Diplom-Volkswirt Maximilian Rüger
room: FW 2440
phone: +49 (0)821 598 4209; fax: +49 (0)821 598 4232
e-mail: 
office hours, summer semester 2010:
Tuesday, 2pm - 3pm and on appointment
curriculum vitae
Maximilian Rüger studied at the Universities of Konstanz and Bath. He graduated from the former with a (Master equivalent) degree in Economics. Since October 2005 he is a member of the doctoral program „Quantitative Economics and Finance“ of the University of Konstanz. From October 2005 to March 2006 he was supported by a grant of the state of Baden-Württemberg. Since April 2006 he is employed at the chair for public economics of the University of Augsburg.
working paper
- "Reference-Dependent Risk Preferences of Higher Orders" (with Johannes Maier), Augsburg, December 2009, pdf-file.
The working paper or earlier versions thereof were presented at the following conferences:
August 24, 2010
25th Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA) in Glasgow (UK)
August 19, 2010
10th World Congress of the Econometric Society (ES) in Shanghai (China)
March 29, 2010
Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society (RES) in Surrey (UK)
November 14, 2008
3rd Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics in Copenhagen (Denmark)
September 25, 2008
Annual Congress of the German Economic Association / Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS) in Graz (Austria)
September 16, 2008
35th Annual Seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE) in Toulouse (France)
September 4, 2008
World Meeting of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP) / Society for the Advancement of Behavorial Economics (SABE) in Rome (Italy)
- "Measuring Risk Aversion Model-Independently" (with Johannes Maier), Munich Economics Discussion Paper 2010-33, Department of Economics, University of Munich, pdf-file at IDEAS.
Earlier versions of the working paper with the title "A Note on Measuring Risk Aversion" were presented at the following conferences:
September 12, 2010
Jamboree of the European Doctoral Group in Economics (EDGE) in Dublin (Irland)
September 10, 2010
Annual Congress of the German Economic Association / Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS) in Kiel (Germany)
July 11, 2010
World Meeting of the Economic Science Association (ESA) in Copenhagen (Denmark)
January 16, 2010
Workshop Experimental Economics - Inter- and Intracultural Perspectives of the BonnEconLab in Bonn (Germany)
- "Higher Order Risk Preferences: An Experimental Investigation" (with Johannes Maier), Augsburg, February 2010, work in progress.
The working paper was presented at the following conference:
July 11, 2010
World Meeting of the Economic Science Association (ESA) in Copenhagen (Denmark)
