Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - School of Business and Economics

Prof. Dr. Anja Schöttner

Portrait Prof Schöttner

      

 

   

   

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Education

June 2005                  Humboldt University Berlin

                                School of Business and Economics

                                Dr. rer. pol. (grade: summa cum laude)

                                Thesis: "Essays on Incentive Contracts under Moral Hazard

                                and Non-Veryfiable Performance"

 

March 2001                 Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg

                                 Department of Mathematics

                                 Diplom-Wirtschaftsmathematikerin

 

Oct 1996 - Mar 2001     Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg

                                 Studies in Mathematics and Economics

                                 (Wirtschaftsmathematik)

 

June 1996                    Abitur (high school diploma)

 

 

Academic Positions

Since April 2015           Humboldt University, Berlin, Professor for Management

 

0ct 2012 - Mar 2015      University of Konstanz, Professor for Organizational 

                                  Economics

 

Oct 2007 - Sep 2012     University of Bonn,

                                 Juniorprofessor for Applied Microeconomics and Management

 

Apr 2001 - Sep 2007     Humboldt University Berlin,

                                 School of Business and Economics,

                                 scientific employee at the Walther-Rathenau-Institute for 

                                 Organization Theory (Prof. D. Demougin) 

 

Oct 2006 - Mar 2007     University of Connecticut, USA

                                 Visiting Scholar

 

Sep - Oct 2002/           Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

Jan - Feb 2003             Visiting Ph.D. Student

 

 

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Incentives to Motivate, accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. (with Ola Kvaloy)

 

Hidden Benefits of Reward: A Field Experiment on Motivation and Monetary Incentives, accepted for publication in the European Economic Review. (with Ola Kvaloy and Petra Nieken)

 

Wage Floors, Imperfect Performance Measures and Optimal Job Design, International Economic Review, 55, 525-550, 2014. (with Jenny Kragl)

 

Antidumping as Strategic Trade Policy under Asymmetric Information, Southern Economic Journal, 80, 81-105, 2013. (with Xenia Matschke)

 

Internal Labor Markets and Worker Rents, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 84, 491-509, 2012. (with Matthias Kräkel)

 

Technology Choice, Ralative Performance Pay, and Worker Heterogeneity, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 76, 748-758, 2010 (with Mattias Kräkel)

 

Promotion Tournaments and Individual Performance Pay, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 19, 699-731, 2010. (with Veikko Thiele)

 

Minimum Wages and Excessive Effort Supply, Economic Letters, 108, 341-344, 2010. (with Matthias Kräkel)

 

Technology Addoption under Hidden Information, Journal of Economics, 100, 1-18, 2010. (with Dominique Demougin)

 

Relational Contracts, Multitasking, and Job Design, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 24, 138-162, 2008.

 

Fixed Price Tournaments versus First-Price Auctions in Innovation Contests, Economic Theory, 35, 57-71, 2008.

 

Subsidazing Technological Innovation in the Presence of R&D Spillovers, German Economic Review, 9, 339-353, 2008. (with Carsten Helm)

 

Precision in U-type and J-type Tournaments, Schmalenbach Business Review, 57, 167-192, 2005.

 

Non-peer Reviewed Publications

Auditors' Liability under Prospect Theory, Kommentar, Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft 90 (2007), 215-218.

 

Essays on Incentive Contracts under Moral Hazard and Non-Verifiable Performance, Dissertation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, online-publication,

http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/dissertationen/schoettner-anja-2005-06-10/PDF/schoettner.pdf

 

Working Papers

Commissions and Bonuses as Optimal Sales Force Compensation Plans in Dynamic Settings

 

Optimal Allocation of Decision-Making Authority and the Provision of Incentives under Uncertainty (with Anna Rohlfing-Bastian)

 

Optimal Sales Force Compensation (with Matthias Kräkel)

 

Teaching

University of Konstanz

BWL 1 (Organizational Economics) (Bachelor level)

Introduction to Personnel Economics (Bachelor level)

Personnel Economics (Bachelor level)

Contract Theory (Master level)

Topics in Advanced Contract Theory (PhD program)

 

University of Bonn

Managerial Accounting (Master level)

Organization and Incentives (Master level)

Personnel Economics (Master level)

Coordination in Hierarchies (Master level)

Innovation and Incentives (PhD program)

Project module in Management and Applied Microeconomics (Master level)

Outsourcing vs. Integration (Master level) 

 

Humboldt-University Berlin

Personnel Economics (lecture and tutorial, Bachelor level)

Game Theory, Strategies, and Management (lecture and tutorial, Bachelor level)

Tournaments as an Incentive Device (lecture, Master level)

Organization and Management I (tutorial, Bachelor level)

Organization and Management II (lecture and tutorial, Master level)

Economics, Law, and Organization (lecture, Master level)

Alternative Organizational Forms (seminar, Master level)

Network Economics (tutorial, Master level)

Microeconomics of Banking (tutorial, Master level) 

 

Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

Tutorials in Microeconomics and for Mathematics

 

Scholarships and Awards

2011                              Walther-Rathenau-Preis 2011, awarded on the occasion of

                                     the XII. Symposium zur Ökonomischen Analyse der

                                     Unternehmung by the German Economic Association of

                                     Business Administration e.V.,    

                                     Presented paper: Incentives to Motivate

 

Oct 2006 - Mar 2007         DAAD Postdoc-Scholarship, University of Connecticut, USA  

 

Sep-Oct 2002/                 Marie Curie Fellowship, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy 

Jan-Feb 2003

 

2001                              Faculty award for the best graduate of the faculty of

                                     mathematics, University of Magdeburg

 

Conference Talks

18th Kolloquium on Personnel Economics, Vienna, 2015

17th Kolloquium on Personnel Economics, Köln, 2014

Verein für Socialpolitik, annual congress 2013, Düsseldorf

European Association of Labour Economics, annual congress 2012, Bonn

ZEW/Tinbergen Institute Workshop “Behavioural Personnel Economics”, 2011, Mannheim

German Economic Association of Business Administration, annual congress 2011, Zurich

Verein für Socialpolitik, annual congress 2011, Frankfurt

Law and Economics of Contracts, Bergen, 2011

14th Kolloquium on Personnel Economics, Zurich, 2011

Verein für Socialpolitik, annual congress 2010, Kiel

European Association for Research in Industrial Organization, annual congress 2010, Istanbul

Young Researchers Workshop on “Contests and Tournaments” 2009, Magdeburg

SFB TR 15 Young Researcher Workshop, Berlin 2009

12th Kolloquium on Personnel Economics, Wien 2009

German Economic Association of Business Administration, annual congress 2008, Augsburg

European Economic Association, annual congress 2008, Milan

Society of Labor Economics, annual congress 2008, New York

WZB Young Researchers Workshop on “Contests and Tournaments” 2007, Berlin

Verein für Socialpolitik, annual congress 2007, München

European Economic Association, annual congress 2007, Budapest

European Association for Research in Industrial Organization, annual congress 2006, Amsterdam

9th Kolloquium on Personnel Economics, Zurich 2006

8th Kolloquium on Personnel Economics, Konstanz 2005

German Economic Association of Business Administration, annual congress 2004, Bonn

7th Kolloquium on Personnel Economics, Bonn 2004

Verein für Socialpolitik, annual congress 2003, Zurich

European Association of Labour Economics, annual congress 2003, Sevilla

European Economic Association, annual congress 2003, Stockholm

 

German Economic Association of Business Administration, annual congress 2002, Berlin

 

Seminar Talks

University of Strasbourg, February 2015

University of Ulm, December 2014

University of Vienna, June 2014

University of Regensburg, November 2013

University of Trier, November 2013

University of Tübingen, June 2012

University of Magdeburg, December 20115

WZB Berlin, April 2011

Technical University Darmstadt, June 2010

University of Stavanger (April 2009, June 2014)

DIW Berlin, January 2009

Tinbergen Institute Rotterdam, January 2009

University of Osnabrück, January 2008

University of Bonn (November 2007, June 2010)

University of Connecticut (December 2006, February 2007)

 

Refereeing

Academic journals:

 

American Economic Review; Bulletin of Economic Research; Canadian Journal of Economics; Economic Inquiry; Economic Theory; European Journal of Political Economy; German Economic Review; International Economics and Economic Policy; International Economic Review; Journal of Economics; Journal of Economics and Management Strategy; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics; Journal of Labor Economics; Labour Economics; Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; Management Science; RAND Journal of Economics; Schmalenbach Business Review; Social Choice and Welfare; Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft 

 

Conferences:

Verein für Socialpolitik (annual congress 2008, 2010, 2011),

European Economic Association (annual congress 2008)

 

Languages:

German (first language), English (fluent), Russian (basic knowledge), Latin (Latinum)