https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5199-4664

Publications

Refereed Journals

• Ehrhart, Karl-Martin, Marion Ott, Stefan Seifert und Runxi Wang (2024): Combinatorial auctions for renewable energy – potentials and challenges. Energy Policy 186, 113988.
• Kittsteiner, T., Ott, M., Steinberg, R. (2022): Competing Combinatorial Auctions. Information Systems Research 33(4),1130–1137, DOI: 10.1287/isre.2021.1018. [Author accepted manuscript, http://hdl.handle.net/10419/240927, http://ssrn.com/abstract=3923308]
  
• Thielmann, I., Böhm, R., Ott, M., Hilbig, B.E. (2021): Economic games: an introduction and guide for research. Collabra: Psychology 7(1), 19004, DOI: 10.1525/collabra.19004.
• Basten D., Müller, M., Pankratz, O., Ott, M., Rosenkranz C. (2021): Impact of time pressure on software quality: A laboratory experiment on a game-theoretical model. PLoS ONE 16(1): e0245599. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245599.
• Ocker, F., Ehrhart, K.-M., Ott, M. (2018): Bidding strategies in Austrian and German balancing power auctions, Wiley interdisciplinary reviews / Energy and Environment, 7 (6), e303, DOI: 10.1002/wene.303.
• Ehrhart, K.-M., Ott, M., Abele, S. (2015): Auction fever: Rising revenue in second-price auction formats, Games and Economic Behavior 92, 206–227, DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2015.06.006. [Accepted version]
  
• Berninghaus, S. K., Ehrhart, K.-M., Ott, M. (2012): Forward-Looking Behavior in Hawk-Dove Games in Endogenous Networks: Experimental Evidence, Games and Economic Behavior 75 (1), 35–52, DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2011.12.003. [Accepted version]
  
• Berninghaus, S.K., Ehrhart, K.-M., Ott, M., Vogt, B. (2007): Evolution of Networks – An Experimental Analysis, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 17 (3), 317– 347, DOI:  10.1007/s00191-006-0050-4. [Accepted version]
  
• Berninghaus, S. K., Ehrhart, K.-M., Ott, M. (2006): A Network Experiment in Continuous Time: The Influence of Link Costs, Experimental Economics 9 (3), 237–251, DOI:  10.1007/s10683-006-9125-1. [Accepted version]
  

Non-Refereed Journals

• Ehrhart, Karl-Martin, Marion Ott, Stefan Seifert und Runxi Wang (2024): Seebeben der Stärke 12,6: Die rekordbrechende deutsche Offshore-Wind-Auktion, Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen 1/2-2024, 20–23. [Download]
  
• Klein, Thilo, Marion Ott (2023): Effiziente und faire Verteilung von Lebensmittelspenden. Wirtschaftsdienst 103(8), 560–563.
• Ehrhart, K.-M., Eicke, A., Hirth, L., Ocker, F., Ott, M., Schlecht, I., and Wang, R. (2023): Strategisches Verhalten im marktbasierten Redispatch: Ergebnisse einer spieltheoretischen Analyse. Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen 1-2/2023, 57–59.
• Haucap, Justus, Jürgen Kühling, Munib Amin, Gert Brunekreeft, Dörte Fouquet, Veronika Grimm, Jörg Gundel, Martin Kment, Wolfgang Ketter, Jochen Kreusel, Charlotte Kreuter-Kirchhof, Mario Liebensteiner, Albert Moser, Marion Ott, Christian Rehtanz, Heike Wetzel, Jonathan Meinhof, Marlene Wagner, Miriam Borgmann, Cyril Stephanos (2022): Erneuerbare Energien effizient und wirksam fördern. Wirtschaftsdienst 102(9), 694–702.
• Ehrhart, K.-M., Ocker, F., Ott, M. (2021): Analyse des neu eingeführten Regelarbeitsmarktes. Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen 3/2021, 48–50.
• Ehrhart, K.-M., Ott, M. (2020): Wirtschaftsnobelpreis: Auktionen in Theorie und Anwendung. Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen 22/2020, 1092–1093.

Books

Ott, M. (2009): Second-Price Proxy Auctions in Bidder-Seller Networks. Dissertation thesis. Universität Karlsruhe. DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000013645 .

Articles in Edited Volumes

• Bichler, Martin, Hans Ulrich Buhl, Katharina Ebinger, Kirstin Ganz, Lisa Hanny, Timo Kern, Johannes Knörr, Karsten Neuhoff, Steffi Ober, Marion Ott, Jörn Richstein, Amelie Sitzmann, Martin Weibelzahl, Philip Zilke (2022): Ein Strommarktdesign 2030–2050 zur Schaffung von langfristigen Anreizen für Energieflexibilität. In: Alexander Sauer, Hans Ulrich Buhl, Alexander Mitsos, Matthias Weigold, Energieflexibilität in der deutschen Industrie. Band 2: Markt- und Stromsystem, Managementsysteme und Technologien energieflexibler Fabriken, Fraunhofer Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-8396-1778-6, https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-258, Chapter A.1 3, pp. 46–63.
• Gimpel, Henner, Lisa Hanny, Marion Ott, Jonathan Wagner, Martin Weibelzahl, Martin Bichler, and Steffi Ober (2021): Market Success: The Quest for the Objectives and Success Factors of Markets. In: Henner Gimpel, Jan Krämer, Dirk Neumann, Jella Pfeiffer, Stefan Seifert, Timm Teubner, Daniel J. Veit, Anke Weidlich, Market Engineering: Insights from Two Decades of Research on Markets and Information, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66661-3, Chapter 3, pp. 21–44.
• Ehrhart, K.-M., Ott, M. (2005): Auctions, Information, and New Technologies. In: Kouzelis, Pournari, Stöppler, Tselfes (Eds.), Knowledge in the New Technologies,  Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe, pp. 125–137.

Policy Briefs, Whitepapers, Short Expertises

• acatech/Leopoldina/Akademienunion (eds.) (2024): Creating Investment Incentives, Providing Reserve Capacity: options for the market integration of renewable energy (Series on Science-Based Policy Advice ). ISBN: 978-3-8047-4426-4, DOI: 10.48669/esys_2024-3 (translated version of acatech/Leopoldina/Akademienunion 2023).
  
• Klein, T., Ott, M. (2023): Mit Digitalisierung gegen Lebensmittelverschwendung. ZEW Policy Brief No. 23-09. (Only in German.)
• acatech/Leopoldina/Akademienunion (Hrsg.) (2023): Investitionsanreize setzen, Reservekapazitäten sichern: Optionen zur Marktintegration erneuerbarer Energien (Schriftenreihe zur wissenschaftsbasierten Politikberatung). ISBN: 978-3-8047-4425-7, DOI: 10.48669/esys_2023-4
• Haucap, Justus , Jürgen Kühling, Munib Amin, Gert Brunekreeft, Dörte Fouquet, Veronika Grimm, Jörg Gundel, Martin Kment, Wolfgang Ketter, Jochen Kreusel, Charlotte Kreuter-Kirchhof, Mario Liebensteiner, Albert Moser, Marion Ott, Christian Rehtanz, Heike Wetzel, Jonathan Meinhof, Marlene Wagner, Miriam Borgmann, Cyril Stephanos (2022): Strommarktdesign 2030: Die Förderung der erneuerbaren Energien wirksam und effizient gestalten (Impuls), Akademienprojekt „Energiesysteme der Zukunft“ (ESYS) (Only in German.)
• Ahunbay, M., Ashour Novirdoust, A., Bhuiyan, R., Bichler, M., Bindu, S., Bjørndal, E., Bjørndal, M., Buhl, H. U., Chaves-Avila, J. P., Gerard, H., Gross, S., Hanny, L., Knörr, J., Köhnen, C. S., Marques, L., Monti, A., Neuhoff, K., Neumann, C., Ocenic, E., Ott, M., Pichlmeier, M., Richstein, J. C., Rinck, M., Röhrich, F., Röhrig, P. M., Sauer, A., Strüker, J., Troncia, M., Wagner, J., Weibelzahl, M., Zilke, P. (2021): Electricity Market Design 2030-2050: Shaping Future Electricity Markets for a Climate-Neutral Europe, DOI: 10.24406/fit-n-644366
• Ashour Novirdoust, A., Bhuiyan, R., Bichler, M., Buhl, H. U., Fridgen, G., Fugger, C., Gretschko, V., Hanny, L., Knörr, J., Neuhoff, K., Neumann, C., Ott, M., Richstein, J. C., Rinck, M., Röhrich, F., Schöpf, M., Sitzmann, A., Wagner, J., Weibelzahl, M. (2021): Electricity Market Design 2030–2050: Moving Towards Implementation, DOI: 10.24406/fit-n-640928
• Gretschko, V., Ott, M. (2021): Ein flexibles Vergütungskonzept für Mediziner hilft, Herdenimmunität gegen COVID-19 zu erreichen, ZEW Policy Brief No. 21-03. (Only in German. The press release is available in English.)
• Ashour Novirdoust, A., Bichler, M., Bojung, C., Buhl, H. U., Fridgen, G., Gretschko, V., Hanny, L., Knörr, J., Maldonado, F., Neuhoff, K., Neumann, Ch., Ott, M., Richstein, J. C., Rinck, M., Schöpf, M., Schott, P., Sitzmann, A., Wagner, Johannes, Wagner, Jonathan, Weibelzahl, M. (2021), Electricity Spot Market Design 2030–2050, DOI: 10.24406/fit-n-621457.
• Ehrhart, K.-M., Hanke, A.-K., Ott, M. (2019): Endogene Rationierung in Ausschreibungen für erneuerbare Energien: Verdrängung von Angebot statt Schaffung von Wettbewerb. ZEW expert brief No. 19-06, Mannheim. (Only in German. The press release is available in English.)

Working Papers and Submitted Manuscripts

• Heczko, Alexander, Thomas Kittsteiner und Marion Ott (2023): The Benefits of Auctioneer Competition: Merging Auctions and Adding Auctioneers, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 23-038, Mannheim.
• Ehrhart, K.-M., Eicke, A., Hirth, L., Ocker, F., Ott, M., Schlecht, I., and Wang, R. (2022): Congestion Management Games in Electricity Markets, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-060, Mannheim. [Download at ZEW] [EconStor] [SSRN]
• Ehrhart, K.-M., Hanke, A.-K., Ott, M. (2020), A Small Volume Reduction that Melts Down the Market: Auctions with Endogenous Rationing, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-014, Mannheim. [Download] [Video] [Podcast]
• Ehrhart, K.-M., Ott, M. (2019): How the Auction Design Influences Procurement Prices: An Experiment, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-061, Mannheim. [Download]
• Ott, M. (2019): Simple Bayesian and Ex-post Equilibria in Combinatorial Auctions.
• Beck, M., Ott, M. (2019): Combinatorial Auctions: Equilibrium Strategies and Outcomes.
• Beck, M., Ott, M.(2019): Incentives for Overbidding in Core-Selecting Auctions. (Extends and succeeds Incentives for Overbidding in Minimum-Revenue Core-Selecting Auctions.)
• Heczko, A., Kittsteiner, T., Ott, M. (2018): The Performance of Core-Selecting Auctions: An Experiment
• Ehrhart, K.-M., Ott, M. (2017): Loss-averse Bidders in English and Dutch Auctions. (An earlier version circulated under the title Reference-Dependent Bidding in Dynamic Auctions.)
• Beck, M., Ott, M. (2013): Unrelated Goods in Package Auctions - Comparing Vickrey and Core-Selecting Outcomes.
• Beck, M., Ott, M.: Revenue Monotonicity in Combinatorial Auctions. Working Paper. (Extends Revenue Monotonicity in Core-Selecting Package Auctions.)

Work in Progress

• Reimbursement in procurement auctions, with K.-M. Ehrhart and A.-K. Hanke
• Multi-unit common-value procurement auctions: A theoretical and experimental analysis, with K.-M. Ehrhart and J. Kreiss
• Absolute scarcity and giving behavior, cooperation, and competition

Organization of Seminars and Workshops

The following virtual seminars and workshops I helped organize are available online:

• Virtual Market Design Seminar [YouTube channel, Twitter, Bluesky]. Consider joining! Ongoing, since 2020.
  
• European Market Design Workshop 2024, first edition in 2019.
  
• Decarbonization Seminar. Consider joining! Ongoing, since 2021.
• SynErgie-Workshop on Electricity Market Design 2021: Watch the talks by Richard O’Neill (U.S. FERC), Benjamin Hobbs (Johns Hopkins University), José Pablo Chaves Ávila (Comillas Pontifical University), Natalia Fabra (Carlos III University of Madrid), and Frank Wolak (Stanford University) on YouTube.
• SynErgie-Workshop on Electricity Market Design 2020 [more on the project SynErgie here, and, in German, here, here, here, and here]

Press Coverage

• The Local Green Deal pilot city Mannheim lists the ZEW project with Tafel Deutschland as an "iDEAL for Mannheim".
• In the Blog "Transforming Economies" of the Bertelsmann Foundation Thilo Klein and I report about a project with Tafel Deutschland on food waste reduction (November 22, 2023).
• An op-ed in Tagesspiegel Background "Standpunkt: „Nutzen statt Abregeln“ kann regionale Preise nicht ersetzen" comments on the new instrument for using renewable energies instead of shutting them down in case of transmission constraints, arguing why it can be a means for supporting specific market participants but cannot replace locational pricing in the electricity market. (October 27, 2023)
  
• ZEW Policy Brief No. 23-09 picked up by ZEIT, Welt, Focus, Süddeutsche, FAZ, Stern, and others via dpa (July 6, 2023), and the Mannheimer Morgen reports (August 18, 2023).
•   #ZEWPodcast: Welches Marktdesign braucht die Energiewende? (December 19, 2022)
• An op-ed with Achim Wambach on market design options to avoid blackouts in a future with high shares of renewables appears in the Wirtschaftswoche (September 10, 2021, page 37).
• The Wirtschaftswoche interviews me on the future electricity market and locally differentiated prices (July 17, 2021).
• The TWS Podcast "Game Changer" has an episode on "Rationing supply - or how good intentions can lead to a bad outcome" based on ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-014 (June 22, 2021).
• The BNN picks up the ZEW policy brief No. 21-03 in their article "Hürden auf dem Weg zur Herdenimmunität: Hilft mehr Geld gegen Ärzte-Frust?" on May 24, 2021 (in German only). Wirtschaftswoche refers in the article "Vorschlag von Ökonomen: So erreichen wir die Herdenimmunität" to the ZEW policy brief Nr. 21-03. The press release is available in English.
• In the Wirtschaftswoche (12/2021, March 19, 2021), Teresa Stiens reports about the SynErgie whitepaper Electricity Spot Market Design 2030–2050 in her article "Strom ist nicht gleich Strom". Montel News covers the whitepaper in Nathan Witkop's article "Germany should adopt US-style power market pricing - study" (March 19, 2021). Energate takes up the Whitepaper in Stefanie Dierks' article "ZEW empfiehlt Preissystem auf Basis von Netzknoten" (March 19, 2021). Pressetext, AnlegerPlus, Zeitenvogel, and Windmesse  also pick up the whitepaper (March 19 & 22, 2021).
  
• In the Wirtschaftswoche (January 25, 2020), Bert Losse writes in his article "Marktdesign: Ökonomie ohne Elfenbeinturm" about market design, including applications to the ZEW-project with Tafel Deutschland and Tafel Akademie, funded by the federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

• Approval procedures for on-shore wind energy plants are slow and costly, ZEW News (December 16, 2019).

• Solarthemen 522 (December 19, 2019) reports about the findings of the ZEW expert brief No. 19-06 (see the press release).
• The ZEW News interviews Marion Ott on auctions for renewable energy support (December 16, 2019). Also available in English.
•  Advanced Science News features the study Ocker, F., Ehrhart, K.-M., Ott, M. (2018): Bidding Strategies in Austrian and German Balancing Power Auctions. WIREs Energy Environ. 2018;e303. https://doi.org/10.1002/wene.303 (May 18, 2018).
  This publication is an extended and revised version of "Bidding Strategies in the Austrian and German Secondary Balancing Power Markets," which appeared in the Proceedings of the 10. Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung (winner of the “Young Scientists Best Paper Award”).
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