Welcome! I am a Professor of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt and a research fellow at CESifo and LIF-SAFE. My research lies at the intersection of economics and psychology, using the tools of contract theory, applied game theory, and laboratory experiments. I am particularly interested in the impact of social image concerns, motivated beliefs, social preferences, and control preferences on economic outcomes.
Contact: vonsiemens[at]econ.uni-frankfurt.de
Curriculum Vitae: here
Incentives, Self-Selection, and Coordination of Motivated Agents for the Production of Social Goods
(with Kevin Bauer and Michael Kosfeld), Games and Economic Behavior 152 (2025), 276-292.
Strategic Ignorance and Procedural Fairness Preferences
Economics Letters 242 (2024), 111849.
Gender Diversity and Productive Signaling in the Workplace
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 117 (2021), 477-501.
Division of Labor and the Organization of Knowledge in Production: A Laboratory Experiment
(with Victor Klockmann and Alicia von Schenk), Games and Economic Behavior 130 (2021), 196-210.
Effective Leadership and the Allocation and Exercise of Power in Organizations
(with Randolph Sloof), Leadership Quarterly 32 (2021), 101277 .
Journal of the Economic Science Association 6 (2020), 43-56.
Bracelets of Pride and Guilt? An Experimental Test of Self-Signaling
(with Joël van der Weele), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 172 (2020), 280-291.
Illusion of Control and the Pursuit of Authority
(with Randolph Sloof), Experimental Economics 20 (2017), 556-573.
Team Production in Competitive Labor Markets with Adverse Selection
(with Michael Kosfeld), European Economic Review 68 (2014), 181-198.
Monitored by Your Friends, Not Your Foes: Strategic Ignorance and the Delegation of Real Authority
(with Silvia Dominguez Martinez and Randolph Sloof), Games and Economic Behavior 85 (2014), 289-305.
Intention-Based Reciprocity and the Hidden Costs of Control
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 92 (2013), 55-65.
Social Preferences, Sorting, and Competition
Scandinavian Journal of Economics 114 (2012), 780-807.
Heterogeneous Social Preferences, Screening, and Employment Contracts,
Oxford Economic Papers 63 (2011), 499-522.
Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
(with Michael Kosfeld), RAND Journal of Economics 42 (2011), 23-43.
Wage Inequality and Team Production: An Experimental Analysis
(with Björn Bartling), Journal of Economic Psychology 32 (2011), 1-16.
Equal Sharing Rules in Partnerships
(with Björn Bartling), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 166 (2010), 299-320.
The Intensity of Incentives in Firms and Markets: Moral Hazard with Envious Agents
(with Björn Bartling), Labour Economics 17 (2010), 598-607.
Bargaining under Incomplete Information, Fairness, and the Hold-Up Problem,
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 71 (2009), 486-494.
Worker Self-Selection and the Profits from Cooperation
(with Michael Kosfeld), Journal of the European Economic Association 7 (P&P) (2009), 573-582.
Social Preferences, Trust, and Communication When the Truth Hurts
(with Jonathan Gehle), CESifo Working Paper No. 11181.
Are Biases Contagious? The Influence of Communication on Motivated Beliefs
(with Andreas Grunewald, Victor Klockman, and Alicia von Schenk).
Motivated Beliefs and the Elderly's Compliance with COVID-19 Measures
SAFE Working Paper No. 299.