Publications and Working Papers

Contracts, consumers, privacy:

  1. Jung, S., Krebs, P., Leszczynska, M. (forthcoming), Does it matter what people lie about? European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Available here.
  2. Leszczynska, M., Baltag, D. (2024) “Can I have it non-personalised?” An Empirical Investigation of Consumer Willingness to Share Data for Personalized Services and Ads. Journal of Consumer Policy. Available here.
  3. Leszczynska, M., Cromwell, E., Goerg, S.J., (2023) Let Them Choose! Economically Equivalent Terms Lead to Different Behavior by Revealing the Offeror’s Intentions. Working Paper. Available here.
  4. Leszczynska, M. (2017) Think twice before you sign! An experiment on a cautionary function of contractual formalities. Working Paper. Available here.

Empirical methods in law:

  1. Leszczynska, M., (2025) Empirical Methods in Contract Law. In Chernykh, J., Karton J. (Ed.) Research Methods Handbook for Contract Law and Scholarship. Available here.
  2. Busch, C., Goanta, C., Kryla-Cudna, K., Leszczynska, M., Mak, V. (2022) Should Data Drive Private Law? Technology and Regulation, 2022: 81-87. Available here.
  3. Leszczynska, M., van Dijck, G. (2020) Assessing the Methodological Quality of Empirical Research on Social Media Influencers. In Goanta, C., Ranchordas, S. (Ed.), The Regulation of Social Media Influencers. Available here.
  4. Chatziathanasiou, K., Leszczynska, M. (2017) Experimentelle Ökonomik im Recht (Experimental economics in law) RW Rechtswissenschaft, 8: 314-338. Available here.

Non-discrimination and affirmative action policies:

  1. Dorrough, A. R., Leszczynska, M., Werner*, S., Schaeffer*, L., Simandi*, F., Galley*, A.-S., Akin*, E., Bachmann*, J., Bruske*, M., & Burghardt*, U. (2022). Equal performance, different grade: Women’s performance in discussion perceived worse than men’s. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(2), 222–238. Available here. Data and materials on OSF. *The 3rd-10th author were students under the supervision of the first author.
  2. Dorrough, A.R., Nater, C., Leszczynska, M. (2019) What are the positive and negative side effects of gender quotas? In-Mind Magazine, 12(42) Available here. [German version: Die Frauenquote greift in mehreren europäischen Ländern: Was sind die positiven und negativen Nebenwirkungen? (2019) In-Mind Magazine (1) 1-2. Available here.]
  3. Leszczynska, M. (2018) Mandatory quotas for women on boards of directors in the European Union: harmful to or good for company performance? European Business Organization Law Review, 19: 35-61. Available here.
  4. Dorrough, A.R.*, Leszczynska, M.*, Barreto, M., Glöckner, A. (2016) Revealing side effects of quota rules on group cooperation. Journal of Economic Psychology, 57: 136-152. *shared first authorship Available here and here.