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2025_14: LLM as a law professor: Having a large language model write a commentary on freedom of assembly

Johannes Kruse and Christoph Engel

2025_13: Willing to act, failing to impact: Psychological and social drivers of voluntary climate action

Melisa Kurtis, Axel Ockenfels and Rastislav Rehák

2025_12: The ordinary meaning bot: Simulating human surveys with LLMs

Johannes Kruse

2025_11: Reducing Inequality by Correcting Misperceptions: Experimental Evidence on Student Aid Take-Up

Sebastian Riedmiller

2025_10: Spatial patterns in the formation of economic preferences

Shyamal Chowdhury, Manuela Puente Beccar, Hannah Schildberg Hörisch, Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter

2025_09: The Right Timing Matters: Sensitive Periods in the Formation of Socio-Emotional Skills

Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg Hörisch and Matthias Sutter

2025_08: The Negotiation Trap: An Experiment on a Large Language Model

Christoph Engel

2025_06: The Democracy Premium in Expressive Law: An Experiment

Yoan Hermstrüwer and Mahdi Khesali

2025_05: Broadcasting Change: India’s Community Radio Policy and Women’s Empowerment

Felix Rusche

2025_04: Reporting Big News, Missing the Big Picture? Stock Market Performance in the Media

Antonio Ciccone and Felix Rusche

2025_03: Human Realignment: An Empirical Study of LLMs as Legal Decision-Aids in Moral Dilemmas

Christoph Engel, Yoan Hermstrüwer and Alison Kim

2025_02: Absenteeism and Firm Performance: Evidence from Retail

Alfitian Jakob

2025_01: The Psychological Case for Retaining Counsel: The Tipping Point Effect

John Zhuang Liu, Christoph Engel and Yun-chien Chang

2024_19: The Negotiation Trap: An Experiment on a Large Language Model

Christoph Engel

2024_18: Coordination games played by children and teenagers: On the influence of age, group size and incentives

Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Matthias Sutter and Claudia Zoller

2024_17: Who is afraid of the pink elephant? Character evidence, wiretapping, and debiasing interventions

Christoph Engel, Jasmin Golder and Rima-Maria Rahal

2024_16: Out of sight is out of mind? Experimentally testing a gradually materializing public bad

Alexander Egberts, Christoph Engel and Joshua Fairfield

2024_15: Trump ante Portas: Political Polarization Undermines Rule-Following Behavior

Christoph Feldhaus, Lukas Reinhardt and Matthias Sutter

2024_14: Professor GPT: Having a large language model write a commentary on freedom of assembly

Johannes Kruse and Christoph Engel

2024_13: One size fits all? The interplay of incentives, effort provision, and personality

Zvonimir Bašic, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter

2024_12: Experimental comparative law 2.0? Large language models as a novel empirical tool

Christoph Engel

2024_11: Bridging the Human-AI Fairness Gap: How Providing Reasons Enhances the Perceived Fairness of Public Decision-Making

Arian Henning and Pascal Langenbach

2024_10: Gewichtsformel - wörtlich genommen. Ein empirischer Test mit der Hilfe eines Sprachmodells

Christoph Engel

2024_09: Do economic preferences of children predict behavior?

Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Shambhavi Priyam, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch and Matthias Sutter

2024_08: Dynamic efficiency and inefficiency in a class of overlapping-generations economies with multiple assets

Martin Hellwig

2024_07: National central banks and the governance of the European system of central banks

Martin Hellwig

2024_06: Deliberately Ignoring Unfairness: Responses to Uncertain Inequality in the Ultimatum Game

Konstantin Offer, Dorothee Mischkowski, Zoe Rahwan and Christoph Engel

2024_05: Asking GPT for the Ordinary Meaning of Statutory Terms

Christoph Engel and Richard H. McAdams

2024_04: The German Constitutional Court - Activist, but not Partisan?

Christoph Engel

2024_03: Education during conflict: The effect of territorial control by insurgents on schooling

Nicole Stoelinga

2024_02: The roots of cooperation

Zvonimir Bašic, Parampreet C. Bindra, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Angelo Romano, Matthias Sutter and Claudia Zoller

2024_01: Integrating machine behavior into human subject experiments: A user-friendly toolkit and illustrations

Christoph Engel, Max R. P. Grossmann and Axel Ockenfels

2023_13: Complementarities in Behavioral Interventions: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Resource Conservation

Ximeng Fang, Lorenz Goette, Bettina Rockenbach, Matthias Sutter, Verena Tiefenbeck, Samuel Schoeb and Thorsten Staake

2023_12: Diagnostic Uncertainty and Insurance Coverage in Credence Goods Markets

Loukas Balafoutas, Helena Fornwagner, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter and Maryna Tverdostup

2023_11: Serving consumers in an uncertain world: A credence goods experiment

Loukas Balafoutas, Helena Fornwagner, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter and Maryna Tverdostup

2023_10: Treu und Glauben: Frag GPT

Christoph Engel

2023_09: Female Leadership and Workplace Climate

Sule Alan, Gozde Corekcioglu, Mustafa Kaba and Matthias Sutter

2023_08: Social Norms, Political Polarization, and Vaccination Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey

Mustafa Kaba, Murat Koyuncu, Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter

2023_07: Even in the best of both worlds, you can't have it all: How German voters navigate the trilemma of mixed-member proportionality

Pascal Langenbach and Tobias Rommel

2023_06: Income Risk, Precautionary Saving, and Loss Aversion – An Empirical Test

Marcela Ibanez and Sebastian Schneider

2023_05: The Economics of Hilbert's Hotel: An Expository Note

Martin Hellwig

2023_04: Overlapping-Generations Economies under Uncertainty: Dynamic Inefficiency/Efficiency with Multiple Assets and no Labour

Martin Hellwig

2023_03: Financial literacy, risk and time preferences – Results from a randomized educational intervention

Matthias Sutter, Michael Weyland, Anna Untertrifaller, Manuel Froitzheim and Sebastian O. Schneider

2023_02: Homophily and Transmission of Behavioral Traits in Social Networks

Palaash Bhargava, Daniel L. Chen, Matthias Sutter and Camille Terrier

2023_01: The Importance of Reciprocity: Investigating Individual Differences Underlying Conditional Cooperation

Léon Bartosch and Dorothee Mischkowski

2022_09: Information provision over the phone saves lives: An RCT to contain COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh at the pandemic's onset

Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter

2022_08: Reputation vs Selection Effects in Markets with Informational Asymmetries

Theodore Alysandratos, Sotiris Georganas and Matthias Sutter

2022_07: Eye-Tracking as a Method for Legal Research

Christoph Engel and Rima-Maria Rahal

2022_06: Judicial Decision-Making. A Survey of the Experimental Evidence

Christoph Engel

2022_05: The fairness of inequality due to risk and effort choices

Maj-Britt Sterba