Dr. Stefanie Schmitt

stefanie.schmitt(at)uni-bamberg.de

Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg
Feldkirchenstra?e 21
Bamberg, Germany

Telephone: +49 951/863 2684
Room:    F21/02.39

Short C.V.

2019  Dr. rer. pol., University of Bamberg

2013  M.Sc., European Economic Studies, University of Bamberg

2011  B.A., Philosophy & Economics, University of Bayreuth

Research interests

Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization

Publications

Rozzi, R.; Schmitt, S.Y. (2026): “Quality investments and costly adoption,” The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, forthcoming.

Schmitt, S. Y. (2025): “Competition With Limited Attention to Quality Differences,” The Journal of Industrial Economics, 73, pp. 620-636, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joie.70007.

Schmitt, S.Y.; Bruckner, D. (2023): "Unaware consumers and disclosure of deficiencies," Games and Economic Behavior, 142, pp. 1018-1042, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2023.10.012.

Saur, M.P.; Schlatterer, M.G.; Schmitt, S.Y. (2022): "Limited perception and price discrimination in a model of horizontal product differentiation," Games and Economic Behavior, 134, pp. 151-168, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2022.04.002.

Schmitt, S. Y.; Schlatterer M. G. (2021): "Poverty and limited attention," Economics and Human Biology, 41, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2021.100987.

Working Paper

Eitel, S.; Schmitt, S.Y. (2026), Fighting over environmental salience, BGPE Discussion Paper No. 247.

Heidelmeier, L.; Schmitt, S.Y. (2025), Awards vs. Labels: Incentivizing Investments in Environmental Quality, BERG - Working Paper Series No. 206.

Schmitt, S.Y. (2025), Investments in environmental quality under limited attention, BERG - Working Paper Series No. 202.

Schmitt, S.Y. (2016), Rational Allocation of Attention in Decision-Making, BERG - Working Paper Series No. 114.

Work in progress

Policy interventions, salience, and aggregate emissions.
Emission abatement or emission shifting?

Awards, Grants, and Honors

Better research sabbatical (University of Bamberg), 2025, grant: 5,000 Euro.

Joachim Herz Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics and Interdisciplinary Business Administration, 2023-2026, grant: 12,500 Euro.

Teaching Award of the Institute of Economics for the course "Advanced Microeconomics," University of Bamberg, 2020.

BGPE (Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics) Doctoral Student Status, 2015-2017, grant: 2,000 Euro.