PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS
Cooperation, Competition, and Welfare in a Matching Market, (with József Sákovics), Games and Economic Behavior 143, (2024), 357-369.
Signaling versus Auditing, (with Matthias Lang and Jianpei Li), RAND Journal of Economics 52(4), (2021), 859-883.
Optimal Procurement of a Credence Good under Limited Liability, (with Yaofu Ouyang), International Journal of Industrial Organization 61 (2018), 96-129
Credence Goods, Costly Diagnosis, and Subjective Evaluation, (with Matthias Dahm), Economic Journal 128, (2018) 1367-1394.
The Optimal Allocation of Decision and Exit Rights in Organizations, (with Daniel Krähmer), RAND Journal of Economics 48(2), (2017), 309 – 334
Subjective Evaluation versus Public Information, (with Johannes Münster), Economic Theory 61, (2016), 723-753.
Signalling Rivalry and Quality Uncertainty in a Duopoly, (with Juri Demuth), Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 15(2), (2015), 135-154.
Investments and the Holdup Problem in a Matching Market, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 49(4), (2013), 302–311.
Wage Bargaining, Productivity Growth and Long-Run Industry Structure, (with Chrysovalantou Milliou and Emmanuel Petrakis), Labour Economics 19, (2012), 923-930.
Exit Options in Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information, (with Daniel Krähmer), Journal of Economic Theory 147, (2012), 1947-1968.
Externalities, Communication and the Allocation of Decision Rights, Economic Theory 41, (2009), 269-296.
Delegation and Incentives, (with Daniel Krähmer), RAND Journal of Economics 39, (2008), 664-682.
Contracting with Imperfect Commitment and Noisy Communication, (with Roland Strausz), Journal of Economic Theory 136, (2007), 236-259.
Conflict and the Social Contract, (with Karl Waerneryd), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 108, (2006), 231-249.
Easy Targets and the Timing of Conflict, (with Kai Konrad), Journal of Theoretical Politics 17, (2005), 199-215.
Delay in Contests, (with Kai Konrad), European Economic Review 48, (2004), 1169-1178.
Wages and Productivity Growth in a Dynamic Monopoly, (with Emmanuel Petrakis), International Journal of Industrial Organization 22, (2004), 83-100.
Wages and Productivity Growth in a Competitive Industry, (with Emmanuel Petrakis), Journal of Economic Theory 109, (2003), 52-69.
Contracting with Imperfect Commitment and the Revelation Principle: The Single Agent Case, (with Roland Strausz), Econometrica 69,(2001), 1077-1098.
Delegated Bargaining and Renegotiation, (with József Sákovics), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 45, (2001), 459-473.
Strategic Pricing, Signalling, and Information Acquisition, (with Klaus Ritzberger), International Journal of Industrial Organization 19, 2001, 1347-1361.
Imperfect Commitment and the Revelation Principle: The Multi-Agent Case, (with Roland Strausz), Economics Letters 69, (2000), 165-171.
Informative Reklame, (Informative Advertising), Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschafts und Sozialwissenschaften 118, (1998), 499-519.
Quality Uncertainty Mitigates Product Differentiation, RAND Journal of Economics 29, (1998), 828-844.
Is Altruism Evolutionarily Stable?, (with Werner Güth), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 34, (1998), 193-209.
Internal Finance versus Bank Debt: The Gains from Establishing a Debt History, (with Joris Scheepens), Kredit und Kapital 29, (1996), 565-591.
Coupons and Oligopolistic Price Discrimination, (with Emmanuel Petrakis), International Journal of Industrial Organization 14, (1996), 227-242.
A Non-Cooperative Analysis of Hotelling's Location Game, (with Andre de Palma, Wolfgang Leininger, Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden and Jonathan Thomas), Games and Economic Behavior 12, (1996), 165-186.
Price Competition and Advertising in Oligopoly, (with Emmanuel Petrakis), European Economic Review 39, (1995), 1075-1088.
A Bargaining Model of Financial Intermediation, European Economic Review 39, (1995), 211-228.
Random Advertising and Monopolistic Price Dispersion, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 3, (1994), 545-559.
Price Commitment in Search Markets, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 25, (1994), 109-120.
The Role of Collateral in a Model of Debt Renegotiation, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 26, (1994), 72-86.
The Incentives for Cost Reduction in a Differentiated Industry, (with Emmanuel Petrakis), International Journal of Industrial Organization 11, (1993), 519-534.
Bargaining vs. Price Competition in Markets with Quality Uncertainty, American Economic Review 83, (1993), 278-288.
Bertrand Equilibrium in a Differentiated Duopoly, International Economic Review 33, (1992), 433-448.
Non-Cooperative Bargaining and Imperfect Competition: A Survey, Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 109, (1989), 265-286.
Incentive Compatible Long-Term Contracts and Job Rationing, Journal of Labor Economics 7, (1989), 238-255.
Non–Cooperative Bargaining and Spatial Competition, Econometrica 57, (1989), 97-113.
Qualitative Uncertainty in a Market with Bilateral Trading, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 90, (1988), 415-434.
Bargaining, Search Costs and Equilibrium Price Distributions, Review of Economic Studies 55, (1988), 201-214.
The Role of Collateral in Credit Markets with Imperfect Information, European Economic Review 31, (1987), 887-899.
The Level of Investment in Credit Markets with Imperfect Information, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 141, (1985), 503-515.
Screening versus Rationing in Credit Markets with Imperfect Information, American Economic Review 75, (1985), 850-855.
Core and Equilibrium in Incomplete Markets, Journal of Economics 44, (1984), 255-266.
On Increasing Risk in Incomplete Markets, Economics Letters 16, (1984), 27 -30.
Increasing Risk and Equilibrium under Uncertainty, Journal of Economic Theory 33, (1984), 378-386.
On Shareholder Unanimity in the Mean-Variance Model, Economics Letters 10, (1982), 363-367.
Der Umschlag fixen Kapitals im Marxschen Zwei–Abteilungen–Modell / The Turnover of Fixed Capital in Marx's Two-Department-Model, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 195, (1980), 351-367.
BOOKS
Theorie der Industrieökonomik, Springer Lehrbuch, Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg (1. Edition 2000, 2. Edition 2002, 3.Edition 2004, 4.Edition 2007, 5. Edition 2010, 6. Edition 2012, 7. Edition 2017).
CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS AND COLLECTIVE VOLUMES
Die Anreizfunktion von Kreditverträgen bei unvollständiger Information, in: "Kapitalmarkt und Finanzierung", Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Neue Folge Band 165, Berlin: Duncker und Humblot (1987), 225-236.
Moral Hazard and Equilibrium Credit Rationing: An Overview of the Issues , (with Martin Hellwig), in: "Agency Theory, Information, and Incentives" , G. Bamberg und K. Spreman (Eds.) , Berlin: Springer (1987), 135 - 167.
Credit Screening , in: “The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance”, London and Basingstoke: MacMillan (1992).
Spieltheorie, in: „Handwörterbuch Unternehmensführung und Organisation“, Georg Schreyögg und Axel v. Werder (Eds.) , Schäffer/Poeschel 2004, S. 1341-1349.
Specific Skills, Imperfect Information and Job Rationing, in: „Advances in Understanding Strategic Behaviour“, Steffen Huck (Ed.) , Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004, S. 73-84.
Industrieökonomie, in: „Handwörterbuch der Betriebswirtschaft”, Richard Köhler, Hans-Ulrich Küpper und Andreas Pfingsten (Hrsg.), Schäffer/Poeschel 2007, S. 714-722.
BOOK REVIEWS
Frydman, R., Phelps, E. S. (Eds.): "Individual Forecasting and Aggregate Outcomes", Cambridge 1983, Journal of Economics 44, (1984), 295-297.
Grossman, S.: "The Informational Role of Prices", Cambridge 1989, Journal of Economics 54, (1991), 181-184.
Schmutzler, A.: "Flexibility and Adjustment to Information in Sequential Decision Problems", Springer Verlag 1991, Journal of Economics 58, (1993), 100-101.
Laffont, J.-J. (Ed.): "Advances in Economic Theory, Sixth World Congress, Vol. II", Cambridge University Press 1992, De Economist 142, (1994), 232-233.
Vives, Xavier: Oligopoly Pricing: Old Ideas and New Tools, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 157 (2001), 689-690.
DISCUSSION PAPERS
Fairness and Competition in a Bilateral Matching Market, Freie Universität Berlin, School of Business & Economics, Discussion Paper Economics 2021/11
Loan Sales and Screening Incentives (with Thomas Gehrig and Rune Stenbacka), CEPR Discussion Paper No. 9084, 2012.