Prof. Dr. Matthias Lang

Matthias Lang's main areas of research are contract theory, behavioral economics, decision theory, mechanism design and applications.

He offers several courses in microeconomics such as Industrial Organization and Contract Theory.

Publications

More information is available on his personal website, RePEc author page, SSRN page and his Google scholar page

1. Mechanism Design with Narratives

   CESifo Working Paper

   Matthias Lang (Working Paper on RePEc, SSRN)

2. Benefits and Challenges of Ambiguous Product Information

   Working Paper

   Matthias Lang and Cédric Wasser

3. Stochastic Contracts and Subjective Evaluations
   

   RAND Journal of Economics, 54(1), 2023

   Matthias Lang (Published Paper, Working Paper on RePEc, SSRN)

4. (Dis)honesty and the Value of Transparency for Campaign Promises

   CESifo Working Paper (2nd R&R European Economic Review)

   Matthias Lang and Simeon Schudy (Working Paper on RePEc, SSRN)

5. Signaling versus Auditing

   RAND Journal of Economics, 52(4), 859-883, 2021

   Helmut Bester, Matthias Lang, and Jianpei Li (Published Paper, Working Paper on RePEc, SSRN)

6. Communicating Subjective Evaluations

   Journal of Economic Theory, 179, 163-199, 2019

   Matthias Lang (Published Paper, Working Paper on RePEc, SSRN)

7. First-Order and Second-Order Ambiguity Aversion

   Management Science, 63(4), 1254-1269, 2017

   Matthias Lang (Published Paper, Working Paper on RePEc, SSRN)

8. Legal Uncertainty as a Welfare Enhancing Screen

   European Economic Review, 91, 274-289, 2017

   Matthias Lang (Published Paper, Working Paper on RePEc, SSRN)

9. Deadlines in Stochastic Contests

   Journal of Mathematical Economics, 52, 134-142, 2014

   Matthias Lang, Christian Seel, and Philipp Strack (Published Paper, Working Paper on SSRN)

10. The Fog of Fraud - Mitigating Fraud by Strategic Ambiguity

    Games and Economic Behavior, 81, 255-275, 2013

    Matthias Lang, Achim Wambach (Published Paper, Working Paper on RePEc, SSRN)

11. The Essential Tversky

    Journal of Economics, Book Review, 127(1), 91-93, 2019

    Matthias Lang (Published Paper, Open Access, DOI)