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Klaus Schmidt

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Klaus M. Schmidt is a German economist specializing in behavioral economics, game theory, and contract theory. He has been a full professor at LMU Munich since 1995. Schmidt collaborates with Ernst Fehr on research into fairness, reciprocity, and altruism. He also holds affiliations with the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action, and has been a visiting professor at MIT, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley and Harvard.

archaeologist whose excavations uncovered Göbekli Tepe beginning in 1994–1995

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affiliated
Yale University

PhD in Economics

Received PhD in Economics in 1991.

?–1991
affiliated
University of Oxford

Visiting Professor

Visiting Professor.

director
Göbekli Tepe

Lead Excavator

Led the excavation of Göbekli Tepe from 1995 until his death, identifying its Neolithic significance.

1994–2014