Christian Zehnder Post-Doctoral Fellow

Christian Zehnder Harvard Business School 25 Harvard Way Baker Library 444B Boston, MA 02163 Phone: +1 617 495 2338 Fax: +1 617 495 5672 Email: czehnder(at)hbs.edu Curriculum Vitae (pdf) Short Curriculum Vitae   Employment 07/2007 - present Post-Doctoral Fellow in Organizational Economics, Harvard Business School 01/2006 - 06/2007 Assistant Professor (Oberassistent) at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics of the University of Zurich. 07/2001 - 12/2005 Research & Teaching Assistant (with Ernst Fehr), at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics of the University of Zurich.   Education 11/2005 PhD Economics (Dr. oec. publ.), summa cum laude, University of Zurich. 07/2001 - 11/2005 PhD Studies at the University of Zurich. 06/2001 Graduation: lic. oec. publ., summa cum laude, University of Zurich. 10/1996 - 06/2001 Studies of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Zurich.   Research Interests Behavioral & Experimental Economics, Organizational Economics, Labor Economics, Banking Publications  "Fairness Perceptions and Reservation Wages - The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wage Laws" , Quarterly Journal of Economics 121(4), November 2006 (with Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr).  "Credit Registries, Relationship Banking and Loan Repayment" , Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 39(8), December 2007 (with Martin Brown). Working Papers  "Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wages" , with Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr, IEW-Working Paper No. 247.  "Reputation and Performance" , with Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr, mimeo, University of Zurich.  "Reputation and Credit Market Formation" , with Ernst Fehr, NCCR Finrisk Working Paper No. 179.  "Credit Registries, Relationship Banking and Loan Repayment" , with Martin Brown, IEW-Working Paper No. 240.  "The Emergence of Information Sharing in Credit Markets" , with Martin Brown, IEW-Working Paper No. 317.  "Discrimination and In-group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment" , with Armin Falk, IEW-Working Paper No. 318. Work in Progress "The Firm as a Nexus of Contracts" (with Ernst Fehr, Philipe Aghion and Wouter Dessein). "Advertisements, Reputation and Performance" (with Ernst Fehr). "Are Contracts Reference Points?" (with Ernst Fehr and Oliver Hart). "Wages or Rents? How do employees evaluate fairness at the workplace?" (with Ferdinand von Siemens). "Cooperation and the Firm" (with Ernst Fehr, Holger Herz and Reto Vögeli). Press Coverage  "Experiment: Ökonomen untersuchten das Ansehen aller Zürcher Stadtkreise"  by Helene Arnet, Tages-Anzeiger (Switzerland), January 25 2005.  "Die Reichsten sind nicht die Grosszügigsten"  by Helene Arnet, Tages-Anzeiger (Switzerland), February 3 2005.  "Lieber gar nichts verdienen als zu wenig"  by Eva Matter Schaffner, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), July 20 2005.  "Das ist das Mindeste!"  by Sabine Kersebaum, Gehirn & Geist (Germany), September 20 2005.  "Der Zahnpasta-Effekt auf dem Arbeitsmarkt"  by Olaf Storbeck, Handelsblatt (Germany), March 6 2006.  "Die Seligkeit des Gebens"  by Markus Schneider, Weltwoche (Switzerland), September 28 2006.