Prof. Dr. Lea Cassar

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

Cotofan, M., Cassar, L., Dur, R. and Meier, S. (2021) "Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life" The Review of Economics and Statistics; Featured in Forbes, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Dire, ZEIT Campus und The Guardian

Cassar, L. and Meier, S. (2021) "Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The Negative Effects of Prosocial Incentives" The Economic Journal, 131(637), 1988-2017; Featured in HBR.org und The Wall Street Journal

Cassar, L. and Armouti-Hansen, J. (2020) "Optimal Contracting with Endogenous Project Mission" 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" Management Science, 65(11), 4951-5448.

Cassar, L. (2019) "Job Mission as a Substitute for Monetary Incentives: Benefits and Limits" Management Science, 65(2), 896-912.

Cassar, L. and Meier, S. (2018) "Nonmonetary Incentives and the Implications of Work as a Source of Meaning" 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" Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 34(2), 162-195. 

Cassar, L. (2007) "Convergence, Inequality and Education in the Galor and Zeira Model" Rivisita di Politica Economica, 97(6), 229-254.

• 2010 - 2015     PhD in Economics, University of Zurich 
• 2007 - 2009     MPhil in Economics, University of Oxford
• 2005 - 2006     MSc in Economics and Finance, LUISS University
• 2001 - 2004     BA in Business Administration, LUISS University

Seit 10/2019

Professur für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung (W3, unbefristet), Universität Regensburg

(In Elternzeit von 04.2019 bis 01.2020)

Seit 12/2019

CEPR Research Affiliate

Seit 04/2017

CESifo Research Network Affiliate

09/2015 - 09/2019

Juniorprofessur (W1, tenure-track), Universität Köln

(In Elternzeit von 04.2017 bis 02.2018)

08/2016: Visiting Scholar, Center of Economic Studies (CES), München

Frühling 2015: Visiting Scholar, Columbia Business School, Columbia University

11/2014: Visiting Scholar, Rady School of Management, UCSD

Herbst 2003: Visiting Student, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

Science of Well-being (Bachelor)
Universität Regensburg (Herbst 2021,22)

Topics on Financial Incentives (Bachelor, Master),
Universität Regensburg (Frühling 2021)

Social Entrepreneurship (Bachelor),
Universität Regensburg (Frühling 2020, 2021)

Motivation and Leadership (Master),
Universität Köln (Herbst 2018)

Behavioral Management Science (Bachelor),
Universität Köln (Frühling 2018)

Bachelor Seminar on Experimental and Personnel Economics,
Universität Köln (Herbst 2016,18)

Social Entrepreneurship (Master),
Universität Köln (Frühling 2016)

Strategic Human Resources Management (Master),
Universität Köln (Herbst 2015,16)

TA Empirical Methods (Master),
Universität Zürich (Herbst 2013)

TA Mathematics for Economists (Master),
Universität Zürich (Herbst 2012)

TA Workshop in Law & Economics (Master),
Universität Zürich und ETHZ (Frühling 2010)

TA Macroeconomics (Master),
LUISS University (Frühling 2007)