Discussion Papers

Politicized scientists: Credibility cost of political expression on Twitter

Gratitude in fundraising: Do ‘thank you in advance’ and handwritten thank-you notes impact fundraising success?

Preferences regarding behavioral policy:

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

Concerns about rising prices may raise prices

The Emergence of Enforcement

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