Approximate truth refers to the principle that border cases should be analyzed by solving generic cases and solving border cases as limits of generic ones (Brennan et al., 2008). Our study experimentally explores whether this conceptual principle is also behaviorally appealing. To do so, we...

In a duopoly market, aspiration levels express how much sellers want to earn given their expectations about the other's behavior. We augment the sellers' decision task by eliciting their profit aspiration. In a first experimental phase, whenever satisficing is not possible, sales choices, point...

Facing a stochastic market wage, which is independent of their own hiring policy, employers offer contracts specifying fixed wage, revenue share and employment duration. In ongoing employment relations it depends on the treatment whether fixed wages can be only increased or also decreased. Will...

Das vorliegende Buch ist ein einführender Text in die nicht-kooperative Spieltheorie, der in erster Linie diejenigen Studenten im vertiefenden Teil des Bachelor Studiums oder des Master Studiums ansprechen soll, die Freude an präziser Modellierung haben. Neben den Grundlagen der Normalform-...