Helping in the Workplace: The Role of Leadership Relative to Employee Personality and Preferences (with M. Haylock, M. Kosfeld and F. von Siemens). Forthcoming in The Economic Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueag108
ESG Incentives in Executive Compensation (with M. Efing, S. Ehmann and R. Moritz). HEC Paris Research Paper No. FIN-2024-1506. Submitted.
Risk Managers in Banks. The Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming (with M. Efing and V. Maurin).
How perceptions of bone marrow donation costs affects donation behavior: Survey evidence from a large donor registry. European Journal of Health Economics, 2025, 26, 1613–1631 (with M. Haylock, M. Macis, J. Sauter, S. Seitz, R. Slonim, D. Wiesen and A.H. Schmidt).
In the hand of the family: Management practices and perceived job quality. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 237, 1–24 (with S. Ehmann, J. Wenzel and S. Wolter).
Reducing Registry Members’ Attrition When Invited to Donate: Evidence From a Large Stem Cell Registry. American Journal of Health Economics, 2025, 11(4), 592–627 (with M. Haylock, M. Macis, J. Sauter, S. Seitz, R. Slonim, D. Wiesen and A.H. Schmidt).
Performance Management and Work Engagement – New Evidence Using Longitudinal Data. Management Accounting Research, 2024, 64, 1–13 (with S. Ehmann, P. Maier and P. Yang).
Bank Bonus Pay as a Risk Sharing Contract. The Review of Financial Studies, 2023, 36, 235–280 (with M. Efing, H. Hau and J.C. Rochet).
Heterogeneity in firms’ recruitment practices: New evidence from representative employer data. German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2023, 37, 107–136 (with T. Brändle, P. Grunau and M. Haylock).
Motivating Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment. Labour Economics, 2022, 75 (with S. Butschek, R. González Amor and D. Sliwka).
Employee Identification and Wages – On the Economics of Affective Commitment. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 608–626 (with L. Petters and D. Sliwka).
The role of preferences, attitudes, and personality traits in labor market matching. Economics Letters, 2019, 185 (with M. Haylock).
Dataset: The Linked Personnel Panel (LPP). Data in Brief, 2019, 27 (with M. Haylock).
More Dispersion, Higher Bonuses? On Differentiation in Subjective Performance Evaluations. Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36(2), 511–549 (with D. Sliwka).
Job Rotation and Employee Performance – Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in the Financial Services Industry. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2018, 29(10), 1709–1735 (with C. Harbring and D. Sliwka).
Effects of German Universities’ Excellence Initiative on Ability Sorting of Students and Perceptions of Educational Quality. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2017, 173(4), 662–687 (with M. Fischer).
Performance Appraisals and Job Satisfaction. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2017, 28(5), 750–774.
Determinants and Effects of Target Agreements for Employees: An Empirical Investigation of German Firms. Review of Managerial Science, 2017, 11(1), 1–18 (with K. Marggraf and J.-H. Zimmermann).
Measuring the Use of Human Resources Practices and Employee Attitudes: The Linked Personnel Panel. Evidence-based Human Resource Management, 2016, 4(2), 94–115 (with J. Mohrenweiser, D. Sliwka, S. Steffes and S. Wolter).
The Complementary Use of Experiments and Field Data to Evaluate Management Practices – The Case of Subjective Performance Evaluations. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2016, 172(2), 364–389 (with D. Sliwka).
Do Employees Reciprocate to Intra-firm Trainings? An Analysis of Absenteeism and Turnover Rates. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2015, 26(22), 2888–2907 (with K. Marggraf).
Non-executive Compensation in German and Swiss Banks before and after the Financial Crisis. European Journal of Finance, 2015, 21(15), 1297–1316.
Incentive Pay and Bank Risk-Taking: Evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss Banks. Journal of International Economics, 2015, 96, 123–140 (with M. Efing, H. Hau and J. Steinbrecher).
Pay-Performance Sensitivity of Compensation Contracts for Non-Executive Employees – The Case of the Financial Crisis. Applied Economics Letters, 2015, 22(9), 734–738.
Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees. Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 45–60 (with D. Sliwka).
Determinants and Effects of Intra-Firm Trainings: Evidence from a Large German Company. Journal of Business Economics, 2013, 83(2), 145–169 (with K. Breuer).
Die Wirkung der Finanzkrise auf Bonuszahlungen in deutschen Banken und Finanzdienstleistungsinstitutionen. Swiss Journal of Business Research and Practice, 2011, Sonderband 1/2011, 155–168 (with D. Sliwka).
Choice architecture, sorting, and availability of stem cell donors (with Y. Ndiaye, A. Ockenfels, T. Stange and D. Wiesen). AEA RCT Registry: AEARCTR-0017570.
Evaluating interventions to improve stem cell donor availability (with M. Haylock, M. Macis, Y. Ndiaye, A. Ockenfels, T. Stange and D. Wiesen). AEA RCT Registry: AEARCTR-0016801.
Improving the availability of stem cell donors: A natural field experiment (with M. Haylock, M. Macis, R. Slonim and D. Wiesen). AEA RCT Registry: AEARCTR-0008938.
Zur Extrameile motiviert. Welche Performance-Management-Instrumente wirklich wirken. Personalmagazin, 11/25 (2025), 72–75 (with S. Ehmann, P. Grunau and J. Wenzel).
Wie Performance Management das Engagement steigern kann. Controlling & Management Review, 69(5) (2025), 40–45 (with S. Ehmann, P. Maier and P. Yang).
Performance Management in deutschen Betrieben: Leistungsorientierung lohnt sich – aber nur mit kollektiven Zielen. IAB-Kurzbericht, 11/25 (2025) (with P. Grunau and K. Ruf).
Vergütung von Führungskräften: Welche Rolle Nachhaltigkeit spielt. transforming economies Blog, February 19, 2025 (with M. Efing, S. Ehmann and R. Moritz).
Wie beeinflusst Personalarbeit wirtschaftlichen Erfolg?. Personalmagazin, 01/25 (2025), 20–30 (with P. Grunau and S. Wolter).
Are ESG Metrics in Executive Compensation All Hat and No Cattle?. Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog, October 15, 2024 (with M. Efing, S. Ehmann and R. Moritz).
Reducing the unavailability of stem cell donors. VoxEU.org, July 1, 2022 (with M. Haylock, M. Macis, R. Slonim and D. Wiesen).
Hohe Boni können den Wandel im Betrieb blockieren. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), February 7, 2022, p. 16 (with D. Sliwka).
Mehr „Wir“, weniger Ziele. Personalmagazin, 06/21 (2021), 22–27 (with P. Grunau and D. Sliwka).
What Does a Bank’s Payroll Reveal about its Risk-Taking?. International Banker, Winter 2017, 47–49 (with M. Efing and H. Hau).
Homeoffice als Herausforderung für die Mitarbeiterführung. PERSONALquarterly, 03/16 (2016), 10–15 (with D. Arnold and S. Steffes).
Variable Vergütung in Deutschland – Ein Überblick. PERSONALquarterly, 03/15 (2015), 10–15 (with K. Laske and D. Sliwka).
Optimale Vergütungsstrukturen in Banken. Die Bank, 03/15 (2015), 66–69 (with M. Efing, F. Frank, H. Hau and J. Steinbrecher).
Die Dosis macht das Gift – eine Analyse zum Einfluss von Bonuszahlungen auf die Profitabilität und das Risiko von Banken. ifo Schnelldienst, 68(03) (2015), 23–31 (with M. Efing, H. Hau and J. Steinbrecher).
Bankers’ bonuses and performance sensitivity. VoxEU.org, November 13, 2014 (with M. Efing, H. Hau and J. Steinbrecher).
Jobrotation und Mitarbeiterperformance. Personalführung, 08/14 (2014), 62–68 (with J. Berger and M. Emmerich).
State of the Art: Trotz subjektiver Leistungsbeurteilung zu aussagekräftigen Ergebnissen kommen. PERSONALquarterly, 02/13 (2013), 46–49 (with D. Sliwka).
Das Klischee vom Berater lebt. Personalwirtschaft, 06/12 (2012), 64–66 (with M. Marantsenboyn).
Bonussysteme und Unternehmensperformance in der Finanzkrise. PERSONALquarterly, 10/11 (2011), 30–33.
Bankgehälter in der Krise – ein Ländervergleich. bank und markt, 06/11 (2011), 14–17 (with M. Muntermann and D. Sliwka).
Human Resources Transformation: Neuausrichtung des Personalbereichs. WISU – das Wirtschaftsstudium, 04/11 (2011), 502–504 (with J. Berger).
Bankmanagement: Wandel im Vergütungsmix. Die Bank, 05/10 (2010), 80–82 (with M. Emmerich, A. Enneking and D. Sliwka).
Vergütung: Zwischen Mythos und Wahrheit. Personal – Zeitschrift für Human Resource Management, 12/09 (2009), 38–40 (with M. Emmerich and D. Sliwka).
Humankapitalbewertung. WISU – das Wirtschaftsstudium, 10/09 (2009), 1320 (with K. Breuer).
Vergütungstrends: Pauschal ist perdu. Die Bank, 06/09 (2009), 68–72 (with M. Emmerich, A. Enneking and D. Sliwka).
Humankapital bewerten. Personalmagazin, 05/09 (2009), 18–21 (with K. Breuer and D. Sliwka).
Variable Vergütung in der Unternehmenspraxis: Anreiz zur Leistung. Die Bank, 01/08 (2008), 83–86 (with M. Emmerich and D. Sliwka).
Performance Management – Leistungsbeurteilung, Feedbacksysteme und erfolgsabhängige Vergütung (2025). Forschungsbericht FB665 (with S. Ehmann, P. Grunau, K. Ruf and J. Wenzel).
Betriebliche Diversitätsstrategien in Deutschland (2022). Forschungsbericht FB603 (with E. Brüll).
Arbeitszufriedenheit und Arbeitsbedingungen (2021). Forschungsbericht FB590 (with A. Ganserer and S. Steffes).
Bericht zum Forschungsmonitor „Variable Vergütungssysteme“ (2018). Forschungsbericht FB507 (with K. Arnhold, S. Butschek, P. Grunau, L. Petters and D. Sliwka).
Zwischenbilanz: Arbeitsqualität und wirtschaftlicher Erfolg (with diverse co-authors).
Monitor: Variable Vergütungssysteme (with S. Butschek, P. Grunau, L. Petters and D. Sliwka).
Monitor: Personalentwicklung und Weiterbildung (with P. Grunau, K. Laske, L. Petters and D. Sliwka).
Monitor: Fachkräftesicherung und -bindung (with K. Laske, D. Müller, L. Petters and D. Sliwka).
Monitor: Arbeitsqualität und wirtschaftlicher Erfolg (with S. Bender, K. Laske, J. Mohrenweiser, D. Sliwka, S. Steffes and S. Wolter).
LPP – Linked Personnel Panel. Quality of work and economic success: longitudinal study in German establishments (data collection on the first wave). FDZ-Methodenreport 05/2015 (with L. Bellmann and others).
Arbeitsqualität und wirtschaftlicher Erfolg: Längsschnittstudie in deutschen Betrieben. Erster Zwischenbericht im Projekt. Forschungsbericht Arbeitsmarkt 442, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) (with L. Bellmann, S. Bender, M. Bossler, K. Laske, J. Mohrenweiser, A. Nolte, D. Sliwka, S. Steffes, J. Stephani and S. Wolter).