IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Electoral Competition, Electoral Uncertainty and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2024, 227, 1056640

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10040

Do Parents Tax Their Children? Teenage Labour Supply and Financial Support

Angus J. Holford

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9766

Doing Your Best When Stakes Are High? Theory and Experimental Evidence

Nicolas Houy, Jean-Philippe Nicolaï, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Always doing your best? Effort and performance in dynamic settings' in: Theory and Decision, 2020, 89 (3), 249-286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9704

Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions

Dietmar Fehr, Matthias Sutter

published in: Games and Economic Behavior 2019, 113, 448-460.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9703

Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance

Steven J. Bosworth, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 72-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9616

Religion, Discrimination and Trust

Swee Hoon Chuah, Simon Gächter, Robert Hoffmann, Jonathan H. W. Tan

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 280-301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9566

"Buy-It-Now" or "Sell-It-Now" Auctions: Effects of Changing Bargaining Power in Sequential Trading Mechanisms

Tim Grebe, Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel, Sabine Kröger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9506

On the Impact of Quotas and Decision Rules in Ultimatum Collective Bargaining

Robert Feicht, Veronika Grimm, Holger A. Rau, Gesine Stephan

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 175-192.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9412

The Welfare Effects of Globalization with Labor Market Regulation

Tapio K. Palokangas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9251

Third-Party vs. Second-Party Control: Disentangling the Role of Autonomy and Reciprocity

Gabriel Burdin, Simon Halliday, Fabio Landini

revised version published as 'The hidden benefits of abstaining from control' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 147, 1-12.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9241

Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion

Robin Cubitt, Simon Gächter, Simone Quercia

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 111, 53 - 69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9085

The Hidden Costs of Tax Evasion: Collaborative Tax Evasion in Markets for Expert Services

Loukas Balafoutas, Adrian Beck, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 129, 14-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8707

Helping in Teams

Anastasia Danilov, Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch

revised version published as 'Helping Under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 162, 120-135.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8580

Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Simon Gächter, Elke Renner

revised version published as 'Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 154, 321-334

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7625

Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options

Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Bernd Irlenbusch, Rainer Michael Rilke, Gari Walkowitz

completely revised and extended version published as 'Designing Feedback in Voluntary Contribution Games: The Role of Transparency" in: Experimental Economics 2019, 22(2), 552–576

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7421

Gender Differences in Cooperation: Experimental Evidence on High School Students

José Alberto Molina, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José A. Cuesta, Carlos Garcia-Lazaro, Yamir Moreno, Angel Sanchez

published in: PLoS ONE, 2013, 8(12): e83700.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7411

Can You Trust the Good Guys? Trust Within and Between Groups with Different Missions

Sebastian Fehrler, Michael Kosfeld

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 121, 400-404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7307

Contribution Games and the End-Game Effect: When Things Get Real – An Experimental Analysis

Ronen Bar-El, Yossef Tobol

published as 'Fundraising to a real-life public good – evidence from the laboratory' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 65, 27-37 (with Yuval Arbel)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7183

Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo

Christine Binzel, Dietmar Fehr

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 103, 99-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7148

Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts

Sebastian Fehrler, Wojtek Przepiorka

published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2013, 34, 139-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7125

Information and Learning in Oligopoly: An Experiment

Maria Bigoni, Margherita Fort

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 81, 192-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6750

Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior

Aldo Rustichini, Colin G. DeYoung, Jon E. Anderson, Stephen V. Burks

revised version published as 'Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 64, 122-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6415

Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis: Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages

Martin G. Kocher, Wolfgang J. Luhan, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6223

Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games

Arno Riedl, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Martin Strobel

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83 (2), 737-767

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6179

The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Peter Martinsson

substantially revised version published as 'Cooperation and punishment: The effect of religiosity and religious festival' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 130, 43–46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6087

Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining

Julian Conrads, Bernd Irlenbusch

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 92, 104-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5689

New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment

Stephen L. Cheung

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2014, 17 (1), 129-153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5569

Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game

John Griffin, David Nickerson, Abigail Wozniak

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012,. 84(2), 600-617.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5374

Resisting Moral Wiggle Room: How Robust is Reciprocity?

Joël van der Weele, Julija Kulisa, Michael Kosfeld, Guido Friebel

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2014, 6 (3), 256-264

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5356

Directed Generosity and Network Formation: Network Dimension Matters

Ben D'Exelle, Arno Riedl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5299

Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness

Sebastian Fehrler

preliminary study that led to IZA DP No. 7148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5189

Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic versus Antisocial Punishment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups

Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman, Stephan Meier, Matthias Sutter

revised version published as 'Competition Between Organizational Groups: Its Impact on Altruistic and Anti-Social Motivations' in: Management Science, 2012, 58 (5), 948-960

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5049

Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents: Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games

Simon Czermak, Francesco Feri, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Matthias Sutter

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 128, 265-285.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4827

Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services: Theory and Experiment

Adrian Beck, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Jianying Qiu, Matthias Sutter

significantly revised version published as 'Shaping Beliefs in Experimental Markets for Expert Services: Guilt Aversion and the Impact of Promises and Money-Burning Options' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 81, 145-164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4732

Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games

Matthias Sutter, Simon Czermak, Francesco Feri

revised version published as 'Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams. Experimental evidence' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 395-410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4709

Beliefs and Actions in the Trust Game: Creating Instrumental Variables to Estimate the Causal Effect

Miguel A. Costa-Gomes, Steffen Huck, Georg Weizsäcker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4647

The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services

Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter, Uwe Dulleck

published with new title "How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods" in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 393-416.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4643

Voting with Feet: Community Choice in Social Dilemmas

Özgür Gürerk, Bernd Irlenbusch, Bettina Rockenbach

completely revised version published as 'On Cooperation in Open Communities' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120, 220–230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4637

On the Origin of the Family

Marco Francesconi, Christian Ghiglino, Motty Perry

revised version published as 'An Evolutionary Theory of Monogamy' in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 166, 605-628

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4624

Preferences and Beliefs in a Sequential Social Dilemma: A Within-Subjects Analysis

Mariana Blanco, Dirk Engelmann, Alexander K. Koch, Hans-Theo Normann

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 87, 122–135.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4621

Social Networks

Joan de Martí, Yves Zenou

published in: Ian Jarvie and Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Science, London: Sage Publications, 2011.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4413

Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model

Junfu Zhang

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51(1), 167-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4205

Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch

revised and extended version published in: Management Science, 2011, 57, 611 - 627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4122

Delinquent Networks

Coralio Ballester, Antoni Calvó-Armengol, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8 (1), 34-61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4116

Cultures, Clashes and Peace

Erin K. Fletcher, Murat Iyigun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4030

The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition

Uwe Dulleck, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 526-555

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3860

Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?

Erin L. Krupka, Roberto A. Weber

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 495–524

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3859

Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education

Antoni Calvó-Armengol, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76, 1239-1267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3757

Dynamics of Intrahousehold Bargaining

Joaquín Andaluz, Miriam Marcén, José Alberto Molina

published as 'Which spouse first decides in the household? The dynamics of bargaining' in: Theoretical Economics Letters, 2013, 3, 69-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3627

Information and Beliefs in a Repeated Normal-Form Game

Dietmar Fehr, Dorothea Kübler, David N. Danz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3616

Do We Follow Others When We Should? A Simple Test of Rational Expectations

Georg Weizsäcker

published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 2340-2360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3584

Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures

Francesco Farina, Niall O'Higgins, Patrizia Sbriglia

revised version published as "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action" in: Research in Economics, 2009, 63 (4), 253-265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3556

Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)

Murat Iyigun

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (4), 693-730

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3517

Belief Elicitation in Experiments: Is there a Hedging Problem?

Mariana Blanco, Dirk Engelmann, Alexander K. Koch, Hans-Theo Normann

published in: Experimental Economics, 2010, 13 (4), 412-438.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3497

Rule of Law, Institutional Quality and Information

Randolph Luca Bruno

substantially revised and rewritten version published as 'Tax enforcement, tax compliance and tax morale in transition economies: A theoretical model' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 56, 193 - 211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3376

Electoral Goals and Center-State Transfers: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence from India

Wiji Arulampalam, Sugato Dasgupta, Amrita Dhillon, Bhaskar Dutta

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 88 (1), 103 - 119

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3273

Field Experiments in Economics: Palgrave Entry

John A. List, David Reiley

published in: Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3116

Monotheism (From a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective)

Murat Iyigun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2962

Divorce and the Excess Burden of Lawyers

Martin Halla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2423

Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation

Bernd Irlenbusch, Gabriele K. Ruchala

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (2), 141-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2288

Institution Formation in Public Goods Games

Michael Kosfeld, Akira Okada, Arno Riedl

published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1335-1355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2236

The Limits of Self-Governance in the Presence of Spite: Experimental Evidence from Urban and Rural Russia

Simon Gächter, Benedikt Herrmann

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (2), 193-210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2013

Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation: Field Experimental Evidence

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 70 (3), 458-469

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2011

Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods

Urs Fischbacher, Simon Gächter

substantially revised and split up versions published as: (1) 'Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods' in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (1), 541-556; and (2) 'The Behavioral Validity of the Strategy Method in Public Goods Experiments', Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (4), 897-913

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1973

Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism

Murat Iyigun

published as 'Luther & Suleyman' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008,123 (4), 1465-1494.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1797

A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Alessandro Cigno

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 259-289

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1777

How Many Winners Are Good to Have? On Tournaments with Sabotage

Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 65 (3), 682-702

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1768

Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition

Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel, Dorothea Kübler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1762

The Choice of the Agenda in Labor Negotiations: Efficiency and Behavioral Considerations

Manfred Königstein, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Efficiency and Behavioral Considerations in Labor Negotiations' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 599-611.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1754

In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents

Jacob K. Goeree, Arno Riedl, Aljaz Ule

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 67 (2), 445-466

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1646

The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Martijn Egas, Arno Riedl

published as 'The economics of altruistic punishment and the maintenance of cooperation' in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B -Biological Sciences, 2008, 275 (1637), 871-878

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1628

Can Endogenous Group Formation Prevent Coordination Failure? A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation

Philippe Raab

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1340

Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection

Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2005, 161 (4), 636-663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1337

Punishing Free-Riders: How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2007, 60 (1), 31-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 887