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RESEARCH PAPERS
Honesty in the Digital Age 
Online experiment which shows that  digital communication channels increase lying and that liars select into such channels.
​with Alain Cohn and Michel Maréchal; published in  Management Science. Coverage here and here. Free version with online appendix here.
Reference Price Shifts and Customer Antagonism: Evidence from Reviews for Online Auctions
Data from a large-scale online auction which show that ex-post reference point shifts lead to negative feedback for auctions.
single-authored; published in the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (open access)
De-biasing Strategic Communication 
Theoretical work which shows that disclosing senders' conflict of interests  helps rational receivers but hurts naive ones.
single-authored; published in  Games and Economic Behavior. Free version with 
online appendix here.
Home-Bias in Referee Decisions: Evidence from “Ghost Matches”during the COVID19-Pandemic
Uses German soccer data to show that in recent games without audience a previously existent bias of referees for the home teams disappeared.
with Marek Endrich; published in Economics Letters (open access). 
Does the absence of human sellers bias bidding behavior in auction experiments?
​Theory of (anti-)social preferences in second-price auctions and experiment which checks whether spiteful bidding is affected by human sellers.​​
with Björn Bartling and Nick Netzer; published in Journal of the Economic Science Association. Free version here, online appendix here.
Nudging Enforcers: How Norm Perceptions and Motives for Lying Shape Sanctions 
Two experiments investigating how providing social information and perceived social norms affect punishment of liars.
​with  Eugen Dimant, published in PNAS Nexus (open access)
Can paying employees to quit boost motivation? Evidence from a lab experiment
Two experiments investigating how providing social information and perceived social norms affect punishment of liars.
​with Chiara Natalie Focacci, Henry Kim, Ian Ayres, Alexander Stremitzer, published in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (open access)
Persistent Bias in Advice-Giving
Experiment and theory showing that removing incentives to bias advice do not restore impartial advice.
​with  Zhuoqiong (Charlie) Chen .   Coverage here and here.

On hold:
Human Bias in Algorithmic Choice

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