This dissertation consists of five essays contributing to a better understanding of three fundamental lines of research in behavioral economics: trust and cooperation in social interactions, gender discrimination, and decision making under risk and uncertainty. All essays are novel contributions...

Der Ausgangspunkt dieser Dissertation ist der Gedanke, dass es in dem Interesse der Gesellschaft ist, prosoziales Verhalten zu fördern. Weitaus fraglicher ist, welche Strategien geeignet sind, um dieses Ziel zu erreichen. In dieser Arbeit betrachte ich drei Maßnahmen: Die Einführung von...

This dissertation presents three independent essays that elicit social preferences in school children by using a combination of experimental measures and survey data. Chapter 2 consider the development of motivations for helping in informal risk-sharing networks from a sample of school children...

In this thesis I present three essays in which the influence of heuristics on individual decision making is analyzed and two essays dealing with behavioral aspects of moral costs. In chapter two, we investigate the effect a traders’ decision can have on the disposition effect heuristic when...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, Innovationen außerhalb von F&E zu beleuchten und zu einer breiteren und tieferen Wertschätzung von Lern- und Wissensschaffungsprozessen beizutragen, die für mitarbeiter- und individuumsgesteuerte Innovationen entscheidend sind. In mehreren Papern wird gezeigt, dass...

When an upstream monopolist supplies several competing downstreamfirms, it may fail to monopolize the market because it is unable to commit not to behave opportunistically. We build on previous experimental studies of this well-known commitment problem by introducing communication. Allowing the...