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Working Papers

2023

1. Disclosure Policies in All-pay Auctions with Affiliation
   Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
2. On the (Im-)Possibility of Representing Probability Distributions as a Difference of I.I.D. Noise Terms
   Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
   Also in ECON - Working Papers, Department of Economics - University of Zurich (2023)
   See also Journal Article On the (Im-)Possibility of Representing Probability Distributions as a Difference of I.I.D. Noise Terms, Mathematics of Operations Research, INFORMS (2025) (2025)

2021

3. An Empirical Analysis of Stubborn Bargaining
   Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
4. Reputation for Toughness
   Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

2020

5. Bid Caps and Disclosure Policies
   Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
6. Fair Representation in Primaries: Heterogeneity and the New Hampshire Effect
   Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
   See also Journal Article Fair representation in primaries: Heterogeneity and the New Hampshire effect, Journal of Theoretical Politics (2025) (2025)
7. Winner's Effort Maximization in Large Contests
   Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
   See also Journal Article Winner’s effort maximization in large contests, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier (2021) View citations (4) (2021)

2019

8. Complete Information Pivotal-Voter Model with Asymmetric Group Size and Asymmetric Beneï¬ ts
   Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

2018

9. Biasing Unbiased Dynamic Contests
   Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance View citations (4)
10. Complete Information Pivotal-Voter Model with Asymmetric Group Size
    Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Complete information pivotal-voter model with asymmetric group size, Public Choice, Springer (2018) View citations (5) (2018)
11. Successful Opaque Management
    Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

2017

12. A Belief-based Theory for Private Information Games
    Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
13. Harnessing Beliefs to Stimulate Efforts; on the Optimal Disclosure Policy in Contests
    Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance View citations (2)

2016

14. Level-k Models Rationalize Overspending in Contests
    Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
15. Properties of Contests
    Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

Journal Articles

2025

1. Fair representation in primaries: Heterogeneity and the New Hampshire effect
   Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2025, 37, (4), 290-318
   See also Working Paper Fair Representation in Primaries: Heterogeneity and the New Hampshire Effect, Working Papers (2020) (2020)
2. On the (Im-)Possibility of Representing Probability Distributions as a Difference of I.I.D. Noise Terms
   Mathematics of Operations Research, 2025, 50, (1), 390-409
   See also Working Paper On the (Im-)Possibility of Representing Probability Distributions as a Difference of I.I.D. Noise Terms, Working Papers (2023) (2023)
3. R&D contest design with resource allocation and entry fees
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 238, (C)
4. Repeated contests with commitment types
   European Economic Review, 2025, 177, (C)
5. Type-projection, pro-social behavior, and a public good game
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 237, (C)

2024

6. Centralized assignment of prizes and contestants
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2024, 62, (1), 117-152
7. Disclosure policies in all-pay auctions with affiliated values
   Economic Modelling, 2024, 141, (C)
8. Winner's effort in multi-battle team contests
   Games and Economic Behavior, 2024, 145, (C), 526-556

2023

9. Disclosure Policies in All-Pay Auctions with Bid Caps
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 209, (C), 141-160 View citations (2)

2022

10. An empirical analysis of insistent bargaining
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2022, 90, (C) View citations (4)
11. Biasing dynamic contests between ex-ante symmetric players
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, 136, (C), 1-30 View citations (6)
12. Harnessing beliefs to optimally disclose contestants’ types
    Economic Theory, 2022, 74, (3), 763-792 View citations (13)
13. Level- k Models and Overspending in Contests
    Games, 2022, 13, (3), 1-12 View citations (1)

2021

14. Complete information pivotal-voter model with asymmetric group size and asymmetric benefits
    European Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 67, (C)
15. The value of information on deadlines; successful opaque management
    International Journal of Game Theory, 2021, 50, (2), 377-397
16. Winner’s effort maximization in large contests
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2021, 96, (C) View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Winner's Effort Maximization in Large Contests, Working Papers (2020) (2020)

2019

17. A Game-Free Microfoundation of Mutual Optimism
    Games, 2019, 10, (4), 1-14 View citations (1)

2018

18. Complete information pivotal-voter model with asymmetric group size
    Public Choice, 2018, 177, (1), 53-66 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Complete Information Pivotal-Voter Model with Asymmetric Group Size, Working Papers (2018) View citations (5) (2018)

2017

19. Quality contests
    European Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 46, (C), 15-25 View citations (17)
20. Sequential contests revisited
    Public Choice, 2017, 173, (1), 131-144 View citations (10)

Chapters

2018

1. Contest theory
   Chapter 6 in Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, Volume II, 2018, pp 125-146 View citations (13)