All Outputs (7)

Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition (2017)
Journal Article
Gaechter, S., Huang, L., & Sefton, M. (2018). Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition. Economic Inquiry, 56(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12498

We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition. Specifically, we study the contribution of social comparison effects to the disappointment aversion previously identified in a two-... Read More about Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition.

Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons (2017)
Journal Article
Gaechter, S., Kölle, F., & Quercia, S. (2017). Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0191-5

Social cooperation often requires collectively beneficial but individually costly restraint to maintain a public good, or it needs costly generosity to create one. Status quo effects predict that maintaining a public good is easier than providing a n... Read More about Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons.

Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion (2017)
Journal Article
Cubitt, R., Gaechter, S., & Quercia, S. (2017). Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 141, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.06.013

We investigate whether there is an association between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion, two phenomena that we conjecture share common psychological characteristics despite having been studied largely separately in the previous literatur... Read More about Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion.

The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing (2017)
Journal Article
Gaechter, S., Gerhards, L., & Nosenzo, D. (2017). The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing. European Economic Review, 97, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.06.001

A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are obser... Read More about The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing.

Occasional errors can benefit coordination (2017)
Journal Article
Gaechter, S. (2017). Occasional errors can benefit coordination. Nature, 545, https://doi.org/10.1038/545297a

The chances solving a problem that involves coordination between people are increased by introducing robotic players that sometimes make mistakes. This finding has implications for real-world coordination problems.

Conducting interactive experiments online (2017)
Journal Article
Arechar, A. A., Gaechter, S., & Molleman, L. (2018). Conducting interactive experiments online. Experimental Economics, 21(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-017-9527-2

Online labor markets provide new opportunities for behavioral research, but conducting economic experiments online raises important methodological challenges. This particularly holds for interactive designs. In this paper, we provide a methodological... Read More about Conducting interactive experiments online.

Growth and inequality in public good provision (2017)
Journal Article
Gaechter, S., Mengel, F., Tsakas, E., & Vostroknutov, A. (2017). Growth and inequality in public good provision. Journal of Public Economics, 150, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.03.002

In a novel experimental design we study public good games with dynamic interdependencies, where each agent’s wealth at the end of period t serves as her endowment in t + 1. In this setting growth and inequality arise endogenously allowing us to addre... Read More about Growth and inequality in public good provision.