About

Dr. Matthias Greiff
Research Assistant
Department of Economics, VWL VI
Justus Liebig University Giessen

PhD in Economics (Dr.rer.pol.), University of Bremen (2011)

M.A. in Economics, New School for Social Research (2006)

B.A. in Economics, Goethe-University Frankfurt (2004)

B.A. in Political Science, Goethe-University Frankfurt (2004)

Matthias Greiff lives and works in Frankfurt (Main).

• my CV
• my page at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=668416
• my page at academia.edu: http://uni-giessen.academia.edu/MatthiasGreiff

Research Interests

• Experimental Economics
• Game Theory, in particular Evolutionary Game Theory and Agent-Based Modeling
• Philosophy of Science, in particluar Social Epistemology and Scientific Competition

Current Research

I am particularly interested in behavioral economics, evolutionary game theory and agent-based modeling. My current research concentrates on the motivational effects of social approval on the supply of collective/public goods and the emergence of cooperation. Using empirical results from behavioral economics to support my assumptions about individual choice and the nature of social approval I construct evolutionary games that are played on dynamic networks allowing for coevolution of strategies and structure.
I have related interests that still consume some of my research effort: social choice theory (with an emphasis on the distribution of cognitive labour in science) and econophysics (with an emphasis on business cycles and wealth inequality).

Conferences Attended & Presentations Given

2011

• 6-8th October, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (GfeW), Nürnberg.
• 1st June, Forschungskolloquium des Fachbereichs Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.
• 27th May, Promotionskolloquium, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Universität Bremen.

2010

• 10-11th Dec., Non-Decision Making – Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Bremen, Germany.
• 28-30th Oct., EAEPE, Bordeaux, France.
• 26-28th Febr., Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA), Philadelphia, PA, US.
  

2009

• 14-17th Sept., GAP.7: Reflections and Projections – Challenges to Philosophy, Bremen, Germany.
• 26-27th June, Assessing Heterodox Economic Research in a European Context: The Future of Heterodox Economics and its Research in a Non-Pluralist Mainstream Environment, Bremen, Germany.
• 18-20th June, Second Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), Minneapolis, MN, US.
• 28-30th May, Preference Change Workshop, LSE, London, UK.
• Feb.-March, Visiting Scholar, CPNSS, London School of Economics, UK (research during my time at the CPNSS/LSE).
• 27th Feb.-1st March, Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA), New York City, NY, US.

2008

• 6-8th November, Annual conference of the EAEPE, Rome, Italy.
• 9-10th October, Workshop on Formal Modeling in Social Epistemology, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
  
• June 17-18th, 10th International Workshop on Institutional Economics, Hatfield, UK.