Dorothea Herreiner received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In her thesis she analyzes trade relationships in decentralized markets. She focuses on the rules with which individuals decide with whom to trade and on the effect of these rules on market parameters.
Dorothea Herreiner did her undergraduate studies in industrial engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and earned a MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics, UK.
Before coming to LMU, Dorothea Herreiner taught at Bowdoin College, at the University of Bonn, Germany, and at The College of Wooster, Ohio; she also held visiting positions at the University of Mainz, Germany, the University of Frankfurt, Germany, and the Free University of Bolzano, Italy. [more]

Dorothea Herreiner is a microeconomist and game theorist. She is interested in how individuals make choices and how these choices affect and are affected by the circumstances under which they are made.
In her thesis and in other work, Dorothea Herreiner analyzes market institutions and rules. She has also recently finished several joint papers with Clemens Puppe on criteria that determine a fair distribution of objects among individuals. In addition to some more game theoretic projects, she has lately started to apply her knowledge of market structures to art markets (see gallery survey). Her work is published among others in the Economic Journal, Social Choice and Welfare, the International Journal of Game Theory, and Theory and Decision. [more]

Dorothea Herreiner teaches Principles of Microeconomics, Game Theory, Mathematics for Economists, Microeconmics, Economics of Art, Industrial Organization, Economics of Fairness and Justice, and others.
She enjoys supervising Honors/Independent Study projects on topics in her area of expertise. [more]

She is the LMU Experimental Economics Lab (LEEL) director at LMU. And, among other service activities, she also organizes the Economics Subject Pool and the Junior Faculty Seminar.

Dorothea Herreiner loves Italy; and travelling and languages in general. She is a keen photographer and enjoys classical music and other fine arts. She loves to ski, swim, hike, play squash, to play and watch basketball, and to spend time with her dog Hal.

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Contact:

Dorothea K Herreiner
Department of Economics
Loyola Marymount University
University Hall 4217
1 LMU Drive
Los Angeles
CA 90045-2659
USA

phone   +1-310-338-2815
fax       +1-310-338-1950
e-mail   dherreiner@lmu.edu
www    http://myweb.lmu.edu/dherreiner

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Alyson Ress
University Hall 4224
phone   +1-310-338-1887
e-mail    Alyson.Ress@lmu.edu

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