- Function:
- Head of Department
- Phone:
- +43 463 2700 4141
- E-mail:
- Paul [dot] Schweinzer [at] aau [dot] at
- Room:
- B02.2.63a
- Consultation hours:
- Thursday 10-12 (during semester holidays from 10-11) or via BBB https://classroom.aau.at/b/pas-4y3-xxz
- Economics
- Mechanismusdesign
- Mikroökonomie
- Spieltheorie
Recent work
“A theory of entrepreneurship”, with Alex Gershkov and J. Li.
“Contesting fake news”, with Daniel Rehsmann and Beatrice Roussillon.
“Surrogacy and safe tripartite matching”, with Zaifu Yang. Working paper.
Selected Publications
“A threshold model of urban development”, with A. Vesperoni, forthcoming in International Journal of Game Theory, 2023.
“Auctioning risk: The all-pay auction under mean-variance preferences”, with B. Klose, Economic Theory, 73, 2022, 881-916.
““Dream teams and the Apollo effect”, with A. Gershkov, Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, 6, 2021, 113-148.
“The parental co-immunization hypothesis: An observational competing risks analysis”, with Miguel Portela, Scientific Reports, 9:2493, 2019.
“How to share it out: The value of information in teams”, with A. Gershkov and J. Li, Journal of Economic Theory, 162, 2016, 261-304.
“Agreeing on efficient emissions reduction”, with O. Bos and B. Roussillon, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 118(4), 2016, 785-815.
“Implementation without Incentive Compatibility: Two Stories with Partially Informed Planners”, with M. Shimoji, Games and Economic Behavior, 91, 2015, 258-267.
“Probabilistic Procurement Auctions”, with T. Giebe, Review of Economic Design, 19, 2015, 25-46.
“Consuming your way to Efficiency: Public goods provision through non-distortionary tax lotteries”, with T. Giebe, European Journal of Political Economy, 36, 2014, 1-12.
“All-pay-all aspects of political decision making”, with T. Giebe, Public Choice, 161(1), 2014, 73-90.
“The optimal prize structure of symmetric Tullock contests”, with E. Segev, Public Choice, 153(1), 2012, 69-82.
“When queueing is better than push and shove”, with Alex Gershkov, International Journal of Game Theory, 39(3), 2010, 409-430.
“Sequential bargaining with common values”, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 46, 2010, 109-121.
“Efficient Tournaments within Teams”, with Alex Gershkov and Jianpei Li, RAND Journal of Economics, 40(1), Spring 2009, 103-119.
“Labour market recruiting with intermediaries”, Review of Economic Design, 12(2), 2008, 119-127.
“The Roles of Stories in Applying Game Theory”, with Till Grüne-Yanoff, Journal of Economic Methodology, 15(2), 2008, 131-146.
“Two competing paradigms in Austrian economic theory”, Notizie di Politeia, 59, 2000, 44-66.
Full details of publications can be found at RePEc.
Editorial services
Co-editor of the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design
Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design
2020 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design
Our 2020 conference will take place in an online environment on Thursday-Saturday, 11th-13th June 2020, hosted at the Department of Economics, Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt/Celovec, Austria.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is impossible to carry out this conference as originally planned. Hence, we organize an open, “virtual” conference instead of a physical meeting and thereby hope to benefit the community. Click here for the call for papers.
The confirmed keynote speakers are:
- Pierpaolo Battigalli, Bocconi University
- Johannes Hörner, Yale University
- Benny Moldovanu, University of Bonn
Public lectures
Ökonomie und Impfstrategie: SARS-CoV-2 Impfungen zu verkaufen!? Die Presse, February 15, 2021.
“Belt & Road: Forschungskooperation in Ökonomischer Theorie zwischen China & Österreich”, 5. China Forum, November 6, 2020.
Self-amendment and Gödel’s loophole. Austrian Research & Innovation Talk, September 17, 2020.
Ökonomische Perspektiven des Lebensmittellabelings (am Beispiel von Bioprodukten). 6. “WIWI-aktuell” Vortrags- und Diskussionsreihe, October 29, 2015.
Spieltheorie und Ökonomie. Volkswirtschaftliche Gesellschaft Kärnten, April 6, 2016.
The leisure of the theory class. Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Antrittsvorlesung, May 25, 2016.
Science meets Sports. Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, April 19, 2018.
