Prof. Guido Friebel

Guido Friebel’s research is on human resources and organizations. He carries out randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with firms, analyzes observational firm data, and works on related applied theory. He also investigates how institutions shape the accumulation and allocation of human capital. His work has been published in leading journals such as American Economic Review, AEJ:Micro, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics and many others.

Friebel is a fellow of CEPR, IZA, and a VP of SIOE, a founding member of the Organizational Economics Committee of the German Economic Association (VfS), a member of the Women in Economics Committee of the European Economic Association and the Scientific Advisory Board of Sciences Po.
Before joining Goethe, he held positions at the Toulouse School of Economics and EHESS, and at SITE, Stockholm School of Economics.
At ConTrust, he coordinates the working group on markets and economic decision making. His research here is how conflicts in partnerships affect their resilience against external shocks (health or work-related) and on the determinants of trust in employment relationships.

Before joining Goethe, he held positions at the Toulouse School of Economics and EHESS, and at SITE, Stockholm School of Economics.

At ConTrust, he coordinates the working group on markets and economic decision making. His research here is how conflicts in partnerships affect their resilience against external shocks (health or work-related) and on the determinants of trust in employment relationships.

• Talent management. The role of bosses
• Value-based leadership
• Bürokratieabbau: Was Deutschland von einer Bäckereikette lernen kann
• Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany
• Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace Control

Friebel, Guido, Matthias Heinz, Mitchell Hoffman, and Nick Zubanov. 2023. „What do Employee Referral Programs (ERPs) do? Measuring the direct and overall effects of a management practice.“ Journal of Political Economy 131, no. 3: 633–686.

Auriol, Emmanuelle, Guido Friebel, Alisa Weinberger, and Sascha Wilhelm. 2022. „Underrepresentation of women in the economics profession more pronounced in the United States compared to heterogeneous Europe.“ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, no. 16.

Friebel, Guido, Matthias Heinz, and Nikolay Zubanov. 2022. „Middle managers, personnel turnover, and performance: A long-term field experiment in a retail chain.“ Management Science 68, no. 1: 211–229.

Khashabi, Pooyan, Matthias Heinz, Nick Zubanov, Tobias Kretschmer, and Guido Friebel. 2021. „Market competition and the effectiveness of performance pay.“ Organization Science 32, no. 2: 334–351.