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Publications Dennis A. V. Dittrich

Refereed Journal Articles

  • An Empirical Study of Age Discrimination in Norway and Germany. Applied Economics, forthcoming (accepted 2006). (with Victoria Buesch and Svenn-Aage Dahl)
  • Individual and Collective Choice and Voting in Common Pool Resource Problems with Heterogenous Actors. Environmental and Resource Economics, 2005, 32(2), 241-271. (with Magdalena Margreiter, Matthias Sutter)
  • Overconfidence in investment decisions: An experimental approach. European Journal of Finance, 2005, 11(6), 471-491. (with Werner Gueth, Boris Maciejovsky)

Chapter in Books

  • Comment on Siegfried K. Berningshaus, Evolution of Conventions — Some Theoretical and Experimental Aspects. In: The Political Economy of Institutional Evolution. Holler, M., Kliemt, H., Schmidtchen, D. and Streit, M. (Eds.). Jahrbuch fuer Neue Politische Oekonomie, vol. 21, 2003. Mohr Siebeck, Tuebingen

Working Papers

  • Age Discrimination in Hiring Decisions - A Questionnaire Study. mimeo. (with Victoria Buesch and Manfred Koenigstein)
  • Monitoring and Pay: An Experiment on Employee Performance under Endogenous Supervision. Discussion Paper 23-2006. Papers on Strategic Interaction. Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany, 2006, and Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 06-98/1, Netherlands, 2006, and CEPR Discussion Paper 5962, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 2006. (with Martin Kocher) (revised May 2007)
  • Loss Aversion in Learning to Bid. Discussion Paper 03-2005. Papers on Strategic Interaction. Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany, 2005. (with Werner Gueth, Martin Kocher, Paul Pezanis-Christou) PDF (revised March 2006)
  • Wages, Length of Relationship and Bargaining Power. Discussion Paper 18-2004. Papers on Strategic Interaction. Max Planck Institute of Economics. Jena, Germany, 2004.
  • I will survive! Gender discrimination in a household saving decisions experiment. Discussion Paper 14-2002. Papers on Strategic Interaction. Max Planck Institute of Economics. Jena, Germany, 2002. (with Susanne Buechner)
  • Information dissemination on asset markets with endogenous and exogenous information: An experimental approach. Discussion Paper 3-2002. Papers on Strategic Interaction. Max Planck Institute of Economics. Jena, Germany, 2002. (with Boris Maciejovsky)
  • When she lives longer - An experimental study of saving decisions by couples. Discussion Paper 2-2002. Papers on Strategic Interaction. Max Planck Institute of Economics. Jena, Germany, 2002. (with Vital Anderhub, Werner Gueth, Nadege Marchand)

Current Research Projects

Labor Economics

Incentives and Contracts

  • Laboratory Bilateral Gift Exchange: The Impact of Loss Aversion. (with Anthony Ziegelmeyer)
  • Product Market Competition, Firms' Incentive Schemes and Employees' Performance (with Anthony Ziegelmeyer)
  • Within and Between Team Competition: The Effects of Sabotage, and Mutual Monitoring (with Gabriele Lünser)

Fairness Norms

  • Pricing Procedural Fairness (with Stephan Tontrup)
  • Fairness Norms of Hockey Referees: Balancing Penalties (with Martin Kocher, Matthias Sutter)

Reputation Mechanisms

  • Endogenous vs. Exogenous Image Scores: Reputation Mechanisms in the Laboratory.
  • Reputation Mechanisms and Electronic Markets (with Tobias Uske)

Miscellaneous

  • First come, first failed — Order effects in a musical competition. (with Matthias Sutter)
  • More Power! Laboratory Experiments and Statistical Modelling