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...

Economic engineering is the science of designing real-world institutions and mechanisms that align individual incentives and behavior with the underlying goals. This paper discusses why behavioral economic engineering is a promising research field, how behavioral phenomena may affect economic...

Using data from laboratory experiments, we find that East Germans show consistently less solidarity than West Germans; there has been no convergence in the 20years after the reunification. While it has recently been estimated that political values converge 20 to 40years after the reunification...

Procedural fairness plays a prominent role in the social discourse concerning the marketplace in particular, and social institutions in general. Random procedures are a simple case, and they have found application in several important social allocation decisions. We investigate random procedures...