Publications
B4 - Die Gestaltung von Turnieren im Rahmen der Corporate Governance
Externalities in Recruiting
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization - forthcoming
Gender Differences in Competition and Sabotage
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming
Optimal Seedings in Elimination Tournaments Revisited
Economic Theory Bulletin, forthcoming
Bonus Pools and the Informativeness Principle
European Economic Review, forthcoming
Social Ties and Subjective Performance Evaluations, An Empirical Investigation
Review of Managerial Science, 2013, 7 (2), 141-157
Information Policy in Tournaments with Sabotage
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115, p. 932-966
Management Changes, Reputation, and "Big Bath"-Earnings Management
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2013, forthcoming
Tournaments with Gaps
Economics Letters (forthcoming)
Sabotage in Teams
Economics Letters 115 (2012), 289-292
Shutdown Contests in Multi-Plant Firms
Review of Managerial Science (forthcoming)
Risk Taking and Investing in Electoral Competition
European Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming)
Internal Labor Markets and Worker Rents
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 84 (2012), 491-509 (with Anja Schöttner)
On the Virtues of Hiring Lemons
Managerial and Decision Economics 33 (2013), 475-484
Sandbagging
Journal of Sports Economics (forthcoming)
Dismissal Tournaments
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 168 (2012), 547-562
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment
Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, 75 (2), p. 1000; 1008
Sabotage in Dynamic Tournaments
Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 46(2), March 2010, pp. 179-190
Optimal Tournament Contracts for Heterogeneous Workers
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 75(2), August 2010, pp. 180-191
Technology choice, relative performance pay, and worker heterogeneity
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, Vol. 76 (3), pp. 748-758
Minimum Wages and Excessive Effort Supply
Economics Letters, 2010, Vol. 108 (3), pp. 341-344
Technology Adoption under Hidden Information
Journal of Economics, 2010, Vol. 100 (1), 1-18
Rent Seeking, Employment Security and Works Councils: Theory and Evidence for Germany
Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 62, pp. 2-40, January 2010
On the Choice of Risk and Effort in Tournaments - Experimental Evidence
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy , 2010, 19 (3), p. 811; 840
Promotion Tournaments and Individual Performance Pay
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 19 (3), pp. 699–731, 2010
Risk-Taking in Tournaments -Theory and Experimental Evidence
Journal of Economic Psychology , Vol 31(3), Jun 2010, 254-268
Hostile takeover and costly merger control
Public Choice, 2009, Vol. 141 (3), pp. 371-389
Double-Sided Moral Hazard, Efficiency Wages and Litigation
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2010, Vol. 26 (2), pp. 337-364
Variance analysis and linear contracts in agencies with
Management Accounting Research, 2009, Vol. 20 (3), pp. 166-176
On the Inefficiency of Merger Control
Economic Letters, 2009, Vol. 102 (1), pp. 53-55
The Effect of Reputation on Selling Prices in Auctions
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und statistik, 2008, Vol. 228 (4), pp. 345-356
Information in tournaments under limited liability
Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 45 (1-2), January 2009, pp. 59-72
Preemption in Rank-Order Tournaments
Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, Vol. 77 (12), pp. 1293-1314
On Sabotage in Collective Tournaments
Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2008, Vol. 44 (3-4), pp. 383-393
Should You Allow Your Employee to Become Your Competitor? - On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts
International Economic Review, 2008, Vol. 50 (1), pp. 117-141
Emotions and the Optimality of Uneven Tournaments
Review of Managerial Science, 2008, Vol. 2 (1), pp. 61-79
Doping and Cheating in Contest-Like Situations
European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, Vol. 23 (4), December 2007, pp. 988-1006
On the Adverse Selection of Technologies
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2008, Vol. 164 (2), pp. 343-355
Human Capital Investments in Asymmetric Corporate Tournaments
Journal of Economics and Business, 2007, Vol. 60 (4) pp. 312-331
Sabotage in Corporate Contests - An Experimental Analysis
International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2007, Vol.14 (3), pp. 367-392
Tournaments versus Piece Rates under Limited Liability
International Journal of Business and Economics, 2006, Vol. 5 (3), pp. 185-199
On Delegation under Relational Contracts
International Journal of the Economics of Business, Vol. 15 (1), 2008, pp. 85-98
Performance Measurement Technologies and the Trade-off of Risk and Incentives
International Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 6 (1), 2007, pp. 1-10
Emotions and Compensation
Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 60, April 2008
Optimal Risk Taking in an Uneven Tournament Game with Risk Averse Players
Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2008, Vol. 44 (11), pp. 1219-1231
Distorted Performance Measurement and Relational Contracts
Schmalenbach Business Review, 2008, Vol. 60 (3), pp. 251-273
Preemptive Behavior in Sequential-Move Tournaments with Heterogeneous Agents
Economics of Governance, Volume: 6, 2005, Pp 245-252
An Empirical Study on Risk Taking in Tournaments
Applied Economics Letters, Volume: 12, 2005, Pp 457-461
Collective contests with externalities: corrigendum
European Journal of Political Economy, Volume: 21(2), 2005, Pp 533-536
Are 18 holes enough for Tiger Woods?
Bulletin of Economic Research, 2006, Vol. 58 (3), pp. 267-284
Interindustry Wage Differentials and Industry-Wide Exit Rates of Firms
Applied Economics Quarterly, Volume: 50, 2004, Pp 165-182
Risk Taking in Asymmetric Tournaments
German Economic Review, Volume: 5, 2004, Pp 103-116
A Collective Tournament Under (un)limited Liability
Economic Issues, 2006, Vol. 11 (1), pp. 1-18
Helping and Sabotaging in Tournaments
International Game Theory Review, Volume: 7, 2005, Pp 211-228
A rationale for the coexistence of central and decentral marketing in team sports
German Economic Review, 2007, vol. 8, pages 89-106
On the Benefits of Withholding Knowledge in Organizations
International Journal of the Economics of Business, Volume: 12, 2005, Pp 193-209
Strategic Delegation and Mergers in Oligopolistic Contests
Journal of Economics and Business, 2005, Vol. 58 (2), pp. 119-136
Envy and Compassion in Tournaments
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Volume: 14, 2005, Pp 187-207
Zur Reform der Professorenbesoldung in Deutschland
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Volume: 7, 2006, Pp 105-126
A Note on Revenue Sharing in Sports Leagues
Journal of Sports Economics, June 2007, Vol. 8 (3), pp. 309-316
Splitting Leagues
Journal of Economics, 2006, Vol. 88(1), pp. 21-48
Strategic Delegation in Oligopolistic Tournaments
Review of Economic Design, Vol. 9 (4), 2006, pp. 377-396
The Wage Policy of Firms - Comparative Evidence for the U.S. and Germany from Personnel Records
The International Journal of Human Resource Management , Volume: 16, 2005, Pp 104-119
Simultaneous- versus Sequential-Move Tournaments with Heterogeneous Agents
Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 58, October 2006
Managerial versus Entrepreneurial Firms: The Benefits of Separating Ownership and Control
Schmalenbach Business Review, Volume: 56 (1), 2004, Pp 2-19
Turniere in Unternehmen als Leistungsanreiz
Zeitschrift für Management, Volume: 4, 2004, Pp 2-5
R&D Spillovers and Strategic Delegation in Oligopolistic Contests
Managerial and Decision Economics, Volume: 25, 2004, Pp 147-156
Oekonomische Analyse der Professorenbesoldungsreform in Deutschland
Wolfgang Franz, Hans Jürgen Ramser, Manfred Stadler (Hrsg.): Bildung, Tübingen, 2004, Pp 197-219
Emotions in Tournaments
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2007, Vol. 67 (1), pp. 204-214