Prof. Dr. Jerg Gutmann

• 01/1984: Born in Schorndorf, Baden-Württemberg.
• 10/2003-05/2008: Studied at University of Stuttgart (Technisch orientierter Diplom-Volkswirt).
• 10/2008-09/2010: Studied at Philipps University Marburg (M.Sc. Economics and Institutions).
• 04/2010-09/2010: WiMi, Chair of Microeconomics, Philipps University Marburg.
• 10/2010-12/2014: WiMi, Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg.
• 01/2015-12/2016: WiMi (PostDoc), Graduate School on Economics of the Internationalisation of the Law, University of Hamburg and German Research Foundation (DFG).
• 01/2017-12/2018: WiMi (PostDoc), Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg.
• 02/2018-01/2023: Co-Investigator, Economics of Compliance with Constitutions (ECC), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, #381589259).
• 02/2021-12/2022: Principal Investigator, The Arab Databank of L&E, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, #57587944).
• 05/2022-03/2023: Acting Professor of Public Finance and Monetary Economics (W3, full professorship), University of Freiburg.
• Since 01/2019: Juniorprofessor for Behavioral Law and Economics, University of Hamburg.
• Since 2023: Affiliated Researcher, POLMIG: Determinants of Political Discourses on Migration.
• Since 03/2024: Principal Investigator, Does Constitution Making Matter? The Economics of Writing Social Contracts, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, #525707184).

A more comprehensive and up-to-date CV can be found here.

I specialize in the interdisciplinary fields of economics, law, and political science. My research primarily involves analyzing observational, experimental, and survey data, while I also occasionally develop game-theoretical models.

Selected Publications:

• Endrich, Marek and Gutmann, Jerg (forth). Pacem in terris: Are papal visits good news for human rights? Comparative Political Studies.
• Gutmann, Jerg, Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw, and Voigt, Stefan (forth). How do citizens define and value the rule of law? A conjoint experiment in Germany and Poland. Journal of European Public Policy.
• Gutmann, Jerg, Langer, Pascal, and Neuenkirch, Matthias (2024). International sanctions and emigration. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 226, 106709.
• Gutmann, Jerg, Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna, and Voigt, Stefan (2024). The comparative constitutional compliance database, The Review of International Organizations 19(1):95-115.
• Gutmann, Jerg, Neuenkirch, Matthias, and Neumeier, Florian (2023). The economic effects of international sanctions: An event study, Journal of Comparative Economics 51(4):1214-1231.
• Gutmann, Jerg, Neuenkirch, Matthias, and Neumeier, Florian (2021). Sanctioned to death? The impact of economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap, Journal of Development Studies 57(1):139-162.
• Gutmann, Jerg, Padovano, Fabio, and Voigt, Stefan (2020). Perception vs. experience: Explaining differences in corruption measures using microdata, European Journal of Political Economy 65, 101925.
• Gassebner, Martin, Gutmann, Jerg, and Voigt, Stefan (2016). When to expect a coup d'état? An extreme bounds analysis of coup determinants, Public Choice 169(3-4):293-313.

Data:

• As part of the DFG-funded research project Economics of Compliance with Constitutions (ECC), we have produced the Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database (CCCD).

An up-to-date list of my publications and links to working paper repositories can be found here. Datasets and replication files can be found here.

Since March 2019, I am the coordinator of the specialization in law & economics (SPB VI) at the University of Hamburg's law school.

• At the law school, I teach the “Introduction to Microeconomics” within the specialization in law & economics and the "Introduction to Statistics" in the general curriculum.
• In the European Master of Law & Economics (EMLE), I teach the “Introduction to Microeconomics”.
• I also teach varying courses in the Master in Law & Economics of the Arab Region (MLEA).

Students in the specialization in law & economics who are interested in writing a term paper with me can find information here.

A summary of my teaching activities can be found here.

My main knowledge transfer activities involve policy advice regarding measurement and empirical analysis in my areas of research.

I have advised the Access to Sustainable Energy Programme (ASEP) of the European Union and the Philippine Department of Energy on the statistical impact evaluation of newly installed solar home systems in the rural Philippines. This involved data collection of pre- and post-treatment samples and the analysis of collected survey data.
Starting in July 2021, I am participating in a task force on corruption measurement created by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to provide technical advice for a manual on corruption surveys.