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Julia Schwarz

+49 431 8806484 · j.schwarz@economics.uni-kiel.de · ORCID 0009-0001-0160-7862

Education

Humboldt University Berlin
10/2020 – 08/2023
M.Sc. Economics
Master’s Thesis: “Unraveling Uncertainty Aversion in Bargaining Games: An Explanation of Experimental Results from Greiner (2023)”
Justus Liebig University Gießen
10/2016 – 09/2020
B.Sc. Economics and Business Administration
Bachelor’s Thesis: “An economic analysis of the agency model in the book market”
Training as a Bank Clerk
08/2013 – 01/2016

Employment

Doctoral Researcher, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
09/2023 – present
Chair for Economics and Ethics · Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jana Friedrichsen
Teaching Assistant, Humboldt University Berlin
03/2022 – 08/2023
Chair for Microeconomic Theory and Applications, Chair for Econometrics
Student Assistant, Charité
06/2020 – 02/2022
Central Biobank Charité/BIH
Student Assistant, Justus Liebig University Gießen
10/2018 – 04/2020
Chair for Technology, Innovation and Start-up Management
Student Assistant, Justus Liebig University Gießen
10/2018 – 03/2020
Research Networks Behavioral and Social Finance & Accounting
Student Assistant, Justus Liebig University Gießen
10/2017 – 03/2020
Chair for Industrial Organization, Regulation and Antitrust
Bank Clerk, Sparkasse Bad Hersfeld-Rotenburg
02/2016 – 09/2016

Working Papers

When Music is Made by AI: Effects on Preferences and Willingness to Pay
with Jana Friedrichsen and Michel Clement · R&R, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · SSRN
Liar, Liar, LLM on Fire? Do large language models lie for their own gain?
with Florian Gärtner · Working paper, 2026 · SSRN

Work in Progress

The Machine in the Storefront: Detected AI Use in the Selling Surface as a Signal that Discounts Consumers’ Willingness to Pay
single-authored · experimental design in development

Presentations at Conferences, Workshops, and Research Seminars

2026
European Economic Review Summer School; Machine + Behavior; European Meeting of the Economic Science Association (Barcelona); Jahrestagung Verein für Socialpolitik (Innsbruck); Jahrestagung der GfeW (Frankfurt); Aarhus, Kiel and Friends Workshop
2025
Aarhus, Kiel and Friends Workshop
2024
European Meeting of the Economic Science Association; PhD Workshop on the Economics of Criminal Behavior

Teaching Experience

Winter 2026
Tutorial in Advanced Microeconomics (Master), Tutorial in Behavioral Economics and Ethics (Master), Seminar zu Wirtschaftsethik
Summer 2026
Tutorial in Game Theory (Master)
Winter 2025
Tutorial in Advanced Microeconomics (Master), Tutorial in Behavioral Economics and Ethics (Master)
Summer 2025
Tutorial in Game Theory (Master)
Winter 2024
Tutorial in Advanced Microeconomics (Master), Tutorial in Introduction to Economics (Bachelor)
Summer 2024
Tutorial in Game Theory (Master)
Winter 2023
Tutorial in Advanced Microeconomics (Master), Tutorial in Introduction to Economics (Bachelor)
Summer 2023
Tutorial in Econometrics (Bachelor)
Summer 2022
Tutorial in Econometrics (Bachelor)

Further Skills

Languages
German (native), English (fluent)
Programming
R, Python, LaTeX