Publications of Werner Güth

Journal Article (87)

2024
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Di Cagno, D.; Güth, W.; Lohse, T.; Marazzi, F.; Spadoni, L.: Who cares when Value (Mis)reporting may be found out? An Acquiring-a-Company experiment with value messages and information leaks. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 108, 102151 (2024)
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Güth, W.; Marazzi, F.; Panaccione, L.: Exploiting ultimatum power when responders are better informed: Theoretical and experimental analysis of conflict resolution. Journal of Conflict Resolution 68 (2), pp. 381 - 403 (2024)
2023
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Di Cagno, D.; Güth, W.; Panaccione, L.; Scarafile, M.: Proposer and responder conceding in impunity bargaining. Metroeconomica 4 (4), pp. 722 - 747 (2023)
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Güth, W.; Otsubo, H.: When efficiency requires arbitrary discrimination: Theoretical and experimental analysis of equilibrium selection. Games 14 (65) (2023)
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Ackfeld, V.; Güth, W.: Personal information disclosure under competition for benefits: Is sharing caring? Games and Economic Behavior 140, pp. 1 - 32 (2023)
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Alberti, F.; Güth, W.; Tsutsui, K.: Experimental effects of institutionalizing co-determination by a procedurally fair bidding rule. Journal of Business Ethics 184, pp. 445 - 458 (2023)
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Conte, A.; Güth, W.; Pezanis-Christou, P.: Strategic ambiguity and risk in alternating pie-sharing experiments. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 66 (3), pp. 233 - 260 (2023)
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Di Cagno, D.; Güth, W.; Sillari, G.: The better toolbox: Experimental methodology in economics and psychology. Mind & Society (2023)
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Angelova, V.; Güth, W.; Kocher, M.: Leadership in a public goods experiment with permanent and temporary members. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (accepted)
2022
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Avrahami, J.; Güth, W.; Kareev, Y.; Ploner, M.: Impulse balancing versus equilibrium learning an experimental study of competitive portfolio selection. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review 19, pp. 587 - 610 (2022)
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Güth, W.; Napel, S.: Hiding or revealing: Their indirect evolution in the acquiring-a-company game. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review 19, pp. 569 - 585 (2022)
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Bruttel, L. V.; Güth, W.; Nithammer, J.; Orland, A.: Inefficient cooperation under stochastic and strategic uncertainty. The Journal of Conflict Resolution 66 (4), pp. 595 - 951 (2022)
2021
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Crosetto, P.; Güth, W.: What are you calling intuitive? Subject heterogeneity as a driver of response times in an impunity game. Journal of Economic Psychology 87, 102419 (2021)
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Güth, W.: (Un)bounded rationality of decision deliberation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 186, pp. 364 - 372 (2021)
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Güth, W.; Pezanis-Christou, P.: An indirect evolutionary justification of risk neutral bidding in fair division games. International Journal of Game Theory 50, pp. 63 - 74 (2021)
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Güth, W.; Kirchkamp, O.: Believing in corporate social responsibility: An indirect evolutionary analysis. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 177 (2), pp. 167 - 177 (2021)
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Di Cagno, D.; Güth, W.; Pace, N.: Experimental evidence of behavioral improvement by learning and intermediate advice. Theory and Decision 91, pp. 173 - 187 (2021)
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Fischer, S.; Güth, W.; Kaplan, T. R.; Zultan, R.: Auctions with leaks about early birds: Analysis and experimental behavior. Economic Inquiry 59 (2), pp. 722 - 739 (2021)
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Güth, W.; Otsubo, H. ´.: Trust in generosity: An experiment of the repeated Yes–No game. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review 18, pp. 63 - 77 (2021)
2020
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Angelovski, A.; Güth, W.: When to stop — A cardinal secretary search experiment. Journal of Mathematical Psychology 98, 102425 (2020)
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Avrahami, J.; Ezer, A.; Güth, W.; Kardosh, N.; Kareev, Y.; Zak, U.: To be at the tail of the lions or the head of the foxes? Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 33 (2), pp. 121 - 138 (2020)
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Angelovski, A.; Di Cagno, D.; Güth, W.; Marazzi, F.: Telling the other what one knows? Strategic lying in a modified acquiring-a-company experiment with two-sided private information. Theory and Decision 88 (1), pp. 97 - 119 (2020)
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Güth, W.; Stadler, M.; Zaby, A.: Capacity precommitment, communication, and collusive pricing: Theoretical benchmark and experimental evidence. International Journal of Game Theory 49, pp. 495 - 524 (2020)
2019
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Angelovski, A.; Galliera, A.; Güth, W.: Partial Versus General Compulsory Solidarity: an Experimental Analysis. Homo Oeconomicus 36, pp. 249 - 279 (2019)
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Angelovski, A.; Di Cagno, D.; Grieco, D.; Güth, W.: Trusting versus monitoring: an experiment of endogenous institutional choices. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review 16, pp. 329 - 355 (2019)
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Chlaß, N.; Güth, W.; Miettinnen, T.: Purely procedural preferences - Beyond procedural equity and reciprocity. European Journal of Political Economy 59, pp. 108 - 128 (2019)
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Güth, W.; Pull, K.; Stadler, M.; Zaby, A.: Compulsory Disclosure of Private Information: Theoretical and Experimental Results for the Acquiring-a-Company Game. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 175 (3), pp. 502 - 523 (2019)
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Güth, W.; Stadler, M.; Zaby, A.: Coordination Failure in Capacity-then-Price-Setting Games. Homo Oeconomicus 36, pp. 111 - 133 (2019)
2018
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Angelovski, A.; Di Cagno, D.; Güth, W.; Marazzi, F.; Panaccione, L.: Behavioral spillovers in local public good provision: an experimental study. Journal of Economic Psychology 67, pp. 116 - 134 (2018)
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Angelovski, A.; Di Cagno, D.; Güth, W.; Marazzi, F.; Panaccione, L.: Does heterogeneity spoil the basket? The role of productivity and feedback information on public good provision. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 77, pp. 40 - 49 (2018)
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Bruttel, L.; Güth, W.: Asymmetry voluntary cooperation – A repeated sequential best shot experiment. Journal of Conflict Resolution 47, pp. 873 - 891 (2018)
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Di Cagno, D.; Galliera, A.; Güth, W.; Panaccione, L.: Intention-based sharing. Games 9 (2), 22 (2018)
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Di Cagno, D.; Galliera, A.; Güth, W.; Panaccione, L.: Gender Differences in Yielding to Social Influence: An Impunity Experiment. Games 9 (4), 86 (2018)
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Engel, C.; Güth, W.: Modeling a Satisficing Judge. Rationality and Society 30 (2), pp. 220 - 246 (2018)
2017
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Alberti, F.; Fischer, S.; Güth, W.; Tsutsui, K.: Concession Bargaining – An Experimental Comparison of Protocols and Time Horizons. The Journal of Conflict Resolution 62 (9), pp. 2017 - 2039 (2017)
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Avrahami, J.; Güth, W.; Kareev, Y.; Uske, T.: On the Incentive Effects of Sample Size in Monitoring Agents - A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis. German Economic Review 18 (1), pp. 91 - 98 (2017)
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Di Cagnio, D.; Galliera, A.; Güth, W.; Pace, N.; Panaccione, L.: Experience and Gender Effects in Acquisition Experiment with Value Messages. Small Business Economics 48, pp. 71 - 97 (2017)
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Di Cagno, D.; Galliera, A.; Güth, W.; Marzo, F.; Pace, N.: (Sub) Optimality and (non) optimal satisficing in risky decision experiments. Theory and Decision 83 (2), pp. 195 - 243 (2017)
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Di Cagno, D.; Galliera, A.; Güth, W.; Pace, N.: Behavioral Patterns and Reduction of Sub-Optimality: An Experimental Choice Analysis. Theory and Decision 85, pp. 151 - 177 (2017)
2016
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Güth, W.; Ploner, M.: Mentally perceiving how means achieve ends. Rationality and Society (2016)
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Berninghaus, S. K.; Güth, W.; Klempt, C.; Pull, K.: Assessing Mental Models via Recording Decision Deliberations of Pairs. Homo Oeconomicus (2016)
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Brosig-Koch, J.; Güth, W.; Weiland, T.: Comparing the effectiveness of collusion devices in first-price procurement: An auction experiment. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review 13, pp. 269 - 295 (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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Di Cagnio, D.; Galliera, A.; Güth, W.; Panaccione, L.: A Hybrid Public Good Experiment Eliciting Multi-Dimensional Choice Data. Journal of Economic Psychology 56, pp. 20 - 38 (2016)
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Di Cagno, D.; Galliera, A.; Güth, W.; Pace, N.; Panaccione, L.: Make-up and suspicion in bargaining with cheap talk: An experiment controlling for gender and gender constellation. Theory and Decision 80 (3), pp. 463 - 471 (2016)
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Felli, C.; Güth, W.; Mata-Pérez, E.; Ponti, G.: Ultimatum Concession Bargaining: An Experimental Study. Journal of Conflict Resolution 85, pp. 151 - 177 (2016)
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Gehrig, T.; Güth, W.; Levinsky, R.: On the value of transparency and information acquisition. German Economic Review 17 (3), pp. 337 - 358 (2016)
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Güth, W.; Häger, K.; Kirchkamp, O.; Schwalbach, J.: Testing Forbearance Experimentally: Duopolistic Competition of Conglomerate Firms. International Journal of the Economics of Business 23 (1), pp. 63 - 86 (2016)
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Güth, W.; Levati, M. V.; Nardi, C.; Soraperra, I.: An ultimatum game with multidimensional response strategies. Review of Behavioral Economics 3 (3/4), pp. 281 - 310 (2016)
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Güth, W.; Levínský, R.; Pull, K.; Weisel, O.: Tournaments and piece rates revisited: a theoretical and experimental study of output-dependent prize tournaments. Review of Economic Design 20 (1), pp. 69 - 88 (2016)
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Güth, W.; Ploner, M.; Soraperra, I.: Buying and Selling Risk: An Experiment Investigating Evaluation Asymmetries. Review of Behavioral Economics 3 (3/4), pp. 389 - 419 (2016)
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Güth, W.; Pull, K.; Stadler, M.; Zaby, A.: Blindfolded Ultimatum Bargaining – a theoretical and experimental analysis. German Economic Review (2016)
2015
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Bäker, A.; Güth, W.; Pull, K.; Stadler, M.: The willingness to pay for partial vs. universal equality: Insights from three-person envy games. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 56 (0), pp. 55 - 61 (2015)
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Cicognani, S.; D'Ambrosio, A.; Güth, W.; Pfuderer, S.; Ploner, M.: Community projects: An experimental analysis of a fair implementation process. Social Choice and Welfare 44 (1), pp. 109 - 132 (2015)
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Güth, W.: Collectively ranking candidates via bidding in procedurally fair ways. Theory and Decision. Theory and Decision 78 (1), pp. 23 - 31 (2015)
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Güth, W.; Kliemt, H.: How to cope with (new) uncertainties: A bounded rationality approach. Economics ejournal, No. 2015-46 (2015)
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Güth, W.; Kliemt, H.: Response to referee reports and comments on “How to cope with (new) uncertainties”: A bounded rationality approach. Economics ejournal, 2015-46 (2015)
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Güth, W.; Kliemt, H.: How to cope with (new) uncertainties: A bounded rationality approach. Homo Oeconomicus 34, No. 2015-46, pp. 343 - 359 (2015)
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Güth, W.; Kocher, M. G.: More than thirty years of ultimatum bargaining experiments: Motives, variations, and a survey of the recent literature. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108, pp. 396 - 409 (2015)
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Güth, W.; Levatia, M. V.; Soraperrab, I.: Common and private signals in public goods games with a point of no return. Resource and Energy Economics 41, pp. 164 - 184 (2015)
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Güth, W.; Pezanis-Christou, P.: Believing in correlated types in spite of independence: An indirect evolutionary analysis. Economics Letters 134, pp. 1 - 3 (2015)
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Güth, W.; Pull, K.; Stadler, M.: Delegation, worker compensation, and strategic competition. Journal of Business Economics 85 (1), pp. 1 - 13 (2015)
2014
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Bäker, A.; Güth, W.; Pull, K.; Stadler, M.: Entitlement and the efficiency-equality trade-off: an experimental study. Theory and Decision 76 (2), pp. 225 - 240 (2014)
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Berninghaus, S. K.; Güth, W.; Schosser, S.: Backward Induction or Forward Reasoning ?– An Experiment of Stochastic Alternating Offer Bargaining. International Game Theory Review 16 (01) (2014)
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Bruttel, L. V.; Stolley, F.; Güth, W.; Kliemt, H.; Bosworth, S.; Bartke, S.; Schnellenbach, J.; Weimann, J.; Haupt, M.; Funk, L.: Nudging als politisches Instrument — gute Absicht oder staatlicher Übergriff? Wirtschaftsdienst 94 (11), pp. 767 - 791 (2014)
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Freytag, A.; Güth, W.; Koppel, H.; Wangler, L.: Is regulation by milestones efficiency enhancing? An experimental study of environmental protection. European Journal of Political Economy 33, pp. 71 - 84 (2014)
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Güth, W.: Institutional Regulation of Public Provision. Review of Law & Economics 10 (1), pp. 81 - 94 (2014)
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Güth, W.: Endogenous community formation and collective provision–A procedurally fair mechanism. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108, pp. 389 - 395 (2014)
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Güth, W.: Observing Mental Modeling-Methods and Results. Review of Behavioral Economics 1 (1-2), pp. 99 - 114 (2014)
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Güth, W.; Koukoumelis, A.; Levati, M. V.; Ploner, M.: Providing revenue-generating projects under a fair mechanism: An experimental analysis. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108, pp. 410 - 419 (2014)
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Güth, W.; Levati, M. V.; Montinari, N.: Ranking alternatives by a fair bidding rule: A theoretical and experimental analysis. European Journal of Political Economy 34, pp. 206 - 221 (2014)
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Güth, W.; Pull, K.; Stadler, M.: Delegation, worker compensation, and strategic competition. Journal of Business Economics 85, pp. 1 - 13 (2014)
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Güth, W.; Pull, K.; Stadler, M.; Zaby, A.: Endogenous price leadership – A theoretical and experimental analysis. Journal of economic behavior & organization 108, pp. 420 - 432 (2014)
2012
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Fischer, S.; Güth, W.: Effects of exclusion on acceptance in ultimatum games. Journal of Economic Psychology 33, pp. 1100 - 1114 (2012)
2011
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Büchner, S.; Miller, L. M.; Güth, W.: Individually selecting among conventions - an evolutionary and experimental analysis. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 21, p. 285 (2011)
2009
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Nicklisch, A.; Cantner, U.; Güth, W.; Weiland, T.: Competition in product design: An experiment exploring innovation behavior. Metroeconomica 60, pp. 724 - 752 (2009)
2008
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Büchner, S.; Gonzalez, L. G.; Güth, W.; Freytag, A.: Bribery and Public Procurement: An experimental study. Public Choice 137, pp. 103 - 117 (2008)
2007
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Fischer, S.; Güth, W.; Pull, K.: Evolution in imperfect commitment bargaining – strategic versus ignorant types. Metroeconomica 58, pp. 299 - 309 (2007)
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Fischer, S.; Güth, W.; Pull, K.: Is there As-if Bargaining? Journal of Socio-Economics 36, pp. 546 - 560 (2007)
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Güth, W.; Levati, M. V.; Sutter, M.; van der Heijden, E.: Leading by example with and without exclusion power in voluntary contribution experiments. Journal of Public Economics 91 (5/6), pp. 1023 - 1042 (2007)
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Güth, W.; Nikiforakis, N.; Normann, H.-T.: Vertical Cross-Shareholding: Theory and Experimental Evidence. International Journal of Industrial Organization 27, pp. 69 - 89 (2007)
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Güth, W.; Schmidt, C.; Sutter, M.: Bargaining outside the lab – a newspaper experiment of a three-person ultimatum game. The Economic Journal 117 (518), pp. 449 - 469 (2007)
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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Fischer, S.; Güth, W.; Müller, W.; Stiehler, A.: From ultimatum to nash bargaining: Theory and experimental evidence. Experimental Economics 9, pp. 17 - 33 (2006)
2004
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Büchner, S.; Gonzalez, L. G.; Güth, W.; Levati, V.: Incentive contracts versus trust in three-person ultimatum games: An experimental study. European Journal of Political Economy 20, pp. 673 - 694 (2004)
2001
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Güth, W.; Ivanova-Stenzel, R.; Sutter, M.; Weck-Hannemann, H.: The prize but also the price may be high: An experimental study of family bargaining. Environment and Wellbeing. Conference Proceedings of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP), pp. 105 - 108 (2001)
1986
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Hellwig, M.; Güth, W.: The Private Supply of a Public Good. Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie 5, pp. 121 - 159 (1986)

Book Chapter (15)

2023
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Alberti, F.; Güth, W.; Kliemt, H.; Tsutsui, K.: Egalitarian collective decisions as ‘good’ corporate governance? In: Advances in Collective Decision Making. Interdisciplinary Perspectives for the 21st Century, pp. 173 - 188 (Eds. Kurz, S.; Maaser, N.; Mayer, A.) (2023)
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Güth, W.; Käser, J.; Schulze, M.: Multiple selves instead of intra-personal payoff aggregation. In: Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing (accepted)
2022
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Güth, W.; Käser, J.; Schulze, M.: Ultimatum (-like) Games: Their rules and experimental findings. In: Elgar Encyclopedia of Experimental Social Science. Edward Elgar Publishing (accepted)
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Güth, W.; Kliemt, H.: L’abstraction: The example of equity in the laboratory. In: Markt, Staat, Gesellschaft - Eine Festschrift für Richard Sturn (Eds. Dujmovits, R.; Fehr, E.; Gehrke, C.; Kurz, H. D.). metropolis (2022)
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Güth, W.; Tietz, R.: Experimentelle Verhaltensforschung. In: Evolutorische Ökonomik, pp. 375 - 383 (Ed. Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, M.). Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden (2022)
2017
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Güth, W.; Kliemt, H.: Corporate Social Responsibility. In: Handbook on the economics of social responsibility: individuals, corporations and institutions (Eds. Degli Sacconi, L.; Antoni, G.). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (accepted)
2016
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Güth, W.: Mechanism Design and the Law. In: Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics (Ed. Parisi, F.) (accepted)
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Güth, W.: Experimental Economics – A philosophical Perspective. In: Oxford Handbook of Philosophy (2016)
2015
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Güth, W.; Kliemt, H.: Behaviorism, optimization and policy advice. In: Behavioral Economics und Wirtschaftspolitik, Schriften zu Ordnungsfragen der Wirtschaft, Vol. 100, pp. 53 - 66 (Eds. Müller, C.; Otter, N.). Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart (2015)
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Güth, W.; Kliemt, H.: Experts and evidence in economic policy. In: Reformen und ihre politisch-ökonomischen Fallstricke, Vol. 14, pp. 35 - 54 (Eds. Held, M.; Kubon-Gilke, G.; Sturm, R.) (2015)
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Güth, W.; Kliemt, H.; Koukoumelis, A.; Levati, M. V.; Ploner, M.: Procedurally fair collective provision: its requirements and experimental functionality. In: Entwicklung und Perspektiven der Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Vol. 41, pp. 357 - 377 (Eds. Ramser; Stadler). Tübingen (2015)
2014
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Güth, W.; de Jasay, A.; Kliemt, H.: Who will guard the guardians? In: The collected papers of Anthony de Jasay: Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick, pp. 164 - 172 (Ed. Kliemt, H.). Liberty Fund, Indianapolis (2014)
2009
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Fischer, S.; Güth, W.; Köhler, C.: Effects of Profitable Downsizing on Collective Bargaining. In: Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung, Vol. 38, pp. 223 - 248. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen (2009)
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