Welcome to the website of Wolfgang Gick
Wolfgang Gick is a contract professor at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano and an affiliated researcher with the Research Institute for Industrial Economics IFN in Stockholm. Gick grew up near Meran/Merano and graduated from “Beda Weber” high school in the 1980s with a classical education in Greek, Latin and Philosophy. He is fluent in English, German, and Italian.

Gick is an economist by training. He received a PhD in Economics with highest honors from the University of Innsbruck and has held appointments at high-ranked places in the U.S. and in Europe. He was a visiting associate professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College for six years, after that in the School of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). His teaching includes game theory, intermediate and advanced microeconomics, industrial organization, public economics, corporate finance, macroeconomics, regional economics and growth theory (PhD level). Gick furthermore held long-term affiliations as a visiting scholar in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University since 1997 when he was a Senior Researcher at the ifo institute and a C1 assistant professor at the University of Jena, Germany. Gick is an outstanding teacher and became recipient of the campus-wide “Profiles in Excellence” teaching award at Dartmouth College.

Journal publications cover topics in mechanism design, contract theory, and signaling games. He regularly presents his work at international meetings of the Econometric Society, EEA, the Game Theory Society and other conferences and seminar talks.

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