Prof. Dr. Anja 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)