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Asymmetric Social Norms
(2017-01-10)
Studies of cooperation in infinitely repeated matching games focus on homogeneous economies, where full cooperation is efficient and any defection is collectively sanctioned. Here we study heterogeneous economies where ...
The Impact of Biases in Survival Beliefs on Savings Behavior
(2017-03-24)
"On average young people ""undersave"" whereas old people ""oversave"" with respect to the rational expectations model of life-cycle consumption and savings. According to numerous studies on subjective survival beliefs, ...
Mental Accounting in a Business Cycle Model
(2018-12-17)
Motivated by the consumer behavior literature, this paper presents a new business cycle model in which consumers incur a pain of paying and neglect the opportunity costs of consumption. Although consumers maximize their ...
Belief Formation and Belief Updating under Ambiguity: Evidence from Experiments
(2019-09-21)
Decisions under ambiguity depend on both the belief regarding possible scenarios and the attitude towards ambiguity. This paper exclusively focuses on beliefs, measured independent from attitudes. We use laboratory experiments ...
Time Preferences over the Life Cycle
(2020-02-01)
We study whether and how time preferences change over the life cycle, exploiting representative long-term panel data. We estimate the age patterns of discount rates from age 25 to 80. In order to identify age effects, we ...
The Economic Consequences of Algorithmic Discrimination: Theory and Empirical Evidence
(2020-12-09)
Using a novel theoretical framework and data from a comprehensive field study we conducted over a period of three years, we outline the causal effects of algorithmic discrimination on economic efficiency and social welfare ...
Separating the Effects of Beliefs and Attitudes on Pricing under Ambiguity
(2021-03-10)
The pricing of an ambiguous asset, whose cash flow stream is uncertain, may be affected by three factors: the belief regarding the realization likelihood of cash flows, the subjective attitude towards risk, and the attitude ...
Survey_ABHKP_2020
We base our analyses on a rich data set that we collected in an incenitivzed field study over a period of three years between 2016 and 2019. Specifically, at the beginning of each semester, we invited first-semester economics ...
FLEX311_LW_2021
In the experiments, the ambiguous environment is operationalized by an urn. Subjects participating in the experiments are told that the urn contains in total 100 balls, and that each ball is either a white ball or a black ...
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 ...