Professor Dirk Sliwka
Professor of Management
University of Cologne, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
Professional career and research topics
Dirk Sliwka studied economics at the University of Bonn and the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique in Paris. He received his degree as Diplom-Volkswirt in 1995. He was a student in the European Doctoral Programme in Quantitative Economics at the University of Bonn and the London School of Economics and received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Bonn for his doctoral dissertation entitled “On Incentives and the Decentralization of Decisions in Organizations“.
Dirk Sliwka has worked as a consultant for SAP from 1999 to2000 and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Bonn from 2000 to 2003. In June 2003, he completed his post-doctoral Habilitation entitled “Performance Measurement, Responsibility, and Incentives” at the University of Bonn. He has been Professor of Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management at the University of Cologne since 2004. He is Head of the Seminar of Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management.
His research interests include Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management, Labor Economics, the Economics of Organization and Behavioural Economics