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Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
20.00
Brandauers Bierbögen
Get Together Dinner
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
08.30 - 09.00
Seminar Room 05
Registration
09.00 - 09.50
Welcome
Plenary P1
Matthias Kräkel
University of Bonn
Organizing Committee (U. Backes-Gellner, O. Fabel, M. Kräkel, K. Pull)
Rohlfing-Bastian, Anna
Optimal allocation of decision-making authority
University of Tübingen
and the provision of incentives under uncertainty
Schöttner, Anja
(Chair)
University of Konstanz
Lecture Hall 06
9.50 - 10.05
Seminar Room 05
10.05 - 11.50
A1: Lecture Hall 06
Chair
Gender and
behavior
Coffee break
A2: Lecture Hall 07
Chair
Muehlheusser,
Gerd;
Roider,
Andreas;
Wallmeier,
Niklas
Özdemir-Rose,
Yilmaz;
Rose, Anica
Gender differences
in honesty: Groups
versus individuals
Hentschel,
Sandra;
Muehlheusser, Gerd;
Sliwka, Dirk
Subjective
appraisals of career
potential: Do
gender and the
superiorsubordinate dyads
matter?
Banerjee,
Shantanu;
Homroy,
Swarnodeep
Steffes,
Susanne
Female career
support and job
attitudes of men
and women - An
empirical analysis
using the Linked
Personnel Panel
Bender,
Stefan;
Bloom, Nick;
Card, David;
Van Reenen,
John;
Wolter,
Stefanie
11.50 - 13.00
Lunch break (not organized)
Managers’
contribution
A3: Lecture Hall 08
Chair
The contribution of
managers to
organizational
success: Evidence
from German
soccer
The structure of
corporate holdings
and corporate
governance:
Evidence from India
Bryson, Alex;
Forth, John;
Stokes, Lucy;
Weale,
Martin
Is good
management just
good managers?
Evidence from
matched employeremployee data
Brosig-Koch,
Jeanette;
HennigSchmidt,
Heike;
Kairies, Nadja;
Wiesen,
Daniel
Jirjahn, Uwe;
Mohrenweiser, Jens
Performance pay
and worker
productivity
Who fared best?
The fortunes of
performance-pay
and fixed-pay
workers through
recession
Performance pay,
multitasking and
screening intensity
How effective are
pay-forperformance
incentives for
physicians?
A laboratory
experiment
A4: Lecture Hall 09
Chair
Education and
training
Non, Arjan
Employer
supported
training: The role
of reciprocal
attitudes
BackesGellner,
Uschi;
Pfister,
Curdin;
Tuor-Sartore,
Simone N.
Different
educational
careers and
variation in
earnings:
A variance
decomposition
regarding type
and field of
education
You retain whom
you train.
Analyzing the
effect of training
on employee
retention
Dietz, Daniel;
Zwick,
Thomas
13.00 - 14.45
B1: Lecture Hall 06
Chair
Barth, Erling;
Bryson, Alex;
Dale-Olson,
Harald
Influence groups
and innovation
Do unions kill
innovation?
B2: Lecture Hall 07
Chair
Araki, Shota;
Kawaguchi,
Daiji;
Onozuka, Yuki
Buchwald,
Achim;
Steinmetz,
Alexander;
Thöne, Miriam;
Thorwarth,
Susanne
Balsmeier,
Benjamin;
Fleming, Lee;
Manso, Gustavo
Outside directors
on the board,
competition and
innovation
Kerschbamer,
Rudolf;
Stracke, Rudi;
Sunde, Uwe
Independent
boards and
innovation
Englmaier,
Florian;
Fahn,
Matthias;
Schwarz,
Marco A.
14.45 - 15.00
Seminar Room 05
15.00 - 16.45
C1: Lecture Hall 06
Chair
Kvaløy, Ola;
Olsen, Trond E.
Organization of
teams
Teams and
tournaments in
relational contracts
Learning and career
concerns
University prestige,
performance
evaluation and
promotion:
Estimating the
employer learning
model using
personnel datasets
Immediate vs.
delayed rewards:
Why the timing of
rewards matters in
multi-stage
promotion contests
Long-term
employment
relations when
agents are presentbiased
B3: Lecture Hall 08
Chair
Kvaløy, Ola;
Nieken,
Petra;
Schöttner,
Anja
Beyond monetary
rewards
Hidden benefits of
reward: A field
experiment on
motivation and
monetary incentives
B4: Lecture Hall 09
Chair
Friebel,
Guido;
Heinz,
Matthias;
Krüger,
Miriam;
Zubanov, Nick
Incentives in
team work
Team incentives
and performance:
Evidence from a
retail chain
Chadi, Adrian;
Hetschko,
Clemens
Beyond job
satisfaction: Do job
changes affect
satisfaction with
other life domains?
Yang, Philip;
Xu, Xian
Newbies and
teams: How
newcomers thrive
and prosper
Bryson, Alex;
Forth, John;
Stokes, Lucy
Does worker
wellbeing affect
workplace
performance?
Bäker, Agnes;
Zaby,
Alexandra
Will you work or
will you shirk?
Expected free
riding with
imperfectly
observable effort
choices in teams
Coffee break
C2: Lecture Hall 07
Chair
Kamphorst,
Jurjen J. A.;
Swank, Otto
H.
Delfgaauw,
Josse;
Dur, Robert;
Souverijn,
Michiel
Incentives, team
task allocation and
job satisfaction:
A field experiment
ÖzdemirRose, Yilmaz;
Schneider,
Martin R.
Lackner, Mario;
Stracke, Rudi;
Sunde, Uwe;
Winter-Ebmer,
Rudolf
The effect of
current and future
heterogeneity on
effort and risk in
tournaments Evidence from NBA
playoffs
Gürtler, Marc;
Gürtler,
Oliver
16.45 - 17.00
Seminar Room 05
Discrimination and
stereotypes
Don't demotivate,
discriminate
Are performance
appraisals
influenced by
national
stereotypes? Evidence from the
Kicker ratings of
players in the
Bundesliga
Promotion signaling
and positive
discrimination
policies
C3: Lecture Hall 08
Chair
Breda,
Thomas;
Bryson, Alex;
Forth, John
Firms on the
downside
Plant-level
productivity in a
declining market:
The case of union
locals
C4: Lecture Hall 09
Chair
In public service
BackesGellner,
Uschi;
Balestra,
Simone
Slow child left
behind?
Distributional
effects of class
size and the
revival of
teacher's aide
Public service
motivation Disentangling the
role of contract
types and
disparities within
the public sector
Müller,
Steffen;
Stegmaier,
Jens
Shadow of death
and the exogeneity
of job
displacements:
Comparing mass
layoffs, plant
closures, and
bankruptcies
Grund,
Christian;
Thommes,
Kirsten
Gerhards,
Leonie;
Heinz,
Matthias
In good times and
bad - Reciprocal
behavior at the
workplace in times
of economic crises
Dur, Robert;
van Lent,
Max
Coffee break
Serving the public
interest in several
ways: Theory and
empirics
17.00 - 18.45
D1: Lecture Hall 06
D2: Lecture Hall 07
D3: Lecture Hall 08
D4: Lecture Hall 09
Chair
Corporate culture
Chair
Drivers of career
Chair
Frederiksen,
Anders;
Kahn, Lisa;
Lange, Fabian
Bryson, Alex;
Gospel, Howard;
Pendleton,
Andrew
Supervisors and
performance
management
systems
Ownership,
governance, and
pay in Britain
Bossler,
Mario;
Grunau,
Philipp
Steffes,
Susanne;
Warnke, Arne
Jonas
Asymmetric
information in
external versus
internal promotions
Training patterns
over the life-cycle
and the gender pay
gap
Herbold,
Daniel
Managing
personnel
Optimal rest break
schemes
Arnold,
Daniel;
de Pinto,
Marco
Sickness absence,
presenteeism and
work-related
characteristics
Antons,
David;
Graff,
Frederik;
Harbring,
Christine;
Salge, Oliver
McKenzie, Tom;
Rutherford,
Alasdair
Career concerns
versus shared
values:
An empirical
investigation
Moog, Petra;
Peter,
Tamara;
Petzold, Knut
Does job market
signaling affects
studying abroad?
Results of a factorial
survey study
Grunau,
Philipp
Literacy and
numeracy abilities
in the context of
overeducation and
undereducation:
Revisiting the
allocation
mechanism
Eisenkopf,
Gerald;
Friehe, Tim;
Mechtel,
Mario
20.00
Zwölf Apostelkeller
Dinner
Chair
Staffeldt,
Andreas;
Wilhelm, Jan
Identity and
norms
Beliefs and
hidden costs of
control
The influence of
error culture and
task-inherent
learning
opportunities on
error reporting
behavior:
A laboratory
experiment
Identity and
delegation
Friday, March 27th, 2015
08.30 - 09.15
Lecture Hall 06
Plenary P2
Kerstin Pull
Fischer, Mira
University of Tübingen
(Chair)
9.15 – 09.20
Sauermann, Jan
Jansen, Anika;
Pfeifer, Harald;
Schönfeld,
Gudrun;
Wenzelmann,
Felix
Frick, Bernd;
Göke, Stefan;
Simmons,
Robert
11.05 - 11.20
Training, human
capital and
productivity
Training,
reciprocity and
worker
productivity
Firms training costs
in times of
decreasing
numbers of
applicants for
apprenticeships An analysis based
on the BIBB-CostBenefit-Surveys
2007 and 2012/13
Human capital,
personnel turnover
and team
performance:
Empirical evidence
from the German
'Bundesliga'
University of Cologne
E2: Lecture Hall 07
Chair
Performance
appraisal
E3: Lecture Hall 08
E4: Lecture Hall 09
Chair
Worker mobility
Chair
Fairness and pay
Kawaguchi,
Daiji;
Owan, Hideo;
Takahashi,
Kazuteru
Kabst,
Rüdiger;
Krebs,
Benjamin;
Wehner,
Marius C.
Biases in
Performance
Evaluation
DeVaro, Jed;
Kauhanen,
Antti;
Valmari, Nelli
Internal and
external hiring: The
role of prior job
assignments
Bradler,
Christiane;
Neckermann,
Susanne
Money meets
gratitude - A field
experiment on
gift exchange
The moderating
effect of employee
skill composition
and industry skill
intensity on the
relationship
between talent
management and
performance
Chadi,
Adrian;
Goerke,
Laszlo
Sickness absence
and subsequent job
mobility
Bryson, Alex;
Clark,
Andrew E.;
Freeman,
Richard B.;
Green,
Colin P.
Does how you are
paid affect the
way you feel?
Peiss,
Matthias
Performance
feedback, identity,
and work
engagement
Giesing,
Yvonne;
Laurentsyeva,
Nadzeya
Human capital
constraints and
firms' productivity:
Evidence from
changes in labour
mobility laws in the
EU
Breitwieser,
Maria
Efficiency wages
and reciprocity
Seminar Room 06
11.20 - 12.30
F1: Lecture Hall 06
Coffee break
F2: Lecture Hall 07
F3: Lecture Hall 08
F4: Lecture Hall 09
Chair
Unique individuals
Chair
Entrepreneurship
Chair
Farolfi,
Federica
Leadership in an
uncertain world.
Assessing
complexity and
information decay
within organizations
Reputation and
survival in the
market of
contemporary art
Ponti,
Giovanni;
Sartarelli,
Marcello;
Sikora, Iryna;
Zhukova, Vita
Hopp,
Christian;
Minarikova,
Dana;
Speil,
Alexander
The price of
entrepreneurship.
Evidence from the
lab
Bryson, Alex;
Dale-Olson,
Harald;
Gulbrandsen,
Trygve
A chip off the old
block? The
influence of family
relation intensity on
transmitting
entrepreneurial
intentions through
parental role
modelling
Duran,
Mihael;
Hildenbrand,
Andreas
Kragl, Jenny;
Gogova,
Martina N.
Determinants of
pay
Wage bargaining
when workers have
fairness concerns
Backes-Gellner,
Uschi;
Rinawi, Miriam
Occupational skills
and the evolution
of wages
12.30 - 13.45
Lunch break (not organized)
Chair
Sliwka, Dirk
Change lecture room
09.20 - 11.05
E1: Lecture Hall 06
Chair
Learning and beliefs about knowledge and
talent: Theory, experimental and field
evidence on the effects of two dimensions of
confidence
University of Cologne
Frick, Bernd;
Neuhann,
Tobias
Social ties and
shared values
Keeping the show
on the road?
Family ownership,
workplace closure
and the recession
Family firms and
market
performance:
About different
management
styles
13.45 - 15.30
G1: Lecture Hall 06
G2: Lecture Hall 07
Frosch,
Katharina;
Hoisl, Karin;
Zwick, Thomas
Research
productivity and
creativity
Research
productivity
beyond journal
articles:
Productivity
patterns of
researchers over
time
Quantity, quality,
and uniqueness:
Direct and indirect
effects of
incentives on
creativity
The power of
individual-level
drivers of inventive
performance
15.30 - 15.45
Skylounge
15.45 - 16.30
Keynote
Uschi Backes-Gellner
Edward P. Lazear
University of Zürich
Stanford University
Chair
Ayaita, Omar
Adam;
Backes-Gellner,
Uschi;
Pull, Kerstin
Laske,
Katharina;
Schröder,
Marina
Skylounge
Chair
The risk-efficiency
trade-off
G3: Lecture Hall 08
Chair
Women in
management
G4: Lecture Hall 09
Chair
Efing,
Matthias;
Hau, Harald;
Kampkötter,
Patrick;
Steinbrecher,
Johannes
Incentive pay and
bank risk-taking:
Evidence from
Austrian, German,
and Swiss banks
Flabbi, Luca;
Macis, Mario;
Moro,
Andrea;
Schivardi,
Fabiano
Do female
executives make a
difference? The
impact of female
leadership on
gender gaps and
firm performance
Böddeker,
Konstantin;
Frick, Bernd
Determinants of
absenteeism in
the international
context of a large
automobile
company
Fabel, Oliver;
Zhang,
Yingchao
Does dual-listing
increase pay-forperformance
elasticity in Chinese
firms?
Buchwald,
Achim;
Hottenrott,
Hanna
Women on the
board and executive
duration - Evidence
for European listed
firms
Frick, Bernd;
Stein,
Friedrich
Cadsby, C.
Bram;
Song, Frei;
Zubanov,
Nick
The “sales agent”
problem: Risk
aversion and effort
under multiplicative
noise
Joecks,
Jasmin
How to get women
on board(s)? The
role of a femalefriendly
environment
Goerke,
Laszlo;
Lorenz, Olga
Timing matters:
Worker
absenteeism in a
weekly backward
rotating shift
system
Commuting and
sickness absence
Coffee break
TBA
(Chair)
16.30
Skylounge
Determinants of
absenteeism
Best Paper Award; Farewell Snack