Stephan Lauermann How Can We Assess the Nature and the Effectiveness of Informal Political Processes?
Stephan Lauermann is Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn. Having completed his PhD at Bonn, Lauermann has previously worked at Yale University and at the University of Michigan. His main research interests include bargaining, auctions, search and matching. Associate Editor of Theoretical Economics, Lauermann also sits on the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies.
Area of Research
Auctions and Bargaining
since 2014
Professor
University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) (more details)
Department of Economics
2014-2014
Visiting Professor
Yale University
Cowles Foundation
2011-2011
Visiting Professor
Northwestern University, Illinois
Department of Economics
2007-2014
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Department of Economics
2007
Ph.D.
University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) (more details)
Bonn Graduate School of Economics
2003-2004
Visiting Scholar
Northwestern University, Illinois
Department of Economics
2002-2007
Studies in Economics
University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) (more details)
Department of Economics
- Econometrica
- Review of Economic Studies
- American Economic Review
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
- ERC Starting Grant “Information Aggregation in Elections" (2015 – 2020)
- NSF Grant "Information Aggregation in Decentralized Markets” (2011-2014)
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University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Bonn is one of the large universities in Germany, with around 36,000 students, 550 professors, 6,500 other staff staff. It offers a wide disciplinary spectrum comprising some 200 different degree programmes, from Agricultural Science to Tibetan Studies. This diversity is what characterizes Bonn as a full-range university with a strong international orientation. In many international university rankings Bonn is placed among the 100 best universities in the world.Its academic and research profile features internationally renowned specializations in the fields of Mathematics, Physics/Astronomy, Economics, Chemistry, Pharma Research, Biosciences, Genetic Medicine, Neurosciences and Philosophy/Ethics. Other disciplines, such as Geography and Law, are of outstanding importance within the German research scene.
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The university is proud of a long list of award-winning scientists and scholars, with about twenty Leibniz Prize winners and around thirty ERC grantees. In the last three decades two professors have received the Nobel Prize: Wolfgang Paul (for Physics, 1989) and Reinhard Selten (for Economics, 1994). (Source: University of Bonn)
Institute
The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) TR 224 – EPoS
The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) TR 224 – EPoS is a cooperation between the University of Bonn and the University of Mannheim. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), it aims to analyze and provide policy proposals that address three key societal challenges: how to promote equality of opportunity; how to regulate markets in light of the internationalization and digitalization of economic activity; and how to safeguard the stability of the financial system.
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Informal political processes like polls, petitions and protests have become easier to organize in the social media age. In this video, STEPHAN LAUERMANN explores both the nature of these processes and how we can assess their effectiveness. Using game theory to analyze three dimensions of participants’ motives for taking part in informal political processes, Lauermann finds that where participation involves costs, this can aid credibility and thereby help to make a process more effective. With evident implications for social media, Lauermann’s research further demonstrates that small fundamental changes can significantly alter the nature of polls, petitions and protests rendering them difficult to predict and, potentially, very powerful.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10792
Informal Elections with Dispersed Information
- Mehmet Ekmekci and Stephan Lauermann
- Published in 2019
