Discussion Papers

Concerns about rising prices may raise prices

The Emergence of Enforcement

An axiomatization of the random priority rule

Behavioral forces driving information unraveling

The role of self-confidence in teamwork: Experimental evidence

Planning to cheat. Temptation and self-control

Fairness in Matching Markets: Experimental Evidence

Social networks and organizational helping behavior: Experimental evidence from the helping game

On the constrained efficiency of strategy-proof random assignment

Cognitive Reflection and 2D:4D: Evidence from a Large Population Sample

Confidence and College Applications: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention

Strategy-proof and envy-free random assignment

Betting on Diversity – Occupational Segregation and Gender Stereotypes

Behavioral Forces Driving Information Unraveling

The Endowment Effect in the General Population

Keep calm and carry on: The short- vs. long-run effects of mindfulness meditation on (academic) performance

Aversion to hiring algorithms: Transparency, gender profiling, and self-confidence

Adding household surveys to the behavioral economics toolbox: Insights from the SOEP Innovation Sample

Aiding Applicants: Leveling the Playing Field within the Immediate Acceptance Mechanism

Can simple advice eliminate the gender gap in willingness to compete?

Selective Memory of a Psychological Agent

Understanding the Response to High-Stakes Incentives in Primary Education

Two Field Experiments on Self-Selection, Collaboration Intensity, and Team Performance

The Benefit of the Doubt: Willful Ignorance and Altruistic Punishment

Working until you drop: Image concerns or prosocialmotives?

Comparison of different question formats eliciting point predictions

What point of a distribution summarises point predictions?

Negotiation under the Curse of Knowledge

How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Booking Systems

The Conditional Contribution Mechanism for Repeated PublicGoods – The General Case

Decentralizing Centralized Matching Markets: Implications from Early Offers in University Admissions

Teams Promise but Do not Deliver

Contests within and between Groups

Experiments on Matching Markets: A Survey

Beliefs as a Means of Self-Control? Evidence from a Dynamic Student Survey

Obviousness around the clock

Peer effects of ambition

Hiring from a pool of workers

Selfless ignorance: Too good to be true

Social norms and preferences for generosity are domain dependent

Effects of Timing and Reference Frame of Feedback: Evidence from a Field Experiment

How Lotteries in School Choice Help to Level the Playing Field

Rhetoric Matters: A Social Norms Explanation for the Anomaly of Framing

Fairness in Markets and Market Experiments

Competitive screening and information transmission

Assignment Maximization

Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Public Observability

Exclusion in the All-Pay Auction: An Experimental Investigation

Be a Man or Become a Nurse: Comparing Gender Discrimination by Employers across a Wide Variety of Professions

Clean up your own mess: An experimental study of moral responsibility and efficiency

Image Concerns and the Political Economy of Publicly Provided Private Goods

Relative Consumption Preferences and Public
Provision of Private Goods

The Iterative Deferred Acceptance Mechanism

Contests at the workplace with and without prize selection.Testing theory in a field experiment

Self-confidence and unraveling in matching markets

Iterative versus standard deferred acceptance: Experimental evidence

Welfare stigma in the lab: Evidence of social signaling

Gender Differences in Tournament Choices: Risk Preferences, Overconfidence or Competitiveness?

What makes voters turn out: The effects of polls and beliefs

When Incentives Backfire: Spillover Effects in
Food Choice

Strategic Schools under the Boston Mechanism Revisited

Bribery: Greed versus Reciprocity

Signals Sell: Designing a Product Line when Consumers Have Social Image Concerns

Public statistics and private experience: Varying feedback information in a take-or-pass game

Is Increasing Inequality Harmful? Experimental Evidence

How to Get Truthful Reporting in Matching Markets: A Field Experiment

Transferring Ownership of Public Housing to Existing Tenants: A Mechanism Design Approach

Voluntary Industry Standards: An Experimental Investigation of a Greek Gift

Take your time to grow: A field experiment on the hiring of youths in Germany

The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap: A Failed Replication of Plott and Zeiler

Efficient Lottery Design

Equilibrium Selection in Similar Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Precedents

A Note on the Welfare of a Sophisticated Time-Inconsistent Decision-Maker

Fairness and Efficiency in a Random Assignment: Three Impossibility Results

The Equitable Top Trading Cycles Mechanism for School Choice

Does Team Competition Increase Pro-Social Lending? Evidence from Online Microfinance

College Admissions with Entrance Exams: Centralized versus Decentralized

The curse of knowledge increases self-selection into competition: Experimental evidence

Exclusion in the All-Pay Auction: An Experimental Investigation

On Time-Inconsistency in Bargaining

Peers at work: From the field to the lab

Nonrenewable Resources, Strategic Behavior and the Hotelling
Rule: An Experiment

Monkey see, monkey do: truth-telling in matching algorithms and the
manipulation of others

Second-best incentive compatible allocation rules for multiple-type indivisible objects

Political Support in Hard Times: Do People Care about National Welfare?

Image concerns and the provision of quality

The Dark Side of the Vote: Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting

Privacy Concerns, Voluntary Disclosure of Information, and Unraveling: An Experiment

Giving and sorting among friends: evidence from a lab-in-the-field
experiment

Willpower Depletion and Framing Effects

From Boston to Chinese Parallel to Deferred Acceptance: Theory and Experiments on a Family of School Choice Mechanisms

‘I’ll do it by myself as I knew it all along’: On the failure of hindsight-biased principals to delegate optimally

Hanging Together or Being Hung Separately: The Strategic Power of Coalitions where Bargaining Occurs with Incomplete Information

Flipping a coin: Theory and evidence

On the (im)possibility of improving upon the student-proposing deferred
acceptance mechanism

Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis

Legislative Bargaining and the Dynamics of Public Investment

Manipulationsanreize im Gale-Shapley-Algorithmus: ein Literaturüberblick

Manipulationsanreize im Gale-Shapley-Algorithmus: ein Literaturüberblick

Social Identity and Competitiveness

Men too Sometimes Shy away from Competition: The Case of Team Competition

Similarity and Polarization in Groups

A strategic mediator who is biased into the same direction as the expert can improve information transmission

Network Effects, Market Structure and Industry Performance

Exclusion in the All-Pay Auction: An Experimental Investigation
(revised version: SP II 2014-206)

Unwillingness to Pay for Privacy: A Field Experiment

Information and Beliefs in a Repeated Normal-form Game

Experimental Practices in Economics: Performativity and the Creation of Phenomena

Political salience and regime resilience

Rationality is not Consistency

Behavioural Welfare Analysis and Revealed Preference: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Transparent app design reduces excessive usage time and increases willingness to pay compared to common behavioral design—a framed field experiment

Narrative Persuasion
January 2023 (revised April 2024)

Learning through period and physical time

Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: Evidence from a modern-day prohibition

Motivated Political Reasoning: The Formation of Belief-Value Constellations

Home alone: Widows' well-being and time

COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?

Inequity Aversion and Limited Foresight in the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma

Choice architecture and incentives increase COVID-19 vaccine intentions and test demand

Bombs, Broadcasts and Resistance: Allied Intervention and Domestic Opposition to the Nazi Regime during World War II

How Trump triumphed: Multi-candidate primaries with buffoons

Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination: A hiring experiment

Face mask use and physical distancing before and after mandatory masking: Evidence from public waiting lines

Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children

Poverty traps in Markov models of theevolution of wealth

Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? A nation-wide field experiment on Facebook

Refugees and social capital: Evidence from Northern Lebanon

Lying to appear honest

Personalized fundraising: a fieldexperiment on threshold matchingof donations

Charitable giving by the poor: A field experiment in Kyrgyzstan

Can mass fundraising harm your core business? A field experimenton how fundraising affects ticket sales

Motivated motive selection in the lying-dictator game

The (in)elasticity of moral ignorance

Everyday econometricians: Selection neglect and overoptimism when learning from others

Nudging cooperation

Information nudges and self-control

Trade secrets and innovation: Evidence from the “inevitable disclosure” doctrine

Communication and behavior in organizations: An experiment

Confidence and career choices: An experiment

The multiplier effect in two-sided markets with bilateral investments

Testing consumer theory: Evidence from a natural field experiment

A rationale for unanimity in committees

Animal welfare and human ethics: A personality study

Behavioural response to a sudden health risk: dengue and educational outcomes in Colombia

Giving once, giving twice: A two-period field experiment on intertemporal crowding in charitable giving

Social identity and political polarization: Evidence on the impact of identity on partisan voting trade

Mechanism design with level-k types:Theory and an application to bilateral trade

Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust: experimental evidence

A little good is good enough: Ethical consumption, cheap excuses, and moral self-licensing

Quantifying music genius, or Handel on the balance: A scale of musical merit from 1776

Changing cultural space: The public molding of Handel's Esther into an English Oratorio (1732)

Belief updating: Does the ‘good-news,bad-news’ asymmetry extend to
purely financial domains?

Voluntary “donations” versus reward-oriented “contributions”: Two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms

Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants: An experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions

Online fundraising, self-image, and the long-term impact of ask avoidance

Games played through agents in the laboratory – A test of Prat & Rustichini's model

A note on charitable giving by corporates and aristocrats: Evidence from a field experiment

The political economy of multilateral aid funds

Homo moralis: Personal characteristics, institutions, and moral decision-making

Pleasures of Skill and Moral Conduct

The quantitative view of Myerson regularity

Cursed financial innovation

Markets for leaked information

More effort with less pay: On information avoidance, belief design and performance

Reforming an institutional culture of corruption: A model of motivated
agents and collective reputation

Matching donations without crowding out? Some theoretical considerations, a field, and a lab experiment

Revenues and welfare in auctions with information release

Imitation under stress

The standard portfolio choice
problem in Germany

Medical Insurance and Free Choice of Physician Shape Patient Overtreatment. A Laboratory Experiment

Expected Prices as Reference Points - Theory and Experiments

Is response time predictive of choice? An experimental study of threshold
strategies

Microfinance at the margin: experimental evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia

Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia

Tax-price Elasticity of Charitable Donations - Evidence from the German Taxpayer Panel

A Note on Empathy in Games

Crop Failures and Export Tariffs

Over-Caution of Large Committees of Experts

Price competition and reputation in markets for experience goods: An Experimental Study

Strategy Choice In The Infinitely Repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma

Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany

Affection, Speed Dating and Heart Breaking

Who Shows Solidarity with the Irresponsible?

Poverty and Transitions in Health

Who knows it is a game?
On rule understanding, strategic awareness and cognitive ability

Institutions, Shared Guilt, and Moral Transgression

Charitable Giving and Nonbinding Contribution-Level Suggestions

Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Evolutionary Determinants of War

Endogenous Group Formation in Experimental Contests

Hanging Together or Being Hung Separately: The Strategic Power of Coalitions where Bargaining Occurs with Incomplete Information

Efficient Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions

Institutionalizing Eurozone Exit: A modified NEWNEY approach

Comparing Charitable Fundraising Schemes: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment and a Structural Model

Beliefs and actions in the trust game: Creating instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect

From Imitation to Collusion: Long-run Learning in a Low-Information Environment

Varieties of risk elicitation

Economic recommendation based on pareto efficient resource allocation

Order protection through delayed messaging

Aggregation and convergence in experimental general equilibrium
economies constructed from naturally occurring preferences

Recommendation based on multiproduct utility maximization

Economic recommendation with surplus maximization

Online ad auctions: An experiment

Emergence of networks and market institutions in a large virtual economy

Eliciting risk preferences: Text vs. graphical multiple price lists