Publications in Peer-Reviewed Academic Journals
Control Aversion in Hierarchies (with Alessandro de Chiara, Florian Engl and Ester Manna), SES Working Paper No. 527, forthcoming, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization
Hindsight Bias and Trust in Government: Evidence from the United States (with Deborah Kistler, Christian Zehnder and Christian Zihlmann)
Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming. Link
Adverse Effects of Control: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Christian Zihlmann), 2024, Experimental Economics, 27(2), 469-488.
Building an Equilibrium: Rules Versus Principles in Relational Contracts (with Bob Gibbons, Manuel Grieder and Christian Zehnder)
Organization Science, 2023, Vol. 34(6) pp. 2231-2249. Link
The Science of Leader Power (with John Antonakis and Rachel Sturm), 2021, Leadership Quarterly, 32(4), 101550
Time Preferences across Language Groups: Evidence on Intertemporal Choices from the Swiss Language Border (with Martin Huber, Tjasa Maillard-Bjedov and Svitlana Tyahlo)
The Economic Journal, October 2021, Vol. 131(639), pp. 2920-2954.
Do Preferences and Biases predict Life Outcomes? Evidence from Education and Labor Market Entry Decisions (with Uschi Backes-Gellner, Michael Kosfeld and Yvonne Oswald)
European Economic Review, May 2021, Vol. 134, 103709. Link
Cooperation and Mistrust in Relational Contracts (with Armin Schmutzler and André Volk)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, October 2019, Vol. 166, pp. 366-380. Link
The Causal Effects of Competition on Innovation: Experimental Evidence (with Philippe Aghion, Stefan Bechtold and Lea Cassar)
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, May 2018, Vol. 34 (2), pp. 162-195. Link
What Makes a Price Fair? An Experimental Study of Market Experience and Endogenous Fairness Norms (with Dmitry Taubinsky)
Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2018, Vol. 16 (2), pp. 316-352. Link
A Productive Clash of Cultures: Injecting Economics into Leadership Research (with Jean-Philippe Bonardi and Christian Zehnder)
The Leadership Quarterly, February 2017, Vol. 28 (1), pp. 65-85. Link
The Intrinsic Value of Decision Rights (with Björn Bartling and Ernst Fehr)
Econometrica, November 2014, Vol. 82 (6), pp. 2005-2039. Link
Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics (with Thomas Åstebro, Ramana Nanda and Roberto Weber)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2014, Vol. 28 (3), pp. 49-70. PDF
How do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism shape Innovative Activity? (with Daniel Schunk and Christian Zehnder)
Games and Economic Behavior, January 2014, Vol. 83, pp. 1-23. Link
The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power (with Ernst Fehr and Tom Wilkening)
American Economic Review, June 2013, Vol. 103 (4), pp. 1325-59 (Press Coverage: Handelsblatt). Link