Individual willingness to enter competitive environments predicts career choices and labor market outcomes. Meanwhile, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help explain individual...

If taxpayers believe past rates of compliance are indicative of the future, traditional measures for combating tax evasion can be compromised. We present evidence from a novel laboratory experiment with strategic complementarities showing that a history of low compliance can render a major...

In the first paper we give a holistic overview and comparison of all risk elicitation methods used today, and recommend that a derivation of Holt and Laury’s (2002) well-known method, where the high payoff instead of the probabilites are varied, should be used as it emerges as the best method...

In the second paper I analyze a three-player variant of Hotelling's (1929) influential locational choice model experimentally and theoretically, where entry is sequential instead of simultaneous. I find that first, Duverger’s Law (1959) is robust to violations of the gametheoretical prediction...

The third paper investigates the role of beliefs on job choice in the labor market, and we find in an experiment that women of high productivity too often sort into jobs that would be ideal for workers of low productivity. We identify wrong productivity beliefs as the source of this detrimental...