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Dr. Henning Hermes

Economist
Deputy Director of the Ludwig Erhard ifo Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics

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Dr. Henning Hermes, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Stellvertretender Leiter des Ludwig Erhard ifo Zentrum für Soziale Marktwirtschaft und Institutionenökonomik

Main Focus

  • Behavioral Economics
  • Experimental Economics
  • Economics of Education

Professional Experience

since 08/2023

Economist, Ludwig Erhard ifo Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics

11/2021 – 07/2023

Postdoctoral Researcher, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
 

11/2017 – 10/2021

Postdoctoral Researcher, FAIR Center of Excellence, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) Bergen/Norway

09/2011 – 10/2017

(Post)Doctoral Researcher, Chair of Public and Behavioral Economics, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Recent Publications

Publication Forthcoming

Eva M. Berger, Ernst Fehr, Henning Hermes, Daniel Schunk, Kirsten Winkel

Journal of Political Economy

Publication 2023

Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Henning Hermes, Marit Skivenes, Bertil Tungodden

CESifo Working Paper No. 10441

Publication 2023

Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold

AEA: Papers & Proceedings, 113, 427-431

  • Contributions to Refereed Journals
      • Contribution in Refereed Journal
        The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
        Eva M. Berger, Ernst Fehr, Henning Hermes, Daniel Schunk, Kirsten Winkel
        Forthcoming
        Journal of Political Economy
      • Contribution in Refereed Journal
        Teaching Self-regulation
        Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Henning Hermes, Daniel Schunk, Kirsten Winkel
        2022
        Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 1680-1690
      • Contribution in Refereed Journal
        Self-regulation Training and Job Search Input: A Natural Field Experiment Within an Active Labor Market Program
        Eva Berger, Henning Hermes, Günther König, Felix Schmidt, Daniel Schunk
        2022
        Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 98, 101858
      • Contribution in Refereed Journal
        Motivating Low-Achievers—Relative Performance Feedback in Primary Schools
        Henning Hermes, Martin Huschens, Franz Rothlauf, Daniel Schunk
        2021
        Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 187, 45-59
      • Contribution in Refereed Journal
        If you could read my mind—An Experimental Beauty-Contest Game with Children
        Henning Hermes, Daniel Schunk
        2021
        Experimental Economics, 25, 229-253
      • Contribution in Refereed Journal
        Do Children Cooperate Conditionally? Adapting the Strategy Method for First-Graders
        H. Hermes, F. Hett, M. Mechtel, F. Schmidt, D. Schunk, V. Wagner
        2020
        Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 179, 638-652
  • Working Papers
  • Further Publications
  • Projects
  • Academic Background
    • 10/2011 – 06/2017 PhD in Behavioral Economics (Supervisors: Daniel Schunk & Ernst Fehr)
      10/2008 – 03/2013 Diploma in Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
      04/2007 – 08/2011 Diploma in Economics, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
      08/2005 – 01/2007 Apprenticeship as a qualified bank clerk, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba), Frankfurt

  • Events
  • Media contributions
  • Press releases
  • Scholarships, Awards and Prizes
    • since 2022 Add-on Fellowship of the Joachim Herz Foundation
      2019 – 2023 Fellow of CIDER (College for Interdisciplinary Education Research)
      2014 – 2016 Member of the Gutenberg Academy for Young Researchers, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

  • Affiliations
    • Research Affiliate at FAIR Center of Excellence, NHH Bergen
      Research Affiliate at DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
      Research Affiliate at CEPR 
      Research Affiliate at CESifo
      Research Affiliate at IZA

  • Teaching
    • Spring 2023 Lecture and Seminar on Experimental Economics (BSc)
      Fall 2022 Lecture on Experimental Economic (MSc and PhD)
      Spring 2022 Lecture on Experimental Economics (BSc)
      Fall 2021 Tutorial and Seminar on Empirical Public Economics (BSc)
      2018 (2021) 5x Lecture on Behavioral Economics (MSc)
      Fall 2017 Seminar on Inequality Economic Analysis and Policy Recommendations (BSc)
      Spring 2017 Tutorial on Behavioral Economics (MSc)
      Fall 2016 Tutorial on Principles of Public Economics (MSc)
      Spring 2015 Lecture and Tutorial on Behavioral Economics (MSc)
      Spring 2014 Seminar on Scarcity | Why Having Too Little Means So Much (BSc)
      Spring 2013 Seminar on Public Economic Theory (MSc)
      Fall 2012 Seminar on Theories and Models on Intertemporal Choice (MSc)
      Spring 2012 Seminar on Social Preferences (MSc)
      Fall 2011 Tutorial on MATLAB in Public Economics (BSc)

      All courses for MSc were taught in English, courses for BSc in German