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Can we manage first impressions in cooperation problems? An experimental study on "Broken (and Fixed) Windows"

Engel, Christoph; Kube, Sebastian; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2011

Cooperation problems are at the heart of many everyday situations. In this paper, we propose a very simple and light-handed mechanism to sustain cooperation and test its performance in a rich laboratory environment. The mechanism moderates cooperation by controlling experiences, more...

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Learning the Law

Engel, Christoph - 2012

psychology of learning, and work from social scientists on learning. The paper makes the following claim: typically the law … reaches its addressees indirectly. The law is not followed, it is learned. There are two distinct learning objects. Throughout … take the form of schema-like social mirror rules, or of exemplars. Learning also is the key to understanding how …

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When is the risk of cooperation worth taking? The prisoner's dilemma as a game of multiple motives

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2013

Both in the field and in the lab, participants frequently cooperate, despite the fact that the situation can be modelled as a simultaneous, symmetric prisoner's dilemma. This experiment manipulates the payoff in case both players defect, and explains the degree of cooperation by a combination of...

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We are not alone: the impact of externalities on public good provision

Engel, Christoph; Rockenbach, Bettina - 2009

Providing public goods is hard, because providers are best off free-riding. Is it even harder if one group's public good is a public bad for another group or, conversely, gives the latter a windfall profit? We experimentally study public goods provision embedded in a social context and find that...

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We Are Not Alone: The Impact of Externalities on Public Good Provision

Rockenbach, Bettina; Engel, Christoph - 2010

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Behavioral law and economics : empirical methods

Engel, Christoph - 2013

Originally, behavioral law and economics was an exercise in exploring the implications of key findings from behavioral economics (and psychology) for the analysis and reform of legal institutions. Yet as the new discipline matures, it increasingly replaces foreign evidence by fresh evidence,...

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Experimental criminal law : a survey of contributions from law, economics and criminology

Engel, Christoph - 2016

In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in experimental economics, and an experimental criminology. These three disciplines have surprisingly little interaction. The current paper surveys the rich evidence, and discusses the...

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Experimental Criminal Law. A Survey of Contributions from Law, Economics and Criminology

Engel, Christoph - 2016

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Behaviorally efficient remedies : an experiment

Engel, Christoph; Freund, Lars - 2017

Under common law, the standard remedy for breach of contract is expectation damages. Under continental law, the standard is specific performance. The common law solution is ex post efficient. But is it also ex ante efficient? We use experimental methods to test whether knowing that...

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How to protect entitlements : an experiment

Bar-Gill, Oren; Engel, Christoph - 2017

In a full-information, zero transactions costs world, the degree of protection afforded to an entitlement does not affect the likelihood of efficient trade. In reality, imperfect information is often inevitable. Specifically, a party will usually have incomplete information about fairness norms...

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