Stefan Traub

aus Ulm (2008)

Abteilung Verteilte Systeme, Speicherverwaltung Und Kollissionsbehandlung, Stefan Traub, Amtierender Dekan, Gutachter Prof, ...

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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...

Are cooperators efficiency- or fair-minded? : Evidence from a public goods experiment (2007)

Levati, M. Vittoria, Ploner, Matteo, Traub, Stefan

We use a two-person public goods experiment to distinguish between efficiency and fairness as possible motivations for cooperative behavior. Asymmetric marginal per capita returns allow only the...

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 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...

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...

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...

An Experimental Investigation of the Disparity between WTA and WTP for Lotteries

Schmidt, Ulrich, Traub, Stefan

In this paper we experimentally investigate the disparity between willingness-to-accept (WTA) and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for risky lotteries. The direction of the income effect is reversed by...

An Experimental Test of Loss Aversion.

Schmidt, Ulrich, Traub, Stefan

This paper experimentally investigates a preference condition for loss aversion in the framework of cumulative prospect theory (CPT). We propose the concepts of absolute and relative loss premiums in...

Are cooperators effciency- or fair-minded? Evidence from a public goods experiment

M. Vittoria Levati, Matteo Ploner, Stefan Traub

We use a two-person public goods experiment to distinguish between efficiency and fairness as possible motivations for cooperative behavior. Asymmetric marginal per capita returns allow only the...

On the Public Provision of the Performing Arts

Traub, Stefan, Missong, Martin

In this paper, we present a model in which the performing arts are modelled as congestible public goods. In accordance with empirical evidence, the production of seat capacity is assumed to be...

Quality Investment and Price Formation in the Performing Arts Sector: A Spatial Analysis

Traub, Stefan

In this paper, we present a spatial model of the public provision of the performing arts. Agents behave boundedly rational. Art directors set performance quality according to their aspiration levels....

The Provision of Local Public Services in a Risky Environment: An Application to Crime

Traub, Stefan

We state efficiency conditions for the provision of congestable local public goods that diminish individual-specific proprietary risks. The optimum level of such a public service is determined by...

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...

Federalism, Freedom of Movement, and Fiscal Equalization

Traub, Stefan

In this paper, we take up the question why a group of sovereign countries is willing to form a federation even if residents of the high-income region suspect potential immigrants to be net...

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,

Back to Bismarck? Shifting Preferences for Intragenerational Redistribution in OECD Pension Systems

Tim Krieger, Stefan Traub

Using a sample of 20 OECD countries it is shown that the majority of countries decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution in the first pillar of their pension systems, though the...

An Experimental Investigation of the Disparity Between WTA and WTP for Lotteries

Ulrich Schmidt, Stefan Traub

WTA-WTP disparity, lotteries, background risk, contingent valuation, C91, D81,

Regret Aversion and False Reference Points in Residential Real Estate

Michael J. Seiler, Vicky L. Seiler, Stefan Traub, David M. Harrison

This study empirically exams the combination of regret aversion and false reference points in a residential real estate context. Survey respondents were put in a hypothetical situation, where they...

Wie hat sich die intragenerationale Umverteilung in der staatlichen Säule des Rentensystems verändert? Ein internationaler Vergleich auf Basis von LIS-Daten

Tim Krieger, Stefan Traub

Die vorliegende empirische Analyse beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob sich die Bedeutung der intragenerationalen Umverteilung in der staatlichen Säule der Rentensysteme von 20 OECD-Ländern seit...

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,...

Privatization and liberalization in vertically linked markets

Stähler, Frank, Traub, Stefan

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are often vertically integrated firms which operate in key industries like transport, telecommunication and power generation. They provide an infrastructure and invest...