Christian Decker

Christian Decker

PhD Candidate in Economics

University of Zurich

Hey there!

I’m a 6th-year PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Zurich. My main supervisor is Greg Crawford.

My main field of interest is Empirical Industrial Organization. In my research, I investigate how economic incentives affect strategic disclosure of information in different contexts, for example with applications to digital platforms and the clinical research process.

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Interests
  • Empirical Industrial Organization
  • Information Economics
  • Structural Econometrics
  • Machine Learning and Causal Inference
Education

  • PhD Economics, 2023*

    University of Zurich

  • M.Sc. Economic and Social Sciences, 2017

    Bocconi University

  • B.Sc. Economics, 2014

    University of Mannheim

Publications

Jérôme Adda, Christian Decker, Marco Ottaviani (2020). P-hacking in clinical trials and how incentives shape the distribution of results across phases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Christian Decker (2023). The Order of Move in a Conversational War of Attrition. Economics Letters.

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Working Papers

Christian Decker (2022). What's in an Airbnb Five-Star Rating? An Empirical Model of Bayesian Persuasion.

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Christian Decker, Marco Ottaviani (2023). Preregistration and Credibility of Clinical Trials.

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