Research Focus

Academic Career

• Since 2000 Chair in Microeconomics at the University of Erfurt
• 1999 – 2000 Visiting Professor at CentER for Economic Research, Tilburg University, NL
• 1999 Habilitation in economics at the University of Bonn
• 1994 – 1995 Consultant at Prof. Dr. Feilmeier & Junker, München
• 1993 Visiting Professor at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA
• 1993 Ph.D. in economics at the University of Bonn (supervisor Prof. Dr. Reinhard Selten)
• 1992 Visiting Associate at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA
• 1988 Diploma in Mathematics at the University of Bonn

Publications

Hennig-Schmidt H., Rockenbach B., Sadrieh K., In Search of Workers' Real Effort Reciprocity – A Field and a Laboratory Experiment, Journal of the European Economic Association, In Press.

Rockenbach B., Große S., Putterman L., Monitoring in Teams: Using Laboratory Experiments to Study a Theory of the Firm, Journal of the European Economic Association, In Press.

Rockenbach B., Milinski M., How to treat those of ill-repute, Nature, vol. 457, pp. 39-40, 2009.

Irlenbusch B., Gürerk Ö., Rockenbach B., Motivating Teammates: The Leader’s choice between Positive and Negative Incentives, Journal of Economic Psychology, vol. 30, pp. 591-607, 2009.

Engel C., Rockenbach B., We Are Not Alone: The Impact of Externalities on Public Good Provision, issue 2009/29, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2009. Abstract Full text

Rockenbach B., Fehr E., Bernhard H., Egalitarianims in Young Children, Nature, no. 454, pp. 1079-1084, 2008.

Engel C., Lubell M., Glimcher P. W., Hastie R., Rachlinski J. J., Rockenbach B., Selten R., Singer T., Weber E., Institutional Design Capitalizing on the Intuitive Nature of Decision Making, Better Than Conscious? Implications for Performance and Institutional Analysis, Engel C., Singer W., (Eds.), Cambridge, MIT Press, pp. 413-432, 2008.

Rockenbach B., Lauer T., Walgenbach P., Not just hot air: Normative codes of conduct induce cooperative behaviour, Review of Managerial Science, pp. 183-197, 2008.

Rockenbach B., Milinski M., Punisher pays, Nature, vol. 452, pp. 297-298, 2008.

Rockenbach B., Fairness Crowded Out by Law: An Experimental Study on Withdrawal Rights: Comment, 
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 163, no. 1, pp. 106-108, 2007.

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