Dr. Stefanie Schmitt

stefanie.schmitt(at)uni-bamberg.de

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Feldkirchenstraße 21
Bamberg, Germany

Telephone: +49 951/863 2684
Room:    F21/02.39

Short C.V.

2019  Dr. rer. pol., University of Bamberg

2013  M.Sc., European Economic Studies, University of Bamberg

2011  B.A., Philosophy & Economics, University of Bayreuth

Research interests

Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization

Publications

Schmitt, S.Y.; Bruckner, D. (2023): "Unaware consumers and disclosure of deficiencies," Games and Economic Behavior, 142, pp. 1018-1042, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2023.10.012.

Saur, M.P.; Schlatterer, M.G.; Schmitt, S.Y. (2022): "Limited perception and price discrimination in a model of horizontal product differentiation," Games and Economic Behavior, 134, pp. 151-168, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2022.04.002.

Schmitt, S. Y.; Schlatterer M. G. (2021): "Poverty and limited attention," Economics and Human Biology, 41, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2021.100987.

Working Paper

Schmitt, S.Y. (2025), Investments in environmental quality under limited attention, BERG - Working Paper Series No. 202.

Rozzi, R. and S. Y. Schmitt (2024), Vertical product differentiation, prominence, and costly search, BERG - Working Paper Series No. 190.

Schmitt, S.Y. (2022), Competition with limited attention to quality differences, BERG - Working Paper Series No. 184.

Schmitt, S.Y. (2016), Rational Allocation of Attention in Decision-Making, BERG - Working Paper Series No. 114.

Work in progress

Awards vs labels: Incentivizing investments in environmental quality, with Lisa Heidelmeier.

Fighting over environmental salience, with Stephan Eitel.

Awards, Grants, and Honors

Better research sabbatical (University of Bamberg), 2025, grant: 5,000 Euro.

Joachim Herz Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics and Interdisciplinary Business Administration, 2023-2026, grant: 12,500 Euro.

Teaching Award of the Institute of Economics for the course "Advanced Microeconomics," University of Bamberg, 2020.

BGPE (Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics) Doctoral Student Status, 2015-2017, grant: 2,000 Euro.