Publications of Christoph Engel

Journal Article (155)

2024
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Engel, C.; Zamir, E.: Is transparency a blessing or a curse? An experimental horse race between accountability and extortionary corruption. International Review of Law and Economics 78, 106189 (2024)
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Engel, C.; Mittone, L.; Morreale, A.: Outcomes or participation? Experimentally testing competing sources of legitimacy for taxation. Economic Inquiry 62 (2), pp. 563 - 583 (2024)
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Engel, C.; Linhardt, L.; Schubert, M.: Code is law: How COMPAS affects the way the judiciary handles the risk of recidivism. Artificial Intelligence and Law (2024)
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Engel, C.; Rockenbach, B.: What makes cooperation precarious? Journal of Economic Psychology (accepted)
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Engel, C.; Bar-Gill, O.: Bounded cognition and the taking of personal property: An experiment. American Law and Economics Review (accepted)
2023
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Engel, C.: How little does it take to trigger a peer effect? An experiment on crime as conditional rule violation. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 60 (4), pp. 455 - 492 (2023)
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Engel, C.; Helland, E.: Does the fundamental transformation deter trade? An experiment. American Law and Economics Review (accepted)
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Engel, C.: Do not draw a black ball from the justice lottery. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 179 (1), pp. 118 - 120 (2023)
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Engel, C.: Hide and seek in the judiciary. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 179 (1), pp. 152 - 155 (2023)
2022
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Engel, C.: Lucky you: Your case is heard by a seasoned panel; panel effects in the German constitutional court. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 19 (4), pp. 1179 - 1221 (2022)
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Engel, C.; Goerg, S.; Traxler, C.: Intensified support for juvenile offenders on probation: Evidence from Germany. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 19, pp. 447 - 490 (2022)
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Engel, C.; Weinshall, K.: Diffusion of legal innovations. Annual Review of Law and Social Science 18, pp. 139 - 152 (2022)
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Engel, C.: Grundrechtskonjunkturen. Juristenzeitung 77 (12), pp. 593 - 599 (2022)
2021
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Zamir, E.; Engel, C.: Sunlight is the best disinfectant – or is it? Anonymity as a means to enhance impartiality. Arizona Law Review 63 (4), pp. 1063 - 1087 (2021)
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Engel, C.: Challenges in the interdisciplinary use of comparative law. American Journal of Comparative Law 69, pp. 777 - 797 (2021)
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Engel, C.: The impact of behavioral economics on the law: Introduction. Review of Law & Economics 17 (2), pp. 241 - 251 (2021)
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Engel, C.; Grgić-Hlača, N.: Machine advice with a warning about machine limitations: Experimentally testing the solution mandated by the Wisconsin supreme court. Journal of Legal Analysis 13 (1), pp. 284 - 340 (2021)
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Engel, C.; Kube, S.; Kurschilgen, M.: Managing expectations: How selective information affects cooperation and punishment in social dilemma games. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 187, pp. 111 - 136 (2021)
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Engel, C.; Desmet, P.: People are conditional rule followers. Journal of Economic Psychology 85, 102384 (2021)
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Parisi, F.; Engel, C.: A note on the article by Mark Ramseyer, published in RLE 2020. Review of Law & Economics 17 (1), p. 239 - 239 (2021)
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Engel, C.; van Lange, P.: Social mindfulness is normative when costs are low, but rapidly declines with increases in costs. Judgment and Decision Making 16, pp. 290 - 322 (2021)
2020
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Engel, C.; Kurschilgen, M.: The fragility of a nudge: The power of self-set norms to contain a social dilemma. Journal of Economic Psychology 81, 102293 (2020)
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Engel, C.; Mittone, L.; Morreale, A.: Tax morale and fairness in conflict: An experiment. Journal of Economic Psychology 81, 102314 (2020)
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Engel, C.; Weinshall, K.: Manna from heaven for judges: Judges’ reaction to a quasi-random reduction in caseload. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 17 (4), pp. 722 - 751 (2020)
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Engel, C.: Estimating heterogeneous reactions to experimental treatments. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 178, pp. 124 - 147 (2020)
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Engel, C.; Timme, S.; Glöckner, A.: Coherence-based reasoning and order effects in legal judgments. Psychology, Public Policy and the Law 26 (3), pp. 333 - 352 (2020)
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Engel, C.: Uncertain judges. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 176 (1), pp. 44 - 47 (2020)
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Engel, C.; Schweizer, U.: Causality in the law and in the social science. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 176 (1), pp. 1 - 3 (2020)
2019
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Cerrone, C.; Engel, C.: Deciding on Behalf of Others Does Not Mitigate Selfishness: An Experiment. Economics Letters 183, 108616 (2019)
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Engel, C.: The accuracy–discrimination trade-off. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 175 (1), pp. 123 - 125 (2019)
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Engel, C.: When Does Transparency Backfire? Putting Jeremy Bentham’s Theory of General Prevention to the Experimental Test. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 16, pp. 881 - 908 (2019)
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Engel, C.; Kirchkamp, O.: How to Deal with Inconsistent Choices on Multiple Price Lists. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 160, pp. 138 - 197 (2019)
2018
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Bar-Gill, O.; Engel, C.: How to Protect Entitlements: An Experiment. Journal of Law and Economics 61 (3), pp. 525 - 553 (2018)
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Engel, C.: Empirical Methods for the Law. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 174, pp. 5 - 23 (2018)
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Engel, C.: Empirical Legal Studies: CELS and CELSE. Review of Law & Economics (2018)
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Engel, C.; Goerg, S. J.: If the Worst Comes to the Worst. Dictator Giving When Recipient’s Endowments are Risky. European Economic Review 105, pp. 51 - 70 (2018)
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Engel, C.; Güth, W.: Modeling a Satisficing Judge. Rationality and Society 30 (2), pp. 220 - 246 (2018)
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Engel, C.; Klement, A.; Weinshall, K.: Diffusion of Legal Innovations: The Case of Israeli Class Actions. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 15 (4), pp. 708 - 731 (2018)
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Engel, C.; Schweizer, U.: Editorial: Empirical Methods for the Law. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 174, pp. 5 - 4 (2018)
2017
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Buijze, R.; Engel, C.; Hemels, S.: Insuring Your Donation – An Experiment. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 14 (4), pp. 858 - 885 (2017)
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Engel, C.: The Hidden Cost of Compensation. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 173, pp. 106 - 109 (2017)
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Engel, C.; Chmura, T.; Englerth, M.: At the Mercy of a Prisoner. Three Dictator Experiments. Applied Economics Letters 24, pp. 774 - 778 (2017)
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Engel, C.; Heine, K.: The Dark Side of Price Cap Regulation. A Lab Experiment. Public Choice 173 (1-2), pp. 217 - 240 (2017)
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Engel, C.; Schweizer, U.: Editorial Preface. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 173 (1), pp. 1 - 3 (2017)
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Engel, C.; Zhurakhovska, L.: You Are In Charge – Experimentally Testing the Motivating Power of Holding a Judicial Office. Journal of Legal Studies 46 (1), pp. 1 - 50 (2017)
2016
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Bünstorf, G.; Engel, C.; Fischer, S.; Güth, W.: Non-Compete Clauses, Employee Effort and Spin-off Entrepreneurship: A Laboratory Experiment. Research Policy 45, pp. 2113 - 2124 (2016)
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Eisenberg, T.; Engel, C.: Unpacking Negligence Liability: Experimentally Testing the Governance Effect. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 13 (1), pp. 116 - 152 (2016)
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Engel, C.: Does Class Action Have a Deterrent Effect? Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 172, pp. 104 - 107 (2016)
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Engel, C.: A Random Shock Is Not Random Assignment. Economics Letters 145, pp. 45 - 47 (2016)
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Engel, C.; Bar-Gill, O.: Bargaining in the Absence of Property Rights. An Experiment. Journal of Law and Economics 59 (2), pp. 477 - 495 (2016)
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Engel, C.; Goerg, S.; Yu, G.: Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Punishment Regimes for Collusive Bribery. American Law and Economics Review 18, V00 N0 2016, pp. 506 - 556 (2016)
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Engel, C.; Hamann, H.: The Hog Cycle of Law Professors. An Econometric Time Series Analysis of the Entry-level Job Market in Legal Academia. PLOS One 11 (7), e0159815 (2016)
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Engel, C.; Zhurakhovska, L.: When is the Risk of Cooperation Worth Taking? The Prisoner’s Dilemma as a Game of Multiple Motives. Applied Economics Letters 23 (16), pp. 1157 - 1161 (2016)
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Hertwig, R.; Engel, C.: Homo Ignorans – Deliberately Choosing Not to Know. Perspectives on Psychological Science 11 (3), pp. 359 - 372 (2016)
2015
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Betsch, T.; Lindow, S.; Engel, C.; Ulshöfer, C.; Kleber, J.: Has The World Changed? My Neighbor Might Know Effects of Social Context on Routine Deviation. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 28 (1), pp. 50 - 66 (2015)
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Engel, C.: Randomized Information about the Law as an Instrument. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 171, pp. 171 - 175 (2015)
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Engel, C.: Scientific Disintegrity as a Public Bad. Perspectives on Psychological Science 10, pp. 361 - 379 (2015)
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Engel, C.: Tacit Collusion – The Neglected Experimental Evidence. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 12 (3), pp. 537 - 577 (2015)
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Engel, C.; Fairfield, J.: Privacy as a Public Good. Duke Law Journal 65 (3), pp. 385 - 457 (2015)
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Engel, C.; Kleine, M.: Who Is Afraid of Pirates? An Experiment on the Deterrence of Innovation by Imitation. Research Policy 44 (1), pp. 20 - 33 (2015)
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Engel, C.; Nagin, D.: Who is Afraid of the Stick? Experimentally Testing the Deterrent Effect of Sanction Certainty. Review of Behavioral Economics 2 (4), pp. 405 - 434 (2015)
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Engel, C.; Pluta, A.: The People’s Hired Guns? Experimentally Testing the Motivating Force of a Legal Frame. International Review of Law and Economics 43, pp. 67 - 82 (2015)
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Engel, C.; Schweizer, U.: Does the Law Deliver? Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (32th International Seminar on the New Institutional Economics) 171 (1), pp. 1 - 5 (2015)
2014
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Beckenkamp, M.; Engel, C.; Glöckner, A.; Irlenbusch, B.; Hennig-Schmidt, H.; Kube, S.; Kurschilgen, M.; Morell, A.; Nicklisch, A.; Normann, H.-T. et al.; Towfigh, E. V.: First Impressions are More Important than Early Intervention. Qualifying Broken Windows Theory in the Lab. International Review of Law and Economics 37, pp. 126 - 136 (2014)
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Engel, C.: A Dynamic View on Justification: Comment. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 170, pp. 189 - 192 (2014)
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Engel, C.: Social Preferences Can Make Imperfect Sanctions Work: Evidence from a Public Good Experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 108, pp. 343 - 353 (2014)
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Engel, C.: What Makes Intervention Legitimate? Editorial Preface. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 170, pp. 1 - 4 (2014)
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Engel, C.; Eisenberg, T.: Assuring Civil Damages Adequately Deter: A Public Good Experiment. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 11, pp. 301 - 349 (2014)
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Engel, C.; Moffat, P. G.: dhreg, xtdhreg, bootdhreg: Programs to Implement Double Hurdle Regression. Stata Journal 14, pp. 778 - 797 (2014)
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Engel, C.; Rand, D.: What Does "Clean" Really Mean? The Implicit Framing of Decontextualized Experiments. Economics Letters 122, pp. 386 - 389 (2014)
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Engel, C.; Zhurakhovska, L.: Conditional Cooperation With Negative Externalities – An Experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 108, pp. 252 - 260 (2014)
2013
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Engel, C.: Nudged to Be Consistent. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 169, pp. 45 - 48 (2013)
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Engel, C.; Glöckner, A.: Role Induced Bias in Court: An Experimental Analysis. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 26, pp. 272 - 284 (2013)
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Engel, C.; Kurschilgen, M.: The Coevolution of Behavior and Normative Expectations. Customary Law in the Lab. American Law and Economics Review 15 (2), pp. 578 - 609 (2013)
2012
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Engel, C.: Fair Exclusion. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 168, pp. 171 - 175 (2012)
2011
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Engel, C.: Contract as Exposure to Attack. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 167, pp. 72 - 76 (2011)
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Engel, C.: The Emergence of a New Rule of Customary Law: An Experimental Contribution. Review of Law and Economics 7, pp. 767 - 789 (2011)
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Engel, C.: When is Intellectual Property Needed as a Carrot for Innovators? Journal of Competition Law and Economics 7, pp. 277 - 299 (2011)
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Engel, C.; Fleischer, H.; Zimmer, D.: Die Bedeutung der Verhaltensökonomie für das Kartellrecht. Beitrag der Verhaltensökonomie (Behavioral Economics) zum Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht (Beiheft der Zeitschrift für das gesamte Handelsrecht und Wirtschaftsrecht 75, pp. 100 - 121 (2011)
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Engel, C.; Kurschilgen, M.: Fairness Ex Ante & Ex Post: Experimentally Testing Ex Post Judicial Intervention into Blockbuster Deals. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 8, pp. 682 - 708 (2011)
2010
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Engel, C.: The Multiple Uses of Experimental Evidence in Legal Scholarship. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 166, pp. 199 - 202 (2010)
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Engel, C.: The Behaviour of Corporate Actors. A Survey of the Empirical Literature. Journal of Institutional Economics 6, pp. 445 - 475 (2010)
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Engel, C.; Glöckner, A.; Schönfeldt, K.: Informationsverzerrungen bei rechtlichen Entscheidungen. Richter ohne Robe 22, pp. 135 - 136 (2010)
2009
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Engel, C.: Erga Omnes. Why does Public International Law Ignore Privity of Contract. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (26th International Seminar on the New Institutional Economics) 165, pp. 24 - 28 (2009)
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Engel, C.: Preponderance of the Evidence Versus Intime Conviction. A Behavioral Perspective on a Conflict Between American and Continental European Law. Vermont Law Review 33, pp. 435 - 467 (2009)
2008
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Engel, C.: Governments in Dilemma. A Game Theoretic Model for the Conclusion of Bilateral Investment Treaties. University of Illinois Law Review, pp. 305 - 318 (2008)
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Engel, C.: Poor Judicial Performance: When Should the Parties Care? Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 164, pp. 95 - 98 (2008)
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Engel, C.: REITs ante portas - Die Anpassung des deutschen Rechts an institutionelle Investoren in den Grundstücks- und Mietmärkten. Juristenzeitung 63, pp. 1027 - 1031 (2008)
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Engel, C.: REITs ante portas: Adapting German Law to the Advent of Institutional Investors in Real Estate Markets. Juristenzeitung 63, pp. 1027 - 1031 (2008)
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Engel, C.; Lüdemann, J.: Die technische Seite der Verbreitung öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks in digitalisierten Kabelnetzen. Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht 52, pp. 904 - 916 (2008)
2007
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Engel, C.: The Cognitive Effect of a Minimum Wage. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 163, pp. 52 - 55 (2007)
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Engel, C.: Exclusionary Bundling and the Effects of a Competitive Fringe. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 163, pp. 133 - 137 (2007)
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Engel, C.: Competition in a Pure World of Internet Telephony. Telecommunications Policy 31, pp. 530 - 540 (2007)
2006
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Engel, C.: Vom Wert der Jurisprudenz als einer politischen Wissenschaft. Juristenzeitung 61 (22), pp. 1118 - 1119 (2006)
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Engel, C.; Güth, W.: Corporate Culture as a Resource for Management: Comment. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 162, pp. 97 - 100 (2006)
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Engel, C.; Verweij, M.; Thompson, M.; Douglas, M.; Richard, E.; Hendriks, F.; Lohmann, S.; Ney, S.; Rayner, S.: Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World. The Case of Climate Change. Public Administration 84, pp. 817 - 843 (2006)
2005
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Engel, C.: General and Specific Rules: Comment. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 161, pp. 350 - 354 (2005)
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Engel, C.: Zuschaueranteile in der publizistischen Konzentrationskontrolle. Grenzwert oder bloß ein Indiz unter vielen? Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht 49, pp. 776 - 782 (2005)
2004
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Engel, C.: Give the Journals Back to the Scientists. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 160, pp. 35 - 38 (2004)
2003
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Engel, C.: Die Internet-Service-Provider als Geiseln deutscher Ordnungsbehörden. Eine Kritik an den Verfügungen der Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf. Multimedia und Recht, Beilage 6, pp. 1 - 35 (2003)
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