Publications and Research
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Papers in refereed journals
- Group polarization
in the team dictator game reconsidered (with Wolfgang
Luhan and Matthias Sutter), in: Experimental Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 26-41.
- Individuals and teams in auctions (with Sabine Strauß and
Matthias Sutter), in: Oxford Economics Papers, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2009, pp. 380-394.
- Conditional cooperation on three continents (with
Todd Cherry,
Stephan Kroll,
Jiro Netzer and
Matthias Sutter), in: Economics Letters, Vol. 101, No. 3, 2008, pp.175-178. [Experimental instructions]
- Economics
research in Canada: A long-run assessment of journal publications (with
Jim Davies
and Matthias Sutter),
in: Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2008, pp. 22-45.
- Does stake size matter for cooperation and punishment?
(with Peter Martinsson and Martine Visser), in: Economics Letters, Vol. 99, No. 3, 2008, pp. 508-511.
- Trust between individuals and groups: Groups are less trusting than individuals but just as trustworthy (with
Gary Bornstein,
Tamar Kugler and
Matthias Sutter), in: Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 28, No. 6, 2007, pp. 646-657.
- Individual versus group behavior and the role of the decision making process
in gift-exchange experiments (with
Matthias Sutter), in: Empirica, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2007, pp. 63-88.
- Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups (with
Matthias Sutter),
in: Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2007, pp. 364-382.
- Time is money - Time pressure, incentives, and the quality
of decision-making (with
Matthias Sutter); in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 61, No. 3, 2006, pp. 375-392.
- Individual decision-making - Causes and consequences of self-selection
(with Sabine Strauß and
Matthias Sutter); in: Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 56, No. 2, 2006, pp. 259-270.
- Measuring productivity of research in economics. A cross-country study
using DEA (with
Mikulas Luptacik and
Matthias Sutter); in: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2006, pp. 314-332.
- The decision maker matters. Individual versus team behavior in experimental
beauty-contest games (with
Matthias Sutter); in: Economic Journal, Vol. 115, No. 500, 2005, pp. 200-223.
[reprinted in: Sadrieh/Weimann (eds.): Experimental Economics in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Metropolis, 2008, pp. 55-80.]
- Favoritism of agents - The case of referees' home bias (with
Matthias Sutter); in: Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2004, pp. 461-469.
- Measuring Efficiency of German Football Teams by Data Envelopment Analysis
(with Dieter Haas and
Matthias Sutter); in: Central European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2004, pp. 251-268.
- Patterns of co-authorship among economics department in the U.S. (with
Matthias Sutter); in: Applied Economics, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2004, pp. 327-334.
- Bargaining under time pressure in an experimental ultimatum game (with
Sabine Strauß and
Matthias Sutter); in: Economics Letters, Vol. 81, No. 3, 2003, pp. 341-347.
- Government strength, power dispersion in governments and budget deficits
in OECD-countries. A voting power approach (with Gerald Huber and
Matthias Sutter); in: Public Choice, Vol. 116, No. 2-3, 2003, pp. 333-350.
- Experimental 'beauty contests' with homogeneous and heterogeneous players and with interior and boundary equilibria (with
Werner Güth and
Matthias Sutter); in: Economics Letters, Vol. 74, No. 2, 2002, pp. 219-228.
- Lack of standardization in informetric research: Reply (with
Matthias Sutter); in: Scientometrics, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2002, pp. 329-331.
- Representation and educational background of European economists in top
journals of economics (with
Matthias Sutter and Robert Mrsic); in: Empirica, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2002, pp. 275-288.
- Tools for evaluating research output: Are citation-based rankings of economics
journals stable? (with
Matthias Sutter); in: Evaluation Review, Vol. 25, No. 5, 2001,
pp. 555-566.
- The institutional concentration of authors in top journals of economics
during the last two decades (with
Matthias Sutter); in: Economic Journal, Vol. 111 (June) 2001,
pp. F405-421.
- Power laws of research output. Evidence for journals of economics (with
Matthias Sutter);
in: Scientometrics, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2001, pp. 405-414.
Current discussion and working papers
- Selection in markets for risky and ambiguous prospects (with Stefan Trautmann), March 2009.
- Other-regarding preferences and leaderhsip styles (with Ganna Pogrebna and Matthias Sutter), March 2009.
- The impact of naïve advice and observational learning in beauty-contest games (with
Matthias Sutter and
Florian Wakolbinger), Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 07-015, January 2007.
- Monitoring and pay: An experiment on employee performance under endogenous supervision (with Dennis Dittrich), Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 06-098, CEPR Discussion Paper 5962, October 2006.
- Shirt color and team performance in sports (with
Matthias Sutter), August 2006.
- Choosing the carrot or the
stick? Endogenous institutional choice in social dilemma situations (with
Stefan Haigner and
Matthias Sutter), CEPR Discussion Paper 5497, Revised version, April 2008.
- Loss
aversion and learning to bid (with
Werner Güth, Dennis
Dittrich and Paul
Pezanis-Christou), Papers on Strategic Interaction 3/2005, Max-Planck
Institute of Economics, Jena, March 2005 (revised version: January, 2006).
- Robustness of conditional cooperation in public goods experiments, October 2008.
- Experimental evidence
of the importance of gender pairing in bargaining (with
Matthias Sutter, Ronald Bosman and Frans
van Winden), Papers on Strategic Interaction 27/2003, Max-Planck Institute
of Economics, Jena, August 2003 (revised version: March 2006).
- Exclusion from public goods as an incentive
system – An experimental examination of different institutions (with Verena Waldner and Matthias
Sutter), January 2004.
- Rotation schemes in politics – An experimental
examination (with Verena Waldner and
Matthias Sutter), Papers on Strategic Interaction 26/2003, Max-Planck
Institute of Economics, Jena, October, 2003.
- Does country size really influence public sector
size?, August 2003 (revised version: January 2007).
Papers in non-refereed journals/book and monographies
- Performance under pressure – Myths and facts about penalty shootouts in football (with Marc V. Lenz and Matthias Sutter); in: Andersson/Ayton/Schmidt (eds.): Myths and facts about football: The economics and psychology of the world's greatest sport. Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2008, pp. 61-72.
- Shirt Colour and team performance in football (with
Matthias Sutter); in: Andersson/Ayton/Schmidt (eds.):
Myths and facts about football: The economics and psychology of the world's greatest sport. Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2008, pp. 125-130.
- Der souveräne Nationalstaat als Akteur im Prozess der Konstitutionalisierung aus Sicht der Ökonomik; in: Busek/Hummer (eds.):
Die Konstitutionalisierung der Verbandsgewalt in der (neuen) Europäischen Union. Rechtliche, politische und ökonomische Konsequenzen der neuen Verfassung der EU. Wien (Böhlau), 2006, pp.
- Außenabhängigkeit und der öffentliche Sektor von Kleinstaaten;
in: Busek/Hummer (eds.): Der Kleinstaat als Akteur in den Internationalen
Beziehungen. Liechtenstein - Politische Schriften, Band 39, Schaan
(Verlag der LAG), 2005, pp. 170-192.
- Women in top journals of economics (with
Magdalena Margreiter, Ganna Pogrebna and
Matthias Sutter), in: Wohlgemuth (ed.): Arbeit, Humankapital und Wirtschaftspolitik., Duncker und Humblot,
Berlin, 2006, pp. 317-338.
- Spieltheoretische Analyse von Konflikt und Kooperation
(with Matthias
Sutter), in: Wirtschaftsdienst
- Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 2005, Heft 12, pp.
802-808.
- Die Bedeutung der Zeitschriftenauswahl für die Evaluation
ökonomischer Forschung (with Matthias
Sutter and Ulrike Heregger), in: Backes-Gellner/Moog (eds.): Ökonomie
der Evaluation von Schulen und Hochschulen, Duncker und Humblot,
Berlin, 2004, pp. 101-118.
- Zum Einfluss der Stärke und der Fragmentierung von Regierungen auf
Defizite und Schulden (with
Matthias Sutter). in: Öffentliches Haushaltswesen, 2003, Heft 3-4, pp. 123-131.
- Very Small Countries: Economic Success
Against All Odds. Liechtenstein - Politische Schriften, Band 35,
Schaan (Verlag der LAG), 2003 - Dissertation.
- Publish or Perish - Der Anteil einzelner Staaten an der ökonomischen
Forschung (with Robert Mrsic and
Matthias Sutter). in: Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter (2002),
Heft 1, pp. 79-86.
- Lotkas Gesetz der wissenschaftlichen Produktivität (with
Matthias Sutter). in: WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 2001, März 2001 (Heft 3), pp.157-159.
- Rankings von ökonomischen Zeitschriften (with
Matthias Sutter) . in: WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium ,2001, Feb. 2001 (Heft 2), pp.117-120.
- Regional integration as Pandora's box. Does regional integration foster
worldwide free trade?; Master's Thesis (translated title) - University
of Innsbruck, 1998.
- Politische Ökonomie I + II. Begleitunterlage zur Vorlesung
von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karl Socher; Innsbruck (Studia GmbH), 1994.
Consultancy Reports
- Einführung einer leistungsabhängigen Schwerverkehrsabgabe im Fürstentum Liechtenstein. Gutachten im Auftrag der Liechtensteinischen Regierung, 2000. (with Manfried Gantner and Alexander Boor)
- Arbeitslosigkeit in Liechtenstein. Studie im Auftrag der Liechtensteinischen Regierung, 2000. (with Manfried Gantner and Alexander Boor)
- Abschätzung der fiskalischen Effekte des geplanten Kongresszentrums Kitzbühel bzw. des damit verbundenen Kongresstourismus auf die Stadtgemeinde Kitzbühel. Kurz-Gutachten im Auftrag von Kitzbühel-Tourismus, 2004.
Editorials and refereeing
Organizational stuff
Member of the Board of Directors of the Munich Experimental Laboratory for Economic and Social Sciences (MELESSA), Director of the Research Priority Program "Experimental Economics and Applied Game Theory" (University of Innsbruck, until 2007), Director of the experimental laboratory (University of Innsbruck, until 2007), Organizer of the Public Finance Research Seminar (University of Innsbruck, until 2001), Organizer of the ENABLE Workshop (Universiteit van Amsterdam, November 2006), Organizer of the Conference "Economics and Psychology of Football" (University of Innsbruck, May 2008), Organizer of the ESF Explortory Workshop "Individual and Team Decisions in Economics" (University of Innsbruck, Dezember 2008), Organizer of the 3rd EWEBE-Workshop (University of Innsbruck, Dezember 2008), Organizer of the Economic Science Association European Meeting 2009 in Innsbruck.
Research Grants
Presentations of papers at conferences and universities
Media Coverage (selected)
