Alwine Mohnen is a full professor for Corporate Management at TUM School of Management since 2011. She studied economics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn. After her diploma, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Vienna/ Austria and received her Ph.D. (with distinctions) from the University of Cologne. As a Post-Doc she was a visiting scholar at Stanford University financed by a DFG Grant for one year and worked as an adjunct professor at the CEU Business School of the Central European University in Budapest/Hungary. In 2008 she earned her habilitation degree from the University of cologne. After that, she started as of full professor of the School of Business and Economics, RWTH Aachen. After several offers (the University of Tuebingen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, University of Basel) she accepted an offer by TUM in 2011. Here at TUM School of Management, she built up and since then is the head of the experimental laboratory at TUM School of Management which is designed for research in Behavioral Economics and Experimental Economics. Furthermore, she is the speaker of the Faculty Graduate Center building up a doctoral program for the Ph.D. candidates of the school. Since 2009, she is a research affiliate at the Institute for the Study of Labor IZA, Bonn.
She has published for instance in Applied Energy, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Labor Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. For her dissertation entitled “Investment decisions, motivation, and performance measurement” under the supervision of Herbert Hax. she received the dissertation award of the University of Cologne.
Her research interests include behavioral economics, experimental economics, performance measurement, personnel economics, and incentives & sustainability.
Incentives for energy-efficient behavior at the workplace: a natural field experiment on eco-driving in a company fleet.
Non-monetary versus monetary incentives – an experimental investigation
Incentives for creativity: subjective vs. objective measurement of creative performance
EU-InnovatE: (i) Crowdfunding: Impact of sustainability
(ii) Selected policy instruments: do certain types of incentives “crowd-out” intrinsic motivation regarding (user) sustainable innovations and projects
