Browsing by Author "Engelmann, Dirk"

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2000-04-13Buch

An Experimental Comparison of the Fairness Models by Bolton and Ockenfels and by Fehr and Schmidt

Engelmann, Dirk; Strobel, Martin

In this note we present an experiment to compare the two competing fairness theories by Bolton / Ockenfels and Fehr / Schmidt. For most experiments that these theories have previously been applied to, they make similar ...
2005-09-14Buch

An Experimental Study of the Repeated Trust Game with Incomplete Information

Anderhub, Vital; Güth, Werner; Engelmann, Dirk
2008-01-21Buch

Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers?

Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea

In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and ...
2022-05-20Zeitschriftenartikel

Student performance and loss aversion

Karle, Heiko; Engelmann, Dirk; Peitz, Martin

We match data on performance in a multiple-choice examination with data on risk preferences from a classroom experiment. Students who are more loss averse leave more questions unanswered and perform worse in the exam when ...
2000-01-20Buch

Tax Liability Side Equivalence in ExperimentalPosted-Offer Markets

Borck, Rainald; Engelmann, Dirk; Müller, Wieland; Normann, Hans-Theo

In theory, the incidence of a tax should be independent of which side of the market it is levied on. This principle of liability side equivalence underlies virtually all theories of tax incidence. Policy discussions, ...
1999-07-08Buch

The False Consensus Effect Disappears if Representative Information and Monetary Incentives Are Given

Engelmann, Dirk; Strobel, Martin

In this paper we present an experiment on the false consensus effect. Unlike previous experiments, we provide monetary incentives for revealing the actual estimation of others’ behavior. In each session and round sixteen ...