Professor Dr. Siegfried Berninghaus

Project C4

Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre III
Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Universität Karlsruhe

Siegfried Berninghaus is a member of the Economics Department at the University of Karlsruhe. Since 1994 he is head of the Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Economics. He was born in 1946 in the city of Wuppertal, and studied Economics at Bonn University. In 1975 he received his doctor degree at this university. His habilitation thesis, written in 1982 at Konstanz University, covered the problem of persistence of price dispersions in economies with incompletely informed agents.

From 1987 to 1994 he was a professor in the Department of Economics of the University of Mannheim. He was a member of the SFBs at the Universities of Bonn and Konstanz. His research interest include game theory, decision making under uncertainty and experimental economics.

Selected Publications

• Berninghaus, S., Ehrhart, K.-M., Keser, C. (1998), Coordination and local interaction: Experimental evidence, Economic Letters 58, 269–275.
• Berninghaus, S., Ehrhart, K.-M. (2001a), Coordination and information: Recent experimental evidence,Economics Letters 73, 345–351.
• Berninghaus, S., Ehrhart, K.-M., Keser, C. (2002), Conventions and local interaction structures, Games and Economic Behavior 29, 177–205.
• Berninghaus, S., Güth, W., Kliemt, H. (2003a), From teleology to evolution – bridging the gap between rationality and adaption in social explanation, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 13, 385–410.
• Berninghaus, S., Güth, W., Kliemt, H. (2005), Conventions – some conventional and some not so conventional wisdom, Homo Oeconomicus 22, 148–168.