Dr. Sven Hoeppner is a trained economist and lawyer serving as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, Charles University. He received his PhD in law from Ghent University. His research interests include transaction and institution design, contract theory and contract design, auctions and bargaining, economics of insolvency, economic equality, and law and technology, especially the intersection of algorithmic decision-making and institution design. Sven mainly uses experimental and quantitative methods as well as some computational tools to conduct his research.