Academic Research in Economics

Ministry of McKinsey or Gulf MITI? Pathways to independence from external advice and regional economic cooperation, conference paper, presented at Gulf Research Meeting 2026 (available on request)

Delegation to Humans and Algorithms in Financial Decision Making, with Benjamin Hiepler, Jan Schmitz, and Stefan Zeisberger, Working Paper 2026, submitted: Experimental Economics.

The SEZification of the Gulf: Special Economic Zones and Regulatory Convergence in the GCC, Conference paper 2025 (available on request).

Mental Capabilities, Heterogeneous Trading Behaviour and Performance in an Experimental Asset Market (with A. Hefti and S. Heinke), The Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (671): 2161–2191.

Trust and Promises over Time (with F. Ederer), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2022, 14 (3): 304-320.

Frequent Job Changes can Signal Poor Work Attitude and Reduce Employability (with A. Cohn, M. Maréchal and R. Weber), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (1): 475–508.

Mergers, Mavericks, and Tacit Collusion (with D. Darai and C. Roux). Working Paper 2019.

Social Comparison in the Workplace. Evidence from a Field Experiment (with A. Cohn, E. Fehr, and B. Herrmann). Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (4): 877–898.

Eyes are on us, but nobody cares. The irrelevance of eye cues for strong reciprocity (with E. Fehr), Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2010, 277(1686), 1315-1323.

Disrupting the prefrontal cortex diminishes the human ability to build a good reputation (with D. Knoch, D. Schunk, M. Hohmann, and Ernst Fehr), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009, 106(49), 20895-20899.

The Unrealized Value of Centralization for Coordination (with E. Ranehill and R. Weber)

Long-Term Commitment and Cooperation (with R. Weber), UZH Working Paper 130.

Growing Groups, Cooperation, and the Rate of Entry (with E. Ranehill and R. Weber), UZH Working Paper 103.