Matthias Heinz University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany; E-mail:
[email protected]; phone: +49 221 4707263; Date of birth: September 13th, 1983 Current Position and Education 10/2018 – Associate Professor for Strategy (tenured), University of Cologne 01/2019 – Member ECONtribute Cluster of Excellence: Markets & Public Policy; Representative for Equal Opportunity; Universities of Bonn and Cologne 09/2018 – Research Affiliate: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn 04/2017 – Research Affiliate: Reinhard Selten Institute, Bonn and Cologne 06/2015 – Research Affiliate: Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London 04/2014 – 09/2018 Junior-Professor for Personnel Economics, University of Cologne 09/2008 – 03/2014 Dissertation (summa cum laude); supervisors: G. Friebel and M. Kosfeld; Goethe-University, Frankfurt 03/2004 – 08/2008 Diploma in Business Administration, Goethe-University, Frankfurt Research Agenda First, I study the causal effects of management practices (e.g., bonus schemes, employee referral programs or managerial attention) on firm performance in field experiments in firms. Secondly, I study the effects of downsizing. I analyze downsizing from different perspectives, applying different empirical methods and datasets. Using large hand-collected and accounting datasets, I study how media report on downsizing and how firms perform after downsizing. I utilize detailed internal data from one firm to investigate how workplaces perform after downsizing announcement, and analyse, using field and lab experiments, how non-fired workers perform after witnessing a co-worker’s layoff. Publications “Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain” (with G. Friebel, M. Krüger, N. Zubanov), American Economic Review 107(8), 2017: 2168-2203 “Signaling Cooperation” (with H.