power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey data with … representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …

-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

effort provision. This renders explicit tests of the neoclassical theory of labor supply difficult. Here we present evidence …

changes. We tested this prediction by conducting a randomized field experiment with bicycle messengers. In contrast to … preferences, since the wage in our experiment directly rewarded effort. We show that a simple model of loss averse, reference …

experimentally the behavioral forces stipulated in their theory. The evidence confirms the model's prediction that there is a … with established behavioral concepts, they cannot easily be explained by existing theories. The experiment appears to …

experimentally the behavioral forces stipulated in their theory. The evidence confirms the model's prediction that there is a … with established behavioral concepts, they cannot easily be explained by existing theories. The experiment appears to …