Research

Research Interests:    

• Microeconomics

• Experimental Economics

• Applied Economics                           

Working Papers:

• Strategic Reciprocity in a Contest with Large Stakes, with Alexandros Papadopoulos; Bath Economics Research Paper No. 104/24 

• Repeated Contests with Draws, with L. Metzger (TU Dortmund); Ruhr Economic Papers No. 1016, 2023

• Efficient Probabilistic Fines Under Negative Externalities with S. Nandeibam  (U Bath); Bath Economics Research Paper No. 86/21 

• Revenue Maximizing Head Starts in Contests with W. Leininger (TU Dortmund) and C. Wasser (U Bonn);  Ruhr Economic Paper No. 524.

Publications:             

• Optimal Favoritism in All-Pay Auctions and Lottery Contests. with W. Leininger (TU Dortmund) and C. Wasser (U Bonn); European Economic Review, 104, 2018, p. 22-37.

• Lotteries and Lindahl Prices in Public Good Provision, with W. Leininger (TU Dortmund); Journal of Public Economic Theory 20, 2018, p. 840-848. 

• Workers' Participation in Wage Setting: Evidence from a Gift-Exchange Experiment with R. Gurtoviy (Deloitte), and V. Mertins (IAAEU Trier); Journal of Economic Psychology, 56, 2016, p. 151-162.

• Conflict Networks with Tahir Öztürk, Journal of Public Economics, 126, 2015, p. 104-113.

• On the Efficient Provision of Public Goods by Means of Biased Lotteries: The Two Player Case with W. Leininger (TU Dortmund), Economics Letters, 125(3), 2014, p. 436-439.

• Lottery versus All-Pay Auction Contests: A Revenue Dominance Theorem with C. Kanzow (U. Würzburg), W. Leininger (TU Dortmund), and A. Schwartz (U. Würzburg), Games and Economic Behavior, 83, 2014, p. 116-126.

• Equal, Proportional, and Mixed Sharing of Cooperative Production Under the Threat of Sabotage, Journal of Economics, 113(3), 2014, p. 253-273.

• Effort Maximization in Asymmetric Contest Games with Heterogeneous Contestants with C. Kanzow (U. Würzburg), W. Leininger (TU Dortmund), and A. Schwartz (U. Würzburg), Economic Theory, 52(2), 2013, p. 589-630.

• The Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action in a Real Effort Tournament with C. Calsamiglia and P. Rey-Biel (U. Autònoma de Barcelona), Journal of Public Economics, 98, 2013, p. 15-31.

• The Incentive Effects of Leveling the Playing Field - An Empirical Analysis of Amateur Golf Tournaments, Applied Economics, 44(9), 2012, p. 1193-1200.

• Affirmative Action in Contest Games, European Journal of Political Economomy. 28(1), 2012, p. 105-118. Revised version of  "Does Affirmative Action Reduce Effort Incentives? A Contest Game Analysis"; Ruhr Economic Paper No. 185

Work in Regress/Degress:      

• How to Effectively Address Gender Imbalances? A Field Experiment using Randomised Controlled Trials, with E. Bajoori (U Bath), financed by Women and Science Chair at Université Paris-Dauphine - Lack of Results

• Trusting Your Neighbors: A Quasi-Field Experiment in El Alto, Bolivia - Lack of Funding

• A Non-Cooperative Implementation of the Kalai-Smorodinsky Bargaining Solution - Lack of Proof, see Lemma 2