Dr Bernd Irlenbusch

Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Organisational Economics, Personnel and Labour Economics, Social Dilemmas, Game Theory

Selected publications

Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination - Large Scale Experimental Evidence.
Forthcoming in: American Economic Review (with Francesco Feri and Matthias Sutter).

Motivating Teammates: The Leader’s Choice of Positive and Negative Incentives.
Forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Psychology (with Özgür Gürerk and Bettina Rockenbach).

Leading with(out) Sacrifice? A Public-Goods Experiment with a Privileged Player.
Forthcoming in: Economic Inquiry (with Andreas Glöckner, Sebastian Kube, Andreas Nicklisch, Hans-Theo Normann).

How Many Winners are Good to Have? On Tournaments with Sabotage.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 65 (2008), 682-702 (with Christine Harbring).

Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation.
Labour Economics. 15 (2008), 141-167 (with Gabriele K. Ruchala).

Sabotage in Asymmetric Contests – An Experimental Analysis.
International Journal of the Economics of Business, 14 (2007), 201-223 (with Christine Harbring, Matthias Kräkel and Reinhard Selten).

Fairness Crowded Out by Law: An Experimental Study on Withdrawal Rights.
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 163 (2007), 84-101 (with Georg Borges.)

An Experimental Analysis of Voting in the Stability and Growth Pact in the European Monetary Union.
Public Choice, 129 (2006), 417-434 (with Matthias Sutter)

Group Size and Social Ties in an Experimental Microfinance Game.  
Economic Inquiry, 44 (4) (2006), 614-628 (with Klaus Abbink and Elke Renner).

The Competitive Advantage of Sanctioning Institutions.  
Science, 312, (2006), 108-111 (with Özgür Gürerk and Bettina Rockenbach).

Career Concerns in a Simple Experimental Labour Market.
European Economic Review, 50 (2006), 147-170 (with Dirk Sliwka).

Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection.
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 161 (4) (2005), 636-663 (with Christine Harbring).

Transparency and Reciprocal Behavior in Employment Relations.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 56 (2005), 383-403 (with Dirk Sliwka).

An Experimental Test of Design Alternatives for the British 3G / UMTS Auction.
European Economic Review  49 (2005), 505-530 (with Klaus Abbink, Paul Pezanis-Christou, Bettina Rockenbach, Abdolkarim Sadrieh und Reinhard Selten).

Relying on a Man´s Word? An Experiment on Non-Binding Contracts.
International Review of Law and Economics,  24 (2004), 299-332.

An Intergenerational Common Pool Resource Experiment.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 48 (2004), 811-836
(with Elisabeth Fischer und Abdolkarim Sadrieh).

An Experimental Study on Tournament Design.
Labour Economics, 10 (2003), 443-464 (with Christine Harbring).

Voting in EMU - An Experimental Study on Institutional Innovation and the Role of Communication in the Stability and Growth Pact.
Journal of Common Market Studies, 42 (2003), 645-664
(with Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger, Jörg Schütze und Matthias Sutter)

The Fisherman's Problem: Exploring the tension between cooperative and non-cooperative concepts in a simple game. 
Journal of Economic Psychology, 24 (2003), 425-445 (with Klaus Abbink, Ron Darziv, Zohar Gilula, Harel Goren, Arnon Keren, Bettina Rockenbach, Abdolkarim Sadrieh, Reinhard Selten and Shmuel Zamir).

An Experimental Bribery Game.
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 18 (2002), 428-454
(with Klaus Abbink und Elke Renner).

Fairness as a Constraint on Trust in Reciprocity: Earned Property Rights in a Reciprocal Exchange Experiment.  
Economics Letters, 66 (2000), 275-282 (with René Fahr).

The Moonlighting Game – An Experimental Study on Reciprocity and Retribution.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 42 (2000), 265-277
(with Klaus Abbink und Elke Renner).

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