Publications of the Research Unit Market Design

  1. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Incomplete Contracts in Multi-Period Procurement

    We analyze the problem of a buyer who purchases a long-term project from one of several suppliers. A changing state of the world influences the costs of the suppliers. We distinguish between complete…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-037 // 2021

    Signalling in Auctions: Experimental Evidence

    We study the relative performance of the first-price sealed-bid auction, the second-price sealed-bid auction, and the all-pay sealed-bid auction in a laboratory experiment where bidders can signal information…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-017 // 2021

    Social Norms and Market Behavior – Evidence From a Large Population Sample

    We test the importance of social norms for market interactions associated with negative real-world externalities in a large-scale experiment with a heterogeneous population sample from Germany. The majority of…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Economic games: An introduction and guide for research

    Prosocial behaviors constitute vital ingredients for all types of social interactions and relationships as well as for society at large. Corresponding to this significance, the study of prosocial behaviors has…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-002 // 2021

    Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

    This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. They combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy…