Jenny Kragl

Professor of Microeconomics, EBS University of Business & Law in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany

I am currently (March - April) visiting Waseda Business School in Tokyo as a JSPS Invitational Research Fellow, hosted by Prof. Hideshi Itoh, PhD.

March 28, 2026 Personnel Economics Workshop, Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Tokyo, Japan: A Social Norm of Punishment

April 11, 2026 Contract Theory Workshop, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan: Image Concerns in Organizations

I am an applied microeconomist especially interested in personnel, organizational, and behavioral economics. I have studied social preferences and incentives in organizations, whereby I have focused on the impact of envy and wage inequality on worker motivation in different strategic contexts.  I have also worked on problems of multitasking, effort distortion, and efficient task assignments. More recently, I am also interested in social norms and their economic welfare effects. 

I obtained my Diploma degree (equiv. M.Sc.) in Business Studies in November 2004 and my Doctorate (equiv. Ph.D.) in February 2009 both at the Humboldt-University at Berlin. Since January 2014, I work as a Full Professor of Microeconomics at EBS University of Business & Law. 

I have served in various roles at the EBS University such as the Academic Director of the Bachelor programme, Group Speaker for Economics, Head of Department, Vice Chair of the Doctoral Committee, or member of the Research Committee, Faculty Council, and Senate. I also regularly act as a reviewer for academic journals and conferences, and I am an active member of various professional organizations, for example the Standing Field Committee for Organizational Economics and the Standing Field Committee for the Theory of the Firm in the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik).

I teach courses and supervise theses in the areas of microeconomics, in particular personnel, managerial, and organizational economics, at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the BSc, MSc, MA, and Executive Education.