Christian König genannt Kersting

Assistant Professor
Economics , Jönköping International Business School
Presentation Publications

Christian König-Kersting is an economist specializing in behavioral and experimental economics. He investigates decision-making under risk and uncertainty, time preferences, social norms, and climate change mitigation. In addition, he conducts ambitious metascience projects designed to assess the robustness of published findings, improve scientific practices, and provide clearer identification of complex societal phenomena.

His work has appeared in leading field and general-interest journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Banking & Finance, the Journal of Economic Theory, and the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. His research has been covered by international media outlets such as Science, Nature, The Economist, and Le Monde. 

Since 2021, Christian has served as conference coordinator for the Society for Experimental Finance, organizing multiple international conferences, summer schools, and workshops each year. He also contributes to reproducibility initiatives that promote rigorous and transparent research. In addition to frequent seminar and conference presentations, he is committed to public outreach and has presented his work to general audiences as well as high school students, helping to make contemporary economic research accessible beyond academia.

For more information, visit Christian's website at https://ckgk.de.

Article

Kieren, P., König-Kersting, C., Schmidt, R., Trautmann, S., Heinicke, F. (2025). First-order and higher-order inflation expectations: Evidence about Households and Firms Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 233. More information
Diekert, F., Goeschl, T., König-Kersting, C. (2025). Attribution to Anthropogenic Causes Helps Prevent Adverse Events Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 12(5), 1165-1198. More information
Huber, C., König-Kersting, C., Marini, M. (2025). Experimenting with financial professionals Journal of Banking & Finance, 170. More information
König-Kersting, C., Trautmann, S. (2025). Grit, discounting, & time inconsistency Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 70(3), 201-223. More information
Gsottbauer, E., Kirchler, M., König-Kersting, C. (2024). Financial professionals and climate experts have diverging perspectives on climate action Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1). More information
König-Kersting, C. (2024). On the robustness of social norm elicitation Journal of the Economic Science Association, 10(2), 531-543. More information
König-Kersting, C., Kops, C., Trautmann, S. (2023). A test of (weak) certainty independence Journal of Economic Theory, 209. More information
Kling, L., König-Kersting, C., Trautmann, S. (2023). Investment preferences and risk perception: Financial agents versus clients Journal of Banking & Finance, 154. More information
Huber, J., Inoua, S., Kerschbamer, R., König-Kersting, C., Palan, S., Smith, V. (2022). Nobel and novice: Author prominence affects peer review Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(41). More information
Schmidt, R., Heinicke, F., König-Kersting, C. (2022). Using coordination games to measure beliefs Economics Letters, 219. More information
Heinicke, F., König-Kersting, C., Schmidt, R. (2022). Injunctive vs. descriptive social norms and reference group dependence Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 195, 199-218. More information
König-Kersting, C., Trautmann, S., Vlahu, R. (2022). Bank instability: Interbank linkages and the role of disclosure Journal of Banking & Finance, 134. More information
Trautmann, S., Xu, Y., König-Kersting, C., Patenaude, B., Harling, G., Sié, A., Bärnighausen, T. (2021). Value of statistical life year in extreme poverty: a randomized experiment of measurement methods in rural Burkina Faso Population Health Metrics, 19(1). More information

Book chapter

Füllbrunn, S., Huber, C., König-Kersting, C. (2022). Experimental finance and financial professionals. In: Sascha Füllbrunn, Ernan Haruvy (Ed.), Handbook of Experimental Finance (pp. 64 -72). More information