Dr. Moritz Hetzer

ETH Zurich
Dr. Moritz Hetzer
Entrepreneurial Risks
KPL F 36
Kreuzplatz 5
8032 Zürich
Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 6584557
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Research interests

• Complex systems theory: Analytical and numerical models of non-linear dynamics in complex, evolutionary (socio-)economic systems
• Large-scale computer simulations of n-body agents systems and complex non-linear decision problems
• Pattern recognition/detection in large multi-dimensional data sets
• Evolutionary dynamics of collective human behavior
• Behavioral mechanism design

Publications / Working Papers

• Other-regarding preferences and altruistic punishment: A Darwinian perspective, working paper 2009
• The co-evolution of fairness preferences and altruistic punishment, submitted, 2011
• A theory of evolution, fairness and altruistic punishment, submitted, 2011
• Heterogeneity and multilevel-selection: The coevolution of coordination and cooperation, working paper, 2011

Conferences and Seminars

Presentations / Talks

• Altruistic Punishment and Human Cooperation: A Darwinian Perspective, Interdisciplinary Seminar "Modeling Complex Socio-Economic Systems and Crises", ETH Zurich, 2009, Switzerland
• Fairness preferences, altruisitic punishment and the emergence of cooperation, TESS workshop, University of Oxford, Magdalen College, 2009, United Kingdom
• The evolution of norms and the value of social capital: Human altruism and cooperation in social dilemmas, Theory Workshop, Munich Graduate School of Economics - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, 2008, Germany
• Behavioral Mechanism Design - Cooperation in social dilemmas, Astute Modelling Seminar, CER-ETH Center of Economic research, 2008, Switzerland
• Why punishment is not the panacea - Cooperation, altruistic punishment and the role of heterogeneity, Forschungsseminar zu experimenteller Wirtschaftsforschung, Institut für empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, University of Zurich, 2008, Switzerland
• Cooperation by Evolutionary Feedback Selection, TESS workshop, University of Manchester, 2007, United Kingdom

Participation

• TESS workshop, University of Oxford, Magdalen College, 2009, United Kingdom
• International Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences, ETH Zurich, 2008, Switzerland
• TESS workshop, University of Manchester, 2007, United Kingdom
• Symposium on agent-based modeling, risk and finance, Fribourg University, 2007, Switzerland
• Agent Based Models for Spatial Systems in Social Sciences & Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, summer school CNRS-GIACS, 2007, France

Teaching

• teaching assistant Entrepreneurial Risks lecture, ETH Zurich, 2010

Current positions

• PhD candidate at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Primary Advisor: Prof. Didier Sornette

Professional experience

• 2007 - 2010, Zurich Cantonal Bank, Financial Engineering
• 2005, Deutsche Bank, Credit Risk Management, Risk Analytics and Instruments - economic capital methodology and implementation, internship
• 2005, EnBW trading, Risk Controlling - energy market modelling, internship
• 2004, d-fine, consulting, internship
• 2004, DaimlerChrysler, corporate finance / risk management, treasury, internship (d-fine)
• 2004, Eurohypo Bank, financial engineering, internship (d-fine)
• 2003, European Energy Exchange, Market Supervision and Market Surveillance, internship

Education

• Visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, USA, 2005 - 2006,
• Master of Information Engineering and Management, University of Karlsruhe, School of Computer Science and School of Economics and Business Engineering, Germany, 2006

Scholarships and Grants

• full research grant 2007-2010, Zurich Cantonal Bank
• interAct exchange scholarship, Carnegie Mellon University
• Baden-Württemberg scholarship