- Faculty
Martin Wiernsperger
- Assistant Professor
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.
Education
PhD WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2024 MBA University of Technology Sydney, 2020 MS WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2019 BS WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2018