Karl Schlag is a professor in economics at the University of Vienna. He did his Ph.D. at Northwestern University, has previously held positions at University of Bonn, European University Institute and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and has supervised over 35 Ph.D. students. As a researcher, Karl Schlag is interested in everything that does not have a prior, from evolution over econometrics to strategic decision making. His most noted paper is one on how to imitate which also has been applied to fish. He is among the first to design tests for comparing means and for running regressions without distributional assumptions, tests that are correct infinite