Christian Seidl

Framing And Judgments Of Fairness In Taxation (2007)

Stefan Traub, Christian Seidl

. The present study examines framing effects in taxation. In October 1994 the German Minister of Family Affairs, Mrs. Ronsch, expectedly withdrew her candidacy for a second term after she had...

Kommentar zu Bruno Deffains and Dominique Demougin - Das doppelte Holdup-Problem und der Wettbewerb der Rechtssysteme (2007)

Seidl, Christian

Die Arbeit von Deffains und Demougin betrachtet ein Modell mit zwei Produktionsfaktoren, Arbeit und Kapital, einem Konsumgut, welches mit zwei Technologien, einer mit ausschließlichem...

Kommentar zu Bruno Deffains and Dominique Demougin - Das doppelte Holdup-Problem und der Wettbewerb der Rechtssysteme (2007)

Seidl, Christian

Die Arbeit von Deffains und Demougin betrachtet ein Modell mit zwei Produktionsfaktoren, Arbeit und Kapital, einem Konsumgut, welches mit zwei Technologien, einer mit ausschließlichem...

Kommentar zu Bruno Deffains and Dominique Demougin - Das doppelte Holdup-Problem und der Wettbewerb der Rechtssysteme (2007)

Seidl, Christian

Die Arbeit von Deffains und Demougin betrachtet ein Modell mit zwei Produktionsfaktoren, Arbeit und Kapital, einem Konsumgut, welches mit zwei Technologien, einer mit ausschließlichem...

Kommentar zu Bruno Deffains and Dominique Demougin - Das doppelte Holdup-Problem und der Wettbewerb der Rechtssysteme (2007)

Seidl, Christian

Die Arbeit von Deffains und Demougin betrachtet ein Modell mit zwei Produktionsfaktoren, Arbeit und Kapital, einem Konsumgut, welches mit zwei Technologien, einer mit ausschließlichem...

Friedman, Harsanyi, Rawls, Boulding - or Somebody Else? : An Experimental Investigation of Distributional Justice (2003)

Traub, Stefan, Seidl, Christian, Schmidt, Ulrich, Levati, Maria Vittoria

This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design: The ignorance and the risk scenarios are combined with the self-concern and the umpire modes. We study behavioral...

Friedman, Harsanyi, Rawls, Boulding - or Somebody Else? An Experimental Investigation of Distributive Justice (2003)

Stefan Traub, Christian Seidl, Ulrich Schmidt, Maria Vittoria Levati, Jel-classification D

This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design: The ignorance and the risk scenarios are combined with the self--concern and the umpire modes. We study behavioral...

The Performance of Peer Review and a Beauty Contest of Referee Processes of Economics Journals/

SEIDL, CHRISTIAN, SCHMIDT, ULRICH, GRÖSCHE, PETER

Peer review influences decisively personal advancement, research opportunities, salaries, grant-funding, promotion, and tenure. It claims to exert quality control of manuscripts and improve them, to...

Relative Deprivation, Personal Income Satisfaction, and Average Well-Being under Different Income Distributions

Christian Seidl, Stefan Traub, Andrea Morone

This paper uses the data gained from an income categorization experiment for five shapes of income distributions to investigate background context effects, relative deprivation, range-frequency...

Income Distributions versus Lotteries: Happiness, Response Mode Effects and Preference Reversals

Andrea Morone, Christian Seidl, Eva Camacho-Cuena

Income Distribution, Lotteries, Income Happiness, Inequality and Risk Aversion, Ethical Inequality Measures, Preference Reversal

Friedman, Harsanyi, Rawls, Boulding - Or Somebody Else? An Experimental Investigation of Distributive Justice

Stefan Traub, Christian Seidl, Ulrich Schmidt, M. Vittoria Levati

This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design: The ignorance and the risk scenarios are combined with the self-concern and the umpire modes. We study behavioral...

The Impossibility of a Just Pigouvian

Christian Seidl

An income inequality measure satisfies the Pigou-Dalton transfer principle if progressive transfers decrease income inequality. When transfers cause transaction costs, one can trace out the maximum...

Flat Tax mit sozialer Grundsicherung : die optimale Kombination

Seidl, Christian

Deutschland leidet unter einer zu hohen marginalen Abgabenbelastung. Investitionen und Arbeitsplätze wandern in Niedrigsteuerländer und in Länder mit niedrigen Arbeitskosten [das heißt, in...

Preference Reversal.

Seidl, Christian

Preference reversal concerns a systematic divergence between prices of lotteries and subjects' expressed preferences for playing the respective lotteries. This article surveys the discovery of...

Leaky Buckets Versus Compensating Justice: An Experimental Investigation

Eva Camacho-Cuena, Tibor Neugebauer, Christian Seidl

Leaky-bucket transactions can be regarded as income transfers allowing for transaction costs. In its most rudimentary form, leaky-bucket transactions trace out the maximum “leakage” of...

Inequality measurement and the leaky-bucket paradox

Christian Seidl

The transfer principle requires inequality measures to decrease for mean preserving contractions. How much leakage of transfers can preserve inequality? Conditions are shown for leaky transfers to...

Measuring Inequality Attitudes by Defective Leaky Buckets A Comment

Seidl, Christian

Amiel et al. (1999) use the Atkinson and the Gini social welfare functions to measure income inequality attitudes based on data from leaky-bucket experiments. Yet the experimental de-sign does not...

Leaky bucket Paradoxes in income inequality perceptions : an experimental investigation

Camacho-Cuena, Eva, Neugebauer, Tibor, Seidl, Christian

Leaky–bucket transactions can be regarded as a generalization of the transfer principle allowing for transaction costs. In its most rudimentary form, leaky–bucket transactions trace out the...

Lorenz meets rating but misses valuation

Camacho-Cuena, Eva, Seidl, Christian

Using an experiment with material incentives, this paper investigates the violation of Lorenz relations in the case of dominant and single–crossing Lorenz curves. Our experimental design consists...

Compensating justice beats leaky buckets : an experimental investigation

Camacho-Cuena, Eva, Neugebauer, Tibor, Seidl, Christian

Leaky-bucket transactions can be regarded as income transfers allowing for transaction costs. In its most rudimentary form, leaky-bucket transactions trace out the maximum “leakage” of...

Income Distributions versus Lotteries Happiness, Response-Mode Effects, and Preference

Camacho-Cuena, Eva, Seidl, Christian, Morone, Andrea

This paper provides a comparative experimental study of risky prospects (lotteries) and income distributions. The experimental design consisted of multi–outcome lotteries and n–dimensional income...

Friedman, Harsanyi, Rawls, Boulding - or Somebody Else?

Traub, Stefan, Seidl, Christian, Schmidt, Ulrich, Levati, Maria Vittoria

This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design: The ignorance and the risk scenarios are combined with the self{concern and the umpire modes. We study behavioral...

Lorenz, Pareto, Pigou: Who Scores Best? Experimental Evidence on Dominance Relations of Income Distributions

Traub, Stefan, Seidl, Christian, Schmidt, Ulrich

Using an experiment with material incentives, this paper investigates the violation of composite dominance relationships, viz. absolute Pareto dominance, Pareto rank dominance, transfer dominance,...

Relative Deprivation, Personal Income Satisfaction, and Average Well-Being under Different Income Distributions

Seidl , Christian, Traub, Stefan, Morone, Andrea

This paper uses the data gained from an income categorization experiment for five shapes of income distributions to investigate background context effects, relative deprivation, range-frequency...

The Impossibility of a Just Pigouvian

Seidl, Christian

An income inequality measure satisfies the Pigou-Dalton transfer principle if progressive transfers decrease income inequality. When transfers cause transaction costs, one can trace out the maximum...

Kommentar zu Bruno Deffains and Dominique Demougin - Das doppelte Holdup-Problem und der Wettbewerb der Rechtssysteme

Christian Seidl

Die Arbeit von Deffains und Demougin betrachtet ein Modell mit zwei Produktionsfaktoren, Arbeit und Kapital, einem Konsumgut, welches mit zwei Technologien, einer mit ausschließlichem Kapitaleinsatz...

Knock-out for descriptive utility or experimental-design error?

Stefan Traub, Christian Seidl, Ulrich Schmidt, Peter Grösche

generic-utility theory, subjective equivalence of gambles, experimental design of utility scaling, C20, D81, C91,

The Desire for a Son Is the Father of Many Daughters: A Sex Ratio Paradox.

Seidl, Christian

This paper investigates the impact of preferences for male offspring to female offspring upon the sex ratio of the population. Asymmetric procreation behavior of this kind is modelled by assuming...

The over-generous boon: Tax splitting in Germany

Christian Seidl

Income Tax Schedule, Spouse Tax Splitting, E62, C93,

An experimental study on individual choice, social welfare, and social preferences

Traub, Stefan, Seidl, Christian, Schmidt, Ulrich

We experimentally study subjects' compliance with dominance relationships of income distributions in a ranking task. The experiment consisted of four different treatments: Lottery, individual choice,...