Selected research in progress

• Positive feedback, Risk Behaviour, and Gender: Empirical Evidence from Careers in Competitive Diving (with Mario Lackner).
• The Napoleon complex revisited: New evidence from professional soccer (with Mario Lackner).
• Using goals to motivate students: The power of small financial rewards (with Sarah Rezaei and Bastian Westbrock).
• The peer effect on students' academic performance (with Sarah Rezaei and Bastian Westbrock).
• On gender and excessive risk-taking in tournaments: evidence from freediving competitions (with Mario Lackner and Bastian Westbrock).
• Small fish in a big pond or big fish in a small pond? Tournament entry decisions in professional tennis (with Andrea Baldin and Maria Marchenko).
• The division of labour in music production (with Wojciech Hardy).
• On female leadership in the movie business – Evidence from over 130 years of filmmaking in Germany (with Trine Bille).