My research

I am an economist employed as a Full Professor at Ulm University and fellow of the CESifo research network. 

Previously, I was employed as Professor for Behavioral and Experimental Economics at LMU Munich, and worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Thurgau Institute of Economics and the University of Konstanz.

My research covers topics from Labor and Organizational Economics, Political Economy, Environmental Economics, and Economic Decision-Making, more generally. 

I combine different empirical approaches using survey and administrative data, company data, and experimental data (lab, online, and field experiments) to answer research questions relevant for researchers and practitioners alike.  

I am particularly interested in sustainable organizational structures in dynamic decision environments. I seek to understand how technological change affects optimal incentives, leadership structures, and decision rules within groups, firms, or institutions (taking individual preferences, norms, and behavioral biases into account). As such, I am also interested in evaluation studies in cooperation with business partners. 

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News 

• My paper "The Effect of Incentives in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks" (with Florian Englmaier, Dominik Grothe, David Schindler and Stefan Grimm)  has been accepted at the Journal of Political Economy! 

• My paper "(Dis)honesty and the value of transparency for campaign promises" (with Matthias Lang)  has been accepted at the European Economic Review)

• My paper "The Efficacy of Tournaments for Non-Routine Team Tasks" (with Florian Englmaier, Dominik Grothe, David Schindler and Stefan Grimm)  has been accepted at the Journal of Labor Economics)

• I am starting a new position as Full Professor at Ulm University on Oct 1, '23!

• The Diligentia Foundation has decided to fund my joint project with Matylda Trocinska "Unpacking the Ethics of Leadership: Does power shape (im)moral preferences?"

• The German Research Foundation (DFG) decided to continue funding the collaborative research center CRC TRR 190 "Rationality and Competition". I am looking very much forward continuing the productive work in Project A04 as PI together with Jana Friedrichsen and Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel