Publications

1. The trade-off between liquidity and precision of position in option contracts. (with Zdravetz Lazarov) Review of Applied Economics, 2007, 3(1-2), 25-48. [pdf] 

2. Mixed up? That’s good for motivation. (with Eloic Peyrache) Economic Theory, 2008, 34(1), 107-125. [pdf] [working paper version]

3. Giving in dictator games: Regard for others or regard by others? (with Hans-Theo Normann) Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75(1), 223-231. [pdf] [working paper version]

4. Moral hazard contracts: Does one size fit all? (with Eloic Peyrache) Economics Letters, 2008, 100(3), 399-401. [pdf] [working paper version]

5. Bookmaker and pari-mutuel betting: Is a (reverse) favourite-longshot bias built-in? (with Hui-Fai Shing) Journal of Prediction Markets, 2008, 2(2), 29-50. [pdf] [working paper version]

6. Career concerns incentives: An experimental test (with Albrecht Morgenstern and Philippe Raab) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72, 571-588 [pdf] [working paper version]

7. Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns. (with Albrecht Morgenstern)  The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2010, 10 (1,Topics), Article 10 [pdf]

8. Belief elicitation in experiments: Is there a hedging problem? (with Mariana Blanco, Dirk Engelmann, and Hans-Theo Normann) Experimental Economics, 2010, 13, 412-438 [pdf] [working paper version] [online appendix]

9. Aligning ambition and incentives. (with Eloic Peyrache) Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2011, 27(3), 655-688 [pdf] [working paper version] 

10. Self-regulation through Goal Setting. (with Julia Nafziger) Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113, 212–227. [pdf] [working paper version] 

11. Job assignments under moral hazard: The Peter Principle Revisited. (with Julia Nafziger)  Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2012, 21(4), 1029–1059 [pdf] [working paper version]

12. Who Wants Paternalism? (with  Sofie Kragh Pedersen and Julia Nafziger) Bulletin of Economic Research, 2014, 66 (S1), 147-166 [pdf] [working paper version]

13. Self-rewards and personal motivation (with Julia Nafziger, Anton Suvorov and Jeroen Van de Ven) European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 151-167. [pdf] [working paper version]

14. Preferences and beliefs in a sequential social dilemma: A within-subjects analysis (with Mariana Blanco, Dirk Engelmann, and Hans-Theo Normann ) Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 87, 122–135 [pdf] [working paper version]

15. Behavioral Economics of Education  (with Julia Nafziger and Helena Skyt Nielsen) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115,3-17 [pdf] [working paper version]

16. Within- and Cross-firm Mobility and Earnings Growth (with Anders Frederiksen and Timothy Halliday)  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69(2), 320-353. [pdf] [working paper version]

17. Goals and Bracketing under Mental Accounting (with Julia Nafziger) Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 162, 305–351 [pdf] [working paper version]

18. Gift Exchange, Control, and Cyberloafing: A Real-Effort Experiment (with Julia Nafziger) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131, 409–426 [working paper version]  [pdf]

19. Personnel economics: A research field comes of age (with Christian Grund, Alex Bryson, Robert Dur, Christine Harbring, and Edward P. Lazear ) German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2017, 1-7  [pdf]

20. Do Economists Punish Less? (with Jonas Pilgaard Kaiser and Kasper Selmar Pedersen), Games, 2018, 9(4), 75 [paper, online supplement]

21. Correlates of narrow bracketing (with Julia Nafziger), 2019, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 121, 1441-1472. [pdf] [working paper version]

22. Motivational goal bracketing: An experiment (with Julia Nafziger) Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 185 [pdf] [working paper version] 

23. Do physically stronger males prevail in non-physical conflicts? (with Dan Nguyen, Michael Bang Petersen, Julia Nafziger) Evolution and Human Behavior,  2021, 42, 21-29.  [pdf] [working paper version]  [pre-analysis plan for replication study 3] [pre-analysis plan for study 4] [data and codes]

24. Motivational goal bracketing with non-rational goals (with Julia Nafziger) Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics,  2021, 94,  101740. [pdf] [working paper version] 

25. Fostering safe food handling among consumers: Causal evidence on game- and video-based online interventions (with Dan Mønster, Julia Nafziger, Nina Veflen), Food Control, 2022, 135, 108825 [pdf] [preregistration] [replication data]  [play the game]

26.  Food safety related efficacy beliefs, behaviors, beliefs in myths, and the effects of educational online interventions: Data from an online survey experiment with 1,973 consumers from Norway and the UK (with Dan Mønster, Julia Nafziger, Nina Veflen), Data in Brief, 2022, 108102 [pdf] [data]  

27. Second-chance offers and buyer reputation systems: Theory and experiments on auctions with default. (with Dirk Engelmann, Jeff Frank, and Marieta Valente) [working paper version][pdf] [replication data] RAND Journal of Economics, 2023, 54(4), 484-511.

28. An intensive, school-based learning camp targeting academic and non-cognitive skills evaluated in a randomized trial (joint with Charlotte Hvidman, Julia Nafziger, Søren Albeck Nielsen, and Michael Rosholm) Labour Economics, 2024, 88, 102535 [pdf] [working paper version]

29. Spillover effects of reminder nudges in complex environments (with Dan Mønster and Julia Nafziger) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024, 121 (17) e2322549121 [pdf] [pre-analysis plan] [data] 

30. Does Goal Revision Undermine Self-Regulation Through Goals? An Experiment (joint with Jonas Pilgaard Kaiser and Julia Nafziger), Experimental Economics, forthcoming  [pdf] [working paper version]  [pre-analysis plan] [Results from the pre-analysis plan not reported in the paper] [data] 





Advanced work in progress - working papers coming soon


Miscellaneous

-Objectives and Incentives at the European Patent Office. (with Guido Friebel, Delphine Prady, and Paul Seabright) IDEI research report. December 2006. [pdf]

-Hvad er behavioural economics?  (with Julia Nafziger and Mette Trier Damgaard) Danish Competition and Consumer Authority 2013.  [pdf]

-Baggrundsnotat om behavioural economics (with Julia Nafziger and Mette Trier Damgaard) Danish Competition and Consumer Authority 2013.  [pdf]

-Casesamling: Anvendelse af indsigter fra behavioural economics (with Julia Nafziger, Mette Trier Damgaard, and Dan Nguyen) Danish Competition and Consumer Authority 2013.  [pdf]

-Description of the Aarhus Survey  (with Thomas Epper and Julia Nafziger) [pdf]