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Patrick W. Schmitz

Global rank #279 99%

Institution: Universität zu Köln

Primary Field: Theory (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://schmitz.uni-koeln.de/index.php?s=mitarbeiter&t=schmitz

First Publication: 1998

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: psc133 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 5.03 6.03 0.00 21.11
Last 10 Years 0.00 5.03 13.07 0.00 32.68
All Time 4.02 14.08 42.56 0.00 109.76

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 69
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 107.03

Publications (69)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Public–private partnerships, asymmetric information, and incomplete contracts Economics Letters C 1
2024 When should the government own the physical assets needed to provide public goods? Economics Letters C 1
2023 Contracting under asymmetric information and externalities: an experimental study Experimental Economics A 2
2023 Incentivizing research with (un)conditional teaching duties: Punishment or rent extraction? Economics Letters C 1
2023 Completely relationship-specific investments, transaction costs, and the property rights theory Economics Letters C 1
2023 The proper scope of government reconsidered: Asymmetric information and incentive contracts European Economic Review B 1
2022 How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus at-will Contracts Economic Journal A 1
2021 How (Not) to Foster Innovations in Public Infrastructure Projects Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 2
2021 On the optimality of outsourcing when vertical integration can mitigate information asymmetries Economics Letters C 1
2021 Contracting under adverse selection: Certifiable vs. uncertifiable information Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 1
2021 The right to quit work: An efficiency rationale for restricting the freedom of contract Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2021 Optimal ownership of public goods under asymmetric information Journal of Public Economics A 1
2020 Public goods, property rights, and investment incentives: An experimental investigation Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2020 Moral hazard and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm Economics Letters C 1
2019 Incomplete contracts, limited liability, and the optimality of joint ownership Economics Letters C 1
2018 Pollution claim settlements reconsidered: Hidden information and bounded payments European Economic Review B 2
2018 Hidden action and outcome contractibility: An experimental test of moral hazard theory Games and Economic Behavior B 2
2017 The management of innovation: Experimental evidence Games and Economic Behavior B 2
2017 Optimal ownership of public goods in the presence of transaction costs Economics Letters C 2
2017 Asymmetric information and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm Economics Letters C 1
2017 Incomplete contracts, shared ownership, and investment incentives Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 1
2016 The negotiators who knew too much: Transaction costs and incomplete information Economics Letters C 1
2016 Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm European Economic Review B 2
2015 Overdeterrence of repeat offenders when penalties for first-time offenders are restricted Economics Letters C 2
2015 Do sellers offer menus of contracts to separate buyer types? An experimental test of adverse selection theory Games and Economic Behavior B 2
2015 Government versus private ownership of public goods: The role of bargaining frictions Journal of Public Economics A 1
2014 Investments as signals of outside options Journal of Economic Theory A 2
2014 Optimal ownership of public goods reconsidered Economics Letters C 1
2013 Public–private partnerships versus traditional procurement: An experimental investigation Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2013 Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering RAND Journal of Economics A 2
2013 Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods Economics Letters C 1
2013 Bargaining position, bargaining power, and the property rights approach Economics Letters C 1
2013 Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach Economics Letters C 1
2013 Public procurement in times of crisis: The bundling decision reconsidered Economics Letters C 1
2013 Job design with conflicting tasks reconsidered European Economic Review B 1
2013 Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study Review of Economic Studies S 2
2012 REPEATED MORAL HAZARD AND CONTRACTS WITH MEMORY: THE CASE OF RISK‐NEUTRALITY International Economic Review B 2
2012 Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment Games and Economic Behavior B 2
2012 Auctions with Anticipated Emotions: Overbidding, Underbidding, and Optimal Reserve Prices Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 2
2012 Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information Economics Letters C 1
2012 The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability Economics Letters C 1
2012 The (sub-)optimality of the majority rule Games and Economic Behavior B 2
2011 Can contracts solve the hold-up problem? Experimental evidence Games and Economic Behavior B 2
2010 The costs and benefits of additional information in agency models with endogenous information structures Economics Letters C 2
2010 Contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments Journal of Mathematical Economics B 1
2010 Public versus private ownership: Quantity contracts and the allocation of investment tasks Journal of Public Economics A 2
2009 Cognitive abilities and behavioral biases Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2009 Participation costs for responders can reduce rejection rates in ultimatum bargaining Economics Letters C 3
2008 Task scheduling and moral hazard Economic Theory B 2
2008 Information gathering and the hold-up problem in a complete contracting framework Economics Letters C 1
2008 Incomplete contracts, the hold-up problem, and asymmetric information Economics Letters C 1
2008 Joint ownership and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information Economics Letters C 1
2007 Can Coasean Bargaining Justify Pigouvian Taxation? Economica C 2
2007 Exclusive versus non-exclusive licensing strategies and moral hazard Economics Letters C 1
2007 Optimal selling strategies when buyers may have hard information European Economic Review B 1
2006 Information Gathering, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Approach American Economic Review S 1
2005 Workplace surveillance, privacy protection, and efficiency wages Labour Economics B 1
2004 Job protection laws and agency problems under asymmetric information European Economic Review B 1
2003 Optimal allocation of ownership rights in dynamic R&D alliances Games and Economic Behavior B 2
2003 On second-price auctions and imperfect competition Journal of Mathematical Economics B 1
2002 Simple contracts, renegotiation under asymmetric information, and the hold-up problem European Economic Review B 1
2002 On the Interplay of Hidden Action and Hidden Information in Simple Bilateral Trading Problems Journal of Economic Theory A 1
2002 On Monopolistic Licensing Strategies under Asymmetric Information Journal of Economic Theory A 1
2001 On synergies and vertical integration International Journal of Industrial Organization B 2
2000 "Yes men", integrity, and the optimal design of incentive contracts Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
1999 Know-how disclosure and incomplete contracts Economics Letters C 2
1998 Ex Post Liability for Harm vs. Ex Ante Safety Regulation: Substitutes or Complements? Comment. American Economic Review S 2
1998 Randomization in Coalition Contracts. Public Choice B 1
1998 Randomization in coalition contracts Public Choice B 1