Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

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• 2009_37 Das schwindende Vertrauen in die Marktwirtschaft und die Folgen für das Recht [The Eroding Trust in Capitalism and its Consequences for Law]
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2009_35 The Endowment Effect in Groups with and without Strategic Incentives
  by Andreas Glöckner & Janet Kleber & Stephan Tontrup & Stefan Bechtold [Downloadable!]
• 2009_34 The German elections in the 1870s: why Germany turned from liberalism to protectionism
  by Sibylle Lehmann [Downloadable!]
• 2009_33 Credit Risk Transfer and Bank Competition
  by Hendrik Hakenes & Isabel Schnabel [Downloadable!]
• 2009_32 Beyond the Need to Boast: Cost Concealment Incentives and Exit in Cournot Duopoly
  by Jos Jansen [Downloadable!]
• 2009_31 Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Legal Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information
  by Gerlinde Fellner & Rupert Sausgruber & Christian Traxler [Downloadable!]
• 2009_24 Competition as a Socially Desirable Dilemma. Theory vs. Experimental Evidence
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2009_23 Sticky Rebates: Rollback Rebates Induce Non-Rational Loyalty in Consumers – Experimental Evidence
  by Alexander Morell & Andreas Glöckner & Emanuel Towfigh [Downloadable!]
• 2009_22 Majority Voting and the Welfare Implications of Tax Avoidance
  by Christian Traxler [Downloadable!]
• 2009_21 Beware of Broken Windows!First Impressions in Public-good Experiment
  by Martin Beckenkamp & Christoph Engel & Andreas Glöckner & Bernd Irlenbusch & Heike Hennig-Schmidt & Sebastian Kube & Michael Kurschilgen & Alexander Morell & Andreas Nicklisch & Hans-Theo Normann & Emanuel Towfigh [Downloadable!]
• 2009_20 Asymmetric Enforcement of Cooperation in a Social Dilemma
  by Nikos Nikiforakis & Hans-Theo Normann & Brian Wallace [Downloadable!]
• 2009_16 Review Essay: How Rational is International Law?
  by Niels Petersen [Downloadable!]
• 2009_15 On the legitimacy of coercion for the financing of public goods
  by Felix Bierbrauer [Downloadable!]
• 2009_14 Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination – Large-Scale Experimental Evidence
  by Francesco Feri & Bernd Irlenbusch & Matthias Sutter [Downloadable!]
• 2009_13 On Competition and the Strategic Management of Intellectual Property in Oligopoly
  by Jos Jansen [Downloadable!]
• 2009_12 Utilitarian Mechanism Design for an Excludable Public Good
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2009_11 Persistence of Monopoly and Research Specialization
  by Philipp Weinschenk [Downloadable!]
• 2009_10 How Distinct are Intuition and Deliberation? An Eye-Tracking Analysis of Instruction-Induced Decision Modes
  by Nina Horstmann & Andrea Ahlgrimm & Andreas Glöckner [Downloadable!]
• 2009_09 Is Cartelisation Profitable? A Case Study of the Rhenish Westphalian Coal Syndicate, 1893-1913
  by Thorsten Lübbers [Downloadable!]
• 2009_08 Leading with(out) Sacrifice? A Public-Goods Experiment with a Super-Additive Player
  by Andreas Glöckner & Bernd Irlenbusch & Sebastian Kube & Andreas Nicklisch & Hans-Theo Normann [Downloadable!]
• 2009_06 Strategic Information Disclosure and Competition for an Imperfectly Protected Innovation
  by Jos Jansen [Downloadable!]
• 2009_04 Deterrence Through Word of Mouth
  by Johannes Rincke & Christian Traxler [Downloadable!]
• 2009_03 Survey Evidence on Conditional Norm Enforcement
  by Christian Traxler & Joachim Winter [Downloadable!]
• 2009_02 Experts and Decision Making: First Steps Towards a Unifying Theory of Decision Making in Novices, Intermediates and Experts
  by Britta Herbig & Andreas Glöckner [Downloadable!]
• 2009_01 Environmental dilemmas revisited: structural consequences from the angle of institutional ergonomics
  by Martin Beckenkamp [Downloadable!]

• 2008_50 Winners and Losers of Early Elections: On the Welfare Implications of Political Blockades and Early Elections
  by Felix Bierbrauer & Lydia Mechtenberg [Downloadable!]
• 2008_49 Base-rate Respect by Intuition: Approximating Rational Choices in Base-rate Tasks with Multiple Cues
  by Andreas Glöckner & Stephan Dickert [Downloadable!]
• 2008_48 A Fine-grained Analysis of the Jumping to Conclusions Bias in Schizophrenia: Data-Gathering, Response Confidence, and Information Integration
  by Andreas Glöckner & Steffen Moritz [Downloadable!]
• 2008_47 A Generalization of the Atkinson-Stiglitz (1976) Theorem on the Undesirability of Nonuniform Excise Taxation
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2008_46 The Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings in Imperial Germany, 1870-1896
  by Carsten Burhop [Downloadable!]
• 2008_45 A Note on Deaton's Theorem on the Undesirability of Nonuniform Excise Taxation
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2008_43 Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: An Analysis of the Subprime-Mortgage Financial Crisis
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2008_42 Information Processing in Decisions under Risk: Evidence for Compensatory Strategies based on Automatic Processes
  by Andreas Glöckner & Ann-Katrin Herbold [Downloadable!]
• 2008_39 A unified approach to the revelation of public goods preferences and to optimal income taxation
  by Felix Bierbrauer [Downloadable!]
• 2008_38 Incentives and Innovation? R&D Management in Germany’s High-Tech Industries During the Second Industrial Revolution
  by Carsten Burhop & Thorsten Lübbers [Downloadable!]
• 2008_37 Reciprocity and status in a virtual field experiment
  by Andreas Nicklisch & Tobias Salz [Downloadable!]
• 2008_36 Can We Trust Intuitive Jurors? An Experimental Analysis
  by Christoph Engel & Andreas Glöckner [Downloadable!]
• 2008_34 Playing strategically against nature? – Decisions viewed from a game-theoretic frame
  by Martin Beckenkamp [Downloadable!]
• 2008_33 Preponderance of the Evidence versus Intime Conviction. A Behavioural Perspective on a Conflict between American and Continental European Law
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2008_31 Optimal Income Taxation, Public Goods Provision and Robust Mechanism Design
  by Felix Bierbrauer [Downloadable!]
• 2008_30 Vertical Integration, Raising Rivals’ Costs and Upstream Collusion
  by Hans-Theo Normann [Downloadable!]
• 2008_29 Competition Policy and Sector-Specific Regulation for Network Industries
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2008_28 Rational Choice or Deliberation? – Customary International Law between Coordination and Constitutionalization
  by Niels Petersen [Downloadable!]
• 2008_27 Resolving the Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895-1935: A Response to Professor Ritschl
  by Stephen Broadberry & Carsten Burhop [Downloadable!]
• 2008_25 Semi-collusive advertising and pricing in experimental duopolies
  by Andreas Nicklisch [Downloadable!]
• 2008_24 Inequity Aversion, Reciprocity, and Appropriateness in the Ultimatum-Revenge Game
  by Andreas Nicklisch [Downloadable!]
• 2008_23 The Behaviour of Corporate Actors. A Survey of the Empirical Literature
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2008_21 Apportionment, Fiscal Equalization and Decentralized Tax Enforcement
  by Christian Traxler & Andreas Reutter [Downloadable!]
• 2008_17 Size, Spillovers and Soft Budget Constraints
  by Ernesto Crivelli & Klaas Staal [Downloadable!]
• 2008_16 The Principle of Democratic Teleology in International Law
  by Niels Petersen [Downloadable!]
• 2008_15 Giving or Taking: The Role of Dispositional Power Motivation and Positive Affect in Profit Maximization?
  by Markus Quirin & Martin Beckenkamp & Julius Kuhl [Downloadable!]
• 2008_14 Coherence Shifts in Probabilistic Inference Tasks
  by Andreas Glöckner & Tilmann Betsch & Nicola Schindler [Downloadable!]
• 2008_13 Cartels, managerial incentives, and productive efficiency in German coal mining, 1881-1913
  by Carsten Burhop & Thorsten Luebbers [Downloadable!]
• 2008_12 Multiple-Reason Decision Making Based on Automatic Processing
  by Andreas Glöckner & Tilmann Betsch [Downloadable!]
• 2008_11 Corporate Governance and Incentive Contracts: Historical Evidence from a Legal Reform
  by Christian Bayer & Carsten Burhop [Downloadable!]
• 2008_10 Umbrella Branding and External Certification
  by Hendrik Hakenes & Martin Peitz [Downloadable!]
• 2008_09 Optimal Democratic Mechanisms for Taxation and Public Good Provision
  by Felix Bierbrauer & Marco Sahm [Downloadable!]
• 2008_07 International Organizations as Corporate Actors: Agency and Emergence in Theories of International Relations
  by Remi Maier-Rigaud [Downloadable!]
• 2008_06 Price Setting in a Decentralized Market and the Competitive Outcome
  by Stephan Lauermann [Downloadable!]
• 2008_05 Do People Make Decisions Under Risk Based on Ignorance? An Empirical Test of the Priority Heuristic against Cumulative Prospect Theory
  by Andreas Glöckner & Tilmann Betsch [Downloadable!]
• 2008_04 A Maximum Principle for Control Problems with Monotonicity Constraints
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2008_03 Pharmaceutical research in Wilhelmine Germany: The case of E. Merck
  by Carsten Burhop [Downloadable!]
• 2008_02 Modeling Option and Strategy Choices with Connectionist Networks: Towards an Integrative Model of Automatic and Deliberate Decision Making
  by Andreas Glöckner & Tilmann Betsch [Downloadable!]
• 2008_01 The Politician and his Banker
  by Hendrik Hakanes & Christa Hainz [Downloadable!]

• 2007_24 Better Than Conscious? The Brain, the Psyche, Behavior, and Institutions
  by Christoph Engel & Wolf Singer [Downloadable!]
• 2007_22 Giving the German Cartel Office the Power of Divestiture. The Conformity of the Reform with Constitutional Law
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2007_18 An economic analysis of trade-secret protection in buyer-seller relationships
  by Stefan Bechtold & Felix Hoeffler [Downloadable!]
• 2007_14 Tacit Collusion. The Neglected Experimental Evidence
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2007_12 Institutions for Intuitive Man
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2007_9 Switzerland and Euroland: European Monetary Union, Monetary Stability and Financial Stability
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2007_8 A Reconsideration of the Jensen-Meckling Model of Outside Finance
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2007_6 Incentives for Process Innovation in a Collusive Duopoly
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2007_5 Intellectual Property as a Carrot for Innovators Using Game Theory to Show the Limits of the Argument
  by Dorothee Schmidt [Downloadable!]
• 2007_4 Intellectual Property as a Carrot for Innovators Using Game Theory to Show the Limits of the Argument
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2007_2 A Contribution to the Theory of Optimal Utilitarian Income Taxation
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2007_1 Competition in a Pure World of Internet Telephony
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2006_25 Cooperation in Symmetric and Asymmetric Prisoner's Dilemma Games
  by Martin Beckenkamp & Heike Hennig-Schmidt & Frank P. Maier-Rigaud [Downloadable!]

• 2006_27 How Much Collusion. A Meta-Analysis On Oligopoly Experiments
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2006_26 Incentive Provision with Hidden Characteristics: A Unified Approach
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2006_24 Collectively Incentive Compatible Tax Systems
  by Felix Bierbrauer [Downloadable!]
• 2006_23 Ex Interim Voting in Public Good Provision
  by Sven Fischer & Andreas Nicklisch [Downloadable!]
• 2006_22 Private Damage Claims and the Passing-On Defense in Horizontal Price-Fixing Cases: An Economist’s Perspective
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2006_21 The Provision and Pricing of Excludable Public Goods: Ramsey-Boiteux Pricing versus Bundling
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2006_19 The Impact of Institutions on the Decision How to Decide
  by Christoph Engel & Elke U. Weber [Downloadable!]
• 2006_18 Informative Voting and the Samuelson Rule
  by Felix Bierbrauer & Marco Sahm [Downloadable!]
• 2006_17 Perceiving strategic environments: An experimental study of learning under minimal information
  by Andreas Nicklisch [Downloadable!]
• 2006_16 Mobile termination and collusion, revisited
  by Felix Hoeffler [Downloadable!]
• 2006_15 Monetary Equilibria in a Baumol-Tobin Economy
  by Ingolf Schwarz [Downloadable!]
• 2006_14 The herd moves? Emergence and self-organization in collective actors?
  by Martin Beckenkamp [Downloadable!]
• 2006_12 Competition as a Socially Desirable Dilemma
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2006_11 The Threat of Capital Drain: A Rationale for Public Banks?
  by Hendrik Hakenes & Isabel Schnabel [Downloadable!]
• 2006_8 Wage Differentials, Fairness, and Social Comparison: An experimental study of the Co-Employment of Permanent and Temporary Agency Workers†
  by Dorothea Alewell & Andreas Nicklisch [Downloadable!]
• 2006_6 Distortionary Taxation and the Free-Rider Problem
  by Felix Bierbrauer [Downloadable!]
• 2006_5 Netting of capacity in interconnector auctions
  by Felix Hoeffler & Tobias Wittmann [Downloadable!]
• 2006_4 Noisy commitments: The impact of information accuracy on efficiency
  by Eyal Ert & Andreas Nicklisch [Downloadable!]
• 2006_1 The Difficult Reception of Rigorous Descriptive Social Science in the Law
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]

• 2005_27 The Undesirability of Randomized Income Taxation under Decreasing Risk Aversion
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2005_26 Voice over IP. Competition Policy and Regulation
  by christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2005_25 Optimal Income Taxation and Public Good Provision in a Two-Class Economy
  by Felix Bierbrauer [Downloadable!]
• 2005_24 Ostracism and the Provision of a Public Good, Experimental Evidence
  by Frank P. Maier-Rigaud & Peter Martinsson & Gianandrea Staffiero [Downloadable!]
• 2005_23 A Contribution to the Theory of Optimal Utilitarian Income Taxation
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2005_19 Market Discipline, Information Processing, and Corporate Governance
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2005_18 Monetary Equilibria in a Cash-in-Advance Economy with Incomplete Financial Markets
  by Ingolf Schwarz & Jinhui H. Bai [Downloadable!]
• 2005_17 Why humans care about sunk costs while animals don't. An evolutionary explanation
  by Felix Höffler [Downloadable!]
• 2005_16 Corporate Design for Regulability. A Principal-Agent-Supervisor Model
  by Anne van Aaken [Downloadable!]
• 2005_15 Corporate Design for Regulability. A Principal-Agent-Supervisor Model
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2005_14 A Note on Budget Balance under Interim Participation Constraints: The Case of Independet Types
  by Tilman Börgers & Peter Norman [Downloadable!]
• 2005_12 Morality and Conflicts
  by Dorothee Schmidt [Downloadable!]
• 2005_11 The Welfare Economics of Adaptive Preferences
  by Carl Christian von Weizsäcker [Downloadable!]
• 2005_9 Second-Best Pollution Taxation and Environmental Quality
  by Thomas Gaube [Downloadable!]
• 2005_8 Altruism and charitable giving in a fully replicated economy
  by Thomas Gaube [Downloadable!]
• 2005_7 Monopoly Prices versus Ramsey-Boiteux Prices: Are they "similar", and: Does it matter?
  by Felix Höffler [Downloadable!]
• 2005_6 Bank Size and Risk-Taking under Basel II
  by Hendrik Hakenes & Isabel Schnabel [Downloadable!]
• 2005_5 The Role of Liquidity and Implicit Guarantees in the German Twin Crisis of 1931
  by Isabel Schnabel [Downloadable!]
• 2005_3 Switching Costs in Retroactive Rebates – What’s time got to do with it?
  by Frank P. Maier-Rigaud [Downloadable!]
• 2005_2 Öffentlichkeitsarbeit der Regierung (Governmental Public Relations)
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2005_1 Cost and Benefits from Infrastructure Competition. Estimating Welfare Effects from Broadband Access Competition
  by Felix Höffler [Downloadable!]

• 2004_15 Is there an optimization in bounded rationality? The ratio of aspiration levels
  by Martin Beckenkamp [Downloadable!]
• 2004_14 Optimal Income Taxation, Public-Goods Provision and Public-Sector Pricing: A Contribution to the Foundations of Public Economics
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2004_12 Banks without Parachutes – Competitive Effects of Government Bail-out Policies
  by Hendrik Hakenes & Isabel Schnabel [Downloadable!]
• 2004_11 Behavioral Law and Economics – eine kritische Einführung
  by Markus Englerth [Downloadable!]
• 2004_8 Nonlinear Incentive Provision in Walrasian Markets: A Cournot Convergence Approach
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2004_6 Risk Aversion in the Small and in the Large. When Outcomes are Multidimensional
  by Martin Hellwig [Downloadable!]
• 2004_4 Social Dilemmas, Revisited from a Heuristics Perspective
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2004_3 Globalisation and National Incentives for Protecting Environmental Goods
  by Alkuin Kölliker [Downloadable!]
• 2004_2 The Role of Rivalry. Public Goods versus Common-Pool Resources
  by Frank P. Maier-Rigaud & Jose Apesteguia [Downloadable!]
• 2004_1a The Institutional-Evolutionary Antitrust Model
  by Chrysostomos Mantzavinos [Downloadable!]

• 2003_13 Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance
  by Chrysostomos Mantzavinos & Douglas C. North & Syed Shariq [Downloadable!]
• 2003_11 Market Definition As a Social Construction (Marktabgrenzung als soziale Konstruktion)
  by Christoph Engel [Downloadable!]
• 2003_8 The Democratic Legitimacy of Business Interest Representation in the European Union: Normative Implications of the Logic of Access
  by Pieter Bouwen [Downloadable!]
• 2003_7 The Role of Choice in Social Dilemma Experiments
  by Frank P. Maier-Rigaud & Jose Apesteguia [Downloadable!]
• 2003_3 Law and Economics: Methodological Problems
  by Petros Gemtos [Downloadable!]
• 2003_2 The Problems of Collective Action: A New Approach
  by Katharina Holzinger [Downloadable!]

• 2006_9 Demand for storage of natural gas in northwestern Europe. Trends 2005-2030
  by Felix Hoeffler & Madjid Kuebler [Downloadable!]

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