Dr. Michael Haylock

Research Interests

Health Economics, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Operations Management, Organizational Economics

Current Position

Since July 2026 University of Cologne, Department of Operations Management, Healthcare Management, Postdoctoral researcher in DFG-financed project: “Understanding Donation Costs and Stem-Cell Donor Behaviour

Education

• PhD, Economics, University of Tübingen, 2022 
• PhD Exchange, CEU Budapest, 2018, Psychology and Economics 
• MSc, Management and Economics, University of Tübingen, 2017
• BA, Philosophy and Economics, University of Bayreuth, 2015

Past Positions

• Consultant at bcmed GmbH, April 2025 – June 2026
• Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Chair of Health Economics and CINCH, April 2022 – March 2025
• Doctoral Researcher and Employee at the Chair of Managerial Accounting, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, October 2017 – March 2022

Peer-reviewed publications (Selected)

• "Helping in the Workplace: The Role of Leadership Relative to Employee Personality and Preferences" (with Patrick Kampkötter, Michael Kosfeld and Ferdinand von Siemens), Economic Journal, forthcoming.
• “Reducing Registry Members' Attrition When Invited to Donate: Evidence From a Large Stem Cell Registry” (with Patrick Kampkötter, Daniel Wiesen, Robert Slonim, Mario Macis, Susanne Seitz, Jürgen Sauter and Alexander H. Schmidt) 
  American Journal of Health Economics, 2025.
• “How perceptions of bone marrow donation costs affect donation behavior: survey evidence from a large donor registry” (with Patrick Kampkötter, Mario Macis, Susanne Seitz, Robert Slonim, Edith Wienand, Daniel Wiesen, Alexander H Schmidt) The European Journal of Health Economics, Jan-19, 2025
• “Offline Volunteering During COVID-19: A Survey Experiment With Prior and Prospective Blood Donors” (with Stefanie Ehmann and Anne Heynold) Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2024.
• “Distributional Differences in the Time Horizon of Executive Compensation.” Empirical Economics Volume 62, pages 157–186, 2022. 
• “The Role of Preferences, Attitudes, and Personality Traits in Labor Market Matching” (with Patrick Kampkötter) Economics Letters, Volume 185, 2019.