Dr. Hendrik Sonnabend

Photo: Hardy Welsch

Room: B108 / G3

Akademische Ausbildung

2000 to 2006	Studied economics at the University of Bonn (Title of diploma thesis: Testing the Empirical Validity of Mixed-Strategy Equilibria: Penalty Kicks in German Professional Soccer, Supervising Examiner: Prof. Dr. Armin Falk)
2006 to 2013	Doctorate in economics, FernUniversität in Hagen (title of dissertation: Simultaneous search on the housing and labor market, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Joachim Grosser)

Memberships

Awards

Presidents’ Prize of the 19th International Conference of the ACEI.

Research Focus

Applied Microeconomics & Behavioral economics
Labour Economics
Cultural Economics
Sports Economics

Publications

Zur Anreizwirkung von Arbeitsverträgen – eine empirische Analyse , in: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WIST), Nr. 4, 31-37 (mit Steffen Haufs), 2024.
The Never Ending Book: The role of external stimuli and peer feedback in user-generated content production, zur Publikation angenommen in: Journal of Cultural Economics (mit Maria Marchenko), 2024.
Close but not too close? Optimal copycat strategies in the light of negative publicity by the original product, in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, online first (mit Joachim Grosser und Bastian Westbrock), 2024.
The older the wiser? Determinants of misbehaviour in team contests, in: Social Science Quarterly, 104(5), 1170-1183 (mit Mario Lackner), 2023.
Presenteeism when employers are under pressure: evidence from a high-stakes environment, in: Economica, 90(358), 477-507 (mit Mario Lackner), 2023.
Geschlechterunterschiede im Umgang mit Rückschlägen, in: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WIST), Nr. 6, 30-35 (mit Felia Braun), 2023.
Gender Role Models and Early Career Decisions, in: Applied Economics Letters, 30(11), 1526-1530 (mit Monique Löwe und Ulf Rinne), 2023.
The glass ceiling revisited: empirical evidence from the German academic career ladder, in: Applied Economics Letters, 30(9), 1189-1193 (mit Katrin Heinrichs), 2023.
Strategic Investment Decisions in Multi-stage Contests with Heterogeneous Players, in: Theory and Decision, 93(2), 281–317(mit Christian Deutscher, Marco Sahm und Sandra Schneemann), 2022.
Artists' Labour Market and Gender: Evidence from German visual artists, in: KYKLOS, 75(3), 456-471 (mit Maria Marchenko), 2022.
Female Workers, Male Managers: Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking, in: Southern Economic Journal, 88(3), 906-930 (mit Ulf Rinne), 2021.
Can too many cooks spoil the broth? Coordination costs, fatigue and performance in high-intensity tasks, in: Southern Economic Journal, 88(3), 1065-1085 (mit Bastian Kordyaka und Mario Lackner), 2021.
Die Bedeutung der Eröffnungswoche für den Erfolg eines Kinofilms: Gibt es einen „Nummer 1“ - Effekt?, in: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WIST) (mit Michael Richter), 50. Jg., Nr. 7, 2021.
Coping with advantageous inequity - Field evidence from professional penalty kicking, in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 91, (mit Mario Lackner), 2021.
The common-interest game between terrorists and the media: replication and extension, in: Empirical Economics, 60(3), 1593-1606 (mit Youssef Akil), 2021.
On discouraging environments in team contests: Evidence from top‐level beach volleyball, in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 41(6), 986-997, 2020.
Pricing in live music: an empirical analysis of the tribute band sector, in: Economics Bulletin, 40(2), 890-900 (mit Samuel Cameron), 2020.
Pricing the Groove: hedonic equation estimates for rare vinyl records, in: Applied Economics, 52(50), 5516-5530 (mit Samuel Cameron), 2020.
Good Intentions and Unintended Evil? Adverse Effects of Criminalizing Clients in Paid Sex Markets, in: Feminist Economics, 25(4), 1-20 (mit Georg Stadtmann), 2019.
Pricing (Chapter), in S. Cameron (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Cultural Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2019.
Further Field Evidence for Minimax Play, in: Journal of Sports Economics, 19(3), 371-388 (mit Thomas Dohmen), 2018
Verbot oder Legalisierung von Drogen?, in: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WIST) (mit Ronny Rössel), Nr. 4, 2017
Fairness constraints on profit-seeking: Evidence from the German club concert industry, in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 40(4), 529-545, 2016.
Die Entlohnung von Berufenen, in: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WIST), Nr. 11, S.619, 2014.
Warum soziale Netzwerke für den Arbeitsmarkt bedeutend sind, in: Junge, Thorsten (Hrsg.): Soziale Netzwerke im Diskurs. URL: http://ifbm.fernuni-hagen.de/lehrgebiete/bildmed/medien-im-diskurs , 2013.
Simultane Suche auf dem Wohn- und Arbeitsmarkt, Dissertation, FernUniversität Hagen, 2013.
Konfliktökonomie und das Paradox der Stärke, in: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WIST), 40. Jg., Nr. 6, S.310, 2011 (mit Michael Möcker).

Discussion papers

COVID-19, School Closures and (Cyber)Bullying in Germany Discussion paper (with Ulf Rinne and Helen Rahlff), 2023.
Customer Discrimination and Ethnic Team Composition Discussion paper (with Ulf Rinne and Leonie Wolters), 2023.
When colleagues come to see each other as rivals: Does internal competition affect workplace performance? Discussion paper (with Felia Braun), 2022.
Favoritism, Social Pressure, and Gender: Evidence from Football Discussion paper (with Christian Deutscher, Marius Ötting, Finn Spilker), 2022.
Using goals to motivate students: The power of small financial rewards, Discussion paper (with Sarah Rezaei and Bastian Westbrock), 2021.
Gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in high-stakes competitions: Evidence from freediving contestsJKU Working Paper No. 2016 (with Mario Lackner), 2020.
A note on Nash equilibrium in soccer, Discussion paper, FernUniversität Hagen, 2007 (with Volker Schlepütz).

Presentations

26th Colloquium on Personnel Economics (COPE), Zurich, February 2024
14th Conference of the of the European Sport Economics Association (ESEA) , Cork, 2023.
36th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE 2023), Belgrade, June 2023.
6th Sport Economics & Sport Management Conference (SESM) , Budapest, May 2023.
25th Colloquium on Personnel Economics (COPE), Amsterdam, March 2023.
Hagen University Workshop: Health and Labor Economics, Berlin, November 2022.
34th Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Padua, September 2022.
13th Conference of the of the European Sport Economics Association (ESEA) , Helsinki, August 2022.
35th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE 2022), Università della Calabria, June 2022.
2022 Conference of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), Minneapolis, May 2022.
Digital Europe Economic (DEE) Seminars, online, March 2022.
24th Colloquium on Personnel Economics (COPE), Aarhus/Herning, March 2022.
33rd Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), online, September 2021.
12th Conference of the European Sport Economics Association (ESEA), online, August 2021.
21st International Conference on Cultural Economics (ACEI), online, July 2021.
Reading Online Sport Economics Seminars (ROSES), online, September 2021.
Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, online, September 2021.
Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Leipzig, September 2019
31st Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Uppsala, September 2019
9th European Workshop on Applied Cultural Economics (EWACE), Copenhagen, September 2019.
15th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC), Venedig, June 2019.
4th International Conference on Sport Economics & Sport Management (SESM), Berlin (DIW), Mai 2019.
45th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIy), Athens, August / September 2018.
4th Annual Conference “Contests: Theory and Evidence”, Norwich, June 2018.
3rd International Conference on Sport Economics & Sport Management (SESM), Vienna, May 2018.
8th European Workshop on Applied Cultural Economics (EWACE), Krakaw, September 2017.
9th ESEA European Conference on Sport Economics, Paderborn, August / September 2017.
2nd International Conference on Sport Economics & Sport Management (SESM) Berlin (DIW), May 2017.
7th Vienna Music Business Research Days, Vienna, September 2016.
19th International Conference on Cultural Economics (ACEI), Valladolid, Juni 2016.

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