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Publications & Accepted Articles
Reciprocity in Dynamic Employment Relationships , accepted, Management Science.
Present Bias in the Labor Market – When it Pays to be Naive (with R. Seibel), 2022, Games and Economic Behavior, 135, 144-167.
Transparency in Relational Contracts (with G. Zanarone), 2022, Strategic Management Journal, 43(5), 1046-1071.
Size Matters – “Over”investments in a Relational Contracting Model (with F. Englmaier), 2019, Economic Journal, 129(624), 3092-3106.
Relational Contracts with Private Information on the Future Value of the Relationship: The Upside of Implicit Downsizing Costs (with N. Klein), 2019, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 11(4), 33-58.
Teamwork as a Self-Disciplining Device (with H. Hakenes), 2019, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 11(4), 1-32.
The Commitment Role of Equity Financing (with V. Merlo, G. Wamser), 2019, Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(4), 1232-1260.
Minimum Wages and Relational Contracts , 2017, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 33 (2), 301-331.
Relational Contracts for Household Formation, Fertility Choice and Separation (with R. Rees, A. Wuppermann), 2016, Journal of Population Economics, 29(2), 421-455.
Optimal Contracting with Private Military and Security Companies (with T. Hadjer), 2015, European Journal of Political Economy, 37, 220-240.
On the Genesis of Multinational Foreign Affiliate Networks (with P. Egger, G. Wamser, V. Merlo), 2014, European Economic Review, 65(1), 136‐163.
Working Papers
Informal Incentives and Labor Markets (with T. Murooka), revise and resubmit, Economic Journal
Long -Term Employment Relations when Agents are Present-Biased (with F. Englmaier, M. Schwarz), revise and resubmit, International Economic Review
Relational Contracts, the Costs of Enforcing Formal Contracts, and Capital Structure Choice – Theory and Evidence (with V. Merlo, G. Wamser), revised and resubmitted, Quantitative Economics
Non-Common Priors, Incentives, and Promotions: The Role of Learning (with N. Klein)
Outside Options and Worker Motivation (with A. Ahammer, F. Stiftinger)
Current Projects
Competition and Productivity – The Role of Informal Incentives (with T. Murooka)
The Effects of Information Sharing on Moral Hazard in Credit Markets – Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in the Philippines (with K. Czura, L. Spantig)
Informal Incentives and Product Market Competition – How Digitalization Affects Production Efficiency, Firm Size, and Consumer Welfare (with T. Murooka)
Introduction to Past and Future Developments in the Economics of Relational Contracts (with W.B. MacLeod, G. Mühlheußer)
Overconfidence in Relational Contracts (with N. Klein)
What Drives Reciprocal Behavior? The Optimal Provision of Incentives Over the Course of Careers (with A. Schade, K. Schüssler)
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