Employment Education Publications

CURRICULUM VITAE
Holger Herz
University of Fribourg
http://sites.google.com/site/holgerherz
[email protected]
Office Contact Information
Lehrstuhl für Industrieökonomik
Bd. De Pérolles 90
CH-1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
Phone: +41 26 300 83 77
Employment
2015-
University of Fribourg, Professor of Industrial Economics
2012-2015
University of Zurich, Post-Doctoral Fellow
2011-2012
Harvard Business School, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Organizational
Economics
Education
2006 – 2011
University of Zurich, Ph.D. in economics (summa cum laude)
2007
Study Center Gerzensee, Swiss Program for Beginning Doctoral
Students in Economics
2004 – 2005
University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Student
2001 – 2006
Mannheim University, Diplom in Economics
Publications
The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power (with Ernst Fehr and Tom
Wilkening), 2013, American Economic Review, 103(4): 1325-59.
How do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism shape Innovative Activity? (with Daniel
Schunk and Christian Zehnder), 2014, Games and Economic Behavior, 83: 1-23.
Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics (with Thomas
Åstebro, Ramana Nanda and Roberto Weber), 2014, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28(3), 4970.
The Intrinsic Value of Decision Rights (with Björn Bartling and Ernst Fehr), 2014, Econometrica,
82(6), 2005-39.
Working Papers
What makes a Price fair? An Experimental Study of Market Experience and Endogenous Fairness
Norms (with Dmitry Taubinsky), University of Zurich, Department of Economics Working Paper
No. 128 (revise and resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association)
The Causal Effects of Competition on Innovation: Experimental Evidence (with Philippe Aghion,
Stefan Bechtold and Lea Cassar) NBER Working Paper No. 19987
Work in Progress
Rationality of Individual Human Capital Investment Decisions: Experimental Evidence (with Uschi
Backes-Gellner, Michael Kosfeld and Yvonne Oswald)
Clarity in Relational Contracts (with Armin Schmutzler and André Volk)
The Behavioral Economics of Leadership (with Christian Zehnder and Jean-Philippe Bonardi)
Informal Delegation as Commitment
Scholarships and Grants
2015
Econometric Society World Congress Travel Grant $1500
2013
Richard-Büchner Stiftung grant for experiments (with Armin
Schmutzler and Andre Volk) CHF 7000
2012:
Harvard Law School PON Grant (with Dmitry Taubinsky) $1000
2011:
Award for the best doctoral thesis at the Faculty of ‘Economics,
Business Administration and IT’, University of Zurich
2004-2005:
Stipend of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Refereeing
Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association; Review of Economics and
Statistics; Management Science; Journal of Public Economics; Games and Economic Behavior; Journal of
Law, Economics and Organization; European Economic Review; Scandinavian Journal of Economics;
Economica; Experimental Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Economic Inquiry;
Journal of Economic Psychology; Economics Bulletin; DFG – German Science Association
Teaching
Fall 2015
Lecturer, Topics in Behavioral Economics, University of Fribourg
Fall 2015
Lecturer, Economic History, University of Fribourg
Fall 2013, 2014, 2015
Lecturer, Advanced Microeconomics I, University of Zurich
Spring 2011
Lecturer, Organizational Economics, University of Zurich
Fall 2009, 2010
Teaching Assistant, Foundations of Personnel and Organizational
Economics, University of Zurich
Fall 2008
Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics II, University of Zurich
Fall 2007-2010, 2012-13
Teaching Assistant, Seminar on Behavioral an Experimental
Economics, University of Zurich
Winter 2006/07
Teaching Assistant, Psychology & Economics, University of Zurich
Summer 2006
Teaching Assistant, Personnel and Organizational Economics II,
University of Zurich
Winter 2003/04
Student tutor, Microeconomics II, Mannheim University
Summer 2003
Student tutor, Macroeconomics II, Mannheim University
Invited Presentations
2015
University of Munich, University of Fribourg, Aarhus University,
University of Amsterdam (scheduled), CESifo Area Conference in
Behavioral Economics (scheduled),
2014
University of Konstanz, V Workshop IIBEO – Alghero, Jornadas de
Economía Industrial – Barcelona, University of Mainz, University of
Vienna
2013
University of Frankfurt
2012
Boston University, Bocconi University
2011
Harvard Law School, MIT, University of British Columbia, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, Aarhus University, Royal Holloway, Université
de Lausanne