Dr. Manuel Grieder

Experience

• Professor
  UniDistance Suisse
  09 / 2021 - today
• Postdoctoral Researcher
  ETH Zurich
  02 / 2016 - 07 / 2020
• Postdoctoral Fellow
  MIT Sloan School of Management
  04 / 2017 - 06 / 2017

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4694-7390

Projects

• Living Labs Interfaces for Energy Transition / Team member / ongoing
• Re@dy4 sustainable electricity? / Team member / completed
• Social Innovation for the Energy Transition / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Grieder, M., Kistler, D., & Schmitz, J. (2025). The hidden benefits of CSR : corporate philanthropy begets giving of employees. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 134(103225). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103225
• Grieder, M., & Schuhmacher, K. (2025). Use and design of peer evaluations for bonus allocations. Journal of Accounting Research, 63(5), 2229–2268. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-679x.12628
• Grieder, M., Kistler, D., & Schmitz, J. (2024). How sludge impairs the effectiveness of policy programs : a field experiment with SMEs. Behavioural Public Policy, 9(4), 865–873. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2024.44
• Wemyss, D., Cellina, F., Grieder, M., & Schlüter, F. (2023). Looking beyond the hype : conditions affecting the promise of behaviour change apps as social innovations for low-carbon transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 47, 100702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2023.100702
• Brilon, S., Grassi, S., Grieder, M., & Schulz, J. (2023). Strategic competition and self-confidence. Management Science, 70(1), 507–525. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4688
• Gibbons, R., Grieder, M., Herz, H., & Zehnder, C. (2021). Building an equilibrium : rules vs. principles in relational contracts. Organization Science, 34(6), 1997–2525. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1503
• Ghesla, C., Grieder, M., & Schubert, R. (2020). Nudging the poor and the rich : a field study on the distributional effects of green electricity defaults. Energy Economics, 2020(86). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104616
• Ghesla, C., Grieder, M., Schmitz, J., & Stadelmann, M. (2020). Pro-environmental incentives and loss aversion : a field experiment on electricity saving behavior. Energy Policy, 2020(137). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111131
• Chui, C., & Grieder, M. (2020). The effects of investigative sanctioning systems on wrongdoing, reporting, and helping : a multiparty perspective. Organization Science, 31(5), 1090–1114. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1340
• Ghesla, C., Grieder, M., & Schmitz, J. (2019). Nudge for good? : choice defaults and spillover effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 2019(10). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00178
• Cacault, M. P., & Grieder, M. (2019). How group identification distorts beliefs. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 164, 63–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.05.027

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Grieder, M., Kistler, D., & Schmitz, J. (2021). Environmental decision making in small companies : a behavioral economics perspective. In E. Quah & R. Schubert (Eds.), Sustainability and Environmental Decision Making (pp. 129–151). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9287-4_13

Other publications

• Grieder, M., Kistler, D., & Schmitz, J. (2023). How sludge impairs the effectiveness of policy programs : a field experiment with SMEs. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4249095
• Grieder, M., Kistler, D., Schlüter, F., & Schmitz, J. (2023). Not only for the money : nudging SMEs to promote environmental sustainability. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4351587
• Grieder, M., Schmitz, J., & Schubert, R. (2021). Asking to give : moral licensing and pro-social behavior in the aggregate. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3920355
• Grieder, M., Kistler, D., & Schmitz, J. (2021). The hidden benefits of corporate social responsibility. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3744900
• Bärenbold, R., Grieder, M., & Schubert, R. (2020). How choice complexity in liberalized markets hurts the demand for green electricity. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3628373
• Grieder, M., Bärenbold, R., Schmitz, J., & Schubert, R. (2020). The behavioral effects of carbon taxes : experimental evidence. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3628516

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