Working papers

Is compensation fine? Sanction schemes and their effects on deterrence and trust (with Pieter Desmet and Franziska Weber)

Work in progress

Personal appearance and bargaining outcomes: Evidence from a German TV show (with Luise Görges and Gerd Mühlheußer)

Voters’ preference for politicians’ consistency: Experimental evidence (with Tim Friehe)

Gender, overconfidence and delegation of work in teams (with Alexander Coutts and Zahra Murad) 

Publications

Keep them out of It! How information externalities affect the willingness to sell personal data online [supplementary material] (with Tim Friehe and Franziska Weber, Journal of Economic Psychology, 109, 2025, 102830)

What to blame? Self-serving attribution bias with multi-dimensional uncertainty (with Alexander Coutts and Zahra Murad, Economic Journal, 134, 2024, 1835-1874)
Media: EuroNews, Earth.com

Deliberative structures and their impact on voting under economic conflict (with Jordi Brandts and Lydia Mechtenberg, Experimental Economics, 25, 2022, 680-705)

Because of you I did not give up – Peer effects in perseverance (with Christina Gravert, Journal of Economic Psychology, 81, 2020, 102316)

I (don’t) like you – but who cares? Gender differences in same sex and mixed sex teams (with Michael Kosfeld, Economic Journal, 130, 2020, 716-739)
Media: Daily Star, Horizont, Human Resources Director, Newsweek, MDR Wissen, Science Alert, Yahoo Live

Responsiveness to feedback as a personal trait (with Thomas Buser and Joël van der Weele, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 56, 2018, 165-192) Link to replication material on OSF project page

The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing (with Simon Gächter and Daniele Nosenzo, European Economic Review, 97, 2017, 72-86)

In good times and bad – Reciprocal behavior at the workplace in times of economic crises (with Matthias Heinz, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 134, 2017, 228-239)

The impact of private and public feedback on worker performance – Evidence from the lab (with Neele Siemer, Economic Inquiry, 54, 2016, 1188-1201)
Blog post: FehrAdvice

The incentive effects of missions – Evidence from experiments with NGO employees and students (European Economic Review, 79, 2015, 252-262)
Media: Gießener Zeitung

Publication in Non-Econ Journal

Grit and Peers: An Experimental Study on Peer Effects in Perseverance (with Christina Gravert, Clinical Psychiatry, 7, 2021, 100)