About Me

I am an Associate Professor of Managerial Accounting (Controlling) at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. My research studies incentives, information design, and decision tools so that institutions can govern and make decisions more effectively.

My research lies at the intersection of management control and behavioral science. I study how incentive systems, performance measurement, information design, and algorithmic decision tools shape employee behavior and organizational outcomes—often with implications for organizational governance and public policy whenever institutions design performance and accountability systems, and technology-supported decision processes. To identify causal effects and mechanisms, I primarily conduct field experiments in firms, complemented (depending on the question) by laboratory and online experiments, surveys, and archival data

My work has been published, for instance, in the Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, The Accounting Review, The Journal of Labor Economics, and Harvard Business Review. I am currently ranked 2nd among German-speaking business researchers under 40, based on A+ publications. 

Additionally, I serve as an Associate Editor at Accounting Open and as a member of the Editorial Board of Management Accounting Research. 

My work also receives attention in the public media with publications in, for instance, the Economist, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, FAZ, Die Welt, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Capital, and Harvard Business Manager. You can read my latest feature in Wirtschaftswoche here and an interview with Der Spiegel here. 

You can download my Curriculum Vitae (CV) here.

Feel free to contact me at any time.

Best,

Timo