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 20 | Eric-Jan WAGENMAKERS | University of Amsterdam
  Topic: Transparency in Statistics
• October 21 | Rick HARBAUGH | Indiana University
  Topic: The Upsell-Downsell Tradeoff
• November 4 | Curtis TAYLOR | Duke University
  Topic: tba
• November 17 | Susann FIEDLER | WU Vienna
  Topic: What to consider, when making strategic social decisions? An Eye-tracking investigation
• November 18 | Elisabeth STÖCKL | University of Munich
  Topic: The effect of insurance on pricing strategies and fraud in markets for repair goods
• December 1 | Robert BÖHM | University of Vienna
  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