My research interests are Applied Microeconomics, in particular Organizational and Personnel Economics, Behavioral Economics, Economics of Contracts, Industrial Organization, and Law & Economics.
My research has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review, Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics, European Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Honesty of Groups: Effects of Size and Gender Composition, (joint with Gerd Muehlheusser, Timo Promann, and Niklas Wallmeier), mimeo, University of Regensburg, 2024.
Round-Number Effects in Real Estate Prices: Evidence from Germany, (joint with Florian Englmaier, Lars Schlereth, and Steffen Sebastian), CESifo Working Paper No. 10746, 2023.
Management and Performance in the Public Sector: Evidence from German Municipalities, (joint with Florian Englmaier, Gerd Muehlheusser, and Niklas Wallmeier), CEPR Discussion Paper No. 17670, 2022. (Winner of the 2024 "Science of Bureaucracy Award" ("Wissenschaftspreis Bürokratie") handed out every second year by the German Economic Institute)
"chaTree: An oTree Addon Allowing Face-to-Face Communication in Online Group Experiments", (joint with Timo Promann, Jan-Patrick Mayer, Gerd Muehlheusser, Eugen Tereschenko, and Niklas Wallmeier), Economics Letters, 252 (112349), 2025.
"Differences in Team Performance: Gender Versus Ability", (joint with Silvio Städter, Michael Dowling, and Roland Helm), Social Science Quarterly, 1-8, 2022.
"Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence", (joint with Lydia Mechtenberg, and Gerd Mühlheusser), European Economic Review, 126, 103447, 2020.
"Positive and Negative Incentive Contrasts Lead to Relative Value Perception in Ants " (joint with Stefanie Wendt, Kim S. Strunk, Jürgen Heinze, and Tomer Czaczkes), eLife, 8, e45450, 2019.
"The Role of Communication of Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment" (joint with Florian Englmaier and Uwe Sunde), Management Science, 63(12), p. 4061-4080, 2017.
"Vergütung und Motivation", in: Total Compensation: Handbuch der Entgeltgestaltung, F. Maschmann (Hrsg.), Frankfurt am Main: Fachmedien Recht und Wirtschaft, dfv Mediengruppe, p. 23-39, 2017.
"Reputational Herding in Financial Markets: A Laboratory Experiment" (joint with Andrea Voskort), Journal of Behavioral Finance, 17(3), p. 244-266, 2016.
"Symposium on Evidence-Based Management: Editorial Preface" (joint with Florian Englmaier, Guido Friebel, and Gerd Mühlheusser), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 172(2), p. 305-311, 2016.
"Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work?" (joint with Jörg Oechssler and Patrick Schmitz), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 171(4), p. 565-588, 2015.
"Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals" (joint with Gerd Mühlheusser and Niklas Wallmeier), Economics Letters, 128, p. 25-29, 2015.
"Optimal Incentive Contracts for Knowledge Workers" (joint with Florian Englmaier and Gerd Mühlheusser), European Economic Review, 67, p. 82-106, 2014.
"Auctions with Anticipated Emotions: Overbidding, Underbidding, and Optimal Reserve Prices" (joint with Patrick Schmitz), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, p. 1-23, 2012.
"The Effect of Contract Regulation on Franchising: Comment", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 168, p. 58-61, 2012.
"Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases" (joint with Jörg Oechssler and Patrick Schmitz), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 72, p. 147-152, 2009.
"Delegation, Risk, and Project Scope", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 165, p. 193-209, 2009.
"Black Sheep and Walls of Silence" (joint with Gerd Mühlheusser), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 65, p. 387-408, 2008.
"Herding with and without Payoff Externalities – An Internet Experiment" (joint with Mathias Drehmann and Jörg Oechssler), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 25, p. 391-415, 2007.
"Fisher Body Revisited: Supply Contracts and Vertical Integration", European Journal of Law and Economics, 22, p. 181-196, 2006.
"Delegation of Authority as an Optimal (In)complete Contract", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 162(3), p. 391-411, 2006.
"Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets – An Internet Experiment" (joint with Mathias Drehmann and Jörg Oechssler), American Economic Review, 95(5), p. 1403-1426, 2005.
"Asset Ownership and Contractibility of Interaction", RAND Journal of Economics, 35(4), p.787-802, 2004.
"Zur Organisation von Unternehmensbeziehungen: Eigenständige Unternehmungen, Integration oder vertragliche Vereinbarungen?", Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Ergänzungsheft 5/2003, p. 23-46, 2003.
"Informational Externalities, Herding, and Incentives: Comment", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 158(1), p. 106-109, 2002.
"Gibrats Gesetz und das Wachstum von Firmen" (joint with Lilo Locher), WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 29(12), p. 699-701, 2000.
"Suttons Alpha: Eine Untergrenze für die Marktkonzentration" (joint with Lilo Locher), WiSt -Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 29(8), p. 451-454, 2000.