Antisocial Punishment Across Societies (2008)
Benedikt Herrmann, Christian Thöni, Simon Gächter
We document the widespread existence of antisocial punishment, that is, the sanctioning of people who behave prosocially. Our evidence comes from public goods experiments that we conducted in 16...
KMU-Landschaft im Wandel (2008)
Franz Jaeger, Christian Thöni, Jan Koller, Urs Bernegger, Dario Fauceglia, Beat Bechtold
Winner-Take-All Market * (2007)
Urs Fischbacher, Christian Thöni, Christian Thöni
"Winner-Take-All"-markets, i.e. markets in which the relative and not the absolute performance is decisive, have gained in importance. Such markets have a tendency to provoke...
Cournot Competition and Hit-and-Run Entry and Exit in a Teaching Experiment (2006)
Simon Gaechter, Christian Thöni, Jean-Robert Tyran
We describe a computerized experiment which can be used to introduce students to imperfect competition in courses on introductory economics, industrial organization, game theory, and strategy &...
Cross-cultural differences in norm enforcement (2005)
Simon Gaechter, Benedikt Herrmann, Christian Thöni
We argue that the lack of large cross-cultural differences in many games with student subjects from developed countries may be due to the games studied. These games tap primarily basic psychological...
Social Learning and Voluntary Cooperation among Like-Minded People (2005)
Simon Gaechter, Christian Thöni
Many people contribute to public goods but stop doing so once they experience free riding.We test the hypothesis that groups whose members know that they are composed only of likeminded...
Trust, voluntary cooperation, and socio-economic background: Survey and experimental evidence (2004)
Simon Gaechter, Benedikt Herrmann, Christian Thöni
We report survey and experimental evidence on trust and voluntary cooperation from more than 630 non-student and student participants in rural and urban Russia. Our subjects have a diverse...
Social learning and voluntary cooperation among like-minded people 1 (2004)
Simon Gächter, Christian Thöni, Jörg Baumberger, Simon Gächter, Christian Thöni, Christian Thöni
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Social Learning and Voluntary Cooperation Among Like-Minded People
Simon Gächter, Christian Thöni
Many people contribute to public goods but stop doing so once they experience free riding. We test the hypothesis that groups whose members know that they are composed only of "like minded"...
Do Managers Reciprocate? Field Experimental Evidence From a Competitive Market
Michel André Maréchal, Christian Thöni
A substantive amount of lab experimental evidence suggests that the norm of reciprocity has important economic consequences. However, it is unclear whether the norm of reciprocity survives in a...
Excess entry in an experimental winner-take-all market
Fischbacher, Urs, Thöni, Christian
"Winner-take-all" markets (i.e., markets in which the relative and not the absolute performance is decisive) have gained in importance. Such markets have a tendency to provoke inefficiently many...
Excess Entry in an Experimental Winner-Take-All Market
Urs Fischbacher, Christian Thöni
"Winner-Take-All"-markets, i.e. markets in which the relative and not the absolute performance is decisive, have gained in importance. Such markets have a tendency to provoke inefficiently many...
Measuring conditional cooperation: a replication study in Russia
Benedikt Herrmann, Christian Thöni
Conditional cooperation, Replication, Russia, H41, C91, C72,
Bimodal Bidding in Experimental All-Pay Auctions
Christiane Ernst, Christian Thöni
We report results from experimental first-price, sealed-bid, all-pay auctions for a good with a common and known value. We observe bidding strategies in groups of two and three bidders and under two...
Microfoundations of Social Capital
Christian Thöni, Jean-Robert Tyran, Erik Wengström
We show that the standard trust question routinely used in social capital research is importantly related to cooperation behavior and we provide a microfoundation for this relation. We run a...
Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis
Christian Thöni, Simon Gächter
We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair...