eprintid: 13573
rev_number: 8
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/01/35/73
datestamp: 2012-07-31 10:09:52
lastmod: 2014-04-04 00:33:13
status_changed: 2012-08-15 09:06:47
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Müller, Julia
title: Contributions to Behavioral and Experimental Economics
title_de: Beiträge zur Verhaltensökonomik und zur experimentellen Wirtschaftsforschung
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
adv_faculty: af-18
keywords: Behavioral Economics , Experimental Economics
abstract: Economic theory grounds on the assumption of the homo oeconomicus, the rational decision-maker who is only maximizing his own utility. Economic experiments have shown many di fferent, large, and persistent deviations form the ideal of the homo oeconomicus. Experimental economics has shown that many subjects care about fairness and the payoff or well-being of others, that they behave reciprocal, i.e. that they reward cooperation and punish defection, even if this involves costs to them. Departing from pure-self interest, behavioral economists try to fi nd new models and assumptions and fi nd themselves in the tension between rational decision-making and emotional or motivational factors guiding human behavior. This dissertation presents four essays on behavioral and experimental economics. 
abstract_translated_text: Economic theory grounds on the assumption of the homo oeconomicus, the rational decision-maker who is only maximizing his own utility. Economic experiments have shown many di fferent, large, and persistent deviations form the ideal of the homo oeconomicus. Experimental economics has shown that many subjects care about fairness and the payoff or well-being of others, that they behave reciprocal, i.e. that they reward cooperation and punish defection, even if this involves costs to them. Departing from pure-self interest, behavioral economists try to fi nd new models and assumptions and fi nd themselves in the tension between rational decision-making and emotional or motivational factors guiding human behavior. This dissertation presents four essays on behavioral and experimental economics. 
abstract_translated_lang: eng
class_scheme: jel
class_labels: J16, D03, C92, C91, C72
date: 2011
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00013573
ppn_swb: 1651629447
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-135730
date_accepted: 2012-07-11
advisor: HASH(0x561a6272be90)
language: eng
bibsort: MULLERJULICONTRIBUTI2011
full_text_status: public
citation:   Müller, Julia  (2011) Contributions to Behavioral and Experimental Economics.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/13573/1/DissertationJuliaMuller.pdf