S. Weiland

I am a PhD candidate at the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University. My research interests are in decision making under uncertainty, search, contests, welfare, and institutional design.

I am an applied microeconomic theorist interested in problems of decentralized, collective search. In particular, I study how decision makers of various kinds acquire information and search in unknown and competitive environments, with a focus on when private and social incentives diverge and how institutional design can correct this. My motivating domains are innovation and technical change, as well as collective action problems.

I am supervised by Jaap Bos and Robin Cowan. I hold a Research Master’s (MSc) in Economic and Financial Research from Maastricht University and a Bachelor’s (BSc) in Management and Economics from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.