title: Essays in Experimental Economics creator: Merkel, Anna Louisa subject: 300 subject: 300 Social sciences subject: 330 subject: 330 Economics description: This dissertation consists of four essays which use laboratory experiments to gather causal evidence on important economic questions and theories. Part 1 (chapters 2 and 3) contributes to a literature in Behavioral Economics by analyzing the role of heuristics and biases in explaining social choices in one-shot games and decisions. Part 2 (chapters 4 and 5) contributes to a literature in Public Economics by asking how the decision rule affects the type of agreements made as well as the efficiency of such agreements. date: 2018 type: Dissertation type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis type: NonPeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/25611/1/Anna%20Merkel_Essays%20in%20Experimental%20Economics.pdf identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00025611 identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-256115 identifier: Merkel, Anna Louisa (2018) Essays in Experimental Economics. [Dissertation] relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/25611/ rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess rights: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/help/license_urhg.html language: eng