Unlike previous attempts to implement cooperation in a prisoners’ dilemma gamewith an infinite horizon in the laboratory, we focus on extended prisoners’ dilemmagames in which a second (pure strategy) equilibrium allows for voluntary cooperationin all but the last round. Our four main...

We experimentally investigate how affective processes influence proposers’and responders’ behaviour in the Ultimatum Game. Using a dualsystemapproach, we tax cognitive resources through time pressure andcognitive load to enhance the influence of affective processes on behaviour.We find that...

We investigate experimentally whether entry costs have an impact on the evolutionof cooperation in a social dilemma game. In particular, subjects repeatedly playthe so-called takeover game with anonymous partners randomly drawn from a fixedpopulation of participants. The game represents a social...

It is commonly accepted that face-to-face communication inducescooperation. The experiment disentangles communication and socialeffect (replication of Roth, 1995) and examines the components of thesocial effect with the help of unilateral communication. Results suggestthat separate processes,...

This paper studies the effect of introducing costly partner selection for the voluntarycontribution to a public good. Subjects participate in six sequences offive rounds of a two-person public good game in partner design. At the end ofeach sequence, subjects can select a new partner out of six...

Meine Betrachtung des Problems geht vom Handeln aus: Der Mensch als Wirtschaftssubjekt handelt - zur Vorbereitung des Handelns trifft er Entscheidungen - allein oder in Gemeinschaft mit anderen, dabei zum Teil in Übereinstimmung mit ihnen oder im Gegensatz zu ihnen. Das Ausmaß der Konkurrenz...

... Meine Themenformulierung versucht drei bisher für sichschon behandelte, aber in ihrem Zusammenwirken in der Betriebswirtschaftslehre und vor allem auch in der Wirtschaftsdidaktik noch nicht näher behandelte Probleme in ihrem Zusammenhang für die zukünftige betriebswirtschaftliche...