Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Economics.
Aix-Marseille School of Economics.
Research interests:
Macroeconomic Theory, Labour Markets, Behavioural Economics.
E-mail: marco.fongoni[at]univ-amu.fr
PUBLICATIONS
Why Wages Don't Fall in Jobs with Incomplete Contracts (2024) (with D. Schaefer and C. Singleton) - Management Science, 71(8):6319-6339.
Asymmetric Reciprocity and the Cyclical Behaviour of Wages, Effort and Job Creation (2024) - American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 16(3): 52-89.
Does Pay Inequality Affect Worker Effort? An Assessment of Experimental Designs and Evidence (2024) - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 220 (April) p.697–716 .
Forward to the Past: Short-Term Effects of the Rent Freeze in Berlin (2023) (with Hahn, Anja M. and Kholodilin, Konstantin A. and Waltl, Sofie R.) - Management Science, 70(3). p.1901-1923.
Asymmetric Reference-dependent Reciprocity, Downward Wage Rigidity, and the Employment Contract (2019) (with Alex Dickson) - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 163 (July), p.409–429.
WORKING PAPERS
Costly Wage Cuts, Relative Wage Comparisons, and Unemployment Hysteresis [new version in progress]
(Theory)
Aspirations as Reference Points
Preliminary draft available upon request.
(Theory, with A. Dickson)
Income Composition and Peer Effects in Education
(Theory & Evidence, with J. Norris, A. Romiti. and Z. Shi)
R&R Labour Economics
The Effects of Pay Inequality on Fairness and Effort: New Experimental Evidence [last version 30/04/2026]
(Lab Experiment, with J. Hepp, N. Kilzer, and S.R. Waltl)
A Theoretical Note on: Asymmetries in Intensity and Persistence of Reciprocity in Labour Markets
(Unpublished)
WORK IN PROGRESS
Wage and Unemployment Dynamics under Incomplete Employment Contracts (with Alexandros Loukas)
Reference Dependence in Job Search (with Bart de Koning and Paul Muller)
LONGER-TERM ESSAY PROJECTS
The ``Fair'' Wage: Perspectives on Reference Wage Formation
The Hysteresis Hypothesis in Labour Markets