Not only established researchers of the Department of Economics but also numerous doctoral students of the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) conduct behavioral experiments at the BonnEconLab. The BonnEconLab thereby contributes considerably to the education and advancement of early-career researchers.
Below you find a list of recently completed dissertations and of publications (co-)authored by doctoral students that are based on experiments conducted at the BonnEconLab.
Recent publications coauthored by Ph.D. students
based on experiments conducted at the BonnEconLab
| Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, and Andreas Grunewald | “Communicating through Defaults.” Review of Economics and Statistics, Online Early (2022) | DOI |
| Jan Luca Henkel | “Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Perceived Ambiguity and Likelihood Insensitivity.” Games and Economic Behavior 145 (2024): 312–338 | DOI |
| Felix Chopra, Armin Falk, and Thomas Graeber | “Intertemporal Altruism.” American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 16, no. 1 (2024): 329–357 | DOI |
| Frederik Schwerter | “Social Reference Points and Risk Taking.” Management Science 70, no. 1 (2024): 616–632 | DOI |
| Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia, and Jana Willrodt | “On the psychology of the relation between optimism and risk taking.” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 67 (2023): 193–214 | DOI |
| Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia, and Jana Willrodt | “A note on salience of own preferences and the consensus effect.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 209 (2023): 15–21 | DOI |
| Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David Huffman, and Uwe Sunde | “The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences.” Management Science 69, no. 4 (2023): 1935–1950 | DOI |
| Thomas Graeber | “Inattentive Inference.” Journal of the European Economic Association 21, no. 2 (2023): 560–592 | DOI |
| Steffen Altmann, Andreas Grunewald, and Jonas Radbruch | “Interventions and Cognitive Spillovers.” Review of Economic Studies 89, no. 5 (2022): 2293–2328 | DOI |
| Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Holger Gerhardt, Gerhard Riener, Frederik Schwerter, and Louis Strang | “Concentration Bias in Intertemporal Choice.” Review of Economic Studies 89, no. 3 (2022): 1314–1334 | DOI |
| Simone Quercia and Zvonimir Bašić | “The influence of self and social image concerns on lying.” Games and Economic Behavior 133 (2022): 162–169 | DOI |
| Hua-Jing Han and Matthias Wibral | “Organ donation and reciprocity.” Journal of Economic Psychology 81 (2020): Article 102331 | DOI |
| Armin Falk, Thomas Neuber, and Nora Szech |
“Diffusion of Being Pivotal and Immoral Outcomes.” Review of Economic Studies 87, no. 5 (2020): 2205–2229 | DOI |
| Benjamin Enke | “What You See Is All There Is.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 3 (2020): 1363–1398 | DOI |
| Susann Fiedler and Adrian Hillenbrand | “Gain-loss framing in interdependent choice.” Games and Economic Behavior 121 (2020): 232–251 | DOI |
| Frederik Schwerter and Florian Zimmermann | “Determinants of trust: The role of personal experiences.” Games and Economic Behavior 122 (2020): 413–425 | DOI |
| Armin Falk and Thomas Graeber | “Delayed Negative Effects of Prosocial Spending on Happiness.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 12 (2020): 6463–6468 | DOI |
| Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, and Jonas Radbruch | “The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs.” Management Science 65, no. 9 (2019), 3949–4450 | DOI |
| Si Chen and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch | “Looking at the bright side: The motivational value of confidence.” European Economic Review 120 (2019): Article 103302 | DOI |
| Benjamin Enke and Florian Zimmermann | “Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation.” Review of Economic Studies 86, no. 1 (2019): 313–332 | DOI |
| Armin Falk and Florian Zimmermann | “Information Processing and Commitment.” Economic Journal 128, no. 613 (2018): 1983–2002 | DOI |
| Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Ingo Menrath, Pablo E. Verde, and Johannes Siegrist | “Unfair Pay and Health.” Management Science 64, no. 4 (2018): 1477–1973 | DOI |
| Adrian Hillenbrand and André Schmelzer | “Beyond information: Disclosure, distracted attention, and investor behavior.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 16 (2017): 14–21 | DOI |
| Holger Gerhardt, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, and Jana Willrodt | “Does self-control depletion affect risk attitudes?” European Economic Review 100 (2017): 463–487 | DOI |
| Armin Falk and Florian Zimmermann | “Consistency as a Signal of Skills.” Management Science 63, no. 7 (2017): 2197–2210 | DOI |
| Gerrit Frackenpohl, Adrian Hillenbrand, and Sebastian Kube | “Leadership effectiveness and institutional frames.” Experimental Economics 19, no. 4 (2016): 842–863 | DOI |
| Simon Dato, Andreas Grunewald, Matthias Kräkel, and Daniel Müller | “Asymmetric employer information, promotions, and the wage policy of firms.” Games and Economic Behavior 100 (2016): 273–300 | DOI |
| Matthias Wibral | “Identity changes and the efficiency of reputation systems.” Experimental Economics 18, no. 3 (2015): 408–431 | DOI |
| Mara Ewers and Florian Zimmermann | “Image and Misreporting.” Journal of the European Economic Association 12, no. 2 (2015), 363–380 | DOI |
| Florian Zimmermann | “Clumped or piecewise? Evidence on preferences for information.” Management Science 61, no. 4 (2015): 740–753 | DOI |
| Sebastian Ebert and Daniel Wiesen | “Joint measurement of risk aversion, prudence, and temperance.” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 48, no. 3 (2014): 231–252 | DOI |
| Simon Dato and Petra Nieken | “Gender differences in competition and sabotage.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 100 (2014): 64–80 | DOI |
| Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Andreas Grunewald, and David Huffman | “Contractual Incompleteness, Unemployment, and Labour Market Segmentation.” Review of Economic Studies 81, no. 1 (2014): 30–56 | DOI |
| Georgia Rada Ortner, Matthias Wibral, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Dietrich Klingmüller, Armin Falk, and Bernd Weber | “No evidence for an effect of testosterone administration on delay discounting in male university students.” Psychoneuroendocrinology 38, no. 9 (2013): 1814–1818 | DOI |
| Matthias Wibral, Thomas Dohmen, Dietrich Klingmüller, Bernd Weber, and Armin Falk | “Testosterone Administration Reduces Lying in Men.” PLoS ONE 7, no. 10 (2012): Article e46774 | DOI |
| Anke Becker, Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, and Fabian Kosse | “The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures.” Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012), 453–478 | DOI |
| Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Matthias Wibral | “Promotions and Incentives: The Case of Multistage Elimination Tournaments.” Journal of Labor Economics 30, no. 1 (2011): 149–174 | DOI |
| Sebastian Ebert and Daniel Wiesen | “Testing for Prudence and Skewness Seeking.” Management Science 57, no. 7 (2011): 1334–1349 | DOI |
| Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, Lorenz Goette, David Huffman | “Reference Points and Effort Provision.” American Economic Review 101, no. 2 (2011): 470–492 | DOI |
Highlighted in bold are the names of the authors who worked on the manuscript or conducted the experiments while pursuing their doctoral degrees.
Recently completed dissertations
based at least partly on experiments conducted at the BonnEconLab
| Laura Helene Ehrmantraut | 2024 | URL |
| Timo Freyer | 2023 | URL |
| Laurenz R. K. Günther | 2023 | URL |
| Jan Luca Henkel | 2023 | URL |
| Cavit Görkem Destan | 2023 | URL |
| Paul Ivo Schäfer | 2023 | URL |
| Christian Rudolf Apenbrink | 2023 | URL |
| Sven Heuser | 2022 | URL |
| Felix Anand Chopra | 2022 | URL |
| Thomas Neuber | 2021 | URL |
| Mikhail Ananyev | 2021 | URL |
| Hua-Jing Han | 2021 | URL |
| Lasse Stötzer | 2020 | URL |
| Si Chen | 2020 | URL |
| Carl Heese | 2020 | URL |
| Jonas Radbruch | 2020 | URL |
| Louis Strang | 2019 | URL |
| Jana Hofmeier | 2019 | URL |
| Sebastian Schaube | 2018 | URL |
| Zvonimir Bašić | 2018 | URL |
| Jana Willrodt | 2018 | URL |
| Thomas Graeber | 2018 | URL |
| Adrian Hillenbrand | 2016 | URL |
| Anke Becker | 2016 | URL |
| Benjamin Enke | 2016 | URL |
| Frederik Schwerter | 2016 | URL |
| Jan Bergerhoff | 2015 | URL |
| Simon Dato | 2015 | URL |
| Fabian Kosse | 2015 | URL |
| Gerrit Frackenpohl | 2014 | URL |
| Gert Pönitzsch | 2014 | URL |
| Andreas Grunewald | 2013 | URL |
| Florian Zimmermann | 2013 | URL |
| Mara Ewers | 2012 | URL |
| Mirko Seithe | 2011 | URL |
| Sebastian Ebert | 2011 | URL |
| Daniel Wiesen | 2011 | URL |