruhe

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 07/2015
Date of Graduation: 06/07/2015
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Diplomacy against Escalating Violence - Disaggregating the Relationship between Mediation and Conflict Intensity
Supervisors: Prof Dr. Gerald Schneider, Prof Dr. Nils Weidmann, Prof Dr. Tobias Böhmelt (University of Essex)

David Schoch

GSDS Member 11/2012 - 11/2015
Date of Graduation: 19/11/2015
Title of the Doctoral Thesis: A Positional Approach for Network Centrality
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ulrik Brandes, Prof. Dr. Nils Weidmann, Prof. Dr. David Krackhardt (Carnegie Mellon University)