Selected Talks

I am a postdoctoral associate in the group of Felix Brandt since October 2018. I received my PhD in mathematics from the Technical University of Munich in 2018. Before that, I studied mathematics at the Technical University of Munich. My research interests broadly cover social choice theory, decision theory, and game theory with a particular interest in non-standard models of decision-making under uncertainty.

Curriculum vitae

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, and C. Stricker. An analytical and experimental comparison of maximal lottery schemes. 2020. Working paper. [ pdf ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, D. Peters, C. Stricker, and W. Suksompong. Funding public projects: A case for the Nash product rule. 2020. Working paper. [ pdf ]

F. Brandl and F. Brandt. Arrovian aggregation of convex preferences. Econometrica, 88(2):799–844, 2020. [ link | pdf ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, C. Geist, and J. Hofbauer. Strategic abstention based on preference extensions: Positive results and computer-generated impossibilities. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 66:1031–1056, 2019. [ link | pdf ]

F. Brandl and F. Brandt. Justifying optimal play via consistency. Theoretical Economics, 14:1185–1201, 2019. [ link | pdf ]

H. Aziz, F. Brandl, F. Brandt, P. Harrenstein, M. Olsen, and D. Peters. Fractional hedonic games. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, 7(2), 2019. [ link | pdf ]

F. Brandl and D. Peters. An axiomatic characterization of the Borda mean rule. Social Choice and Welfare, 52(4):685–707, 2019. [ link | pdf ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, and J. Hofbauer. Welfare maximization entices participation. Games and Economic Behavior, 14:308–314, 2019. [ link | pdf ]

F. Brandl and T. Kavitha. Two problems in max-size popular matchings. Algorithmica, 81(7):2738–2764, 2018. [ link ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, M. Eberl, and C. Geist. Proving the incompatibility of efficiency and strategyproofness via SMT solving. Journal of the ACM, 65(2), 2018. [ link | pdf ]

H. Aziz, F. Brandl, F. Brandt, and M. Brill. On the tradeoff between efficiency and strategyproofness. Games and Economic Behavior, 110:1–18, 2018. [ link | pdf ]

F. Brandl. The distribution of optimal strategies in symmetric zero-sum games. Games and Economic Behavior, 104:674–680, 2017. [ link | pdf ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, and H. G. Seedig. Consistent probabilistic social choice. Econometrica, 84(5):1839–1880, 2016. [ link | pdf ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, and W. Suksompong. The impossibility of extending random dictatorship to weak preferences. Economics Letters, 141:44–47, 2016. [ link | pdf ]

H. Aziz, F. Brandl, and F. Brandt. Universal Pareto dominance and welfare for plausible utility functions. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 60:123–133, 2015. [ link | pdf ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, D. Peters, C. Stricker, and W. Suksompong. Donor coordination: Collective distribution of individual contributions. In Proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Games, Agents, and Incentives, 2019. [ pdf | venue ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, and C. Stricker. An analytical and experimental comparison of maximal lottery schemes. In Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 114–120. IJCAI, 2018. [ link | pdf | venue ]

F. Brandl and T. Kavitha. Popular matchings with multiple partners. In Proceedings of the 37th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), pages 19:1–19:15. LZI, 2018. [ link | pdf | venue ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, and J. Hofbauer. Random assignment with optional participation. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 326–334. IFAAMAS, 2017. [ link | pdf | venue ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, and C. Geist. Proving the incompatibility of efficiency and strategyproofness via SMT solving. In Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 116–122. AAAI Press, 2016. [ link | pdf | venue ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, C. Geist, and J. Hofbauer. Strategic abstention based on preference extensions: Positive results and computer-generated impossibilities. In Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 18–24. AAAI Press, 2015. [ link | pdf | venue ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, and J. Hofbauer. Incentives for participation and abstention in probabilistic social choice. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 1411–1419. IFAAMAS, 2015. [ link | pdf | venue ]

F. Brandl, F. Brandt, and M. Strobel. Fractional hedonic games: Individual and group stability. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 1219–1227. IFAAMAS, 2015. [ link | pdf | venue ]

H. Aziz, F. Brandl, and F. Brandt. On the incompatibility of efficiency and strategyproofness in randomized social choice. In Proceedings of the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pages 545–551. AAAI Press, 2014. [ link | pdf | venue ]

H. Aziz, F. Brandl, and F. Brandt. Universal Pareto dominance and welfare for plausible utility functions. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM-EC), pages 331–332. ACM Press, 2014. [ link | pdf | venue ]

H. Aziz and F. Brandl. Existence of stability in hedonic coalition formation games. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 763–770. IFAAMAS, 2012. [ link | pdf | venue ]

F. Brandl. Zero-sum games in social choice and game theory. PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, 2018. [ link | pdf ]

F. Brandl. Efficiency and incentives in randomized social choice. Master's thesis, Technische Universität München, 2013. [ pdf ]

F. Brandl. Existence of stability in hedonic coalition formation games. Bachelor's thesis, Technische Universität München, 2011.

Courses

• Algorithmic Game Theory (SS 2016)
• Computational Social Choice (WS 2013/14, WS 2014/15, WS 2016/17, WS 2018/19)
• Economics and Computation (SS 2014, SS 2015, SS 2017, SS 2018)
• Seminar on Computational Social Choice (WS 2015/16, SS 2016)
• Seminar on Markets, Algorithms, Incentives, and Networks (WS 2017/18)

Student projects

• Master's thesis Randomized Social Choice: Theory, Experiments, and Philosophy (Christina Dosch, 2018)
• Interdisciplinary project Web Tools for Pairwise Preference Aggregation Functions (Dominik Spies, 2018)
• Master's thesis An Axiomatic Study of Parameterized Maximal Lottery Schemes (Stefan Tilly, 2017)
• Master's thesis How Frequently Do Social Decision Schemes Violate Desirable Properties? (Christian Stricker, 2017)
• Interdisciplinary project Acceptability of Social Choice Lotteries (Maximilian Weininger, 2016)
• Master's thesis Farsighted Stability Notions in Coalition Formation Games (Robert Havemann, 2015)
• Bachelor's thesis Fractional Hedonic Games - Individual and Group Stability Notions (Martin Strobel, 2014)