Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Chair of Economic Theory II

Prof. Jörg Oechssler, PhD
(Alfred Weber - Institut)

Bergheimer Str. 58
69115 Heidelberg
Germany

Tel: +49 6221 542944
Fax: +49 6221 542997

Mail:sekretariat.wt2@awi.uni-heidelberg.de

Prof. Jörg Oechssler, PhD

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PUBLICATIONS

Working Papers

"Sick Pay Provision in Experimental Labor Markets", mimeo 2009 (with Peter Duersch and Radovan Vadovic).

"Mandatory Sick Pay Provision: A Labor Market Experiment", mimeo 2009 (with Stefan Bauernschuster, Peter Duersch, and Radovan Vadovic).

"Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work?", mimeo 2008 (with Andreas Roider and Patrick Schmitz).


"Imitation and the Evolution of Walrasian Behavior: Theoretically Fragile but Behaviorally Robust", mimeo 2007 (with Jose Apesteguia, Steffen Huck, and Simon Weidenholzer).


"On the Ingredients for Bubble Formation: Informed Traders and Communication", mimeo 2007 (with Carsten Schmidt and Wendelin Schnedler).


Journal Articles

"Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases", forthcoming in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (with Andreas Roider and Patrick W. Schmitz).

"Searching beyond the lamppost: Let's focus on economically relevant questions", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 73 (2010), 67-67.

"Uniform vs. Discriminatory Auctions with Variable Supply? Experimental Evidence", forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior (with Damian S. Damianov and Johannes G. Becker).


"Rage Against the Machines: How Subjects Learn to Play Against Computers", forthcoming in Economic Theory (with Peter Duersch, Albert Kolb, Barkhard Schipper), Abstract and pdf file


"Incentives for Subjects in Internet Experiments", Economics Letters, 105 (2009), 120-122 (with Peter Duersch and Burkhard Schipper).


"Brown-von Neumann-Nash Dynamics: The Continuous Strategy Case", Games and Economic Behavior, 65 (2009), 406-429 (with Josef Hofbauer and Frank Riedel).


"Imitation - Theory and Experimental Evidence", Journal of Economic Theory 136 (2007), 217-235  (with Jose Apesteguia and Steffen Huck) Supplementary material.  


"Herding with and without Payoff Externalities - An Internet Experiment", International Journal of Industrial Organization 25 (2007), 391-415 (with Mathias Drehmann and Andreas Roider).


"Overbidding in Fixed Rate Tenders - An Empirical Assessment of Alternative Explanations", European Economic Review, 50 (2006), 631-646 (with Dieter Nautz). Abstract.  


"Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets - An Internet Experiment", American  Economic Review 95(5), December (2005) (with Mathias Drehmann and Andreas Roider), Abstract and paper, Press reports: (NZZ, Spiegel, Deutschlandfunk, Welt, Psychologie Heute, Fonds).


"Learning to Like What You Have - Explaining the Endowment Effect", Economic Journal, 115 (2005), 689-702 (with Steffen Huck and Georg Kirchsteiger). Abstract. Press reports (Times, SZ, RNZ)


"GLAD: A simple adaptive strategy that yields cooperation in dilemma games", Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2005, Vol. 200, 133-138 (with Steffen Huck and Hans-Theo Normann) Paper.


"Through Trial & Error to Collusion", International Economic Review 45 (2004), 205-224 (with Steffen Huck and Hans-Theo Normann))  Abstract, pdf files and simulation program


"The Limited Liability Effect in Experimental Duopoly Markets", International Journal of Industrial Organization 22 (2004), 163-184 (with Frank Schuhmacher). Abstract.


"Two are Few and Four are Many: Number Effects in Experimental Oligopoly", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 53 (2004), 435-446 (with Steffen Huck and Hans-Theo Normann).  Abstract .


"The Repo Auctions of the European Central Bank and the Vanishing Quota Puzzle", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 105 (2003), 207-220 (with Dieter Nautz). Abstract.


"Zero-Knowledge Cooperation in Dilemma Games", Journal of Theoretical Biology 220 (2003), 47-54 (with Steffen Huck and Hans-Theo Normann).


"Can You Guess the Game You're Playing?", Games and Economic Behavior 43 (2003), 137-152 (with Burkhard Schipper).  Abstract


"Intentions Matter: Lessons from Bargaining Experiments - Comment", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 159 (2003), 195-198.


"On the Dynamic Foundation of Evolutionary Stability in Continuous Models", Journal of Economic Theory 107 (2002), 223-252 (with Frank Riedel)  Abstract.


"Stability of the Cournot Process - Experimental Evidence", International Journal of Game Theory 31 (2002), 123-136 (with Steffen Huck and Hans-Theo Normann). Download


"Cooperation as a Result of Learning with Aspiration Levels", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 49 (2002), 405-409 Abstract.


"Divide et Impera: Strategic Underpricing in Privatizations", Public Choice 108 (2001), 207-222 (with Pio Baake). Abstract.


"Evolutionary Dynamics on Infinite Strategy Spaces", Economic Theory  17 (2001) 1, 141-162 (with Frank Riedel).  Abstract.


"Market Volatility and Inequality in Earnings - Experimental Evidence" Economics Letters 70 (2001), 363-368 (with Steffen Huck and Hans-Theo Normann).


"Informational Cascades in the Laboratory: Do They Occur for the Right Reasons?", Journal of Economic Psychology 21 (2000), 661-671 (with Steffen Huck). Abstract.


"Does Noise Undermine the First-Mover Advantage? An Evolutionary Analysis of Bagwell's Example", International Game Theory Review 2 (2000), 83-96 (with Karl Schlag). Abstract.


"Does Information about Competitors' Actions Increase or Decrease Competition in Experimental Oligopoly Markets?", International Journal of Industrial Organization 18 (2000), 39-57 (with Steffen Huck and Hans-Theo Normann). Abstract.


"The Indirect Evolutionary Approach to Explaining Fair Allocations", Games and Economic Behavior 28 (1999), 13-24 (with Steffen Huck). Abstract.


"Learning in Cournot Oligopoly - An Experiment", Economic Journal, 109 (1999), C80-C95 (with Steffen Huck and Hans-Theo Normann) Abstract.


"Explaining Cross-Supplies", Journal of Economics, 70 (1999), 37-60 (with Pio Baake and Christoph Schenk). Abstract


"Competition among Conventions", Mathematical and Computational Organization Theory, 5 (1999), 31-44.


"Informational Cascades with Continuous Action Spaces", Economics Letters, 60 (1998), 163-166 (with Steffen Huck). Abstract .  


"An Evolutionary Interpretation of Mixed Strategy Equilibria", Games and Economic Behavior, 21 (1997), 203-237. Abstract.


"Decentralization and the Coordination Problem", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 32 (1997), 119-135. Abstract.


"The Absent-Minded Centipede", Economics Letters, 55 (1997), 309-316 (with Uwe Dulleck). Abstract .


"Product Differentiation and the Intensity of Price Competition", Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften (ZWS), 117 (1997), 247-256 (with Pio Baake). 


"Kann man lernen, gemischt zu spielen? - Ein evolutionärer Ansatz", Homo Oeconomicus, XII(1/2) (1995).


"The City vs. Firm Subsidy Game", Regional Science and Urban Economics, 24 (1994), 391-407. 



Book Reviews

"Individual Strategy and Social Structure - An Evolutionary Theory of Institutions" by H. Peyton Young, Journal of Economics 70, (1999), 335-337.


Links to my coauthors
 

Pio Baake

Steffen Huck

Georg Kirchsteiger

Dieter Nautz

Hans-Theo Normann

Frank Riedel

Andreas Roider

Burkhard Schipper

Karl Schlag





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