Publications

Voting Power in the EU Council of Ministers and Fair Decision Making in Distributive Politics

Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences and Social Networks

Who shares risk with whom under different enforcement mechanisms?

A Coalitional Theory of Unemployment Insurance and Employment Protection

and Philippe De Donder

Are Bygones Bygones?

Robin Cubitt, Maria Ruiz-Martos and Chris Starmer

Theory and Decision

Endogenous Move Structure and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: Theory and Experiment

Daniele Nosenzo and Martin Sefton

Journal of Public Economic Theory

Demand Bargaining and Proportional Payoffs in Majority Games

Maria Montero and Juan J. Vidal-Puga

Games and Economic Behavior

A Theory of Voting Patterns and Performance in Private and Public Committees (pdf)

Daniel Seidmann

Social Choice and Welfare

Preference Reversals and Disparities between Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept in Repeated Markets

Graham Loomes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

Journal of Economic Psychology

Endogenous Entry in Contests

John Morgan, Henrik Orzen and Martin Sefton

Economic Theory

Living in Two Neighbourhoods – Social Interactions in the Lab (PDF)

Armin Falk, Urs Fischbacher and Simon Gächter

Economic Inquiry

Game Harmony: A Behavioral Approach to Predicting Cooperation in Games

Daniel J. Zizzo and Jonathan H.W. Tan

American Behavioral Scientist, R. Bhat and A. Etzioni (eds.), special issue on “Behavioral Economics: Toward a New Paradigm”

Understanding Perpetual R&D Races

Yves Breitmoser, Jonathan H.W. Tan, and Daniel J. Zizzo

Economic Theory

Which is the More Predictable Gender? Public Good Contribution and Personality

Marco Perugini, Jonathan H.W. Tan, and D.J. Zizzo

Economic Issues

Who Makes a Good Leader? Cooperativeness, Optimism and Leading-by-Example

Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Elke Renner and Martin Sefton

Economic Inquiry

Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns - When Equality Is Unfair

Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube and Matthias Wibral

Journal of the European Economic Association

Trust and the Reference Points for Trustworthiness in Gulf and Western Countries

Iris Bohnet, Benedikt Herrmann and Richard Zeckhauser

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Choice Under Uncertainty in Developing Countries

Glenn W. Harrison, Steven J. Humphrey and Arjan Verschoor

The Economic Journal

Explaining Focal Points: Cognitive Hierarchy Theory versus Team Reasoning

Nicholas Bardsley, Judith Mehta, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

Economic Journal

Expected Utility and Freidman's Risky Methodology

Chris Starmer

In The Methodology of Positive Economics: Milton Friedman's Essay After Half a Century, edited by U. Maki, Cambridge University Press.

Carrot or Stick

Core of a Game

A Bargaining Set for Monotonic Simple Games based on Internal and External Stability 

Demand Bargaining and Proportional Payoffs in Majority Games

and

J.J. Vidal-Puga

71 (2), 395-408. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.geb.2010.05.004%

The Reasoning-Based Expected Utility Procedure

The Framing of Games and the Psychology of Play  

Micromotives, microstructure and macrobehavior: The case of voluntary cooperation

Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube and Matthias Wibral

Simon Gächter and Christian Thöni

On Delegation in Contests and the Survival of Payoff Maximizing Behavior

Alex Possajennikov

The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Topics), 10(1) (2010), Article 25.

Culture and Cooperation

Simon Gächter, Benedikt Herrmann and Christian Thöni

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences, 365(2010), 2651-2661.

Sequential vs. simultaneous contributions to public goods: Experimental evidence

Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Elke Renner and Martin Sefton

Journal of Public Economics, 94(2010), 515-522.

The effects of (incentivized) belief elicitation in public goods experiments

Simon Gächter and Elke Renner

Experimental Economics, 13(2010), 364-377.

Initiating private-collective innovation: The fragility of knowledge sharing

Simon Gächter , Georg von Krogh and Stefan Haefliger

Research Policy, 39(2010), 893-906.

(Dis)advantages of student subjects: What is your research question?

Simon Gächter  

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(2010), 92-93.

The Power of Apology

Johannes Abeler, Juljana Calaki, Kai Andree and Christoph Basek

Economics Letters, 107(2010), 233-235.

Gaining Power through Enlargement: Strategic Foundations and Experimental Evidence

Michalis Drouvelis, Maria Montero and Martin Sefton

Games and Economic Behavior, 69(2010), 274-292.

Trust and the Reference points for Trustworthiness in Gulf and Western Countries

Iris Bohnet, Benedikt Herrmann and Richard Zeckhauser

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(2), 811-828.

Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments (PDF )

Urs Fischbacher and Simon Gächter

American Economic Review, 100(1), 541-556, 2010.

Design a contract! A simple principal-agent problem as a classroom experiment (PDF )

Simon Gächter and Manfred Königstein

Journal of Economic Education, 40(2), 173-178, 2009.

On the Stability of Evolutionary Dynamics in Games with Incomplete Information

Erwin Amann and Alex Possajennikov

Mathematical Social Sciences, 58, 310-321, 2009.

The Evolutionary Stability of Constant Consistent Conjectures

Alex Possajennikov

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 72, 21-29, 2009.

Preferential Trading Arrangements as Strategic Positioning

Daniel Seidmann

Journal of International Economics, 79, 143-159, 2009.

Measuring Conditional Cooperation: A Replication Study in Russia

Benedikt Herrmann and Christian Thöni

Experimental Economics, 12(1), 87-92, 2009.

Reciprocity, Culture and Human Cooperation: Previous Insights and a New Cross-Cultural Experiment

Simon Gächter and Benedikt Herrmann

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences, 364, 791-806, 2009.

Indenture as Self-Enforced Contract Device: An Experimental Test

Alexander Kritikos and Jonathan H.W. Tan

Southern Economic Journal, 75(3), 857-872, 2009

Moral Hazard and Free Riding in Collective Action

Vincent Anesi

Social Choice and Welfare 32(2), 197-219, 2009.

Incentives and Prosocial Behavior in Democratic Societies

Vincent Anesi

Journal of Economic Psychology, 29(6), 777-868, 2008.

The Long-Run Benefits of Punishment

Simon Gächter, Elke Renner and Martin Sefton

Science, 322(5907), 1510, 2008.

Counterintuitive Number Effects in Experimental Oligopolies

Henrik Orzen

Experimental Economics, 11(4), 390-401, 2008.

Dictator game giving: altruism or artefact?

Nicholas Bardsley

Experimental Economics, 11(2), 122-133, 2008.

Stata tip 64: Cleaning up user-entered string variables

Jeph Herrin and Eva Poen

The Stata Journal, 8(3), 444-445, 2008.

Experimental Labor Economics

Armin Falk and Simon Gächter

in New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2nd Edition), edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Betrayal aversion. evidence from Brazil, China, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Emirates and the United States (PDF )

Iris Bohnet, Fiona Greig, Benedikt Herrmann and Richard Zeckhauser

American Economic Review, 98(1), 294- 310, 2008

Groups, Cooperation and Conflict in Games

Jonathan H.W.Tan and Daniel Zizzo

Journal of Socio-Economics, 37(1), 1-17, 2008

Antisocial punishment across societies

Benedikt Herrmann, Christian Thöni and Simon Gächter

Science, 319, 1362-1367, 2008

Perverse Committee Appointments May Foster Divide and Rule

Daniel Seidmann

Journal of Public Economics, 92(3-4), 448-455, 2008

Optimal Quotas in Private Committees

Daniel Seidmann

Economic Journal, 118(525), 16-36, 2008

Enlargement and the Balance of Power: An Experimental Study

Maria Montero, Martin Sefton and Ping Zhang

Social Choice and Welfare, 30(1), 69-87, 2008

The Economics of Solidarity: A

Conceptual Framework

Alexander Kritikos, Friedel Bolle and Jonathan H.W Tan

Journal of Socio-Economics, 36(1), 73-89, 2007

Perceived Harmony, Similarity and Cooperation in 2x2 Games: An Experimental Study

Daniel Zizzo and Jonathan H.W Tan

Journal of Economic

Psychology

Team Competition and the Public Goods Game

Jonathan H.W Tan and Friedel Bolle

Economics Letters, 96(1), 133-139, 2007

Information Acquisition in the Ultimatum Game: An Experimental Study

Anders Poulsen and Jonathan H.W Tan

Experimental Economics, 10(4), 391-409, 2007

Altruistic Punishment

Simon Gächter

in Encyclopaedia of Social Psychology, edited by Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen D. Vohs, 30-31, New York: SAGE 2007

Demand Commitment in Legislative Bargaining (PDF )

Maria Montero and Juan J. Vidal-Puga

American Political Science Review, 101(4), 847-850,2007

The Effect of Rewards and Sanctions in Provision of Public Goods

Martin Sefton, Robert Shupp and James Walker

Economic Inquiry, 45(4), 671-690, 2007

Can intertemporal choice experiments elicit time preference for consumption?

Robin P. Cubitt and Daniel Read

Experimental Economics, 10(4), 369-389, 2007

Dynamic decisions under uncertainty: some recent evidence from economics and psychology

Robin Cubitt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

in The Psychology of Economic Decisions: Reasons and Choices (Vol. 2), edited by Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo, 81-110, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Risk, Pre-play Communication and Equilibrium

Anthony Burton and Martin Sefton

Games and Economic Behavior, 46, 23-40, 2004.

Quota Solutions beyond Quota Games: a Comment on Antov and Packel

Maria Montero

Homo Oeconomicus, XX (4), 461-469, 2004.

On Altruism, Christianity, and Economics

Jonathan H.W. Tan

Journal of the Association of Christian Economists, 32, 8-16

Imitation Dynamics and Nash Equilibrium in Cournot Oligopoly with Capacities

Alex Possajennikov

International Game Theory Review, 5, 291-305, 2003.

Buyer Subsidies in an Equilibrium Model of Price Dispersion

Henrik Orzen and Martin Sefton

German Economic Review, 4(4), 497-501, 2003.

Common knowledge, salience and convention: a reconstruction of David Lewis's game theory

Robin Cubitt and Robert Sugden

Economics and Philosophy, 19, 175-210, 2003.

Asymmetric Demand Information in Uniform and Discriminatory Call Auctions: An Experimental Analysis Motivated by Electricity Markets

Klaus Abbink, Jordi Brandts and Tanga McDaniel

Journal of Regulatory Economics, 23, 125-144, 2003.

The puzzle of human cooperation - Reply to Dominic D.P. Johnson, Pavel Stopka, Stephen Knights

Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

Nature, 421, 912, 27 February 2003.

The Fisherman's Problem: Exploring the tension between co-operative and non-co-operative concepts in a simple game

Klaus Abbink, Ron Darziv, Zohar Gilula, Harel Goren, Bernd Irlenbusch, Arnon Keren, Bettina Rockenbach, Abdolkarim Sadrieh, Reinhard Selten and Shmuel Zamir

Journal of Economic Psychology, 24, 425-445, 2003.

Do Anomalies Disappear in Repeated Markets?

Graham Loomes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

Economic Journal, 113, pp. C153-66, 2003.

The demand bargaining set: General characterization and application to majority games

Maria Montero and Massimo Morelli

Games and Economic Behavior, 42, 137-155, 2003.

Evolutionary Foundations of Aggregate-Taking Behavior

Alex Possajennikov

Economic Theory, 21, 921-928, 2003.

How to play 3x3-Games - A Strategy Method Experiment

Reinhard Selten, Klaus Abbink, Joachim Buchta and Abdolkarim Sadrieh

Games and Economic Behavior, 45, 19-37, 2003.

Strong reciprocity, human cooperation, and the enforcement of social norms

Urs Fischbacher, Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

Human Nature, 13(1), 1-25, 2002.

Efficient Contracting and Fair Sharing in a Principal-Agent Experiment

Vital Anderhub, Simon Gächter and Manfred Königstein

Experimental Economics, 5(1), 5-25, 2002.

The behavioural approach to the strategic analysis of spectrum auctions: The case of the German DCS-1800 auction

Klaus Abbink, Bernd Irlenbusch, Bettina Rockenbach, Abdolkarim Sadrieh and Reinhard Selten

ifo Studien, 48, 458-480, 2002.

Reputation and Reciprocity: Consequences for the Labour Relation

Armin Falk and Simon Gächter

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 104(1), 1-27, 2002.

An Experimental Bribery Game

Klaus Abbink, Bernd Irlenbusch and Elke Renner

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organisation, 18, 428-454, 2002.

Altruistic punishment in humans

Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

Nature, 415, 137-140, 10 January 2002.

Implementation by Iterative Dominance and Backward Induction: An Experimental Comparison

Elena Katok, Martin Sefton and Abdullah Yavas

Journal of Economic Theory , 104 , 89-103, 2002.

Non-cooperative bargaining in apex games and the kernel

Maria Montero

Games and Economic Behavior, 41, 309-321, 2002.

An Experimental Investigation of Unprofitable Games

John Morgan and Martin Sefton

Games and Economic Behavior, 40, 123-146, 2002.

Collective Reasoning: A Critique of Hollis' Treatment

Nicholas Bardsley

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 4, 171-192, 2001.

Adaptive Learning versus Punishment in Ultimatum Bargaining

Klaus Abbink, Gary E Bolton, Abdolkarim Sadrieh and Fang-Fang Tang

Games and Economic Behavior, 37, 1-25, 2001.

On money pumps

Robin Cubitt and Robert Sugden

Games and Economic Behavior, 37, 121-160, 2001.

Wie wirken Anreizverträge?

Ernst Fehr, Simon Gächter and Beatrice Zanella

Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Ergänzungsheft 4, 145-173, 2001.

Dynamic decision-making under uncertainty: an experimental investigation of choices between accumulator gambles

Robin Cubitt and Robert Sugden

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 22, 103-128, 2001.

Repetition and Signaling: Experimental Evidence from Games with Efficient Equilibria

Kenneth Clark and Martin Sefton

Economics Letters, 70, 357-362, 2001.

The Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma: Evidence on Reciprocation

Kenneth Clark and Martin Sefton

Economic Journal, 111, 51-68, 2001.

Discovered preferences and the experimental evidence of violations of expected utility theory

Robin P. Cubitt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

Journal of Economic Methodology, 8:3, 385-414, 2001.

Non-Transitive Choice: Event-Splitting Effects or Framing Effects?

Steven J. Humphrey

Economica, 68, 77-96, 2001.

Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment

Urs Fischbacher, Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

Economics Letters, 71(3), 397-404, 2001.

Are Event-Splitting Effects Actually Boundary Effects?

Steven J. Humphrey

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 22, 79-93, 2001.

Information Externalities in A Model of Sales

John Morgan and Martin Sefton

Economics Bulletin, 4, 1-5, 2001.

Equilibrium Selection in a Merger Game

Alex Possajennikov

Economics Letters, 72, 255-61, 2001.

The Moonlighting Game - An Experimental Study on Reciprocity and Retribution

Klaus Abbink, Bernd Irlenbusch and Elke Renner

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 42, 265-277, 2000.

Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments

Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

American Economic Review, 90(4), 980-994, 2000.

Der Fluch der Erfahrung: professionelle Trader versus Studenten in einem Optionsbewertungsexperiment

Klaus Abbink and Bettina Rockenbach

reprinted in Innovative Kapitalanlagekonzepte , edited by E. Hehn, Gabler-Verlag Wiesbaden, 2000.

The Right to Silence Helps the Innocent: A Game-theoretic Analysis of the Fifth Amendment Privilege

Daniel Seidmann and Alex Stein

Harvard Law Review, 114, 430-510, 2000.

An Experimental Comparison of Two Search Models

Eric Abrams, Martin Sefton and Abdullah Yavas

Economic Theory, 16, 735-749, 2000.

Control Without Deception: Individual Behaviour in Free-Riding Experiments Revisited

Nicholas Bardsley

Experimental Economics, 3, 215-40, 2000.

Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity

Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14(3), 159-181, 2000.

Interpersonal Interaction and Economic Theory: The Case of Public Goods

Nicholas Bardsley

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 71, 191-228, 2000.

Estimating Four Hicksian welfare measures for a public good: A contingent valuation investigation

Ian Bateman, Ian Langford, Alistair Munro, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

Land Economics, 76, 355-373, 2000.

A simple mechanism for the efficient provision of public goods - Experimental evidence

Josef Falkinger, Ernst Fehr, Simon Gächter and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

American Economic Review, 90(1), 247-264, 2000.

A Test of the Theory of Reference Dependent Preferences

Ian Bateman, Alistair Munro, Bruce Rhodes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

reprinted as ch. 10 in Choices, Values, and Frames, edited by D. Kahneman and A. Tversky, Cambridge University Press, 180-201, 2000.

When Are Nash Equilibria Self-Enforcing? An Experimental Analysis

Kenneth Clark, Stephen Kay and Martin Sefton

International Journal of Game Theory, 29, 495-515, 2000.

The Common Consequence Effect: Testing a Unified Explanation of Recent Mixed Evidence

Steven J. Humphrey

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 41, 239-262, 2000.

Funding Public Goods with Lotteries: Experimental Evidence

John Morgan and Martin Sefton

Review of Economic Studies, 67, 785-810, 2000.

On the Evolutionary Stability of Altruistic and Spiteful Preferences

Alex Possajennikov

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 42, 125-129, 2000.

Developments in Non-Expected Utility Theory: The Hunt for a Descriptive Theory of Choice Under Risk

Chris Starmer

Journal of Economic Literature, 38, 332-382, 2000.

Does Part-Whole Bias Exist? - An Experimental Investigation

Ian Bateman, Alistair Munro, Bruce Rhodes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

reprinted in Environmental Valuation (Vol. 1), edited by K.G. Willis, K.J. Button and P. Nijkamp, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 322-332, 1999.

Probability Learning, Event-Splitting Effects and the Economic Theory of Choice

Steven J. Humphrey

Theory and Decision,46, 51-78, 1999.

Modelling Behavior in Coordination Game Experiments

Martin Sefton

Experimental Economics, 2, 151-164, 1999.

Money Does Not Induce Risk Neutral Behavior, But Binary Lotteries Do Even Worse

Reinhard Selten, Abdolkarim Sadrieh and Klaus Abbink

Theory and Decision, 46, 211-249, 1999.

Experimental Economics: Hard Science or Wasteful Tinkering?

Chris Starmer

Economic Journal, 109, f5-f15, 1999.

Intrinsic Motivation and Extrinsic Incentives in a Repeated Game with Incomplete Contracts

Armin Falk, Simon Gächter and Judit Kovács

Journal of Economic Psychology, 20(3), 251-284, 1999.

Cycling with Rules of Thumb: An Experimental Test for a New Form of Non-Transitive Behavior

Chris Starmer

Theory and Decision, 46, 141-58, 1999.

Collective Action as a Social Exchange

Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 39(4), 341-369, 1999.

Experiments in Economics: Should We Trust The Dismal Scientists in White Coats?

Chris Starmer

Journal of Economic Methodology, 6, 1-30, 1999.

On the Validity of the Random Lottery Incentive System

Robin Cubitt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

Experimental Economics, 1, 115-31, 1998.

Reciprocity and Economics. The Economic Implications of Homo Reciprocans

Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

European Economic Review, 42, 845-859, 1998.

Dynamic Choice and the Common Ratio Effect

Robin Cubitt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

Economic Journal, 108, 1362-1380, 1998.

More Mixed Results on Boundary Effects

Steven J. Humphrey

Economics Letters, 61, 79-84, 1998.

When Social Norms Overpower Competition - Gift Exchange in Experimental Labor Markets

Ernst Fehr, Simon Gächter, Erich Kirchler and Andreas Weichbold

Journal of Labor Economics, 16(2), 324-351, 1998.

Experimental Economics and Deception: A Comment

Tanga McDaniel and Chris Starmer

Journal of Economic Psychology, 19, 403-9, 1998.

A Theory of Gradual Coalition Formation

Daniel Seidmann and Eyal Winter

Review of Economic Studies, 65, 793-815, 1998.

The selection of preferences by imitation

Robin Cubitt and Robert Sugden

Review of Economic Studies, 65, 761-771, 1998.

Testing Alternative Explanations of Cyclical Choices

Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

Economica, 65, 347-61, 1998.

Does Part-Whole Bias Exist? An Experimental Investigation

Ian Bateman, Alistair Munro, B. Rhodes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

Economic Journal, 107, 322-31, 1997.

A Test of the Theory of Rank-Dependent Preferences

Ian Bateman, Alistair Munro, B. Rhodes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112, 479-505, 1997.

Social Norms as a Social Exchange

Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 133(2/2), 275-292, 1997.

Strategic Information with Verifiable Messages

Daniel Seidmann and Eyal Winter

Econometrica, 65, 163-169, 1997.

Reciprocity as a Contract Enforcement Device - Experimental Evidence

Ernst Fehr, Simon Gächter and Georg Kirchsteiger

Econometrica, 64(4), 833-860, 1997.

Reciprocal Fairness and Noncompensating Wage Differentials

Ernst Fehr, Simon Gächter and Georg Kirchsteiger

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 152(4), 608-640, 1996.

Do Anchoring Effects Underlie Event-Splitting Effects? An Experimental Test

Steven J. Humphrey

Economics Letters, 51, 303-308, 1996.

Rational dynamic choice and expected utility theory

Robin Cubitt

Oxford Economic Papers, 48, 1-19, 1996.

Reward Structures in Public Good Experiments

Martin Sefton and Richard Steinberg

Journal of Public Economics, 61, 263-287, 1996.

Abreu-Matsushima Mechanisms: Experimental Evidence

Martin Sefton and Abdullah Yavas

Games and Economic Behavior, 16, 280-302, 1996.

Does Social Exchange Increase Voluntary Cooperation?

Ernst Fehr, Simon Gächter and Christiane Kment

Kyklos, 49(4), 541-554, 1996.

Threat to Regulate and Coordination Failures: Experimental Evidence

Martin Sefton and Abdullah Yavas

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 12, 97-115, 1996.

Explaining Risky Choices Without Assuming Preferences

Chris Starmer

Social Choice and Welfare, 13, 201-13, 1996.