PD Dr. Oliver Kirchkamp

Project B6

Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre insbesondere Wirtschaftstheorie
Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Universität Mannheim

Oliver Kirchkamp is currently professor of economics (leave replacement) at Mannheim University and head of the experimental laboratory of the SFB 504.

After working as a free-lance programmer he studied economics at Bonn University and finished his studies in 1990 with a thesis on optimal taxation. Thereafter he did his Ph.D. within the EDP at Bonn University and the EHESS and DELTA in Paris on `Evolution and Learning in Spatial Models". In 1996 he went as a Jean Monnet Fellow for one year to the IUE in Florence where he became involved in experimental economics. Oliver Kirchkamp obtained his habilitation in economics in 2001 and is currently working on monetary policy, inflation, saving, auctions, and spatial interaction.

Selected Publications

• Christian Dustmann, Oliver Kirchkamp (2002), ``The Optimal Migration Duration and Activity Choice after Re-migration'', Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 67, pp. 351-372
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Benny Moldovanu (2002), ``An experimental analysis of auctions with interdependent valuation'', to appear in Journal of Games and Economic Behaviour.
• Michele Bernasconi, Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), ``Why do monetary policies matter? An experimental study of saving and inflation in an overlapping generations model'', Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 46, pp. 315-343.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), ``Spatial Evolution of Automata in the Prisoners' Dilemma'', Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Vol. 43, pp. 239-262.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (1999), ``Simultaneous evolution of learning rules and strategies'', Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Vol. 40/3, pp. 295-312.