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, and welfare. 

I study how agents acquire information and search in unknown and competitive environments, how their decisions shape outcomes at the system level, and what this implies for social welfare. My motivating domain is innovation and technical change. Further, I am interested in how policymakers can design institutions and policies that improve collective outcomes, despite facing similar informational constraints as the individuals they govern. 

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.