Prof. Dr. Lea Cassar

Since 2019, Prof. Dr. Lea Cassar has been holding the Chair of Empirical Economic Research at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Regensburg. 

Her research focuses on organisational, behavioural, experimental and labour economics, with a particular interest in non-financial incentives in the workplace and the non-monetary dimension of work.

2010 - 2015    PhD in Economics, University of Zurich

2007 - 2009   MPhil in Economics, University of Oxford

2005 - 2006   M.Sc. in Economics and Finance, LUISS University

2001 - 2004    B.A. in Business Administration, LUISS University

Armouti-Hansen, J., Cassar, L. and Dereky, A., Engl, F. (2024) “Efficiency Wages with Motivated Agents (external link, opens in a new window)” Games and Economic Behavior, 145, 66-83.

 

Cotofan, M., Cassar, L., Dur, R. and Meier, S. (2023) “Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life (external link, opens in a new window)” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-7, Featured in Forbes, (external link, opens in a new window) Süddeutsche Zeitung, (external link, opens in a new window) Dire, (external link, opens in a new window) ZEIT Campus (external link, opens in a new window) and The Guardian (external link, opens in a new window)

 

Cassar, L. and Meier, S. (2021) “Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The Negative Effects of Prosocial Incentives (external link, opens in a new window)” The Economic Journal, 131(637), 1988-2017; Featured in HBR.org (external link, opens in a new window) and The Wall Street Journal (external link, opens in a new window)

 

Cassar, L. and Armouti-Hansen, J. (2020) “Optimal Contracting with Endogenous Project Mission (external link, opens in a new window)” Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(5), 2647-2676.

 

Cassar, L. and Klein, A. H. (2019) “A Matter of Perspective: How Failure Shapes Distributive Preferences (external link, opens in a new window)” Management Science, 65(11), 4951-5448.

 

Cassar, L. (2019) “Job Mission as a Substitute for Monetary Incentives: Benefits and Limits (external link, opens in a new window)” Management Science, 65(2), 896-912.

 

Cassar, L. and Meier, S. (2018) “Nonmonetary Incentives and the Implications of Work as a Source of Meaning (external link, opens in a new window) ” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 32(3), 215-38.

 

Aghion, P., Bechtold, S., Cassar, L. and Herz, H. (2018) “The Causal Effects of Competition on Innovation: Experimental Evidence (external link, opens in a new window)” Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 34(2), 162-195.

 

Cassar, L. (2007) “Convergence, Inequality and Education in the Galor and Zeira Model (external link, opens in a new window)” Rivisita di Politica Economica, 97(6), 229-254.