Research

As an applied microeconomic theorist, Matthias Lang studies human behavior under uncertainty. In particular, he is interested in uncertainty that cannot be quantified exactly. In addition, he explores useful aspects of uncertainty and contractual arrangements mitigating the effects of uncertainty. He has studied communication of subjective information, strategic uncertainty, and uncertainty in contract enforcement. He uses techniques drawn from game theory, mechanism design, decision theory, psychology, and probability theory.

Applications of his work include deterrence of insurance fraud and tax evasion, choices of unhealthy behavior, political competition, research contests and competition law.

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Contract Theory, Behavioral Economics, Decision Theory, Mechanism Design

You can find further information on his personal website.

Publications

More information is available on his RePEc author page, SSRN author 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 (Working Paper on SSRN)

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

   European Economic Review, 159, 104560, 2023

   Matthias Lang and Simeon Schudy (Published Paper, 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)