Publications

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Published and accepted papers

• Employee performance and mental well-being: The mitigating effects of  transformational leadership during crisis (with K. Czura, H. Ho, and L. Spantig); forthcoming at Management Science. doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.03285 

• The Value of Leadership: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment  (with S. Grimm, D. Grothe, D. Schindler, and S. Schudy), 2025, Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 36(3), doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2025.101869

• The Effect of Incentives in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks (with S. Grimm, D. Grothe, D. Schindler, and S. Schudy), 2024, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 132, pp. 2695-2747, DOI: 10.1086/729443 

• The Efficacy of Tournaments for Non-Routine Team Tasks (with S. Grimm, D. Grothe, D. Schindler, and S. Schudy), 2024, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 42, pp. 921-948, DOI:10.1086/725553

• How work has changed with COVID-19: Evidence from Loan Officers in India (with K. Czura, H. Ho, and L. Spantig), 2022, World Development, Vol. 152, 105812,  DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105812

• Managerial Payoff and Gift Exchange in the Field (with S. Leider), 2020, Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 56, pp. 259–280, DOI: 10.1007/s11151-019-09737-y

• Size Matters: How Over-investments Relax Liquidity Constraints in Relational Contracts (with M. Fahn), 2019, Economic Journal, Vol. 129(624), pp. 3092–3106, DOI: 10.1093/ej/uez029

• Organization Design and Firm Heterogeneity: Towards an Integrated Research Agenda for Strategy (with  N. Foss, T. Knudsen, and T. Kretschmer), 2018, Organization Design (Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 40), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 229-252

• Electoral Cycles in Savings Bank Lending (with T. Stowasser), 2017,  Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 15(2), pp. 297-354

• Price discontinuities in an online market for used cars (with A. Schmöller and T. Stowasser), 2018, Management Science, Vol. 64(6), pp. 2754 - 2766

• The Role of Communication of Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with A. Roider and U. Sunde), 2017, Management Science, Vol. 63(12), pp. 4061 - 4080

• Resilience to Natural Catastrophes – Insurance Penetration, Institutions, and Economic Development  (with M. Breckner, T. Stowasser, and U. Sunde), 2016, Economics Letters, Vol. 148, pp. 106-110

• Social Dilemmas in the Laboratory and in the Field (with G. Gebhardt), 2016, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 128, 85–96

• Complementarities of HRM Practices - A Case for a Behavioral Economics Perspective (with K. Schüßler), 2016;  Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Vol. 172(2), pp. 312-341

• Symposium on Evidence-Based Management: Editorial Preface (with G. Friebel, G. Muehlheusser, and A. Roider), 2016; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Vol. 172(2), pp. 305-311

• Reciprocity in Organizations - Evidence from the UK (with T. Kolaska and S. Leider), 2016, CESifo Economic Studies, Vol. 62(3), pp. 522 - 446

• Optimal Incentive Contracts for Knowledge Workers (with G. Mühlheusser and A. Roider), 2014, European Economic Review, Vol. 67, pp. 82 - 106

• Worker Characteristics and Wage Differentials: Evidence from a Gift-Exchange Experiment (with S. Strasser and J. Winter), 2014, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 97, pp. 185-203

• Biased Managers as Strategic Commitment (with Markus Reisinger), 2013,  Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 35, pp. 350 - 356

• Contractual and Organizational Structure with Reciprocal Agents (with S. Leider), 2012, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 4(2), pp. 146 - 183

• Commitment in R&D Tournaments via Strategic Delegation to Overoptimistic Managers, 2011, Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 32(1), pp. 63 – 69

• Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion (with A. Wambach), 2010, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 69, pp. 312 – 328

• Incentives, Reputation and the Allocation of Authority (with A. Filipi and R. Singh), 2010, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 76, pp. 413 - 427

• Managerial Optimism and Investment Choice, 2010, Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 31(4), pp. 303 – 310

• The Chopstick Auction - An Experimental Study of the Exposure Problem in Auctions (with P. Guillen, L. Llorente, S. Onderstal, R. Sausgruber), 2009, International Journal of Industrial Organization Vol. 27(2), pp. 286 – 291

• A Model of Strategic Delegation in Contests between Groups (with S. Brandauer), 2009, Review of Economic Design Vol. 13(3), pp. 205 – 232

• Introduction to the Symposium on Executive Pay (with G. Illing and E. Sadka), 2009, CESifo Economic Studies, Vol. 55(3-4), pp. 399-404

• Information, Coordination and the Industrialization of Countries (with M. Reisinger), 2008, CESifo Economic Studies Vol. 54, pp. 534 – 550

Non-refereed Publications

• Industriepolitik verlangt dem Staat viel ab - Ein organisationsökonomischer Blick auf die Rolle von State Capacity für die Umsetzung industriepolitischer  Maßnahmen (with P. Barteska), 2025, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Vol. 26(3), pp. 368-380, https://doi.org/10.1515/pwp-2025-0020 

• Fostering Psychological Safety in Teams: Evidence from an RCT (with S. Castro and M. Guadalupe), 2024, Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings

• Proven Tactics for Improving Teams’ Psychological Safety (with C Rider, A. Ferrère, Z. Belovai, and M. Guadalupe), 03/2023, MIT Sloan Management Review

• Beste Bedingungen für junge Ökonominnen und Ökonomen? (with C. Bayer, R.T. Riphahn, P. Schmidt-Dengler, V. Sondergeld, C. Sureth-Sloane, J. v. Wangenheim, G. Weizsäcker), 2023, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik – Zeitschrift des Vereins für Socialpolitik, https://doi.org/10.1515/pwp-2023-0002

• Was sagen Metadaten des ifo Geschäftsklimaindex über die Digitalisierung deutscher Unternehmen? (with T. Fackler und N. Laurentsyeva), 2022, ifo Schnelldienst, Vol. 75(2), pp. 31-34

• Corona-Krise: Krisenmanagement und Zukunftsstrategien von Unternehmen (with K. Demmelhuber, R. Dirnberger, F. Leiss, S. Möhrle, and A. Peichl), 2021, ifo Schnelldienst, Vol. 74(3), pp. 33-37

• Homeoffice vor und nach Corona: Auswirkungen und Geschlechterbetroffenheit (with K. Demmelhuber, F. Leiss, S. Möhrle, A. Peichl, and T. Schröter), 2020, ifo Schnelldienstdigital, Vol. 1(14)

• Introduction to the Special Issue on “The Effects of the Digital Transformation on the Workplace and the Labor Market” (with O. Falck), 2020, CESifo Forum, Vol. 21 (3), pp 3-4

• People Analytics – Personaldaten als Erfolgsfaktor (with T. Biemann, D. Sliwka, and I. Weller), 2017, PERSONALquarterly, Vol. 69(3), pp. 8‐15

• Behavioural Incentives - Alternativen zu Pay-for-Performance Anreizen (with T. Kolaska), 2015, PERSONALquarterly, Vol. 3, pp. 

• Organizational Economics (with M. Micevski), Chapter 6.28.62. for UNESCO's Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)

• A brief Survey on Overconfidence, 2006, (in Behavioral Finance - An Introduction, Editor: Satish D; ICFAI University Press)

• A Survey on Moral Hazard, Contracts, and Social Preferences, 2005, (in Psychology, Rationality and Economic Behaviour: Challenging Standard Assumptions, Editors: Bina Agarwal and Alessandro Vercelli; Palgrave MacMillan)