Left Behind Voters, Anti-Elitism and Popular Will (with Benoit Crutzen and Otto Swank) Quarterly Journal of Political Science (2024) Vol. 19, No. 2, 99.127-156. Working Paper version

Showing Off or Laying Low? The Economics of Psych-outs (with Philipp Denter and John Morgan), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2022) Vol. 14, No. 1, February, pp. 529-80. Short summary

The Ponds Dilemma, (with John Morgan and Felix Várdy), The Economic Journal (2018) Vol. 128, No. 611, June, pp. 1634-1682.

Do People Who Care About Others Cooperate More? Experimental Evidence from Relative Incentive Pay, (with Pablo Hernandez and Dylan Minor), Experimental Economics (2017) Vol. 20, No. 4, December, pp. 809–835.

Head Starts in Dynamic Tournaments?, (with Philipp Denter) Economics Letters (2016) Vol. 149, December, pp. 94-97.

Aspiring to Succeed: A Model of Entrepreneurship and Fear of Failure, (with John Morgan) Journal of Business Venturing (2016) Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 1-21. (press coverage by bloomberg.com and forbes.com, short video interview by the Canadian Innovation Center)

Strategic and Natural Risk in Entrepreneurship: An Experimental Study, (with John Morgan, Henrik Orzen and Martin Sefton) Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2016) Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 420-454.

Do Polls Create Momentum in Political Competition?, (with Philipp Denter) Journal of Public Economics (2015) Vol. 130, October, pp. 1-14.

The Fragility of Deterrence in Conflicts, (with Philipp Denter) Journal of Theoretical Politics (2015) Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 43-57.

(In)Efficient Public-Goods Provision Through Contests, (with Martin Kolmar) Social Choice and Welfare (2014) Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 239-259.

Multiple-Prize Contests – The Optimal Allocation of Prizes, Journal of Economic Surveys (2009) Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 82-114.