Publications

B4 - Die Gestaltung von Turnieren im Rahmen der Corporate Governance

1
M. Kräkel (joint with N. Szech, F. von Bieberstein)

Externalities in Recruiting

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization - forthcoming


2
Petra Nieken (joint with Simon Dato)

Gender Differences in Competition and Sabotage

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming


3
M. Kräkel

Optimal Seedings in Elimination Tournaments Revisited

Economic Theory Bulletin, forthcoming


4
M. Kräkel (joint with L. Imhof)

Bonus Pools and the Informativeness Principle

European Economic Review, forthcoming


5
Petra Nieken (with K. Breuer and D. Sliwka)

Social Ties and Subjective Performance Evaluations, An Empirical Investigation

Review of Managerial Science, 2013, 7 (2), 141-157

 


6
Petra Nieken (with O. Gürtler and J. Münster)

Information Policy in Tournaments with Sabotage

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115, p. 932-966


7
Petra Nieken (with Dirk Sliwka)

Management Changes, Reputation, and "Big Bath"-Earnings Management

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2013, forthcoming


8
L. Imhof and M. Kräkel

Tournaments with Gaps

Economics Letters (forthcoming)


9
M. Kräkel and D. Müller

Sabotage in Teams

Economics Letters 115 (2012), 289-292


10
M. Kräkel

Shutdown Contests in Multi-Plant Firms

Review of Managerial Science (forthcoming)


11
M. Kräkel, P. Nieken and J. Przemeck

Risk Taking and Investing in Electoral Competition

European Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming)


12
Kräkel, Matthias (with Anja Schöttner)

Internal Labor Markets and Worker Rents

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 84 (2012), 491-509 (with Anja Schöttner)


13
Kräkel, Matthias; Gürtler, Oliver

On the Virtues of Hiring Lemons

Managerial and Decision Economics 33 (2013), 475-484


14
Kräkel, Matthias

Sandbagging

Journal of Sports Economics (forthcoming)


15
Kräkel, Matthias; Gürtler, Oliver

Dismissal Tournaments

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 168 (2012), 547-562


16
Petra Nieken (joint with Patrick Schmitz (NA))

Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment

Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, 75 (2), p. 1000; 1008

 


17
Oliver Gürtler and Johannes Münster

Sabotage in Dynamic Tournaments

Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 46(2), March 2010, pp. 179-190


18
Oliver Gürtler and Matthias Kräkel

Optimal Tournament Contracts for Heterogeneous Workers

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 75(2), August 2010, pp. 180-191


19
Matthias Kräkel (joint with Anja Schöttner)

Technology choice, relative performance pay, and worker heterogeneity

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, Vol. 76 (3), pp. 748-758


20
Matthias Kräkel (joint with Anja Schöttner)

Minimum Wages and Excessive Effort Supply

Economics Letters, 2010, Vol. 108 (3), pp. 341-344


21
Anja Schöttner (joint with Dominique Demougin (NA)

Technology Adoption under Hidden Information

Journal of Economics, 2010, Vol. 100 (1), 1-18


22
Matthias Kräkel (joint with Michael Beckmann (NA), Silvia Föhr (NA))

Rent Seeking, Employment Security and Works Councils: Theory and Evidence for Germany

Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 62, pp. 2-40, January 2010


23
Petra Nieken

On the Choice of Risk and Effort in Tournaments - Experimental Evidence

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy , 2010, 19 (3), p. 811; 840


24
Anja Schöttner (joint with Veikko Thiele (NA))

Promotion Tournaments and Individual Performance Pay

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 19 (3), pp. 699–731, 2010


25
Petra Nieken (joint with Dirk Sliwka (NA))

Risk-Taking in Tournaments -Theory and Experimental Evidence

Journal of Economic Psychology , Vol 31(3), Jun 2010, 254-268


26
Oliver Gürtler (joint with Matthias Kräkel (B4))

Hostile takeover and costly merger control

Public Choice, 2009, Vol. 141 (3), pp. 371-389


27

Double-Sided Moral Hazard, Efficiency Wages and Litigation

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2010, Vol. 26 (2), pp. 337-364


28
Jörg Budde

Variance analysis and linear contracts in agencies with

Management Accounting Research, 2009, Vol. 20 (3), pp. 166-176


29
Oliver Gürtler (joint with Matthias Kräkel)

On the Inefficiency of Merger Control

Economic Letters, 2009, Vol. 102 (1), pp. 53-55


30
Oliver Gürtler (joint with Christian Grund)

The Effect of Reputation on Selling Prices in Auctions

Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und statistik, 2008, Vol. 228 (4), pp. 345-356


31
Jörg Budde

Information in tournaments under limited liability

Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 45 (1-2), January 2009, pp. 59-72


32
Matthias Kräkel, Peter-Jürgen Jost

Preemption in Rank-Order Tournaments

Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, Vol. 77 (12), pp. 1293-1314


33
Oliver Gürtler

On Sabotage in Collective Tournaments

Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2008, Vol. 44 (3-4), pp. 383-393


34
Matthias Kräkel, Dirk Sliwka

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


35
Matthias Kräkel

Emotions and the Optimality of Uneven Tournaments

Review of Managerial Science, 2008, Vol. 2 (1), pp. 61-79


36
Matthias Kräkel

Doping and Cheating in Contest-Like Situations

European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, Vol. 23 (4), December 2007, pp. 988-1006



37
Matthias Kräkel

On the Adverse Selection of Technologies

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2008, Vol. 164 (2), pp. 343-355


38
Matthias Kräkel, Peter-Jürgen Jost

Human Capital Investments in Asymmetric Corporate Tournaments

Journal of Economics and Business, 2007, Vol. 60 (4) pp. 312-331


39
Matthias Kräkel, Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch, Reinhard Selten

Sabotage in Corporate Contests - An Experimental Analysis

International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2007, Vol.14 (3), pp. 367-392



40
Matthias Kräkel

Tournaments versus Piece Rates under Limited Liability

International Journal of Business and Economics, 2006, Vol. 5 (3), pp. 185-199


41
Oliver Gürtler

On Delegation under Relational Contracts

International Journal of the Economics of Business, Vol. 15 (1), 2008, pp. 85-98


42
Oliver Gürtler

Performance Measurement Technologies and the Trade-off of Risk and Incentives

International Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 6 (1), 2007, pp. 1-10


43
Matthias Kräkel

Emotions and Compensation

Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 60, April 2008


44
Matthias Kräkel

Optimal Risk Taking in an Uneven Tournament Game with Risk Averse Players

Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2008, Vol. 44 (11), pp. 1219-1231


45
Jörg Budde

Distorted Performance Measurement and Relational Contracts

Schmalenbach Business Review, 2008, Vol. 60 (3), pp. 251-273


46
Matthias Kräkel, Peter J. Jost

Preemptive Behavior in Sequential-Move Tournaments with Heterogeneous Agents

Economics of Governance, Volume: 6, 2005, Pp 245-252



47
Christian Grund, Oliver Gürtler

An Empirical Study on Risk Taking in Tournaments

Applied Economics Letters, Volume: 12, 2005, Pp 457-461


48
Oliver Gürtler

Collective contests with externalities: corrigendum

European Journal of Political Economy, Volume: 21(2), 2005, Pp 533-536


49
Oliver Gürtler

Are 18 holes enough for Tiger Woods?

Bulletin of Economic Research, 2006, Vol. 58 (3), pp. 267-284



50
Matthias Kräkel, Guido Bulmahn

Interindustry Wage Differentials and Industry-Wide Exit Rates of Firms

Applied Economics Quarterly, Volume: 50, 2004, Pp 165-182



51
Matthias Kräkel, Dirk Sliwka

Risk Taking in Asymmetric Tournaments

German Economic Review, Volume: 5, 2004, Pp 103-116



52
Oliver Gürtler

A Collective Tournament Under (un)limited Liability

Economic Issues, 2006, Vol. 11 (1), pp. 1-18



53
Matthias Kräkel

Helping and Sabotaging in Tournaments

International Game Theory Review, Volume: 7, 2005, Pp 211-228



54
Oliver Gürtler

A rationale for the coexistence of central and decentral marketing in team sports

German Economic Review, 2007, vol. 8, pages 89-106



55
Matthias Kräkel

On the Benefits of Withholding Knowledge in Organizations

International Journal of the Economics of Business, Volume: 12, 2005, Pp 193-209


56
Matthias Kräkel, Dirk Sliwka

Strategic Delegation and Mergers in Oligopolistic Contests

Journal of Economics and Business, 2005, Vol. 58 (2), pp. 119-136



57
Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka

Envy and Compassion in Tournaments

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Volume: 14, 2005, Pp 187-207



58
Matthias Kräkel

Zur Reform der Professorenbesoldung in Deutschland

Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Volume: 7, 2006, Pp 105-126



59
Matthias Kräkel

A Note on Revenue Sharing in Sports Leagues

Journal of Sports Economics, June 2007, Vol. 8 (3), pp. 309-316



60
Matthias Kräkel

Splitting Leagues

Journal of Economics, 2006, Vol. 88(1), pp. 21-48



61
Matthias Kräkel

Strategic Delegation in Oligopolistic Tournaments

Review of Economic Design, Vol. 9 (4), 2006, pp. 377-396



62
Christian Grund

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


63
Matthias Kräkel, Peter J. Jost

Simultaneous- versus Sequential-Move Tournaments with Heterogeneous Agents

Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 58, October 2006


64
Matthias Kräkel

Managerial versus Entrepreneurial Firms: The Benefits of Separating Ownership and Control

Schmalenbach Business Review, Volume: 56 (1), 2004, Pp 2-19



65
Christian Grund

Turniere in Unternehmen als Leistungsanreiz

Zeitschrift für Management, Volume: 4, 2004, Pp 2-5


66
Matthias Kräkel

R&D Spillovers and Strategic Delegation in Oligopolistic Contests

Managerial and Decision Economics, Volume: 25, 2004, Pp 147-156



67
Matthias Kräkel, Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch, Reinhard Selten

Oekonomische Analyse der Professorenbesoldungsreform in Deutschland

Wolfgang Franz, Hans Jürgen Ramser, Manfred Stadler (Hrsg.): Bildung, Tübingen, 2004, Pp 197-219


68
Matthias Kräkel

Emotions in Tournaments

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2007, Vol. 67 (1), pp. 204-214


Prof. Dr. Matthias Kräkel

Institut für Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Adenauerallee 24-42
53113 Bonn
Tel.: (0228) 73 9211
Fax: (0228) 73 9210
mail: m.kraekel@uni-bonn.de