Nicola F. Maaser

March 2025: The paper "How do Higher-order Punishment Institutions shape Cooperation and Norm-enforcement?" (joint with Jan-Philipp Krügel) has been accepted for publication in the Review of International Organizations. The final working paper version is available here.
October 2024: A revised version of the working paper "How do Higher-order Punishment Institutions shape Cooperation and Norm-enforcement?" (joint with Jan-Philipp Krügel) is available here.

June 2024: I became a member of two working groups (Work and organizational practices for a multi-age workforce and Integration of age-diverse workers and knowledge transfer) in the COST Action LeverAge. Please check out the link here 👉

February 21, 2024: I received a seed funding grant for my project "The Age Factor: Exploring Credit Allocation and Performance in Age-diverse Teams" from Aarhus University’s Platform for Inequality Research (PIREAU). I am grateful to be able to work on this exciting project.

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The project investigates how leaders or supervisors consider age when attributing credit for group efforts and its implications for incentives within age-diverse teams. It also explores interactions between the supervisor’s and team members' age. As collaborative structures with diverse age groups gain prominence, understanding fair credit allocation is crucial for inclusive workplaces and addressing potential inequalities, especially in promotion or hiring. Limited evidence on age heterogeneity underscores a critical knowledge gap. Through two incentivized experiments, the project aims to fill this gap, providing insights into workplace dynamics and contributing to the discourse on age-related inequalities in diverse teams.

December 27, 2023: The paper "Costly Voting in Weighted Committees: The Case of Moral Costs" (joint with Thomas Stratmann) has been accepted for publication in the European Economic Review. The final version is available here.

June 20, 2023: The paper "School Performance and Retrospective Voting: Evidence from Local Elections in Denmark" (joint with Martin Strobl) has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Political Economy.

June 2, 2023: A revised version of my working paper "Costly Voting in Weighted Committees: The Case of Moral Costs" is available here.

May 26, 2023: The Independent Research Fund Denmark decided to grant funding to my DFF1-project "Value in Diversity? Effort and Performance in Group Decision-making". I am very happy about this and excited to start working on the project.

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When does cultural and ethical diversity enhance or detract from the quality of group decisions made in, for example, working groups, expert panels, and political committees? The research project uses economic theory, game theory, and laboratory experiments to shed light on this question. It focuses on informational and ethical decision quality. Informational quality is at stake when good decisions depend on decision-makers putting effort into obtaining information before making a decision. Ethical quality matters when groups decide on dishonest actions; relevant examples are boards of directors deceiving consumers about a product's health risks or falsifying financial statements. The project's findings will provide a basis for designing groups and decision-making rules to achieve a high probability of well-informed decisions or a low incidence of dishonest actions. They will thus be valuable in areas such as public administration, management, and legislation.