About

The SFB F63 "Credence Goods, Incentives and Behavior" is a joint research project including the project part leaders Loukas Balafoutas, Esther Blanco, Jürgen Huber, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Michael Kirchler, and Markus Walzl.

The project’s aim is to analyze key determinants of individual behavior and market performance in credence goods markets with a variety of methods, combining theoretical work, laboratory experiments and field experiments. The research group consists of more than 30 scholars from economics and finance, thus bridging research across both fields.

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Upcoming Events

• October 12 | Bertil TUNGODDEN | NHH Norway
  Topic: Fairness Across the World: Preferences and Beliefs
• October 19 | Florian ZIMMERMANN | briq / U of Bonn
  Topic: Stories, Statistics and Memory
• November 7 | Sarah BROSNAN | Georgia State U
  Topic: The Evolution of (Un)Fairness
• November 9 | Sarah BROSNAN | Georgia State U
  Topic: Understanding the evolution of primate decision-making using experimental games
• November 16 | Dirk ENGELMANN | HU Berlin
  Topic: Decomposing Trust
• November 30 | Daphne RABAN | U of Haifa
  Topic: tba

Related Publications

Hedegaard, M., Kerschbamer, R., Mueller, D., Tyran, J.-R. (2021), Distributional Preferences Explain Behavior across Games and Time, forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior.

Bindra, C., Kerschbamer, R., Neururer, D., Sutter, M. (2021), On the Value of Second Opinions: A Credence Goods Field Experiment, forthcoming in Economic Letters.

Balafoutas, L., Kerschbamer, R. (2020), Credence goods in the literature: What the past fifteen years have taught us about fraud, incentives, and the role of institutions. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. [more]

Kirchler, M., Lindner, F., Weitzel, U. (forthcoming), Rankings and risk-taking in the finance industry. Journal of Finance. [more]

Holzmeister, F., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Lindner, F., Weitzel, U., Zeisberger, S. (2020), What drives risk perception? A global survey with financial professionals and lay people. Management Science. [more]

Sutter, M., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M., Walzl, M. (2020), Where to look for the morals in markets. Experimental Economics. [more]

Kerschbamer, R., Neururer, D., Gruber, A. (2019), Do the altruists lie less? Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. [more]

Credence Goods on Stage

Participating Institutions

Department of Banking and Finance
Department of Economics
Department of Public Finance
Research Area EPoS Economy, Politics and Society