Strategic lying can help actors in some matching procedures to achieve their desired result. The two economists Dr. Britta Hoyer and Dr. Nadja Stroh-Maraun examined to what extent Paderborn students use this strategy in the clearinghouse of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics that matches students that want to write their theses to supervisors. Their investigation shows that students are aware of the incentives of this strategy.…

Recently successfully defending her PhD Thesis, we would now like to give you the chance to get to know Dr. Nadja Stroh-Maraun a little bit more. She has been employed as research assistant at the Chair of Microeconomics since 2013. Let's get to know her: I decided to work at the Chair of Microeconomics because… ...I was and still am very interested in microeconomics and game theory. And the atmosphere at the chair is outstanding. In a…

Simon Hoof published a brief note on dynamic oligopolistic competition in the Journal of Optimization Theory and Application (free access via: https://rdcu.be/b5GQW). Abstract: We correct the local stability analysis of the two-player case of Lambertini (J Optim Theory Appl 145(1):108–119, 2010). Due to a sign error, the steady state was mischaracterized as being stable, while it is unstable.