Dr. Christoph Bühren
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer
E-Mail: buehren[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
Visitor address: Untere Königsstraße 71, 34117 Kassel
Postal address: Nora-Platiel-Str. 4, 34109 Kassel
Dr. Christoph Bühren is Lecturer at the Institute of Economics and Research Fellow at the chairs of Environmental and Behavioral Economics as well as Applied Microeconomics. In 2006, he received a diploma in Business Administration from the University of Würzburg. The following two years, Christoph worked in a project funded by the German Research Association on preference measurement for innovative products at the University of Jena, where he obtained his doctorate of economics in 2010. Since 2009, he has been working at the University of Kassel. Between 2011 and 2013, Christoph was Interim Professor for Industrial and Behavioral Economics (W2) at the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg and in 2014 for Behavioral Economics (W3) also at the HSU. From 2019 until 2021, he was Interim Professor for Economics at Clausthal University of Technology. His research interest is applied behavioral economics, especially in environmental and sports Economics.
Dr. Christoph Bühren will be interim professor for sports management at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in the summer semester 2022 and winter semester 2022/2023.
Journal articles
Bühren, C.; Gabriel, M. (2023): Performing best when it matters the most: Evidence from professional handball, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 19 (3), 185-203
Bühren, C.; Wicker, P. (2023): Environmental attitudes among Europeans: The moderating effects of volunteering and sports club membership, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 1-21
Bühren, Christoph, Jan Haarde, Christian Hirschmann, Janis Kesten-Kühne (2023) Social Preferences in the Public Goods Game–An Agent-Based Simulation with EconSim, PLOS ONE 18 (3)
Bühren, Christoph, Marco Pleßner (2023) IKEA vs Trophy Effect - An Experimental Comparison, Journal of Consumer Marketing, forthcoming
- Bühren, Christoph, Lisa Träger (2022) The Impact of Psychological Pressure and Psychological Traits on Performance - Experimental Evidence of Penalties in Handball, Journal of Sports Economics, 23 (1), 3-38
- Bühren, Christoph, Fabian Meier, Marco Pleßner (2021) Ambiguity Aversion - Bibliometric Analysis and Literature Review of the last 60 Years, Management Review Quarterly, 1-31
- Bühren, Christoph, Astrid Dannenberg (2021) The Demand for Punishment to Promote Cooperation Among Like - Minded People, European Economic Review 138, 103862
- Bühren, Christoph, Julija Michailova (2021) Social Ties and Money Priming in Bargaining Games and the Prisoner‘s Dilemma, International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics 10 (4), 59-90
- Bühren, Christoph, Valon Kadriu (2020) The Fairness of Long and Short ABBA-Sequences: A Basketball Free-Throw Field Experiment, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 89 (101562), 1-11
- Mauersberger, Felix, Rosemarie Nagel, Christoph Bühren (2020) Bounded Rationality in Keynesian Beauty Contests: A Lesson for Central Bankers?, Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 14 (2020-16), 1-38
- Bühren, Christoph, Tim Meyer, Christian Pierdzioch (2020) Experimental Evidence on Forecaster (Anti-) Herding in Sports Markets, Sciamus - Sport und Management 2020 (2), 1-27
- Bühren, Christoph (2020) Staff Rotation as an Anti-Corruption Policy in China and in Germany: An Experimental Comparison, Journal of Economics and Statistics 240 (1), 1-18
- Beck, Tobias; Christoph Bühren, Björn Frank, Elina Khachatryan (2020) Can Honesty Oaths, Peer Interaction, or Monitoring Mitigate Lying?, Journal of Business Ethics 163, 467-484
- Bühren, Christoph, Philip J. Steinberg (2019) The Impact of Psychological Traits on Performance in Sequential Tournaments: Evidence from a Tennis Field Experiment, Journal of Economic Psychology 72, 12-29
- Bühren, Christoph, Stefan Krabel (2019) Human Performance after Success and Failure - Evidence from the NBA, International Journal of Human Resource Management
- Pleßner, Marco, Christoph Bühren, Björn Frank (2018) Market Research with the Aid of a Smart Phone Application - A Case Study, Production Planning and Control 29 (2), 117-130
- Nagel, Rosemarie, Christoph Bühren, Björn Frank (2017) Inspired and Inspiring: Hervé Moulin and the Discovery of the Beauty Contest Game, Mathematical Social Sciences 90, 191-207
- Bühren, Christoph, Marco Pleßner (2015) Rating Agencies - An Experimental Analysis of their Remuneration Model, German Economic Review 16 (3), 324-342
- Li, Sha, Christoph Bühren, Björn Frank, Hayin Qin (2015) Group Decision Making in a Corruption Experiment: China and Germany Compared, Journal of Economics and Statistics 235 (2), 207-227
- Bühren, Christoph, Thorben C. Kundt (2015) Imagine Being a Nice Guy: A Note on Hypothetical vs. Incentivized Social Preferences, Judgment and Decision Making 10 (2), 185-190
- Bühren, Christoph, Thorben C. Kundt (2014) Does the Level of Work Effort Influence Tax Evasion?, Review of Economics 65 (2), 137-158
- Bühren, Christoph, Marco Pleßner (2014) The Trophy Effect, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 27 (4), 363-377
- Bühren, Christoph, Björn Frank, Stefan Krabel, Alexander Werner (2012) Decision-Making in Competitive Framings - Strategic Behavior of Chess Players in Mini-Ultimatum Game Chess Puzzles, Economics Letters 115 (3), 356-358
- Bühren, Christoph, Björn Frank (2012) Chess Players Performance Beyond 64 Squares: A Case Study on the Limitations of Cognitive Abilities Transfer, Talent Development and Excellence 4 (2), 157-169
- Helm, Roland, Christoph Bühren, Reinhold Pabst (2011) Using Warm-Up Stages Before Measuring Preferences for Innovative Products, International Journal of Product Development 15 (4), 227-248
Books and Proceeding Papers
- Bühren, Christoph (2019) Experimente in der Sportökonomik, in: Güllich, Arne, Michael Krüger (Hrsg.): Sport in Kultur und Gesellschaft, Springer Verlag
- Beckenbach, Frank, Maria Daskalakis, Christoph Bühren, David Hofmann, Florian Kollmorgen, Christian Kind, Jonas Savelsberg, Walter Kahlenborn, Stefan Puke, (2016) Verhaltensökonomische Erkenntnisse für die Gestaltung umweltpolitischer Instrumente, Umweltbundesamt
- Bühren, C. (2010) Präferenzmessung für Produkte mit hochinnovativen Attributen. Entwicklung und Vergleich von konsumentenspezifischen Aufwärm- und Attributselektionsphasen, Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen. ISBN: 978-3-86955-552-2
- Bühren, Christoph, Roland Helm, Reinhold Pabst (2010) Warming Up for Preference Measurement on Innovative Products, EMAC 2010 Conference Proceedings, Copenhagen. ISBN: 9788792569011
Recent Discussion Papers
- Bühren, Christoph, Marvin Gabriel (2021) Performing Best When it Matters the Most: Evidence from Professional Handball, MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 19 - 2021
- Bühren, Christoph, Maria Daskalakis (2020) Which Green Nudge Helps to Save Energy? Experimental Evidence, MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics 42 - 2020
- Khachatryan, Elina, Christoph Bühren (2020) Letting off Steam! Experimental Evidence on Inappropriate Punishment, MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics 39 - 2020
- Bühren, Christoph, Marco Pleßner (2020) IKEA vs. Trophy Effect - An Experimental Comparison, MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics 37 - 2020
- Asanov, Igor, Christoph Bühren, Zacharodimou, Panagiota (2020) The power of experiments - How big is your n, MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics 32 - 2020