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Working Papers

2022

1. Explaining excess entry in winner-take-all markets
   Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Explaining Excess Entry in Winner-Take-All Markets, Management Science, INFORMS (2023) View citations (2) (2023)
2. Salience in Public Goods Games
   Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie

2021

3. Multigame contact and cooperation
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
4. Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems
   Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham
   See also Journal Article Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2022) View citations (3) (2022)

2020

5. Debiasing preferences over redistribution: An experiment
   Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie View citations (4)
   Also in Post-Print, HAL (2020) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Debiasing preferences over redistribution: an experiment, Social Choice and Welfare, Springer (2020) View citations (4) (2020)

2019

6. Communication and Market Sharing: An Experiment on the Exchange of Soft and Hard Information
   Working papers, Faculty of Business and Economics - University of Basel View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article COMMUNICATION AND MARKET SHARING: AN EXPERIMENT ON THE EXCHANGE OF SOFT AND HARD INFORMATION, International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association (2021) View citations (2) (2021)
7. Selection into Experiments: Evidence from a Population of Students
   Working Papers, Lund University, Department of Economics View citations (6)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2019) View citations (6)
   Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham (2019) View citations (6)
8. Trigger-Happy or Precisionist? On Demand for Monitoring in a Noisy Social Dilemma Game
   Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
9. Uncovering the Heterogeneity behind Cross-Cultural Variation in Antisocial Punishment
   Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie
   See also Journal Article Uncovering the heterogeneity behind cross-cultural variation in antisocial punishment, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2020) View citations (8) (2020)

2018

10. Conditional Cooperation:Review and Refinement
    Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Conditional cooperation: Review and refinement, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2018) View citations (64) (2018)
11. Hidden Persuaders: Do Small Gifts Lubricate Business Negotiations?
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (1)
    Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2016)
    ECON - Working Papers, Department of Economics - University of Zurich (2018) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Hidden Persuaders: Do Small Gifts Lubricate Business Negotiations?, Management Science, INFORMS (2019) (2019)

2017

12. Hunting Unicorns? Experimental Evidence on Predatory Pricing Policies
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
    Also in ECON - Working Papers, Department of Economics - University of Zurich (2017)
13. Nudging Generosity: Choice Architecture and Cognitive Factors in Charitable Giving
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Nudging generosity: Choice architecture and cognitive factors in charitable giving, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier (2018) View citations (20) (2018)

2016

14. Hunting Unicorns? Experimental Evidence on Predatory Pricing
    VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association View citations (1)
15. Information-sensitive Leviathans
    Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham View citations (31)
    See also Journal Article Information-sensitive Leviathans, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2016) View citations (28) (2016)
16. Legal compliance and litigation spending under the English and American rule: Experimental evidence
    Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie
17. Political self-serving bias and redistribution
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (51)
    Also in Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham (2015) View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article Political self-serving bias and redistribution, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2016) View citations (51) (2016)

2015

18. Defaults in charitable giving
    Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham View citations (1)
19. Home Bias in Multimarket Cournot Games
    Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Home bias in multimarket Cournot games, European Economic Review, Elsevier (2016) View citations (4) (2016)
20. Information-sensitive Leviathans – the Emergence of Centralized Punishment
    WiSo-HH Working Paper Series, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, WISO Research Laboratory

2014

21. Overconfidence and career choice
    Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Overconfidence and Career Choice, PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science (2016) View citations (16) (2016)
22. Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (4)
    Also in Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham (2014) View citations (2)
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2012) View citations (5)
    Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham (2011) View citations (2)

2013

23. Collusion Among Many Firms: The Disciplinary Power of Targeted Punishment
    Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Collusion among many firms: The disciplinary power of targeted punishment, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2015) View citations (14) (2015)
24. Do Control Questions Influence Behavior in Experiments?
    Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Do control questions influence behavior in experiments?, Experimental Economics, Springer (2015) View citations (9) (2015)

2011

25. Affect and Fairness
    TWI Research Paper Series, Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut, Universität Konstanz View citations (23)
26. Inequality Aversion and Antisocial Punishment
    Economics Working Paper Series, University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Inequality aversion and antisocial punishment, Theory and Decision, Springer (2014) View citations (13) (2014)
27. Temporal stability and psychological foundations of cooperation preferences
    Economics Working Paper Series, University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Temporal stability and psychological foundations of cooperation preferences, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2012) View citations (107) (2012)

2010

28. Culture and Cooperation
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (102)
    Also in Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham (2010) View citations (98)
29. Microfoundations of Social Capital
    Discussion Papers, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics View citations (17)
    Also in NRN working papers, The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (2010) View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article Microfoundations of social capital, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2012) View citations (91) (2012)
30. Punishment despite Reasonable Doubt – A Public Goods Experiment with Uncertainty over Contributions
    Discussion Paper Series of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods View citations (49)
31. Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (113)
    Also in University of St. Gallen Department of Economics working paper series 2009, Department of Economics, University of St. Gallen (2009) View citations (6)
    Post-Print, HAL (2010) View citations (71)
    Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham (2009) View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Social comparison and performance: Experimental evidence on the fair wage-effort hypothesis, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2010) View citations (99) (2010)

2009

32. Bimodal Bidding in Experimental All-Pay Auctions
    University of St. Gallen Department of Economics working paper series 2009, Department of Economics, University of St. Gallen View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Bimodal Bidding in Experimental All-Pay Auctions, Games, MDPI (2013) View citations (24) (2013)

2007

33. Do Managers Reciprocate? Field Experimental Evidence From a Competitive Market
    University of St. Gallen Department of Economics working paper series 2007, Department of Economics, University of St. Gallen View citations (7)
34. Measuring Conditional Cooperation: A Replication Study in Russia
    Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Measuring conditional cooperation: a replication study in Russia, Experimental Economics, Springer (2009) View citations (135) (2009)

2004

35. Social learning and voluntary cooperation among like-minded people
    University of St. Gallen Department of Economics working paper series 2004, Department of Economics, University of St. Gallen
    See also Journal Article Social Learning and Voluntary Cooperation Among Like-Minded People, Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press (2005) View citations (117) (2005)

Undated

36. Excess Entry in an Experimental Winner-Take-All Market
    IEW - Working Papers, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - University of Zurich View citations (14)
    See also Journal Article Excess entry in an experimental winner-take-all market, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2008) View citations (21) (2008)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Multigame Contact: A Double-Edged Sword for Cooperation
   American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, 16, (2), 39-61

2023

2. Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems
   Public Choice, 2023, 196, (3), 331-356 View citations (1)
3. Explaining Excess Entry in Winner-Take-All Markets
   Management Science, 2023, 69, (2), 1050-1069 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Explaining excess entry in winner-take-all markets, Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie (2022) View citations (1) (2022)

2022

4. Selection into experiments: New evidence on the role of preferences, cognition, and recruitment protocols
   Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2022, 98, (C)
5. Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems
   Economics Letters, 2022, 216, (C) View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems, Discussion Papers (2021) (2021)

2021

6. COMMUNICATION AND MARKET SHARING: AN EXPERIMENT ON THE EXCHANGE OF SOFT AND HARD INFORMATION
   International Economic Review, 2021, 62, (1), 175-198 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Communication and Market Sharing: An Experiment on the Exchange of Soft and Hard Information, Working papers (2019) View citations (3) (2019)
7. Converging evidence for greater male variability in time, risk, and social preferences
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021, 118, (23), e2026112118 View citations (2)
8. Litigation Spending and Care under the English and American Rules: Experimental Evidence
   American Law and Economics Review, 2021, 23, (1), 164-206 View citations (6)
9. Trigger-happy or precisionist? On demand for monitoring in peer-based public goods provision
   Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 200, (C) View citations (3)

2020

10. Debiasing preferences over redistribution: an experiment
    Social Choice and Welfare, 2020, 55, (4), 823-843 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Debiasing preferences over redistribution: An experiment, Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie (2020) View citations (4) (2020)
11. Uncovering the heterogeneity behind cross-cultural variation in antisocial punishment
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, (C), 291-308 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper Uncovering the Heterogeneity behind Cross-Cultural Variation in Antisocial Punishment, Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie (2019) (2019)

2019

12. Hidden Persuaders: Do Small Gifts Lubricate Business Negotiations?
    Management Science, 2019, 65, (8), 3877-3888
    See also Working Paper Hidden Persuaders: Do Small Gifts Lubricate Business Negotiations?, CESifo Working Paper Series (2018) View citations (1) (2018)
13. Hunting Unicorns? Experimental Evidence on Exclusionary Pricing Policies
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2019, 62, (3), 457 - 484 View citations (4)

2018

14. Conditional cooperation: Review and refinement
    Economics Letters, 2018, 171, (C), 37-40 View citations (64)
    See also Working Paper Conditional Cooperation:Review and Refinement, Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie (2018) View citations (7) (2018)
15. Nudging generosity: Choice architecture and cognitive factors in charitable giving
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2018, 74, (C), 139-145 View citations (20)
    See also Working Paper Nudging Generosity: Choice Architecture and Cognitive Factors in Charitable Giving, IZA Discussion Papers (2017) View citations (2) (2017)

2016

16. Home bias in multimarket Cournot games
    European Economic Review, 2016, 89, (C), 361-371 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Home Bias in Multimarket Cournot Games, Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie (2015) View citations (1) (2015)
17. Information-sensitive Leviathans
    Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 144, (C), 1-13 View citations (28)
    See also Working Paper Information-sensitive Leviathans, Discussion Papers (2016) View citations (31) (2016)
18. Overconfidence and Career Choice
    PLOS ONE, 2016, 11, (1), 1-8 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper Overconfidence and career choice, Discussion Papers (2014) View citations (5) (2014)
19. Political self-serving bias and redistribution
    Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 134, (C), 67-74 View citations (51)
    See also Working Paper Political self-serving bias and redistribution, Post-Print (2016) View citations (51) (2016)

2015

20. A note on CES functions
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2015, 59, (C), 85-87 View citations (1)
21. Collusion among many firms: The disciplinary power of targeted punishment
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015, 116, (C), 83-93 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper Collusion Among Many Firms: The Disciplinary Power of Targeted Punishment, Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie (2013) View citations (2) (2013)
22. Do control questions influence behavior in experiments?
    Experimental Economics, 2015, 18, (2), 185-194 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper Do Control Questions Influence Behavior in Experiments?, Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie (2013) View citations (5) (2013)
23. Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation: A theoretical and experimental analysis
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48, (C), 72-88 View citations (46)

2014

24. Affect and fairness: Dictator games under cognitive load
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2014, 41, (C), 77-87 View citations (81)
25. Inequality aversion and antisocial punishment
    Theory and Decision, 2014, 76, (4), 529-545 View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper Inequality Aversion and Antisocial Punishment, Economics Working Paper Series (2011) View citations (7) (2011)

2013

26. Bimodal Bidding in Experimental All-Pay Auctions
    Games, 2013, 4, (4), 1-16 View citations (24)
    See also Working Paper Bimodal Bidding in Experimental All-Pay Auctions, University of St. Gallen Department of Economics working paper series 2009 (2009) View citations (2) (2009)

2012

27. Microfoundations of social capital
    Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96, (7-8), 635-643 View citations (91)
    See also Working Paper Microfoundations of Social Capital, Discussion Papers (2010) View citations (17) (2010)
28. Temporal stability and psychological foundations of cooperation preferences
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 81, (2), 664-676 View citations (107)
    See also Working Paper Temporal stability and psychological foundations of cooperation preferences, Economics Working Paper Series (2011) View citations (1) (2011)

2010

29. Punishment Despite Reasonable Doubt—A Public Goods Experiment with Sanctions Under Uncertainty
    Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2010, 7, (4), 847-867 View citations (10)
30. Social comparison and performance: Experimental evidence on the fair wage-effort hypothesis
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 76, (3), 531-543 View citations (99)
    See also Working Paper Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis, IZA Discussion Papers (2010) View citations (113) (2010)

2009

31. Kolm, S.-C.: Reciprocity—An Economics of Social Relations
    Journal of Economics, 2009, 97, (2), 185-187
32. Measuring conditional cooperation: a replication study in Russia
    Experimental Economics, 2009, 12, (1), 87-92 View citations (135)
    See also Working Paper Measuring Conditional Cooperation: A Replication Study in Russia, Discussion Papers (2007) View citations (1) (2007)

2008

33. Excess entry in an experimental winner-take-all market
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2008, 67, (1), 150-163 View citations (21)
    See also Working Paper Excess Entry in an Experimental Winner-Take-All Market, IEW - Working Papers View citations (14)

2006

34. Cournot Competition and Hit-and-Run Entry and Exit in a Teaching Experiment
    The Journal of Economic Education, 2006, 37, (4), 418-430 View citations (6)

2005

35. Social Learning and Voluntary Cooperation Among Like-Minded People
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3, (2-3), 303-314 View citations (117)
    See also Working Paper Social learning and voluntary cooperation among like-minded people, University of St. Gallen Department of Economics working paper series 2004 (2004) (2004)