Publications

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Economic Journals

[25] “Consumer Loss Aversion and Scale-Dependent Psychological Switching Costs,” joint with Heiko Karle and Rune Vølund, Games and Economic Behavior 138, 2023, 214-237 [link]

[24] “Social Preferences of Young Professionals and the Financial Industry,” joint with Andrej Gill, Matthias Heinz, and Matthias Sutter, Management Science, forthcoming [link]

[23] “Reservation Wages and Labor Supply,” joint with Iris Kesternich, Bettina Siflinger, and Franziska Valder, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 194, 2022, 583-607 [link]

[22] “Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations,” joint with Heidi Christina Thysen, Theoretical Economics 17(1), 2022, 371-414 [link]

[21] “Money or Meaning? Labor Supply Responses to Work Meaning of Employed and Unemployed Individuals,” joint with Iris Kesternich, Bettina Siflinger, and Stefan Schwarz, European Economic Review 137, 2021, Article 103786 [link]

[20] “Measuring the Indirect Effects of Adverse Employer Behavior on Worker Productivity – A Field Experiment,” joint with Matthias Heinz, Sabrina Jeworrek, Vanessa Mertins, and Matthias Sutter, Economic Journal 130(632), 2020, 2546-2568 [link] [voxeu column]

[19] “The Agency Costs of On-the-Job Search,” joint with Daniel Herbold, Games and Economic Behavior 121, 2020, 435-452 [link]

[18] “Market Size and Competition: A “Hump-Shaped” Result,” joint with Iris Grant, Iris Kesternich, and Johannes Van Biesebroeck, International Journal of Industrial Organization 70, 2020, Article 102605 [link]

[17] “Relational Retention,” joint with Daniel Herbold, Managerial and Decision Economics 41(4), 2020, 490-502 [link]

[16] “Locus of Control and Consistent Investment Choices,” joint with Pia Pinger and Sebastian Schäfer, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 75, 2018, 66-75 [link]

[15] “Unfair Incentives: A Behavioral Note on Sharecropping,” joint with Niels Kemper and Kristina Czura, Economics of Transition 26(2), 2018, 303-331 [link]

[14] “Advertising and Attachment: Exploiting Loss Aversion through Pre-Purchase Information,” joint with Heiko Karle, RAND Journal of Economics 48(4), 2017, 927-948 [link] 

[13] “Signaling Cooperation,” joint with Matthias Heinz, European Economic Review 98, 2017, 199-216 [link] [voxeu column]

[12] “One, Two, Many – Insensitivity to Group Size in Games with Concentrated Benefits and Dispersed Costs,” joint with Iris Kesternich, Michael Kosfeld, and Joachim Winter, Review of Economic Studies 84(3), 2017, 1346-1377 [link] [voxeu column]

[11] “The Compromise Effect in Action: Lessons from a Restaurant’s Menu,” joint with Pia Pinger and Isabel Ruhmer-Krell, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 128, 2016, 14-34 [link]

[10] “Signaling Quality through Increased Incentives,” joint with Heiko Karle and Christian Staat, European Economic Review 85, 2016, 8-21 [link]

[9] “Insurance, Self-Control, and Contract Flexibility,” European Economic Review 83, 2016, 220-232 [link]

[8] “Professional Norms and Physician Behavior: Homo Oeconomicus or Homo Hippocraticus?,” joint with Iris Kesternich and Joachim Winter, Journal of Public Economics 131, 2015, 1-11 [link]

[7] “On Repeated Games with Endogenous Matching Decision,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 171(3), 2015, 544-564 [link]

[6] “Entrepreneurial Risk Choice and Credit Market Equilibria,” joint with Kerstin Gerling and Michal Kowalik, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 15(3), 2015, 1455-1480 [link]

[5] “Incentives through Consumer Learning about Tastes,” International Journal of Industrial Organization 79, 2014, 170-177 [link]

[4] “On the Use of Information in Oligopolistic Insurance Markets,” joint with Iris Kesternich, Journal of Risk and Insurance 81(1), 2014, 159-175 [link]

[3] “The Value of Recommendations,” joint with Jeanine Miklós-Thal, Games and Economic Behavior 79, 2013, 132-147 [link]

[2] “Imitating Cooperation and the Formation of long-term Relationships,” Journal of Economic Theory 148(1), 2013, 407-417 [link]

[1] “Information Management and Incentives,” joint with Julia Nafziger, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 22(1), 2013, 140-163 [link]

Other Publications and Unpublished Papers

[5] “Student Characteristics, Professional Preferences, and Admission to Medical School,” joint with Iris Kesternich, Joachim Winter, Martin Fischer, and Matthias Holzer, GMS Journal for Medical Education 34(1), 2017, Doc5 [link]

[4] “The Gods Are Watching: An Experimental Study of Religion and Traditional Belief in Burkina Faso,” joint with Myriam Hadnes, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 51(4), 2012, 689-704 [link]

[3] “Reciprocity in Economic Games,” joint with Julian Culp, Analyse und Kritik 33(1), 2011, 349-364 [link]

[2] “Representation of Property Rights and Credit Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Land Reform in Vietnam,” joint with Niels Kemper and Rainer Klump, Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin, 2011, No. 45 [link]

[1] “Zu den Folgen einer Arbeitszeitverlängerung aus wettbewerbstheoretischer Sicht,” joint with Pieter de Vos, in Deutscher Studienpreis (ed.) (2006): “Mythos Markt,” VS Verlag, Wiesbaden [link]