Discussion Papers
Discussion Papers zu Markt und Entscheidung.
Economics of Change
2024
Market Behavior
2024
Verhalten auf Märkten
2024
2023
SP II 2023-203 PDF
Social networks and organizational helping behavior: Experimental evidence from the helping game
27 S.
2022
SP II 2022-203 PDF
Keep calm and carry on: The short- vs. long-run effects of mindfulness meditation on (academic) performance
82 S.
SP II 2022-202 PDF
Aversion to hiring algorithms: Transparency, gender profiling, and self-confidence
36 S.
SP II 2022-201 PDF
Adding household surveys to the behavioral economics toolbox: Insights from the SOEP Innovation Sample
21 S.
2021
SP II 2021-203 PDF
Aiding Applicants: Leveling the Playing Field within the Immediate Acceptance Mechanism
36 S.
2020
SP II 2020-201 PDF
Two Field Experiments on Self-Selection, Collaboration Intensity, and Team Performance
38 S.
2019
SP II 2019-211r PDF
Negotiation under the Curse of Knowledge
September2019 (revised November 2019)
46 S.
SP II 2019-209 PDF
The Conditional Contribution Mechanism for Repeated PublicGoods – The General Case
41 S.
SP II 2019-208 PDF
Decentralizing Centralized Matching Markets: Implications from Early Offers in University Admissions
57 S.
2018
SP II 2018-206 PDF
Effects of Timing and Reference Frame of Feedback: Evidence from a Field Experiment
58 S.
2017
SP II 2017–203 PDF
Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Public Observability
18 S.
SP II 2017–202 PDF
Exclusion in the All-Pay Auction: An Experimental Investigation
(Revised version of the WZB Discussion Paper SP II 2014-206)
44 S.
SP II 2017–201 PDF
Be a Man or Become a Nurse: Comparing Gender Discrimination by Employers across a Wide Variety of Professions
52 S.
2016
SP II 2016–215 PDF
Clean up your own mess: An experimental study of moral responsibility and efficiency
26 S.
SP II 2016–211 PDF
Contests at the workplace with and without prize selection.Testing theory in a field experiment
35 S.
SP II 2016–208 PDF
Welfare stigma in the lab: Evidence of social signaling
November 2016 (revised July 2018)
28 S.
SP II 2016–207 PDF
Gender Differences in Tournament Choices: Risk Preferences, Overconfidence or Competitiveness?
52 S.
SP II 2016–202 PDF
Signals Sell: Designing a Product Line when Consumers Have Social Image Concerns
60 S.
SP II 2016-201 PDF
Public statistics and private experience: Varying feedback information in a take-or-pass game
25 S.
2015
SP II 2015–207 PDF
Transferring Ownership of Public Housing to Existing Tenants: A Mechanism Design Approach
30 S.
SP II 2015–205 PDF
Take your time to grow: A field experiment on the hiring of youths in Germany
18 S.
SP II 2015–204 PDF
The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap: A Failed Replication of Plott and Zeiler
37 S.
SP II 2015–202 PDF
Equilibrium Selection in Similar Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Precedents
36 S.
2014
SP II 2014–209 PDF
Does Team Competition Increase Pro-Social Lending? Evidence from Online Microfinance
45 S.
SP II 2014–207 PDF
The curse of knowledge increases self-selection into competition: Experimental evidence
64 S.
SP II 2014–203 PDF
Nonrenewable Resources, Strategic Behavior and the Hotelling
Rule: An Experiment
Rule: An Experiment
34 S.
SP II 2014–202 PDF
Monkey see, monkey do: truth-telling in matching algorithms and the
manipulation of others
manipulation of others
24 S.
SP II 2014–201 PDF
Second-best incentive compatible allocation rules for multiple-type indivisible objects
33 S.
2013
SP II 2013 – 209 PDF
The Dark Side of the Vote: Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting
58 S.
SP II 2013 – 208 PDF
Privacy Concerns, Voluntary Disclosure of Information, and Unraveling: An Experiment
33 S.
SP II 2013 – 207 PDF
Giving and sorting among friends: evidence from a lab-in-the-field
experiment
experiment
8 S.
SP II 2013 – 205 PDF
From Boston to Chinese Parallel to Deferred Acceptance: Theory and Experiments on a Family of School Choice Mechanisms
71 S.
SP II 2013 – 203 PDF
‘I’ll do it by myself as I knew it all along’: On the failure of hindsight-biased principals to delegate optimally
35 S.
SP II 2013 – 202 PDF
Hanging Together or Being Hung Separately: The Strategic Power of Coalitions where Bargaining Occurs with Incomplete Information
30 S.
2012
SP II 2012-202 PDF
On the (im)possibility of improving upon the student-proposing deferred
acceptance mechanism
acceptance mechanism
13 S.
2011
2010
SP II 2010-19 PDF
A strategic mediator who is biased into the same direction as the expert can improve information transmission
13 S.
SP II 2010-04 PDF
Exclusion in the All-Pay Auction: An Experimental Investigation
(revised version: SP II 2014-206)
(revised version: SP II 2014-206)
30 S.
SP II 2010-01 PDF
Experimental Practices in Economics: Performativity and the Creation of Phenomena
19 S.
Ökonomik des Wandels
2023
SP II 2023-303 PDF
Behavioural Welfare Analysis and Revealed Preference: Theory and Experimental Evidence
44 S.
SP II 2023-302 PDF
Transparent app design reduces excessive usage time and increases willingness to pay compared to common behavioral design—a framed field experiment
67 S.
2022
SP II 2022-301 PDF
Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: Evidence from a modern-day prohibition
84 S.
2021
SP II 2021-304 PDF
COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?
34 S.
SP II 2021-302 PDF
Choice architecture and incentives increase COVID-19 vaccine intentions and test demand
28 S.
SP II 2021-301 PDF
Bombs, Broadcasts and Resistance: Allied Intervention and Domestic Opposition to the Nazi Regime during World War II
105 S.
2020
SP II 2020-307r PDF
How Trump triumphed: Multi-candidate primaries with buffoons
October 2020 (revised September 2022)
56 S.
SP II 2020-306 PDF
Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination: A hiring experiment
38 S.
SP II 2020-305 PDF
Face mask use and physical distancing before and after mandatory masking: Evidence from public waiting lines
23 S.
SP II 2020-304 PDF
Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children
25 S.
SP II 2020-302r2 PDF
Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? A nation-wide field experiment on Facebook
February 2020 (2nd revision February 2024
48 S.
2019
SP II 2019-306 PDF
Personalized fundraising: a fieldexperiment on threshold matchingof donations
October 2019 (revised February 2020)
32 S.
SP II 2019-305 PDF
Charitable giving by the poor: A field experiment in Kyrgyzstan
August 2019 (revised May 2020)
52 S.
SP II 2019-304r PDF
Can mass fundraising harm your core business? A field experimenton how fundraising affects ticket sales
August 2019 (revised August 2021
39 S.
SP II 2019-301 PDF
Everyday econometricians: Selection neglect and overoptimism when learning from others
40 S.
2018
SP II 2018-303 PDF
Trade secrets and innovation: Evidence from the “inevitable disclosure” doctrine
37 S.
SP II 2018-301r PDF
Confidence and career choices: An experiment
January 2018 (2nd revision June 2020)
55 S.
2017
SP II 2017–306 PDF
Behavioural response to a sudden health risk: dengue and educational outcomes in Colombia
49 S.
SP II 2017–305r PDF
Giving once, giving twice: A two-period field experiment on intertemporal crowding in charitable giving
May 2017 (2nd revision November 2018)
28 S.
SP II 2017–304 PDF
Social identity and political polarization: Evidence on the impact of identity on partisan voting trade
50 S.
SP II 2017–303 PDF
Mechanism design with level-k types:Theory and an application to bilateral trade
29 S.
SP II 2017–302 PDF
Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust: experimental evidence
April 2017 (revised June 2018)
38 S.
SP II 2017–301 PDF
A little good is good enough: Ethical consumption, cheap excuses, and moral self-licensing
48 S.
2016
SP II 2016–311 PDF
Quantifying music genius, or Handel on the balance: A scale of musical merit from 1776
28 S.
SP II 2016–310 PDF
Changing cultural space: The public molding of Handel's Esther into an English Oratorio (1732)
50 S.
SP II 2016–309r PDF
Belief updating: Does the ‘good-news,bad-news’ asymmetry extend to
purely financial domains?
purely financial domains?
October 2016 (2nd revision March 2020)
59 S.
SP II 2016–308r2 PDF
Voluntary “donations” versus reward-oriented “contributions”: Two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms
August 2016 (2nd revision January 2022)
26 S.
SP II 2016–307 PDF
Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants: An experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions
32 S.
SP II 2016–306r2 PDF
Online fundraising, self-image, and the long-term impact of ask avoidance
April 2016 (2nd revision October 2018)
38 S.
SP II 2016–305r2 PDF
Games played through agents in the laboratory – A test of Prat & Rustichini's model
April 2016 (2nd revision September 2019)
44 S.
SP II 2016–304 PDF
A note on charitable giving by corporates and aristocrats: Evidence from a field experiment
22 S.
SP II 2016–302 PDF
Homo moralis: Personal characteristics, institutions, and moral decision-making
28 S.
2015
SP II 2015–304r PDF
More effort with less pay: On information avoidance, belief design and performance
June 2015 (2nd revision November 2017)
21 S.
SP II 2015–303r PDF
Reforming an institutional culture of corruption: A model of motivated
agents and collective reputation
agents and collective reputation
June 2015 (revised October 2016)
33 S.
SP II 2015–302r PDF
Matching donations without crowding out? Some theoretical considerations, a field, and a lab experiment
June 2015 (revised March 2016)
29 S.
2014
SP II 2014–307r PDF
Medical Insurance and Free Choice of Physician Shape Patient Overtreatment. A Laboratory Experiment
October 2014 (revised June 2016)
44 S.
SP II 2014–305 PDF
Is response time predictive of choice? An experimental study of threshold
strategies
strategies
25 S.
SP II 2014–304 PDF
Microfinance at the margin: experimental evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
40 S.
SP II 2014–303 PDF
Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia
47 S.
SP II 2014–303 PDF
Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia
47 S.
SP II 2014–302 PDF
Tax-price Elasticity of Charitable Donations - Evidence from the German Taxpayer Panel
34 S.
2013
SP II 2013–312r PDF
Price competition and reputation in markets for experience goods: An Experimental Study
September 2013 (revised March 2015)
28 S.
SP II 2013–310r PDF
Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany
August 2013 (revised April 2015)
126 S.
SP II 2013 – 306r PDF
Who knows it is a game?
On rule understanding, strategic awareness and cognitive ability
On rule understanding, strategic awareness and cognitive ability
July 2013 (revised November 2014)
12 S.
SP II 2013 – 304 PDF
Charitable Giving and Nonbinding Contribution-Level Suggestions
Evidence from a Field Experiment
16 S.
SP II 2013 – 202 PDF
Hanging Together or Being Hung Separately: The Strategic Power of Coalitions where Bargaining Occurs with Incomplete Information
30 S.
2012
SP II 2012–303r PDF
Comparing Charitable Fundraising Schemes: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment and a Structural Model
47 S.
SP II 2012–302 PDF
Beliefs and actions in the trust game: Creating instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect
39 S.
SP II 2012–301r PDF
From Imitation to Collusion: Long-run Learning in a Low-Information Environment
44 S.
Market Design: Theory and Pragmatics
2018
2017
SP II 2017–501 PDF
Aggregation and convergence in experimental general equilibrium
economies constructed from naturally occurring preferences
economies constructed from naturally occurring preferences
60 S.