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2009_12: Utilitarian Mechanism Design for an Excludable Public Good

Martin Hellwig

2009_11: Persistence of Monopoly and Research Specialization

Philipp Weinschenk

2009_10: How Distinct are Intuition and Deliberation? An Eye-Tracking Analysis of Instruction-Induced Decision Modes

Nina Horstmann, Andrea Ahlgrimm and Andreas Glöckner

2009_09: Is Cartelisation Profitable? A Case Study of the Rhenish Westphalian Coal Syndicate, 1893-1913

Thorsten Lübbers

2009_08: Leading with(out) Sacrifice? A Public-Goods Experiment with a Super-Additive Player

Andreas Glöckner, Bernd Irlenbusch, Sebastian Kube, Andreas Nicklisch and Hans-Theo Normann

2009_06: Strategic Information Disclosure and Competition for an Imperfectly Protected Innovation

Jos Jansen

2009_04: Deterrence Through Word of Mouth

Johannes Rincke and Christian Traxler

2009_03: Survey Evidence on Conditional Norm Enforcement

Christian Traxler and Joachim Winter

2009_02: Experts and Decision Making: First Steps Towards a Unifying Theory of Decision Making in Novices, Intermediates and Experts

Britta Herbig and Andreas Glöckner

2009_01: Environmental dilemmas revisited: structural consequences from the angle of institutional ergonomics

Martin Beckenkamp

2008_50: Winners and Losers of Early Elections: On the Welfare Implications of Political Blockades and Early Elections

Felix Bierbrauer and Lydia Mechtenberg

2008_49: Base-rate Respect by Intuition: Approximating Rational Choices in Base-rate Tasks with Multiple Cues

Andreas Glöckner and Stephan Dickert

2008_48: A Fine-grained Analysis of the Jumping to Conclusions Bias in Schizophrenia: Data-Gathering, Response Confidence, and Information Integration

Andreas Glöckner and Steffen Moritz

2008_47: A Generalization of the Atkinson-Stiglitz (1976) Theorem on the Undesirability of Nonuniform Excise Taxation

Martin Hellwig

2008_46: The Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings in Imperial Germany, 1870-1896

Carsten Burhop

2008_45: A Note on Deaton's Theorem on the Undesirability of Nonuniform Excise Taxation

Martin Hellwig

2008_43: Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: An Analysis of the Subprime-Mortgage Financial Crisis

Martin Hellwig

2008_42: Information Processing in Decisions under Risk: Evidence for Compensatory Strategies based on Automatic Processes

Andreas Glöckner and Ann-Katrin Herbold

2008_39: A unified approach to the revelation of public goods preferences and to optimal income taxation

Felix Bierbrauer

2008_38: Incentives and Innovation? R&D Management in Germany’s High-Tech Industries During the Second Industrial Revolution

Carsten Burhop and Thorsten Lübbers

2008_37: Reciprocity and status in a virtual field experiment

Andreas Nicklisch and Tobias Salz

2008_36: Can We Trust Intuitive Jurors? An Experimental Analysis

Christoph Engel and Andreas Glöckner

2008_34: Playing strategically against nature? – Decisions viewed from a game-theoretic frame

Martin Beckenkamp

2008_33: Preponderance of the Evidence versus Intime Conviction. A Behavioural Perspective on a Conflict between American and Continental European Law

Christoph Engel

2008_31: Optimal Income Taxation, Public Goods Provision and Robust Mechanism Design

Felix Bierbrauer

2008_30: Vertical Integration, Raising Rivals’ Costs and Upstream Collusion

Hans-Theo Normann

2008_29: Competition Policy and Sector-Specific Regulation for Network Industries

Martin Hellwig

2008_28: Rational Choice or Deliberation? – Customary International Law between Coordination and Constitutionalization

Niels Petersen

2008_27: Resolving the Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895-1935: A Response to Professor Ritschl

Stephen Broadberry and Carsten Burhop

2008_25: Semi-collusive advertising and pricing in experimental duopolies

Andreas Nicklisch

2008_24: Inequity Aversion, Reciprocity, and Appropriateness in the Ultimatum-Revenge Game

Andreas Nicklisch

2008_23: The Behaviour of Corporate Actors. A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Christoph Engel

2008_21: Apportionment, Fiscal Equalization and Decentralized Tax Enforcement

Christian Traxler and Andreas Reutter

2008_17: Size, Spillovers and Soft Budget Constraints

Ernesto Crivelli and Klaas Staal

2008_16: The Principle of Democratic Teleology in International Law

Niels Petersen

2008_15: Giving or Taking: The Role of Dispositional Power Motivation and Positive Affect in Profit Maximization?

Markus Quirin, Martin Beckenkamp and Julius Kuhl

2008_14: Coherence Shifts in Probabilistic Inference Tasks

Andreas Glöckner, Tilmann Betsch and Nicola Schindler

2008_13: Cartels, managerial incentives, and productive efficiency in German coal mining, 1881-1913

Carsten Burhop and Thorsten Luebbers

2008_12: Multiple-Reason Decision Making Based on Automatic Processing

Andreas Glöckner and Tilmann Betsch

2008_11: Corporate Governance and Incentive Contracts: Historical Evidence from a Legal Reform

Christian Bayer and Carsten Burhop

2008_10: Umbrella Branding and External Certification

Hendrik Hakenes and Martin Peitz

2008_09: Optimal Democratic Mechanisms for Taxation and Public Good Provision

Felix Bierbrauer and Marco Sahm

2008_07: International Organizations as Corporate Actors: Agency and Emergence in Theories of International Relations

Remi Maier-Rigaud

2008_06: Price Setting in a Decentralized Market and the Competitive Outcome

Stephan Lauermann

2008_05: Do People Make Decisions Under Risk Based on Ignorance? An Empirical Test of the Priority Heuristic against Cumulative Prospect Theory

Andreas Glöckner and Tilmann Betsch

2008_04: A Maximum Principle for Control Problems with Monotonicity Constraints

Martin Hellwig

2008_03: Pharmaceutical research in Wilhelmine Germany: The case of E. Merck

Carsten Burhop

2008_02: Modeling Option and Strategy Choices with Connectionist Networks: Towards an Integrative Model of Automatic and Deliberate Decision Making

Andreas Glöckner and Tilmann Betsch

2008_01: The Politician and his Banker

Hendrik Hakenes and Christa Hainz

2007_24: Better Than Conscious? The Brain, the Psyche, Behavior, and Institutions

Christoph Engel and Singer Wolf