GSC 26:  Graduate School of Economic & Social Sciences: Empirical and Quantitative Methods (GESS)

• Subject Area: Economics ; Psychology ; Social Sciences
• Term: from 2006 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24101130

• Final Report Year: 2020

Final Report Abstract

From its establishment, it has been the stated mission of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim to train young academics in accordance with best international practice aiming at excellence in research in business studies, economics, and the social and behavioral sciences. In order to meet its stated goals, the school focuses on those central building blocks of modern research in business, economics and the social sciences shared among the disciplines and additionally offers discipline-specific training common to the participating academic fields. The graduate school comprises the Center for Doctoral Studies in Business (CDSB), the Center for Doctoral Studies in Economics (CDSE), and the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS). It integrates the disciplines of business, economics and the social sciences into a coherent curriculum without compromising on quality in specialized research. In 2019, twelve years after its establishment the GESS continues to provide high-quality graduate education in the participating disciplines. The GESS is unique in Germany and one of the few graduate schools worldwide that fosters the exchange of ideas, methods, and research-approaches and provides students with an advanced scientific outlook in a critical phase of their socialization as researchers. The GESS was able to successfully establish an internationally competitive structured doctoral program, which contributes to the strong academic reputation of the University of Mannheim. GESS Alumni have proven to be well-prepared to pursue careers both in academia and outside academia, taking up professorships, assistant professorships and postdoctoral research positions at internationally renowned academic institutions as well as positions in the public as well as the private sector in Germany and beyond. The post-funding stage is characterized by the transition into a long-term steady state from fall 2019 on, in which the graduate school is provided with sufficient financial resources to run self-sustainable doctoral programs and to continue to admit and supervise the at least the same number of doctoral students as during the DFG funding periods. The school’s financial future has been secured by long-term commitments to budgetary funding made by the university, external institutions, and the individual schools and departments. In addition, the GESS intends to secure additional funds to facilitate growth and to further consolidate its role as a leading European institution providing top-level research and education in business, economics and the social sciences.

Link to the final report

https://doi.org/10.2314/KXP:1726000885

Publications

• (2013). The Role of Experience Sampling and Graphical Displays on One`s Investment Risk Taking Appetite. Management Science, vol. 59, 323-340
  Weber, M., Haisley, E. C. & Kaufmann, C.
  
• (2006). Economic conditions early in life and individual mortality. American Economic Review, vol. 96, 290-302
  van den Berg, G. J., Lindeboom, M. & Portrait, F.
  
• (2006). Labor Markets and Economic Incorporation among Recent Immigrants in Europe. Social Forces, vol. 85, 697-721
  Kogan, I.
  
• (2006). Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan, and the USA. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  Ebbinghaus, B.
  
• (2006). The Political Economy of Dominant Investors and Labor Rents. Journal of Political Economy, vol. 114, 145-174
  Perotti, E. C. & von Thadden, E.-L.
  
• (2007). Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market. Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 122, 1511-1560
  Card, D., Chetty, R. & Weber, A.
  
• (2007). Consumer Bankruptcy – A Fresh Start. American Economic Review, vol. 97, 402-418
  Tertilt, M., Livshits, I. & MacGee, J.
  
• (2007). Identification of Marginal Effects in Nonseparable Models without Monotonicity. Econometrica, vol. 75, 1513-1518
  Hoderlein, S. & Mammen, E.
  
• (2007). Job Displacement Risk and the Cost of Business Cycles. American Economic Review, vol. 97, 664-686
  Krebs, T.
  
• (2007). Lower Salaries and No Options: The Optimal Structure of Executive Pay. Journal of Finance, vol. 62, 303-343
  Dittmann, I. & Maug, E.
  
• (2008). Ignoramus Ignorabimus? On Fundamental Uncertainty in Ecological Inference. Political Analysis, vol. 16, 70-92
  Elff, M., Gschwend, T. & Johnston, R.
  
• (2008). Mandatory IFRS Reporting Around the World: Early Evidence on the Economic Consequences. Journal of Accounting Research, vol. 46, 1085-1142
  Daske, H., Hail, L., Leuz, C. & Verdi, R. S.
  
• (2008). To Kill or to Protect: Military Strength, Domestic Institutions, and Genocide. Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 52, 39-67
  Carey, S. & Colaresi, M.
  
• (2008). ’Did you have a nice evening?’ A daylevel study on recovery experiences, sleep, and affect. Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 93, 674-684
  Sonnentag, S., Binnewies, C. & Mojza, E. J.
  
• (2009). Expectation Damages Divisible Contracts and Renegotiation. American Economic Review, vol. 99, 1608-1618
  Goldlücke, S.
  
• (2009). Legislative Agenda-Setting in Parliamentary Democracies. European Journal of Political Research, vol. 48, 804-839
  Bräuninger, T. & Debus, M.
  
• (2010). Dynamic Merger Review. Journal of Political Economy, vol. 118, 1200-1251
  Nocke, V. & Whinston, M. D.
  
• (2010). Sticks or Carrots? Optimal CEO Compensation when Managers are Loss-averse, Journal of Finance, vol. 65, 2015-2050
  Dittmann, I., Maug, E. & Spalt, O.
  
• (2009). Women's Liberation: What's in it for Men? Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 124, 1541-1591
  Tertilt, M., Doepke, M.
  
• (2011). Much pain, little gain? Paradigm-specific models and methods in experimental psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, vol. 6, 183-191
  Meiser, T.
  
• (2011). Psychological Distance and the Dual Role of Price. Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 38, 490-504
  Bornemann T. & Homburg C.
  
• (2011). Reference Point Formation and Updating. Management Science, vol. 57, 506-519
  Baucells, M., Weber, M. & Welfens, F.
  
• (2011). Reference-Point Formation and Updating. Management Science, vol. 57, 506-519
  Weber, M., Baucells, M. & Welfens, F.
  
• (2011). Threshold models of recognition and the recognition heuristic. Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 6, 7-22
  Erdfelder, E., Küpper-Tetzel, C. & Mattern, S.
  
• (2011). When Should the Customer Really Be King? On the Optimum Level of Salesperson Customer Orientation in Sales Encounters. Journal of Marketing, vol. 75, 55-74
  Homburg C., C., Klarmann, M. & Müller, M.
  
• (2011). Why Do Complementors Participate? An Analysis of Partnership Networks in the Enterprise Software Industry. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 59, 1-16
  Kude, T., Dibbern, J. & Heinzl, A.
  
• (2012). Incentives for Unaware Agents. Review of Economic Studies, vol. 79, 1151-1174
  von Thadden, E.L. & Zhao, X.
  
• (2012). Personal Vote-Seeking in Flexible List Systems: How Electoral Incentives Shape Belgian MPs’ Bill Initiation Behaviour. European Journal of Political Research, vol. 51, 607-645
  Bräuninger, T., Brunner, M. & Däubler, T.
  
• (2012). Reciprocal relations between recovery and work engagement: The moderating role of job stressors. Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 97, 842-853
  Sonnentag, S., Mojza, E. J., Demerouti, E. & Bakker, A. B.
  
• (2012). Transfer Pricing or Formula Apportionment? Tax-induced distortions of multinationals' investment and production decisions. Contemporary Accounting Research, vol. 29, 1060-1086
  Martini, J., Niemann, R. & Simons, D.
  
• (2013). Adopting a label: Heterogeneity in the economic consequences around IAS/IFRS adoptions. Journal of Accounting Research, vol. 51, 495-547
  Daske, H., Hail, L., Leuz, C. & Verdi, R.
  
• (2013). Indexing executive compensation contracts. Review of Financial Studies, vol. 26, 3182-3224
  Dittmann, I., Maug, E. & Spalt, O.
  
• (2013). Mandatory disclosure, voluntary disclosure, and stock market liquidity: Evidence from the EU bank stress tests. Journal of Accounting Research, vol. 51, 997-1029
  Bischof, J. & Daske, H.
  
• (2013). Merger Policy with Merger Choice. American Economic Review, vol. 103, 1006-1033
  Nocke, V. & Whinston, M. D.
  
• (2014). A Common Left-Right Scale for Voters and Parties in Europe. Political Analysis, vol. 22, 205-223
  Lo, J., Proksch, S.O. & Gschwend, T.
  
• (2014). Analyzing stochastic dependence of cognitive processes in multidimensional source recognition. Experimental Psychology, vol. 61,402-415
  Meiser, T.
  
• (2014). Repo Runs. Review of Financial Studies, vol. 27, 957-989
  von Thadden, E.L.,Martin A. & Skeie D.
  
• (2015). Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and the Macroeconomy. American Economic Review, vol. 105, 3223-3271
  Krebs, T., Kuhn, M. & Wright, M.
  
• (2015). Governments, Informal Links to Militias, and Accountability. Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 59, 850-876
  Carey S., Colaresi, M. & Mitchell, N.
  
• (2015). New Product Design: Concept, Measurement, and Consequences. Journal of Marketing, vol. 79, 41-56
  Homburg, C, Schwemmle, M. & Kuehnl, C.
  
• (2015). Recovery from job stress: The stressor-detachment model as an integrative framework. Journal of Organizational Behavior, vol. 36, S72-S103
  Sonnentag, S. & Fritz, C.
  
• (2016). Information Disclosure and Consumer Awareness. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 108, 209-230
  Peitz, M., Sanxi, L. & Zhao, X.
  
• (2016). Let’s Just Agree to Disagree: Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Coalition Agreements. Journal of Politics, vol. 78, 1264-1278
  Bowler, S., Bräuninger, T., Debus, M. & Indridason, I.
  
• (2016). Motivating Sales Reps for Innovation Selling in Different Cultures. Journal of Marketing, vol. 80, 101-120
  Homburg, C. & Hohenberg S.
  
• (2016). Repatriation taxes and outbound M&As. Journal of Public Economics, vol. 139, 13-27
  Voget, J., Feld L.P., Ruf, M., Scheuering U. & Schreiber, U.
  
• (2016). Risk Mitigation, Regime Security, and Militias: Beyond Coup-proofing. International Studies Quarterly, vol. 60, 59-72
  Carey, S. C., Colaresi, M. & Mitchell, N.
  
• (2016). Spontaneous prospective-memory processing: Unexpected fluency experiences trigger erroneous intention executions. Memory & Cognition, vol. 44, 89-103
  Rummel, J. & Meiser, T.
  
• (2016). Stock repurchases and liquidity. Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 119, 186-209
  Hillert, A., Maug, E. & Obernberger, S.
  
• (2016). The Democratization of Credit and the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies. Review of Economic Studies, vol. 83, 1673-1710
  Tertilt, M., Livshits, I. & MacGee, J.
  
• (2017). Canaries in a Coal Mine: What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression. Journal of Peace Research, vol. 54, 157-174
  Gohdes, A. & Carey S. C.
  
• (2017). De-targeting: Advertising an Assortment of Products to Loss- Averse Consumers. European Economic Review, vol. 95, 103-124
  Peitz, M. & Karle, H.
  
• (2017). Distal and proximal predictors of snacking at work: A daily-survey study. Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 102, 151-162
  Sonnentag, S., Pundt, A. & Venz, L.
  
• (2017). Linking process and measurement models of recognition-based decisions. Psychological Review, vol. 124, 442-471
  Heck, D. W. & Erdfelder, E.
  
• (2017). Stock Price Booms and Expected Capital Gains. American Economic Review, vol. 107, 2352-2408
  Adam, K., Marcet A. & Beutel J.
  
• (2017). Stress and well-being at work: A century of empirical trends reflecting theoretical and societal influences. Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 102, 389-402
  Bliese, P. D., Edwards, J. R. & Sonnentag, S.
  
• (2017). The impact of firm prestige on executive compensation. Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 123, 313-336
  Focke, F., Maug, E. & Niessen-Ruenzi, A.
  
• (2017). The memory state heuristic: a formal model based on repeated recognition judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 43, 205-225
  Castela, M. & Erdfelder, E.
  
• (2017). The Role of Marriage in Fighting HIV: A Quantitative Illustration for Malawi. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, vol. 107, 158-162
  Tertilt, M., Greenwood, J., Kircher, P. & Santos, C.
  
• (2018). Achieving IT‐based synergies through regulation‐oriented and consensus‐oriented IT governance capabilities. Information Systems Journal, vol. 28, 765-795.
  Kude, T., Lazic, M., Heinzl, A. & Neff, A.
  
• (2018). Capital gains taxation and the cost of capital: Evidence from unanticipated cross-border transfers of tax bases. Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 129, 306-328
  Voget, J., Huizinga, H. &Wagner, W.
  
• (2018). Does platform owner’s entry crowd out innovation? Evidence from Google photos. Information Systems Research, vol. 29, 444-460
  Förderer, J., Kude, T., Mithas, S. & Heinzl, A.
  
• (2018). Multiproduct Firm Oligopoly: An Aggregative Games Approach. Econometrica, vol. 86, 523-557
  Nocke, V. & Schutz, N.
  
• (2018). What is Islamophobia? Disentangling Citizens’ Feelings Toward Ethnicity, Religion, and Religiosity Using a Survey Experiment. British Journal of Political Science, 1-18
  Helbling, M. & Traunmüller, R.
  
• (2018). Who brings home the pork? Parties and the role of localness in committee assignments in mixed-member proportional systems. Party Politics, vol. 24, 488-500
  Gschwend, T. & Zittel, T.
  
• (2018). Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries. American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, vol. 108, 358–362
  Tertilt, M. & Doepke, M.
  
• (2019). An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic, SLIDES, Discussion in VOX. Econometrica, vol. 87, 1081– 1113
  Tertilt, M., Greenwood, J., Kircher, P. & Santos, C.
  
• (2019). Consumption Fluctuations and Expected Returns. Journal of Finance
  Atanasov, V., Møller, SV & Priestley, R.
  
• (2019). Differentiating motivational and cognitive explanations for decision inertia. Journal of Economic Psychology, vol. 72, 30-44
  Jung, D., Erdfelder, E., Bröder, A., & Dorner, V.
  
• (2019). Forecasting Elections in Multiparty Systems: A Bayesian Approach Combining Polls and Fundamentals. Political Analysis, vol. 27, 255-262
  Stoetzer, L., Neunhoeffer, M., Gschwend, T., Munzert, S. & Sternberg, S.
  
• (2019). Knowledge boundaries in enterprise software platform development: Antecedents and consequences for platform governance. Information Systems Journal, vol. 29, 119-144
  Förderer, J., Kude, T., Schütz, S. W. & Heinzl, A.
  
• (2019). Optimal Trend Inflation. American Economic Review, vol. 109, 702-737
  Adam, K. & Weber, H.
  
• (2019). Platform Competition: Who Benefits from Multihoming? International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 64, 1-26
  Peitz, M. & Belleflamme, P.
  
• (2019). Private equity and human capital risk. Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 133, 634-657
  Antoni, M., Maug, E. & Obernberger, S.
  
• (2019). Spoilers of peace: Pro-government militias as risk factors for conflict recurrence. Journal of Peace Research, vol. 56, 249-263
  Steinert, C., Steinert, J. L. & Carey S.C.
  
• (2019). The Silent Victims of Sexual Violence During War: Evidence from a List Experiment in Sri Lanka. Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 63, 2015-2042
  Traunmüller, R., Kijewski, S. & Freitag, M.