Martin Wiernsperger

Biography

Martin Wiernsperger is an assistant professor of accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His research primarily focuses on the design and use of management control systems.

Within this field, Wiernsperger has a keen interest in two main themes: compensation contract design and performance evaluation. His research explores how various combinations of financial and non-financial incentives affect decision-making, employee effort, and creativity. To investigate these questions, Wiernsperger employs experimental methods. His main expertise lies in the design of interactive laboratory experiments that draw on the methods and traditions of experimental economics. He also conducts scenario-based experiments and field experiments.

Academic Degrees

• PhD Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2024
• MBA University of Technology Sydney, 2020
• MS Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2019
• BS Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2018