Andreas Ortmann

Andreas Ortmann (born 28 January 1953 in Oerlinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German-born economist and Professor of Experimental and Behavioural Economics at the UNSW Business School.[2] He is best known for his work on experimental methodology in social sciences, heuristics and coordination games. Vernon L. Smith, in the acknowledgement to his A Life in Experimental Economics, described Ortmann as an "economic theorist, experimentalist, and intellectual historian par excellence in all".[3]

Andreas Ortmann
Born (1953-01-28) 28 January 1953
NationalityGermany
InstitutionUNSW Business School (2009-present)
CERGE-EI (2000-2008)
Colby College (2000-2001)
Bowdoin College (1991-1999)
FieldExperimental economics, Behavioural economics, Game theory, Industrial organisation, Public economics, History of economic thought
Alma mater
Doctoral
advisor		Steven N. Wiggins
Raymond C. Battalio[1]

Biography

Ortmann was born on 28 January 1953, in Oerlinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He obtained his BA in Political Economics and Mathematics from the Bielefeld University in 1980, his MS in Economics from the University of Georgia under the advisory of Donald C. Keenan, Martin Hillenbrand and Janet C. Hunt in 1987, and his PhD in Economics from the Texas A&M University in 1991 with a dissertation titled "Essays on Quality Uncertainty, Information, and Institutional Choice", under the advisory of Steven N. Wiggins and Raymond C. Battalio.[1] He also completed his habilitation in Economics from the Charles University in 2003.[4]

Ortmann took up his current position as Professor of Experimental and Behavioural Economics in the School of Economics at UNSW Business School in 2009, after having previously worked at the Bowdoin College as an Assistant Professor of Economics from 1991 to 1999, at the Colby College as a Faculty Fellow from 2000 to 2001, and at CERGE-EI (a joint workplace of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences) as an Assistant Professor from 2000 to 2004, Associate Professor from 2004 to 2005 and Professor from 2005 to 2009. He also had spells as visiting scholar at the Yale University and Harvard Business School, and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research and at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.[4]

His research interests include experimental economics, behavioural economics, game theory, industrial organisation, public economics and history of economic thought.[5][2] Ortmann's notable co-authors include Gerd Gigerenzer, Daniel Goldstein, Reinhard Selten, Werner Güth, Glenn W. Harrison, Richard Holden, Elisabet Rutström, John Van Huyck, Ralph Hertwig, Peter M. Todd, Andreas Blume, David Colander, Dirk Engelmann and Ben R. Newell.[6] He was nominated for the Ig Nobel Prize for his work (with Berhard Borges, Daniel Goldstein and Gerd Gigerenzer) on heuristics in financial markets.[7]

Selected publications
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References
  1. Andreas Ortmann. Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  2. Andreas Ortmann. UNSW Business School.
  3. Smith, V. L. (2018). A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume II: The Next Fifty Years. Palgrave. p. xi. ISBN 978-3-319-98424-7.
  4. Andreas Ortmann Curriculum Vitae (August 2019)
  5. Prof. Andreas Ortmann, Ph.D.. CERGE-EI.
  6. Andreas Ortmann. Google Scholar.
  7. The Ig Nobel prizes. Financial Times.
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