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Measuring Time and Risk Preferences: Realiability, Stability, Domain Specificity
Wölbert, Eva; Riedl, Arno - 2013
risk and typically need to assume stability of these characteristics over time and across decision domains. We test the … reliability of two choice tasks for eliciting discount rates, risk aversion, and probability weighting and assess the stability of … largely uncorrelated with decisions in other important life domains involving intertemporal trade-offs and risk. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318820
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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - 2003
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324982
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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - 2004
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262084
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The people's hired guns? Experimentally testing the inclination of prosecutors to abuse the vague definition of crimes
Engel, Christoph; Pluta, Alicja - 2011
signalling game and test it experimentally. If we have participants play the naked game, at least a minority plays the game …, almost all prosecutors take the signal at face value and knowingly run the risk of loosing in court if the signal was false …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286722
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Effort and redistribution: Better cousins than one might have thought
Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - 2013
in effort, but that the reverse does not hold true. Using a lab experiment, we show that redistribution choices even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323858
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Turning the lab into Jeremy Bentham's panopticon: The effect of punishment on offenders and non-offenders
Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2010
purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham's intuition in a public goods lab experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270435
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Fairness ex ante & ex post: The benefits of renegotiation in media markets
Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2010
The market for copyrights is characterised by a highly skewed distribution of profits: very few movies, books and songs generate huge profits, whereas the great bulk barely manages to recover production cost. At the moment when the owner of intellectual property grants a licence ('ex ante'),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270447
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At the mercy of the prisoner next door: Using an experimental measure of selfishness as a criminological tool
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus; … - 2010
Do criminals maximise money? Are criminals more or less selfish than the average subject? Can prisons apply measures that reduce the degree of selfishness of their inmates? Using a tried and tested tool from experimental economics, we cast new light on these old criminological questions. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270634
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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma: An experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011
prevent participants from using their world knowledge about antitrust, we experimentally test them on a neutral matrix game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281843
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The coevolution of behavior and normative expectations: Customary law in the lab
Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2011
, we adopt an experimental approach to test these claims. We show that the willingness to overcome a dilemma transcends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286718