Martin Hülsen explores individual behavioral trustworthiness of and within the banking industry in Germany based on an economic experiment combined with psychological instruments. He finds that bankers have a reputation for being untrustworthy. However, his evidence also shows that the true...

How do applications affect behavior? Experimental Economics Volume II seeks to answer these questions by examining the auction mechanism, imperfect competition and incentives to understand financial crises, political preferences and elections, and more

1 Introduction -- 2 An Integrative Framework of Influences on Behavior -- 3 Experimental Design -- 4 Formulation of Hypotheses -- 5 Operationalization and Data Analysis Methods -- 6 Findings -- 7 Discussion and Outlook

A Witness Seminar on the Emergence of Experimental Economics -- The Very Beginnings -- The Growth of a Community -- Funding -- Knowledge and Skills -- Laboratories -- History and Future -- Episodes from the Early History of Experimentation in Economics -- Biographies of Participants.

Preface -- I. Introduction: What Experiments Can Do in the History of Economic Thought? : From Adam Smith to Vernon Smith -- II. Fairness Ideals, Hidden Selfishness and Opportunistic Behavior: Experimental Approach -- III. What is ‘Fair’ Distribution under Collaboration? : Evidences from...

This book describes a laboratory experiment designed to test the causes and properties of bubbles in financial markets and explores the question whether it is possible to design markets which avoid such bubbles and crashes. In the experiment, subjects were given the opportunity to trade in a...

Exceptional Academic Behavior -- Reinhard Selten a Wanderer -- Encounters with Reinhard Selten: An Office Mate’s Report -- Reinhard Selten’s Frankfurt Years from the Perspective of a Co-player -- Reinhard Selten and the Scientific Climate in Frankfurt During the Fifties -- Reinhard Selten...

This volume on experimental economics offers both new research grounds and a bird's eye view on the field. In the first part, leading experimental economists, among them Vernon S. Smith and Daniel Friedman, give inspiring insights into their view on the general development of this field. In the...