Hi!
I am a fifth-year Economics PhD-student at Heidelberg University under supervision of Jörg Oechssler, you can find my CV here.
I write models and design experiments to address questions in behavioural economics and industrial organisation. I have also worked with field data from professional sports.
I completed the PhD-courses at Mannheim University and spent part of my fourth year visiting Ran Spiegler at University College London.
Contact me at julian.matthes [at] awi.uni-heidelberg.de.
Working Papers (ask me)
On the Demand for Mental Models (with Katharina Momsen)
- Theory+Online Experiments: Do news impact beliefs if they contain no new information, but only interpretations of publicly available data? How do people value such news relative to new information?
Publications
Don't Put All Your Legs in One Basket - Theory and Evidence on Coopetition in Road Cycling (with David Piazolo)
European Economic Review: Volume 170 (2024)
- Theoretical and empirical analysis: How do characteristics of competing groups impact cooperation within groups? Applications in road cycling and industrial organisation (cross-ownership).
Finding Large Rainbow Trees in Colorings of 
The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics: Volume 30, Issue 4 (2023)
- I prove that asymptotically, the bipartite graph with 2n vertices can be partitioned into n copies of any tree with n edges.
Work in Progress
Optimal Appraisal: An Economic Theory of Emotions (with Clément Staner)
Cross-Ownership and Public Good Provision (with Jörg Oechssler and David Piazolo)
Identifying Premeditated Cheating in Contests (with David Piazolo)
Economic Decision Making during Moderate Physical Exercise (with Carlo Dindorf)