Publications of Werner Güth
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Journal Article (87)
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, , Güth, W., , & (2024). Testing isomorphic invariance across social dilemma games. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 223, 1–20
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, Güth, W., , , & (2024). 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
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Güth, W., , & (2024). Exploiting ultimatum power when responders are better informed: Theoretical and experimental analysis of conflict resolution. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 68(2), 381–403
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, & Güth, W. (2023). Personal information disclosure under competition for benefits: Is sharing caring? Games and Economic Behavior, 140, 1–32
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, Güth, W., & (2023). Experimental effects of institutionalizing co-determination by a procedurally fair bidding rule. Journal of Business Ethics, 184, 445–458
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, Güth, W., & (2023). Strategic ambiguity and risk in alternating pie-sharing experiments. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 66(3), 233–260
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, Güth, W., , & (2023). Proposer and responder conceding in impunity bargaining. Metroeconomica, 4(4), 722–747
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, Güth, W., & (2023). The better toolbox: Experimental methodology in economics and psychology. Mind & Society
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Güth, W., & (2023). When efficiency requires arbitrary discrimination: Theoretical and experimental analysis of equilibrium selection. Games, 14(65)
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, Güth, W., , & (2022). Impulse balancing versus equilibrium learning an experimental study of competitive portfolio selection. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, 19, 587–610
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, Güth, W., , & (2022). Inefficient cooperation under stochastic and strategic uncertainty. The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 66(4), 595–951
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Güth, W., & (2022). Hiding or revealing: Their indirect evolution in the acquiring-a-company game. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, 19, 569–585
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, & Güth, W. (2021). What are you calling intuitive? Subject heterogeneity as a driver of response times in an impunity game. Journal of Economic Psychology, 87
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, Güth, W., & (2021). Experimental evidence of behavioral improvement by learning and intermediate advice. Theory and Decision, 91, 173–187
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, Güth, W., , & (2021). Auctions with leaks about early birds: Analysis and experimental behavior. Economic Inquiry, 59(2), 722–739
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Güth, W. (2021). (Un)bounded rationality of decision deliberation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 186, 364–372
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Güth, W., & (2021). Believing in corporate social responsibility: An indirect evolutionary analysis. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 177(2), 167–177
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Güth, W., & . (2021). Trust in generosity: An experiment of the repeated Yes–No game. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, 18, 63–77
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Güth, W., & (2021). An indirect evolutionary justification of risk neutral bidding in fair division games. International Journal of Game Theory, 50, 63–74
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, , Güth, W., & (2020). 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), 97–119
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, & Güth, W. (2020). When to stop — A cardinal secretary search experiment. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 98
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, , Güth, W., , , & (2020). To be at the tail of the lions or the head of the foxes? Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 33(2), 121–138
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Güth, W., , & (2020). Capacity precommitment, communication, and collusive pricing: Theoretical benchmark and experimental evidence. International Journal of Game Theory, 49, 495–524
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, , , & Güth, W. (2019). Trusting versus monitoring: an experiment of endogenous institutional choices. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, 16, 329–355
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, , & Güth, W. (2019). Partial Versus General Compulsory Solidarity: an Experimental Analysis. Homo Oeconomicus, 36, 249–279
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, Güth, W., & (2019). Purely procedural preferences - Beyond procedural equity and reciprocity. European Journal of Political Economy, 59, 108–128
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Güth, W., , , & (2019). Compulsory Disclosure of Private Information: Theoretical and Experimental Results for the Acquiring-a-Company Game. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 175(3), 502–523
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Güth, W., , & (2019). Coordination Failure in Capacity-then-Price-Setting Games. Homo Oeconomicus, 36, 111–133
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, , Güth, W., , & (2018). Behavioral spillovers in local public good provision: an experimental study. Journal of Economic Psychology, 67, 116–134
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, , Güth, W., , & (2018). Does heterogeneity spoil the basket? The role of productivity and feedback information on public good provision. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 77, 40–49
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, & Güth, W. (2018). Asymmetry voluntary cooperation – A repeated sequential best shot experiment. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 47, 873–891
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, , Güth, W., & (2018). Intention-based sharing. Games, 9(2)
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, , Güth, W., & (2018). Gender Differences in Yielding to Social Influence: An Impunity Experiment. Games, 9(4)
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, Fischer, S., Güth, W., & (2017). Concession Bargaining – An Experimental Comparison of Protocols and Time Horizons. The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 62(9), 2017–2039
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, Güth, W., , & (2017). On the Incentive Effects of Sample Size in Monitoring Agents - A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis. German Economic Review, 18(1), 91–98
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, , Güth, W., , & (2017). Experience and Gender Effects in Acquisition Experiment with Value Messages. Small Business Economics, 48, 71–97
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, , Güth, W., , & (2017). (Sub) Optimality and (non) optimal satisficing in risky decision experiments. Theory and Decision, 83(2), 195–243
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, , Güth, W., & (2017). Behavioral Patterns and Reduction of Sub-Optimality: An Experimental Choice Analysis. Theory and Decision, 85, 151–177
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, Güth, W., , & (2016). Assessing Mental Models via Recording Decision Deliberations of Pairs. Homo Oeconomicus
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, Güth, W., & (2016). Comparing the effectiveness of collusion devices in first-price procurement: An auction experiment. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, 13, 269–295
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, Engel, C., Fischer, S., & Güth, W. (2016). Non-Compete Clauses, Employee Effort and Spin-off Entrepreneurship: A Laboratory Experiment. Research Policy, 45, 2113–2124
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, , Güth, W., & (2016). A Hybrid Public Good Experiment Eliciting Multi-Dimensional Choice Data. Journal of Economic Psychology, 56, 20–38
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, , Güth, W., , & (2016). Make-up and suspicion in bargaining with cheap talk: An experiment controlling for gender and gender constellation. Theory and Decision, 80(3), 463–471
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, Güth, W., , & (2016). Ultimatum Concession Bargaining: An Experimental Study. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 85, 151–177
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, Güth, W., & (2016). On the value of transparency and information acquisition. German Economic Review, 17(3), 337–358
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Güth, W., , , & (2016). Testing Forbearance Experimentally: Duopolistic Competition of Conglomerate Firms. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 23(1), 63–86
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Güth, W., , , & (2016). An ultimatum game with multidimensional response strategies. Review of Behavioral Economics, 3(3/4), 281–310
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Güth, W., , , & (2016). Tournaments and piece rates revisited: a theoretical and experimental study of output-dependent prize tournaments. Review of Economic Design, 20(1), 69–88
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Güth, W., & (2016). Mentally perceiving how means achieve ends. Rationality and Society
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Güth, W., , & (2016). Buying and Selling Risk: An Experiment Investigating Evaluation Asymmetries. Review of Behavioral Economics, 3(3/4), 389–419
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Güth, W., , , & (2016). Blindfolded Ultimatum Bargaining – a theoretical and experimental analysis. German Economic Review
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, Güth, W., , & (2015). The willingness to pay for partial vs. universal equality: Insights from three-person envy games. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 56(0), 55–61
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, , Güth, W., , & (2015). Community projects: An experimental analysis of a fair implementation process. Social Choice and Welfare, 44(1), 109–132
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Güth, W. (2015). Collectively ranking candidates via bidding in procedurally fair ways. Theory and Decision. Theory and Decision, 78(1), 23–31
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Güth, W., & (2015). How to cope with (new) uncertainties: A bounded rationality approach. Economics ejournal
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Güth, W., & (2015). Response to referee reports and comments on “How to cope with (new) uncertainties”: A bounded rationality approach. Economics ejournal
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Güth, W., & (2015). How to cope with (new) uncertainties: A bounded rationality approach. Homo Oeconomicus, 34, 343–359
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Güth, W., & (2015). More than thirty years of ultimatum bargaining experiments: Motives, variations, and a survey of the recent literature. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 108, 396–409
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Güth, W., , & (2015). Common and private signals in public goods games with a point of no return. Resource and Energy Economics, 41, 164–184
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Güth, W., & (2015). Believing in correlated types in spite of independence: An indirect evolutionary analysis. Economics Letters, 134, 1–3
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Güth, W., , & (2015). Delegation, worker compensation, and strategic competition. Journal of Business Economics, 85(1), 1–13
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, Güth, W., , & (2014). Entitlement and the efficiency-equality trade-off: an experimental study. Theory and Decision, 76(2), 225–240
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, Güth, W., & (2014). Backward Induction or Forward Reasoning ?– An Experiment of Stochastic Alternating Offer Bargaining. International Game Theory Review, 16(01)
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, , Güth, W., , , , … (2014). Nudging als politisches Instrument — gute Absicht oder staatlicher Übergriff? Wirtschaftsdienst, 94(11), 767–791
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, Güth, W., , & (2014). Is regulation by milestones efficiency enhancing? An experimental study of environmental protection. European Journal of Political Economy, 33, 71–84
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Güth, W. (2014). Institutional Regulation of Public Provision. Review of Law & Economics, 10(1), 81–94
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Güth, W. (2014). Endogenous community formation and collective provision–A procedurally fair mechanism. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 108, 389–395
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Güth, W. (2014). Observing Mental Modeling-Methods and Results. Review of Behavioral Economics, 1(1-2), 99–114
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Güth, W., , , & (2014). Providing revenue-generating projects under a fair mechanism: An experimental analysis. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 108, 410–419
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Güth, W., , & (2014). Ranking alternatives by a fair bidding rule: A theoretical and experimental analysis. European Journal of Political Economy, 34, 206–221
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Güth, W., , & (2014). Delegation, worker compensation, and strategic competition. Journal of Business Economics, 85, 1–13
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Güth, W., , , & (2014). Endogenous price leadership – A theoretical and experimental analysis. Journal of economic behavior & organization, 108, 420–432
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Fischer, S., & Güth, W. (2012). Effects of exclusion on acceptance in ultimatum games. Journal of Economic Psychology, 33, 1100–1114
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Büchner, S., , & Güth, W. (2011). Individually selecting among conventions - an evolutionary and experimental analysis. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 21, 285
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Nicklisch, A., , Güth, W., & (2009). Competition in product design: An experiment exploring innovation behavior. Metroeconomica, 60, 724–752
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Büchner, S., , Güth, W., & (2008). Bribery and Public Procurement: An experimental study. Public Choice, 137, 103–117
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Fischer, S., Güth, W., & (2007). Evolution in imperfect commitment bargaining – strategic versus ignorant types. Metroeconomica, 58, 299–309
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Güth, W., , Sutter, M., & (2007). Leading by example with and without exclusion power in voluntary contribution experiments. Journal of Public Economics, 91(5/6), 1023–1042
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Güth, W., Nikiforakis, N., & Normann, H.-T. (2007). Vertical Cross-Shareholding: Theory and Experimental Evidence. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 27, 69–89
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Güth, W., , & (2007). Bargaining outside the lab – a newspaper experiment of a three-person ultimatum game. The Economic Journal, 117(518), 449–469
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Fischer, S., Güth, W., , & (2006). From ultimatum to nash bargaining: Theory and experimental evidence. Experimental Economics, 9, 17–33
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Büchner, S., , Güth, W., & (2004). Incentive contracts versus trust in three-person ultimatum games: An experimental study. European Journal of Political Economy, 20, 673–694
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Güth, W., , Sutter, M., & (2001). 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), 105–108. Bath, U.K.
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Hellwig, M., & Güth, W. (1986). The Private Supply of a Public Good. Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 5, 121–159
Book Chapter (11)
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, Güth, W., , & (2023). Egalitarian collective decisions as ‘good’ corporate governance? In , , & (Eds.), Advances in Collective Decision Making. Interdisciplinary Perspectives for the 21st Century, 173–188
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Güth, W., & (2022). L’abstraction: The example of equity in the laboratory. In , , , & (Eds.), Markt, Staat, Gesellschaft - Eine Festschrift für Richard Sturn, metropolis
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Güth, W., & (2022). Experimentelle Verhaltensforschung. In (Ed.), , Evolutorische Ökonomik, 375–383. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler
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Güth, W. (2016). Experimental Economics – A philosophical Perspective. In Oxford Handbook of Philosophy,
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Güth, W., & (2015). Behaviorism, optimization and policy advice. In & (Eds.), Behavioral Economics und Wirtschaftspolitik, Schriften zu Ordnungsfragen der Wirtschaft, 100, 53–66. Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius
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Güth, W., & (2015). Experts and evidence in economic policy. In , , & (Eds.), Reformen und ihre politisch-ökonomischen Fallstricke, 14, 35–54
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Güth, W., , , , & (2015). Procedurally fair collective provision: its requirements and experimental functionality. In & (Eds.), Entwicklung und Perspektiven der Wirtschaftswissenschaft, 41, 357–377. Tübingen
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Güth, W., , & (2014). Who will guard the guardians? In (Ed.), The collected papers of Anthony de Jasay: Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick, 164–172. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund
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Fischer, S., Güth, W., & (2009). Effects of Profitable Downsizing on Collective Bargaining. In Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung, 38, 223–248. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck
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Güth, W., & Sutter, M. (2003). When agents have agents who have agents – Commenting “Comitology and the legislator’s dilemma.” In , , , & (Eds.), Jahrbuch für Neue Politische Ökonomie, The political economy of institutional evolution, 21, 26–30
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Hellwig, M., & Güth, W. (1987). Competition versus Monopoly in the Supply of Public Goods. In & (Eds.), Efficiency, Institutions and Economic Policy, 183–217. Heidelberg: Springer
Working Paper (4)
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, & Güth, W. (2019). Personal Information Disclosure under Competition for Benefits: Is Sharing Caring? Bonn: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2019/4