In 2001, the German system of higher education went through a set of reforms that - among others - were intended to create appropriate incentives for university professors. Empirically, however, even before the reform, publication records of university professors in German higher education...

In 2001, the German system of higher education underwent reforms that were, among others, intended to raise the incentives for university professors. However, even before the reform, publication records of university German professors showed high output levels over a long period of academic...

In this paper, I argue that both ultimatum game outcomes and wages may be influenced by what the result of a bargain would have been: The players in the ultimatum game, just as the parties to the labor contract, seem to engage in what may be called an "implicit" or, in Selten's words, an...

In light of the fact that scientific collaboration is increasingly wide-spread, we analyze whether the positive relation between supervisor research productivity on the one hand and young researcher productivity on the other does in fact persist in research groups where several PhD and...

We study whether and to what extent social media information can reduce (ethnic) discrimination in a two-sided market characterized by asymmetric information. We analyze whether information that breaks with prevailing ethnic stereotypes might induce the uninformed side of the market to update...