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Anchoring in Experimental Asset Markets
(2015-02-10)
We investigate the relationship between anchoring and the emergence of bubbles in experimental asset markets. We show that setting a visual anchor at the fundamental value (FV) in the first period only is sufficient to ...
Compensation Schemes, Liquidity Provision, and Asset Prices: An Experimental Analysis
(2015-06-01)
In an experimental setting in which investors can entrust their money to traders, we investigate how compensation schemes affect liquidity provision and asset prices. Investors face a trade-off between risk and return. At ...
Women form social networks more selectively and less opportunistically than men
(2017-03-01)
We test two hypotheses, based on sexual selection theory, about gender differences in costly social interactions. Differential selectivity states that women invest less than men in interactions with new individuals. ...
Pushing Through or Slacking Off? Heterogeneity in the Reaction to Rank Feedback
(2018-03-30)
This paper studies heterogeneity in the reaction to rank feedback. In a laboratory experiment, individuals take part in a series of dynamic real-effort contests with intermediate feedback. To solve the identification problem ...
On the (ir)relevance of monetary incentives in risk preference elicitation experiments
(2020-08-31)
Incentivized experiments in which individuals receive monetary rewards according to the outcomes of their decisions are regarded as the gold standard for preference elicitation in experimental economics. These task-related ...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Machine Predictions and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
(2021-04-20)
We show that disclosing machine predictions to affected parties can trigger self-fulfilling prophecies. In an investment game, we experimentally vary investors’ and recipients’ access to a machine prediction about recipients’ ...
WP313_BG_exp1_2021
A data set comprising 1397 distinct examples. We collected this data in an incentivized field study that we conducted at a large German university over three years (2016-2019) with first-semester economics students. Most ...
WP313_BG_exp2_2021
In our experiment, participants engage in three subsequent one-shot investment games. Investors initially choose between keeping or investing 10 monetary units (MU) with recipients, who, in the case of investment, decide ...
MABELLA
The Mainz Behavioral and Experimental Laboratory (MABELLA) provides facilities for experimental social science research and is directed by Prof. Dormann, Prof. Wessa and Prof. Schunk.
WP318_BKvS_exp_2021
By means of three treatments, we identify the causal effect of differences in monetary incentives on the production of social goods allowing for self-selection. The main structure of the experiment is as follows: After ...