Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Refereed Research Articles

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2024
Motivated Belief Updating and Rationalization of Information
Management Science, Vol. 70, No. 7, 4167–4952.
joint work with Christoph Drobner
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Regional variation in social norm nudges
Scientific Reports, Vol. 14, 16773.
joint work with Andreas Pondorfer and Valentina Stöhr
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Norm violations and behavioral spillovers – Evidence from the lab and the field
European Economic Review Vol. 166, 104776
joint work with Oliver Himmler, and Tobias König
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Stated purchase of bio-based products: Personal and regional factors in Germany
Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy, Vol. 8, 100087
joint work with Corinna Hempel and Andreas Pondorfer
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Observing Germany’s nationwide public transport fare policy experiment “9-Euro-Ticket” - Empirical findings from a panel study.
Case Studies in Transport Policy, Vol. 15, 101148
joint work with Allister Loder, Fabienne Cantner, Lennart Adenaw, Nico Nachtigall, David Ziegler, Felix Gotzler, Markus Siewert, Stefan Wurster, Markus Lienkamp, and Klaus Bogenberger
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2022
Intensified support for juvenile offenders on probation: Evidence from Germany
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2..
joint work with Christoph Engel and Christian Traxler
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2020
The Timing of Discretionary Bonuses: Effort, Signals, and Reciprocity
Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 124, pp. 254-280.
joint work with Luke Boosey
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Framing effects in the Prisoner’s Dilemma but not the Dictator Game
Journal of the Economic Science Association, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-12
joint work with David Rand and Gari Walkowitz
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The behavioural challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic: indirect measurements and personalized attitude changing treatments (IMPACT)
Royal Society Open Science, Vol. 7, No. 8, pp. 201131.
joint work with Ilan Fischer, Shacked Avrashi, Tomer Oz, Rabab Fadul, Koral Gutman, Daniel Rubenstein, Gregory Kroliczak, and Andreas Glöckner
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Do Tournaments with Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?
Journal of Sports Economics Vol. 21, No. 1, pp 44–63.
joint work with Michael Babington and Carl Kitchens
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2019
The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs
Management Science, Vol. 65, No 9, 3949–4450.
joint work with Sebastian Kube and Jonas Radbruch
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2018
If the Worst Comes to the Worst: Dictator Giving when Recipient’s Endowments are Risky
European Economic Review, Vol. 105, pp. 51–70.
joint work with Christoph Engel
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2017
Endowments, Perceived Similarity and Dictator Giving,
Economic Inquiry, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 1130-1144
joint work with David B. Johnson and Jonathan D. Rogers
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2016
Natural Groups and Economic Characteristics
as Driving Forces of Wage Discrimination

European Economic Review, Vol. 90, pp. 178-200
joint work with Thorsten Chmura and Pia Weiss
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Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Punishment Regimes for Collusive Bribery
American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 506--556.
joint work with Christoph Engel and Gaoneng Yu
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Impulse response dynamics in weakest link games
German Economic Review, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 284–297.
joint work with Tibor Neugebauer and Abdolkarim Sadrieh
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In wrong anticipation - Miscalibrated beliefs on trust between Germans, Israelis, and Palestinians
PLOS ONE, June 16, 2016
joint work with Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Gari Walkowitz, and Eyal Winter
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Do Direct-Democratic Procedures Lead To Higher Acceptance Than Political Representation? Experimental Survey Evidence from Germany
Public Choice, Vol. 167, No. 1, pp. 47-65
joint work with Emanuel Towfigh, Andreas Glöckner, Philip Leifeld, Carlos Kurschilgen, Aniol Llorente-Saguer, and Sophie Bade
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Priming the charitable pump: An experimental investigation of
two-stage raffles

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 508–519
joint work with John Lightle and Dmitry Ryvkin
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2015
Cui Bono, Benefit Corporation? An Experiment Inspired by Social Enterprise Legislation in Germany and the US
Review of Law & Economics. Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 79-110
joint work with Hanjo Hamann and Sven Fischer
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2014
Generalized Impulse Balance: An experimental test
for a class of 3x3 games

Review of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 27-53
joint work with Thorsten Chmura and Reinhard Selten
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2013
Fusing enacted and expected mimicry generates a winning strategy that promotes the evolution of cooperation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 110, No. 25, pp. 10229
joint work with Ilan Fischer, Alex Frid, Simon A. Levin,
Daniel Rubenstein, and Reinhard Selten
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2012
Learning in experimental 2x2 games
Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 76, pp. 44–73
joint work with Thorsten Chmura and Reinhard Selten
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2011
Correction and Re-examination of Stationary Concepts
for Experimental 2x2 Games: A Reply

The American Economic Review, Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 1041-44
joint work with Reinhard Selten and Thorsten Chmura
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2010
On the Prevalence of Framing Effects Across Subject-Pools
in a Two-Person Cooperation Game

Journal of Economic Psychology , Vol. 31, pp. 849–859
joint work with Gari Walkowitz
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Treating Equals Unequally -
Incentives, Motivation and Production Technology in Teams.

Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 747-772
joint work with Sebastian Kube and Ro‘i Zultan
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2009
Experimental Investigation of a Cyclic Duopoly Game
Experimental Economics, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 253-271
joint work with Reinhard Selten
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Non-Parametric Testing of Distributions - the Epps-Singleton two-sample test using the Empirical Characteristic Function
The Stata Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 454-465
joint work with Johannes Kaiser
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Refereed review articles and articles to a wider audience

Final version
Old WP version

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2024
Reproducibility in Management Science.
Management Science Volume 70, Issue 3, 1343
Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration. Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration.
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2015
Goal setting and worker motivation
IZA World of Labor 2015:178
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2011
Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms:
Insights from Experimental Economics

Analyse & Kritik, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 325-347
joint work with Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube, and Matthias Wibral
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Books:

2016
Experiments in Organizational Economics
Research in Experimental Economics Volume 17,
Sebastian J. Goerg and John Hamman (Eds.),
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016.
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Chapters in Books:

2016
Do Teams Procrastinate? Strategic Procrastination in a Dynamic Environment, in Experiments in Organizational Economics (Research in Experimental Economics, Volume 19), Sebastian J. Goerg , John R. Hamman (Eds.) Emerald Group Publishing
joint work with Sebastian Kube, Jonas Radbruch, and Philipp Weinschenk
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2010
The equity principle in employment relationships
in: The Selten School of Behavioral Economics - A Collection of Essays in Honor of Reinhard Selten,
A. Ockenfels and A. Sadrieh (Eds.), Springer
joint work with Sebastian Kube
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Chapters in Textbooks:

2015
Empirical Research Methods
in: Economic Methods for Lawyers,
Emanuel V. Towfigh and Niels Petersen (Eds.), Edward Elgar
joint work with Niels Petersen
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Deskriptive Statistik und Statistische Testverfahren
in: in: Ökonomische Methoden im Recht - Eine Einführung für Juristen,
E.V. Towfigh and N. Petersen (Eds.), Mohr Siebeck
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