Research
Publications
"The Effect of Incentives in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks" (with Florian Englmaier, Dominik Grothe, David Schindler and Stefan Grimm, PDF, accepted at the Journal of Political Economy)
"Commitment Requests Do Not Affect Truth-Telling in Laboratory and Online Experiments"
(with Tobias Cagala, Ulrich Glogowsky, and Johannes Rincke, accepted at Games and Economic Behavior) Discussion Paper
"(Dis)honesty and the Value of Transparency for Campaign Promises"
(with Matthias Lang)
European Economic Review (2023)
"The Efficacy of Tournaments for Non-Routine Team Tasks"
(with Florian Englmaier, Dominik Grothe, David Schindler and Stefan Grimm)
Journal of Labor Economics (2023)
"Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of 45 crowd-sourced experimental designs"
(with Huber, C., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Weitzel, U., … & Holzmeister, F.)
"Cross-game learning and cognitive ability in auctions."
(with with Thomas Giebe, Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel and Martin Kocher Experimental Economics (2023)
"Time Pressure and Regret in Sequential Search"
(with Felix Klimm, Timm Opitz, Martin Kocher), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2023)
"Heterogeneous Preferences and Investments in Energy Saving Measures"
(with Urs Fischbacher and Sabrina Teyssier) Ressource and Energy Economics (2021) Vol. 63.
“Agenda control and reciprocity in sequential voting decisions” (with Urs Fischbacher)
Economic Inquiry (2020) 58 (4), 1813-1829. (Open Access: PDF)
I lie? We lie! Why? Experimental evidence on a dishonesty shift in groups"
(with Martin Kocher and Lisa Spantig), Management Science (2018) 64 (9), 3995-4008.
"Does imperfect data privacy stop people from collecting personal health data?"
(with Verena Utikal)
Special Issue "The Economics of Privacy: Privacy and Data Protection in a Digital World"
'You must not know about me' - On the willingness to share personal data"
(with Verena Utikal)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2017) 141, 1-13. Discussion paper version PDF)
"The causal effect of stop-loss and take-gain orders on the disposition effect"
(with Urs Fischbacher and Gerson Hoffmann), Review of Financial Studies (2017) 30 (6), 2110-2129. (Discussion Paper Version PDF)
"Pivotality and Responsibility Attribution in Sequential Voting"
(with Björn Bartling and Urs Fischbacher), Journal of Public Economics, (2015),128,133-139.
(Journal Article / Discussion Paper Version PDF)
"Heterogeneous Reactions to Heterogeneity in Returns from Public Goods" (with Urs Fischbacher and Sabrina Teyssier)
Social Choice and Welfare (2014) 43, 195-217. (Journal Article Discussion Paper Version PDF)
"Reciprocity and Resistance to Comprehensive Reform"
(with Urs Fischbacher), Public Choice (2013), 160, 411-428.(Journal Article / Discussion Paper Version PDF).
“Competition within firms” (with Lisa Bruttel)
Journal of Competition Law and Economics (2012) 8(1), 167–185. (Journal Article / Discussion Paper Version)
Current working papers
"Motivated procrastination" (with Charlotte Cordes and Jana Friedrichsen), CRC TRR 190 Discussion Paper No. 471 (PDF)
"The Effect of Incentives in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks" (with Florian Englmaier, Dominik Grothe, David Schindler and Stefan Grimm), CRC TRR 190 Discussion Paper No. 468 (PDF, accepted at the Journal of Political Economy)
"Commitment Requests Do Not Affect Truth-Telling in Laboratory and Online Experiments" (with Tobias Cagala, Ulrich Glogowsky, and Johannes Rincke, accepted at Games and Economic Behavior)
"The Value of Leadership: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment" (with Florian Englmaier, Dominik Grothe, David Schindler and Stefan Grimm), CESifo Working Paper No. 9273 (pdf)
"I Solemnly Swear I’m Up To Good: A Megastudy Investigating the Effectiveness of Honesty Oaths on Curbing Dishonesty" (R&R at Nature Human Behavior, joint with Janis Zickfeld, Dan Ariely, Rachel Barkan, Štěpán Bahník, Michał Bialek, Eileen Chou, Valerio Capraro, Anna Czarna, Christian Elbaek, Yuval Feldman, Philipp Gerlach, Ulrich Glogowsky, Sebastian Hafenbrädl, Ralph Hertwig, Patricia Kanngiesser, Agne Kajackaite, Ann-Kathrin Koessler, Sahar Ayal, Gabriel Levy, Jareef Martuza, Nina Mazar, John Michael, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Ronit Montal-Rosenberg, Nils Köbis, Professor Nicolas Jacquemet, Yngwie Nielsen, Laila Nockur, Daniele Nosenzo, Eyal Peer, Stefan Pfattheicher, Karolina Ścigała, Simon Schindler, Isabel Thielmann, Mathilde Tønnesen, Marek Vranka, Jan Woike, Alexa Weiss, Zoe Rahwan, Alicia Seidl)
Work in progress (selection)
"Persuading regulators - An NLP analysis of early benefit assessments of medical products" (with Paul Hofmarcher and Nicola Lacetera)
"Individual Preferences for truth-telling" (with Lisa Spantig and Susanna Grundmann)
"Reducing fraudulent behavior in insurance markets" (single authored)
"Microaspects of leadership - how and why reactions to endogenously and exogenously chosen leaders differ" (with Florian Englmaier, Dominik Grothe, and David Schindler)
"Group dynamics in microfinance - Leadership qualities and group performance in rural Bangladesh" (with Kristina Czura, Silvia Castor Fernandez, and Abu Parves Sonchoy)
"The causal effects of diversity in observable characteristics and (unobservable) skills for team performance" (with Florian Englmaier, Dominik Grothe, and David Schindler)
"Social aspects of sustainable consumption" (with Daniele Nosenzo, Laure Saulais, and Sabrina Teyssier)
Several projects with Jana Friedrichsen and Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel on "Biases and Decision Impairments in Markets" within the CRC on "Rationality and Competition"
"Time pressure in auctions" (with Martin Kocher and Maria Karmeliuk)