Research

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Selected Publications in Financial Times Top 50 (FT50) or Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) A* Journals: 2020-2023

  • Calcott, P., Petkov, V., 2022. Excessive consumption and present bias. Economic Theory 74, 113-134.
  • Chen, Z., Keefe, M., 2020. Rookie directors and firm performance: Evidence from China. Journal of Corporate Finance 60, 101511.
  • Chu, L., Cuffe, H., 2024. Do academically struggling students benefit from continued student loan access? Evidence from university and beyond.  Review of Economics and Statistics 106, 68-84.
  • Daglish, T., de Bragança, G. Owen, S., Romano, T., 2021. Pricing effects of the electricity market reform in Brazil. Energy Economics 97, 105197.
  • de Gendre, A., Feld, J., Salamanca, N. Re-examining the relationship between patience, risk-taking, and human capital investment across countries. Journal of Applied Econometrics.
  • Dudek, T., Brenøe, A., Feld, J., Rohrer, J., 2022. No evidence that siblings’ gender affects personality across nine countries. Psychological Science33, 1574-1587.
  • Feess, E., Grund, C., Walzl, M., Wohlschlegel, A, 2020.Competing trade mechanisms and monotone mechanism choice. European Journal of Operational Research280, 108-1121.
  • Feess, E., Kerzenmacher, F., 2023. Sorting of trustees: the good and the bad stay in the game. Economic Theory.
  • Feess, E., Kerzenmacher, F., Muehlheusser, G., 2023. Morally questionable decisions by groups: Guilt sharing and its underlying motives. Games and Economic Behavior140, 380-400.
  • Feess, E., Kerzenmacher, F., Timofeyev, Y., 2022. Utilitarian or deontological models of moral behavior—What predicts morally questionable decisions? European Economic Review 149, 104264.
  • Feess, E., Schilling, T., Timofeyev, Y., 2023. Misreporting in teams with individual decision making: The impact of information and communication. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 209, 509-532.
  • Feld, J., Lines, C., Ross, L., 2024. Writing matters. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 217, 378-397.
  • Feld, J., Salamanca, N., Zölitz, U., 2020. Are professors worth it? Journal of Human Resources 55, 836-863.
  • Feld, J., Zölitz, U., 2022. The effect of higher-achieving peers on major choices and labor market outcomes. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 196, 200-219.
  • Geng, H., Daglish, T.,Mhuru, R., 2022. Oil discoveries and innovation Energy Economics 110, 105997.
  • *Geng, H., Huang, Y., Lin, C., Liu, S., 2022. Minimum wage and corporate investment: Evidence from manufacturing firms in China.  Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 57, 94-126.
  • *Geng, H., Zhang, C., Zhou, F., 2023. Financial reporting quality and myopic investments: Theory and evidence. Accounting Review 98, 223-251.
  • Guo, X, Lin, H., Wu, C., Zhou, G., 2022. Predictive information in corporate bond yields. Journal of Financial Markets 59, 100687.
  • *Hao, J., 2023. Disclosure regulation, cost of capital, and firm values. Journal of Accounting and Economics 77, 101605.
  • Lin, H., Lo, I., Qaio, R., 2021. Macroeconomic news announcements and market efficiency: Evidence from the U.S. Treasury market. Journal of Banking and Finance 133, 106252.
  • Petkov, V., 2023. Prize formation and sharing in multi-stage contests. Economic Theory 75, 259-289.
  • Tawiah, B., Keefe, M., 2022. Financing a corporate venture capital program. Journal of Banking and Finance 135, 106364.
  • *Zolitz, U., Feld, J., 2021.  The effect of peer gender on major choice in business school. Management Science 67, 6963-6979.
*: FT 50 journals.

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