Prof. Dr. Dr. Lydia Mechtenberg

• Associate Professor of Economics at the Universität Hamburg (tenured), since 2012
• Replacement Chair for Public Finance at the Department of the University, 2011 - 2012
• Post-Doc at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), 2009
• Senior Researcher at the Technical University of Berlin, Department of Microeconomics, 2005 - 2009
• Researcher at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Department Markets and Politics, 2003 - 2005
• Researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, 2001 - 2005
• Teaching Assistant at the Deparment of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, 1997 - 1999
• PhD in Economics, Technical University of Berlin (Degree: summa cum laude/ with distinction, 2006
• PhD in Philosophy, “Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz” (Degree: summa cum laude/ with distinction), 2004
• Diplom (equivalent to Master) in Economics, Free University of Berlin (best degree of the cohort), 2002
• Master in Philosophy, Free University of Berlin, 2000

• Behavioral Economics
• Experimental Economics
• Organizational Economics
• Public Economics
• Political Economics

2019

Lydia Mechtenberg und Jean-Robert Tyran: Voter Motivation and the Quality of Democratic Choice. Forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior.

2018

Buechel, Berno; Mechtenberg, Lydia; Petersen, Julia (2018): If I can do it, so can you! Peer Effects on Perseverance. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2018.09.004.

2015

Battaglini, Marco; Mechtenberg, Lydia (2015): When do conflicting parties share political power? Journal of Experimental Political Science 2, 139-151.

Danz, David; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; Schmid, Julia (2015): On the Failure of Hindsight-Biased Principals to Delegate Optimally. Management Science 61, 1938-1958.

2014

Dittmann, Ingolf; Kübler, Dorothea; Maug, Ernst; Mechtenberg, Lydia (2014): Why Votes Have Value: Instrumental Voting with Overconfidence and Overestimation of Others' Errors. Games and Economic Behaviour 84, 17-38.

2012

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Münster, Johannes (2012): A strategic mediator who is biased into the same direction as the expert can improve information transmission. Economic Letters 117, 490-492.

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Strausz, Roland (2012): Migration of the Highly Talented: Can Europe Catch Up with the U.S.? Journal of Public Economic Theory 14, 945-969.

2009

Mechtenberg, Lydia (2009): Cheap Talk in the Classroom: How biased grading at school explains gender differences in achievements, career choices, and wages. Review of Economic Studies 76, 1431-1459.

2008

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Strausz, Roland (2008): The Bologna Process: How student mobility affects multi-cultural skills and educational quality. International Tax and Public Finance 15, 109-130.

Jordi Brandts, Leonie Gerhards und Lydia Mechtenberg: Deliberative structures and their impact on voting behavior under social conflict.

Dirk Engelmann, Eckhard Janeba, Lydia Mechtenberg und Nils Wehrhöfer: Preferences over Taxation of High Income Individuals: Evidence from Online and Laboratory Experiments.

Berno Buechel und Lydia Mechtenberg: The Swing Voter's Curse in Social Networks.

Supplementary Online Material

Lydia Mechtenberg, Gerd Muehlheusser und Andreas Roider: Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence.

Arno Apffelstaedt und Lydia Mechtenberg: Competition over Context-Sensitive Consumer.

Lydia Mechtenberg: The Paradox of Integration: A Model of Relative Group Standings.

Das Verbundprojekt „DEMOS: Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe“ wurde von der EU für eine Laufzeit von drei Jahren bewilligt (Principal Investigator: Frau Prof. Dr. Dr. Lydia Mechtenberg, Fachbereich VWL). An dem Projekt unter der Sprecherschaft des ‚Centre for Social Sciences‘ der ‚Hungarian Academy of Sciences‘ (CSS HAS) sind europaweit 15 Institutionen beteiligt, denen für die Projektlaufzeit über 3 Millionen Euro zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Das Projekt verfolgt zwei übergeordnete Zielsetzungen: Zum einen arbeitet es auf ein besseres Verständnis des Phänomens des Populismus hin und zum anderen zielt es darauf, der gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen des Populismus durch die Operationalisierung des Konzeptes der „democratic efficacy“ zu begegnen.