Associate Professor, PhD


    

Education: PhD, Economics (University of Bonn, 2003)
Position: Associate Professor, 2010, Assistant Professor, 2008

Administrative Assistant: Thomas Stephansen
Mail: akoch@remove.this.econ.au.dk
Phone: +45 8942 2137
Office: Room 222, Building 1323  
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Alexander K. Koch received his doctoral degree from the University of Bonn for his dissertation "Contracting in the presence of career concerns" in December 2003. He worked as a Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London until August 2008, when he joined the University of Aarhus. One theme in his research is the interaction of career concerns incentives with explicit incentives. Current research projects are on the link between job assignments, promotions and incentives; self regulation through goal setting; and buyer reputation in auctions

Teaching Interests       

• Microeconomics
• Information Economics
• Financial Economics

Research Interests 

• Applied Microeconomics
• Information Economics & Agency Theory
• Behavioral & Experimental Economics
• Financial Economics

Selected Publications         

• A. Koch (with Eloic Peyrache), 2008, Mixed up? That’s good for motivation, Economic Theory 34(1),107-125.
• A. Koch (with Eloic Peyrache), 2008, Moral hazard contracts: Does one size fit all? Economics Letters,100(3), 399-401.
• A. Koch (with Albrecht Morgenstern and Philippe Raab), Career concerns incentives: An experimental test, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (forthcoming).