Anna Pauls
Academic Interests
Applied microeconomics, applied game theory, applied econometrics, political economics, behavioural economics, environmental economics
Teaching
ECON4260 - Behavioral Economics: Seminar leader (Spring 2016)
ECON3200/4200 Microeconomics and game theory: Seminar leader (Autumn 2016, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2014)
ECON1910 - Poverty and distribution in developing countries: Lecturer (Spring 2016), seminar leader (Spring 2016, Spring 2015)
ECON1220 - Velferd og økonomisk politikk/ Welfare and economic policy: Seminar leader (Autumn 2016, Autumn 2015)
International economics (Master's level), Ferdinand Porsche Fern-Fachhochschule, Vienna, Austria: Lecturer (Autumn 2012)
Higher education
2012: Diploma in economics, University of Vienna
Thesis title: ”Offshoring and Manufacturing Wages in sub-Saharan African Countries”
2009: Bakk.phil (eq. B.phil.) in Sinology, University of Vienna
Honoraria
Master thesis award 2014, Austrian Research Centre International Economics (FIW)
Work in progress
"Read this, or you'll be dead sorry. Why secret services and criminal organisations sometimes make threats with unspecific demands."
"When repression backfires by signalling that dissent is worthwhile."
"Strategic ignorance and context"
Publications
- Lind, Jo Thori; Nyborg, Karine & Pauls, Anna (2019). Save the planet or close your eyes? Testing strategic ignorance in a charity context. Ecological Economics. ISSN 0921-8009. 161, s 9- 19 . doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.010 Full text in Research Archive.
- Lind, Jo Thori; Nyborg, Karine & Pauls, Anna (2018). Save the planet or close your eyes? Testing strategic ignorance in a charity context.. Memorandum from Department of Economics, University of Oslo. ISSN 0809-8786. 04 . doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.010
- Pauls, Anna (2021). Read this, or you’ll be dead sorry – Why secret services may use ambiguous threats to induce internalisation of control.
- Pauls, Anna (2020). Strawship borrows arrows: How an authoritarian government may refrain from repression anyway.
- Nyborg, Karine; Lind, Jo Thori & Pauls, Anna (2017). Save the planet or close your eyes? Testing strategic ignorance in a charity context.
- Pauls, Anna (2017). When the party doesn't want to be the emperor because the emperor is naked. Why competing players sometimes agree on an interpretation of the situation which they both know is wrong..
- Pauls, Anna; Lind, Jo Thori & Nyborg, Karine (2017). Save the planet or close your eyes? Environmentally friendly behaviour, uncertainty and social interaction.
- Pauls, Anna; Lind, Jo Thori & Nyborg, Karine (2016). Save the planet or close your eyes? Environmentally friendly behaviour, uncertainty and social interaction.
- Nyborg, Karine; Lind, Jo Thori & Pauls, Anna (2015). Would you like to save the planet? On responsibility avoidance with third party interference.
- Nyborg, Karine; Lind, Jo Thori & Pauls, Anna (2015). Would you like to save the planet? On responsibility avoidance with third party interference.
- Pauls, Anna; Lind, Jo Thori & Nyborg, Karine (2015). Save the planet or close your eyes?.
- Pauls, Anna; Lind, Jo Thori & Nyborg, Karine (2015). Save the planet or close your eyes? On the willingness to ignore potentially unpleasant information about the environmental consequences of one's actions.
- Pauls, Anna; Lind, Jo Thori & Nyborg, Karine (2015). Save the planet or close your eyes? On the willingness to ignore potentially unpleasant information on the environmental consequences of one's actions.
- Pauls, Anna (2014). Offshoring and manufacturing wages in sub-Saharan African countries.