In this thesis I present three essays in which the influence of heuristics on individual decision making is analyzed …’ decision can have on the disposition effect heuristic when they decide on behalf of others. In chapter three, the effect of the …

We conducted a laboratory experiment to study the price setting behavior in two-sided markets. We seek to answer two …

laboratory experiment, we find that more than 75% of subjects play strategies that belong to the predicted equilibrium set …

We conducted a laboratory experiment to study the price setting behavior in two-sided markets. We seek to answer two …

laboratory experiment, either the decision maker (giving frame) or the recipient (taking frame) receives an endowment. In both … cases, the decision maker can freely decide the final allocation of the money. In addition to the frame, we vary the level …, participants donate significantly more, when the decision is framed as taking rather than as giving. However, this framing effect …

We conducted a laboratory experiment to study the price setting behavior in two-sided markets. We seek to answer two …

experiment with reputation management, we mimic a positive bias by exclusively offering the option to rate positively or to give …