- PhD: LMU Munich
Matthias Fahn is an Associate Professor of Management and Strategy at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to HKU, he was an Associate Professor at JKU Linz.
Matthias’ main research area lies at the intersection of organizational economics, personnel economics, and labor economics. It focuses on the dynamics of informal relationships and explores how institutions and markets affect the design and efficiency of organizations. Recently, Matthias has started collaborations with industry partners to study factors that impact the performance of journalists and software development teams.
He is a co-organizer of the Workshop on Relational Contracts and recently edited a Symposium on Relational Contracts (together with W. Bentley MacLeod and Gerd Muehlheusser) for the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.
Matthias has published in leading academic journals such as Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, AEJ: Micro, the Economic Journal, or the Journal of the European Economic Association.
Matthias earned his Diploma and PhD in Economics from the University of Munich.
- Global Management in Economics Perspective
- Organizational Economics
- Personnel Economics
- Labor Economics
- Behavioral Economics
- Informal Incentives and Labor Markets (with T. Murooka), forthcoming, Economic Journal
- Introduction to Past and Future Developments in the Economics of Relational Contracts (with W.B. MacLeod, G. Muehlheusser), 2023, editorial preface to a Symposium on Relational Contracts, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 179(3-4).
- Reciprocity in Dynamic Employment Relationships, 2023, Management Science, 69(10), 5695-6415.
- Transparency in Relational Contracts (with G. Zanarone), 2022, Strategic Management Journal, 43(5), 1046-1071.
- Relational Contracts with Private Information on the Future Value of the Relationship: The Upside of Implicit Downsizing Costs (with N. Klein), 2019, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 11(4), 33-58.
- Teamwork as a Self-Disciplining Device (with H. Hakenes), 2019, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 11(4), 1-32.
- The Commitment Role of Equity Financing (with V. Merlo, G. Wamser), 2019, Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(4), 1232-1260.