ARNA WOEMMEL

Welcome! I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Economics within the German Research Foundation (DFG) Graduate Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Hamburg. I am supervised by Gerd Muehlheusser (Economics) and Judith Simon (Ethics in IT).

My research applies behavioral economics to questions about the fairness of new technologies.  Much of it studies how new technologies affect discrimination and inequality, especially when they support - rather than replace - humans.  Methodologically, I use behavioral experiments, household survey data, and NLP. 

Contact:

I’d be happy to connect: arna.woemmel@uni-hamburg.de

Research Visits:

• Columbia University, Data Science Institute (Spring 2023)

• Columbia Law School (Spring 2024)

• ETH Zürich, Center for Law & Economics (Fall 2024)

Research Groups:

• Privacy Research Group, NYU School of Law

Upcoming Events:

• 2025 Northwestern Advanced Workshop on Causal Inference, Chicago

• ACM Symposium on Computer Science & Law, Munich (Work in Progress Talk)

• Asian Conference on Organizational Economics, Hong Kong (Talk)

• Law & Technology Centre at Hong Kong University (Talk)

News:

• Truly honored to receive the 2024 Theodore Eisenberg Prize at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Atlanta. Many thanks to the CELS committee and organizers!

• I'm excited to teach a course on "Behavioral Law and Economics" at the Law and Technology Centre at the University of Hong Kong in March 2025.