Jana Cahlikova, MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance

has a PhD in Economics and Econometrics from CERGE-EI in Prague. She joined the MPI as a Senior Research Fellow in July 2015. Her research lies in behavioral and experimental economics, focusing on antisocial behavior, triggers of conflict, ethnic discrimination, and behavior under stress. She has run economic experiments in the laboratory and in the field, in Czechia, Slovakia, and Uganda. In the past two years, Jana taught (together with Marco Serena) a graduate-level course in economics of conflict at the Ludwig- Maximilian-University, Munich.

Subhasish M. Chowdhury, University of Bath

is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bath, UK since 2017. Prior to that he was at the University of East Anglia (UK). His research interests are Game Theory (with applications to Political Economy and Pubic Economics), Industrial Economics, and Experimental / Behavioral Economics. He completed his Bachelor and Master’s degrees in India before pursuing his PhD in Purdue University (USA). He builds theoretical models and uses laboratory/ field data to analyze situations of conflict and competition in general. Moreover, he pursues research on various topics on market and competition policies. In the area of Behavioral Economics, he investigates the reasons behind social/anti-social behavior, and behavioral biases in strategic situations. He has been publishing in internationally renowned journals, and guest edited special issues of ‘Economic Inquiry’ and the ‘Journal of Economic Psychology’.

Kai A. Konrad, MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance

is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich and a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. He is member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and of several other science academies. He was Co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics (2007–2018). He is a member of the Council of Scientific Advisors to the Federal Ministry of Finance (since 1999) and was the chairperson from 2011–2014. He published more than 120 papers in international journals, including Management Science, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Theoretical Biology and the American Economic Review.

Dan Kovenock, Chapman University

has served as a Professor of Economics in the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University since 2013. Prior to that he held Professorships at the University of Iowa and Purdue University, where he as Economics Policy Chairman from 1997 to 2001. He has previously served as an Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization and on the editorial boards of the European Economic Review and the Strategic Management Journal. He is currently a Co-editor of Economic Theory and the Economic Theory Bulletin, and serves on the editorial boards of Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of Public Economic Theory, and Social Choice and Welfare. He has more than 70 papers in international publications, including outlets such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, Management Science, Naval Research Logistics, Games and Economic Behavior, and Experimental Economics.

Marco Serena, MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance

has a BA and MA (summa cum laude) from Bocconi University, both in economics. He completed his PhD in Economics (summa cum laude) in 2017 at the University Carlos III, Madrid. Since 2016 Marco is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich. His research interest focuses on both theoretical and applied investigations of contests and conflict through the lens of game theory. His research appears in journals such as European Journal of Political Economy and Public Choice, among others. Last semester Marco taught a graduate-level course in economics of conflict at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.

Branislav Slantchev, University of California, San Diego

studies international conflict (military coercion, interwar negotiations, and crisis bargaining), authoritarian regimes (repression and collective action), and the emergence of the fiscal-military state (wealth assessment and parliamentary politics). His articles appear in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Politics, International Organization, and Comparative Political Studies, among others. His book on military threats was published by Cambridge University Press. He has been on the faculty at the University of California - San Diego since 2002, where he is now Professor of Political Science, and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University, University of Konstanz, and University of Luzern.