HeiKaMaX Workshops
HeiKaMaX is a biannual one-day workshop that brings together experimental economists from the region (University of Heidelberg, University of Mannheim, KIT Karlsruhe, and others).
Past Workshops
19th HeiKaMaX Workshop
1 December, 2023 Mannheim
11:00 Benjamin Scheibehenne (KIT): What’s in a Sample? Epistemic Uncertainty and Risk Perception
11:45 Jonathan Stäbler (MA): Disclosure Policy in Contests with Sabotage and Group Size Uncertainty
12:30 Lunch at local restaurants (at own expense)
14:15 Remembering Nora Szech
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Paul Gorny (KIT): The Gender of Opportunity: How Gendered Job Titles Affect Job Seeker Attention (with Petra Nieken)
15:45 Christiane Schwieren (HD): Do Women Overprepare? An Experimental Analysis (with Cosima Steck and Humberto Llavador)
16:30 Coffee break
16:45 Wladislaw Mill (MA): LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation (with Yulia Evsyukova and Felix Rusche)
17:30 End of academic program
18:00 Joint dinner (at own expense) at restaurant “Long Dream”, Am Meßplatz 1
18th HeiKaMaX Workshop
13 April 2023, Heidelberg
Program:
10:30 Adrian Hillebrand (KIT/ZEW Mannheim): “Strategic Inattention in Product Search” (with Svenja Hippel)
11:15 Timo Goeschl (HD): “The Behavioral Economics of Event Attribution” (with F. Diekert & C. König-Kersting)
12:00 Lunch at local restaurants (at own expense)
13:30 Alex Roomets (Franklin & Marshall College, visiting HD): “Dissolving an ambiguous partnership” (with Jörg Oechssler)
14:15 Henrik Orzen (MA): “Bargaining under the threat of a nuclear option” (with Franziska Heinicke and Wladislaw Mill)
15:00 Coffee break
15:15 Cornelius Schneider (MA): “(Mathematical) Complexity and Preferences for Taxation: The Case of Wealth Taxation” (with Malte Chirvi and Hans-Peter Huber)
16:00 Katharina Momsen (HD): TBA
16:45 Coffee break
17:00 Paul M. Gorny (KIT): “The Role of Adaptivity in Human-Robot Collaboration: A Field-in-the-Lab Experiment” (with Louis Schäfer)
17:45 End of academic program
17th HeiKaMaX Workshop
14 October 2022, KIT Karlsruhe
Program:
10:00 Paul M. Gorny (KIT): He, She, They? The impact of gendered language on economic behavior (with: Petra Nieken and Karoline Ströhlein)
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Christiane Schwieren (HD): Gender differences in the willingness to compete against a standard (with Maria Cubel, Santiago Sanchez‐Pages, Cosima‐Valerie Steck)
11:45 Wladislaw Mill (MA): War time military service increases religiosity
14:00 Peter Dürsch (MA): Choice under uncertainty and cognitive load 14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Hannes Rau (KIT): Modern Slavery: Beliefs and Reality (with: Nora Szech)
15:45 Henrik Orzen (MA): The inefficiency of efficient breach: An experiment on contract renegotiation under asymmetric information
16:30 Coffee Break
16:45 Theo Alysandratos (HD): Identify the Expert: an Experimental Study in Economic Advice (with: Aristotelis Boukouras, Sotiris Georganas, Zacharias Maniadis)
17:30 Nora Szech (KIT): AI and Moral Behavior (with Nicola Hüholt und Benjamin Scheibehenne)
18:15 End of academic program
16th HeiKaMax Workshop
29 November 2019, University of Mannheim
Program:
11:00 Nicolas Fugger (ZEW): Social Norms and Market Behavior – Evidence from a Large Population Sample (with Tobias Riehm, Philippe Gillen, Vitali Gretschko and Peter Werner)
11:45 Christiane Schwieren (HD): Cooperation in a Company 12:30 Lunch at local restaurants (at own expense)
14:00 Wladislaw Mill (MA): The Bright Side of Tax Evasion (with Cornelius Schneider)
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Christopher Kops and Illia Pasichnichenko (HD): The Value of Partial Information
15:45 Jörg Oechssler (HD): The Binary Lottery Procedure does not Induce Risk Neutrality in the Holt and Laury and Eckel and Grossman Tasks (with Oliver Kirchkamp and Andis Sofianos)
16 :30 Coffee break
16: 45 Ann-Katrin Hanke (KA): Auctions with endogenous rationing – An experimental study (with Verena Dorner and Karl-Martin Ehrhart)
17:30 End of academic program
15th HeiKaMax Workshop
10 April 2019, University of Heidelberg
Program:
10:30 Andis Sofianos (Heidelberg): “How Intelligent Players Teach Cooperation” (with Eugenio Proto and Aldo Rustichini)
11:15 Vitali Gretschko (ZEW): “You know me – Endogenous favoritism in procurement” (with Nicolas Fugger and Matthias Praxmarer)
12:00 Lunch at local restaurants (at own expense)
13:30 Simon Dato (Bonn, visiting KIT): Lying and Reciprocity (with Petra Nieken and Eberhard Fees)
14:15 Robert Schmidt (Heidelberg): Using Coordination Games as a Crowd Wisdom Device
15:00 Coffee break
15:15 Jan Kreiß (KIT): Multi-unit common value procurement auctions – theoretical and experimental analysis (with Karl-Martin Ehrhart)
16:00 Christian König-Kersting (Heidelberg): “Investing for Others: Principals’ vs. Agents’ Preferences” (with Luisa Kling and Stefan T. Trautmann)
16:45 Coffee break
17:00 Duk Gyoo Kim (Mannheim): ” Penalty Lottery”
17:45 End of academic program
14th HeiKaMax Workshop
10 October 2018, KIT Karlsruhe
Program:
10:30 Coffee + Brezel
11:00 Jörg Oechssler (Heidelberg): The conditional contribution mechanism: The general case (Andreas Reischmann and Andis Sofianos)
11:45 Anke Greif-Winzrieth (KIT): Feeling the Pain of Climate Change: An Experimental Study on the Short- and Long-Term Effects of Virtual Reality on Pro-Environmental Behavior
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Andis Sofianos (Heidelberg): Elicitation of preferences and beliefs in light of unexpected information
(joint with Eugenio Proto and Aldo Rustichini)
15:15 Coffee break
15:45 Arjun Sengupta (Heidelberg): Teams Promise But Do Not Deliver
16:30 Nora Szech (KIT): The (In)Elasticity of Moral Ignorance
(joint with Marta Serra-Garcia)
17:15 End of academic program
13th HeiKaMax Workshop
18 May 2018, University of Mannheim
Program:
10:00 Christian Koenig gen. Kersting (HD): Active vs. Passive Risk Taking (with Anna Merkel)
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Jana Rollmann (KIT): Impact and Participation: A Field Experiment on Voting over Resource Allocation (with Clemens Puppe)
11:45 Christoph Feldhaus (Münster): Are groups more likely to do what `one is ought to do’ and do they affect their members’ subsequent individual behavior? (with Philipp Dörrenberg)
12:30 Lunch at local restaurants (at own expense)
14:00 Holger Rau (MA): Betrayal Aversion and the Effectiveness of Incentive Contracts
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Nora Szech (KA): Information Design and Self Control
15:45 Duk Gyoo Kim (MA): Mixing Propensity and Strategic Decision Making
16:30 Coffee break
16:45 Philippe Gillen (ZEW): First-Price Auction Design with Loss Averse Bidders (with Nicolas Fugger and Tobias Riehm)
17:30 Yilong Xu (HD): Nonspeculative Bubbles Revisited and the Role of Cognitive Efficiency (with Steven Tucker)
18:15 End of academic program
12th HeiKaMax Workshop
27 October 2017, University of Heidelberg
Program:
10:00 Liza Charroin (HD): “Peer effects on performance and cheating: an experiment on the self-selection effect”
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Marco Lambrecht (HD): “Measuring skill and chance in games”
11:45 Coffee break
12:00 Peter Dürsch (MA): “Hot Hand in Online Games”
12:45 Lunch at local restaurants (at own expense)
14:15 Marcel Preuß (Uni Mannheim): “Heterogeneous Fairness Views”
15:00 Coffee break
15:15 Timo Goeschl (HD): ‘Social distance and inter-charity competition’ (joint with C., Gallier, J. Lohse, C. Reif, D. Römer)
16:00 Coffee break
16:15 Jörg Oechssler (HD): “Copy Trading”
17:00 Coffee break
17:15 Philipp Reiss (KIT): “Destruction behavior: The effect of provision cost variation and the relation to (non-)cooperation preferences”
18:00 End of academic program
11th HeiKaMax Workshop
31 march 2017, KIT Karlsruhe
Program:
10:15 Jannis Engel (KIT): A Little Good is Good Enough: Ethical Consumption, Cheap Excuses, and Moral Self-Licensing (joint with Nora Szech)
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Robert Schmidt (Heidelberg): Implementing Fair Procedures? (joint with Stefan Trautmann)
12:00 Andreas Landmann (Paris/PSE): Local Leaders and Pro-social Behavior: The Effect of Becoming Elected (joint with Björn Vollan)
12:45 Lunch
14:15 Leonie Fütterer (KIT): Gender, Context and the Adequate Wage (joint with Nora Szech)
15:00 Holger Rau (Mannheim/Göttingen): Unjustified Work Compensation and Antisocial Behavior
(joint with Kerstin Grosch)
15:45 Coffee break
16:15 Petra Nieken (KIT): Bad boys, good girls?! – what causes the gender gap in sabotage?
(joint with Simon Dato)
17:00 Philipp Reiss (KIT): Opportunity Cost, Inattention and the Bidder’s Curse (joint with Dave Freeman and Erik Kimbrough)
17:45 End of academic program
10th HeiKaMax Workshop
18 November 2016, ZEW Mannheim
Program:
10:00 Anna Merkel (Heidelberg), Legislative Bargaining with Subjective Claims (with Christoph Vanberg)
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Stefan Penczynski (Mannheim), Disclosure of Verifiable Information under Competition: An Experimental Study (with Sihong Zhang)
11:45 Petra Nieken (Karlsruhe), Always expect the worse!? The Impact of Information Policy on the Gender Gap in Sabotage Decisions in Tournaments (with Simon Dato)
12:30 Lunch in the surroundings (at own expense)
14:00 Katharina Momsen (Mannheim), The Effects of Information and Communication in Posted Offer Markets: An Experiment
14:45 Heiko Karle (Frankfurt School), Student Performance and Loss Aversion (with Martin Peitz and Dirk Engelmann)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Carlo Gallier (ZEW), Keeping it Local? An Inter-Neighborhood Experiment on Parochialism and the Efficiency of Multi-Level Public Goods Provision (with Timo Goeschl, Martin Kesternich, Johannes Lohse, Christiane Reif, Daniel Römer)
16:45 Jörg Oechssler (Heidelberg), Hedging and Ambiguity (with Alex Roomets)
17:30 End of academic program
9th HeiKaMax Workshop
12 April 2016 University of Heidelberg
Program:
10:00 Jana Rollmann (KIT): Mean vs. Median-Based Voting in Multi-Dimensional Allocation Problems
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Gert Pönitzsch (HD): “Group vs. Individual Contributions to a Public Good: Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment”
11:45 Christian König-Kersting (HD): Good decision vs. good results: Outcome bias in the evaluation of financial agents (with Monique Pollmann, Jan Potters, and Stefan Trautmann)
12:30 Lunch at local restaurants (at own expense)
14:00 Dietmar Fehr / Stefan Trautmann (HD): “Inequality, unfairness, the rich, the poor, and social capital”
14:45 Nora Szech (KIT): In My Backyard? Causal Effects of Physical Distance on Cooperativeness (with Leonie Fütterer)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Martin Kesternich (ZEW): The Power of Active Choice: Field Experimental Evidence on Repeated Contribution Decisions to a Carbon Offsetting Program (joint work with D. Römer and F. Flues)
16:45 Sihong Zhang (U Mannheim): Procrastination and Long-term Team Effort
17:30 End of academic program
8th HeiKaMax Workshop
24 April 2015, KIT Karlsruhe
Program:
10:15 Christoph Vanberg (Heidelberg): Who never tells a lie?
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Matej Belica (KIT): Non-binding Award in Multi-unit Auctions with Single-unit Demand (joint with Karl-Martin Ehrhart and Marie-Christin Haufe)
12:00 Philipp Reiss (KIT): Could we overcome the Winner’s Curse by (behavioral) auction design? (joint with Dan Levin)
12:45 Lunch
14:15 Peter Dürsch (Heidelberg): Executive Regulation of Economic Decision Making in Schizophrenia (joint with Daniel Holt and Katlehn Baum)
15:00 Nora Szech (KIT): Institutions, Shared Guilt, and Moral Transgression (joint with: Dominik Rothenhäusler and Nikolaus Schweizer)
15:45 Coffee break
16:15 Paul Gortner (Frankfurt): Peer Effects and Risk Sharing in Experimental Asset Markets (joint with Sascha Baghestanian and Joel van der Weele)
17:00 Andreas Landmann (Mannheim): Village leadership and solidarity: How pro-social behavior changes with becoming elected (joint with Björn Vollan)
17:45 End of academic program
7th HeiKaMax Workshop
28 November 2014, University of Mannheim
Program:
10.00 Gerhard Riener (Mannheim), Focusing vs. relative thinking: an experimental
assessment (with Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt)
10.45 Coffee break
11.00 Christoph Brunner (Heidelberg), Is subject behavior consistent with the Nash
equilibrium when preferences are common knowledge? (with Florian Kauffeld and
Hannes Rau)
11.45 J. Philipp Reiss (Karlsruhe), Behavioral Variation in Tullock Contests (with
Aidas Masiliunas and Friederike Mengel)
12.30 Lunch in the surroundings (at own expense)
14.00 Sascha Baghestanian (Frankfurt), Prior Outcomes and Instability in
Experimental Credit Markets (with Ferdinand von Siemens and Baptiste Massenot)
14.45 Dietmar Fehr (WZ Berlin), Talking about others: Gossip increases Trust &
Cooperation (with Matthias Sutter)
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Andreas Leibbrandt (Monash University visiting Heidelberg), A Natural Field
Experiment on Sabotage in the Workplace (with Jeffrey Flory and John List)
16.45 Marcus Wiens (Karlsruhe), Officer and Gentleman? An Experimental Study of
Occupational Norms and Cooperative Behaviour by the Example of Army Officers
(with Karl Morasch et al.)
17.30 End of academic program
6th HeiKaMax Workshop
11 April 2014, University of Heidelberg
Program:
10:00 Keynote: Martin Dufwenberg (Bocconi), Frustration & Anger in Games
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Stefan Trautmann (Heidelberg): Understanding Contagious Bank Runs (with Martin Brown and Razvan Vlahu)
11:45 Christoph Merkle (Mannheim): Emotions and the Double Nature of the Disposition Effect
12:30 Lunch at local restaurants (at own expense)
14:00 Markus Fels (KIT): Limited Attention and the Demand for Health Insurance
14:45 Nora Szech (KIT): Moral Transgression in the Pursuit of Excellence (with Armin Falk)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Martin Kesternich (Mannheim): The Demand for voluntary carbon offsets: Field experimental evidence from the long-distance bus market in Germany (with Andreas Löschel and Daniel Römer)
16:45 Subhasish Dugar (University of Calgary, visiting Heidelberg), Achieving Efficient Coordination Via Cheap-Talk: The Role of Incentives to Lie
17:30 End of academic program
18:30 Joint dinner, restaurant Tati, Bergheimer Straße 151
5th HeiKaMax Workshop
18 October 2013, KIT Karlsruhe
Program:
10:00 Nora Szech: Optimal Revelation of Life-Changing Information
(with Nikolaus Schweizer)
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Philipp Schreiber: Early retirement: the influence of framing and time preferences on the retirement decision
11:45 Christine Kaufmann: De-Biasing investors’ volatility inadaptability
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Jörg Oechssler: Imitation under Stress
(with Magdalena Buckert and Christiane Schwieren)
14:45 Thomas Eife: Price Competition in an Inflationary Environment (with Peter Duersch)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Claudia Niemeyer: Risk Reduction in Experimental Games and Individual Choice
(with J. Philipp Reiss and Karim Sadrieh)
16:45 Marc Adam: An Experiment on Auction Fever
(with Jan Krämer, Marius Müller)
17:30 End of academic program
18:30 Joint dinner, restaurant Alte Bank, Herrenstraße 30, 76133 Karlsruhe
4th HeiKaMax Workshop
24 May 2013, University of Mannheim
Program:
10:00 Markus Fels: Product Lines, Product Design, and Limited Attention
10:45 coffee break
11:00 Christian Ehm: When risk and return are not enough: the role of loss aversion in private investors’ choice of mutual fund fee structures
11:45 Philipp Schreiber: Time Inconsistent Preferences and the Annuitization Decision
12:30 lunch
13:30 Veronica Block: Nash Equlilibrium and Manipulation in a Mean Rule Experiment
14:15 Timo Hoffmann: The Effect of Belief Elicitation on Game Play
15:00 coffee break
15:30 Joel van der Weele (Frankfurt) Self-Image and Strategic Ignorance in Moral Dilemmas
16:15 Christian Koch: Does Reference Point Formation via Contracts Lead to Wage Rigidity? Experimental Evidence
17:00 Break
17:15 Daniel Roemer: Intertemporal stability of ambiguity preferences
3rd HeiKaMax Workshop
12 October 2012, University of Heidelberg
Program:
9:30 Jana Friedrichsen (Mannheim): “Who cares for social image? Interactions between intrinsic motivation and social image concerns “
10:15 Christine Binzel (Heidelberg) „How do Formal and Informal Institutions Influence Resource Sharing? Experimental Evidence from Village India “
11:00 Coffee break
11.30 Christiane Bradler (ZEW): “Incentives and Creativity”
12:15 Andreas Bernecker (Mannheim): “Do People Stick to Policies or Numbers? Explaining Status Quo Bias through Anchoring”
13:00 Lunch break
14:30 Alex Roomets (Heidelberg) „ A Test of the Reny-Robson Model of Mixed Strategy Play”
15:15 Christian Koch (Mannheim): “The virtue ethics hypothesis: is there a nexus between virtues and well-being?”
16:00 End
2nd HeiKaMax Workshop
13 April 2012, University of Heidelberg
Program:
10:15 Christoph Brunner (Heidelberg) „ Premium Auctions and Risk Preferences: An Experimental Study“
11:00 Stefan Penczynski (Mannheim): „A level-k model of social learning”
11:45 Coffee break
12:00 Carsten Schmidt (Mannheim): Political participation, norms of citizenship, and heterogeneous motivation Experimental and survey evidence
12:45 Lunch break
14:15 Nikos Nikiforakis (MPI Bonn and Melbourne) “Coordination in games with third-party externalities”
15:00 Christoph Vanberg (Heidelberg) „Experiments on legislative bargaining“
15:45 Coffee break
16:00 Andrea Leuermann (Heidelberg) „ Does good advice come cheap? – On the assessment of risk preferences in the lab and the field”
16:45 End
1st HeiKaMax Workshop
28 October 2011, ZEW Mannheim
Program:
9:00 Jörg Oechssler (Heidelberg): Exploitation
9:45 Peter Dürsch (Heidelberg): Benevolent and Malevolent Ellsberg Urns
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Stefan Penczynski (Mannheim): Strategic Thinking: The Influence of the Game
11:30 Dirk Engelmann (Mannheim): Forgiven and Forgotten: A Large-Scale Experiment on Trust and Reputation
12:00 Lunch break
13:00 Carsten Schmidt (Mannheim): Double or Nothing
13:30 Henrik Orzen (Mannheim): Price versus Quantity Competition – Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Deviations from Equilibrium
14:00 End