Andreas Ortmann

UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics

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Sydney, NSW 2052

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1.

Are the Unskilled Really that Unaware? An Alternative Explanation

CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 325
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 30 Mar 2008
Marian Krajc and Andreas Ortmann
Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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calibration, judgement errors, unskilled, unaware, metacognition

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The BCD of Response Time Analysis in Experimental Economics

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 26 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2016
Leonidas Spiliopoulos and Andreas Ortmann
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 388 (132,070)
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Response time, experimental economics, procedural rationality, games, strategic decision making

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Understanding Social Impact Bonds and Their Alternatives: An Experimental Investigation

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-21
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 Sep 2013
Jade Wong, Andreas Ortmann, Alberto Motta, Le Zhang and Le Zhang
UNSW Business School, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Macquarie University, Macquarie Business SchoolMacquarie University - Macquarie Graduate School of Management
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social impact bonds, principal-agent multi-tasking framework, performance-based contracts,inputs-based contracts, social finance

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MTurk ‘Unscrubbed’: Exploring the Good, the ‘Super’, and the Unreliable on Amazon's Mechanical Turk

UNSW Business School Research Paper No. 2015-20A
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 04 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2015
Jeanette Deetlefs, Mathew Chylinski and Andreas Ortmann
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Marketing, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 316 (165,023)
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data collection, experimentation, field experiment, internet, Mechanical Turk

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On the Interpretation of Giving, Taking, and Destruction in Dictator Games and Joy-of-Destruction Games

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2012ECON50A
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2013
Le Zhang, Le Zhang and Andreas Ortmann
Macquarie University, Macquarie Business SchoolMacquarie University - Macquarie Graduate School of Management and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Dictator game, Joy-of-Destruction game, Altruism, Nastiness, Efficiency considerations, Mach-IV test

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The Costs of Deception: Evidence from Psychology

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The Costs of Deception: Evidence from Psychology

CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 191
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Nov 2002
Andreas Ortmann and Ralph Hertwig
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Downloads 252 (207,307)
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Experimental economics, deception, reputational spillover effects

The Costs of Deception: Evidence from Psychology

CERGE-EI Working Paper Series No. 191
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Nov 2009
Andreas Ortmann and Ralph Hertwig
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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Experimental economics, deception, reputational spillover effects

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Did He, or Did He Not? And Why Would It Matter? On Adam Smith Possibly Having Lived With Asperger’s

UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2023
Andreas Ortmann
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Asperger’s, Autism Spectrum, Adam Smith, Vernon L. Smith, Smith’s Conjecture

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Exploring the Meaning of Significance in Experimental Economics

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-32
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 19 Nov 2013
Le Zhang, Le Zhang and Andreas Ortmann
Macquarie University, Macquarie Business SchoolMacquarie University - Macquarie Graduate School of Management and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 280 (187,189)
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Null Hypothesis Significance Testing, Type-I-errors, Type-II errors, Significance level, Statistical power

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Schumpeter's Assessment of Adam Smith and 'The Wealth of Nations': Why He Got It Wrong

UNSW Business School Research Paper No. 2015 ECON 28
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 06 May 2018
Andreas Ortmann, David Baranowski and Benoit Walraevens
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, Independent and University of Caen Normandy
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Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, rhetoric, rhetorical structure of The Wealth of Nations, Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis

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Understanding Transportation Systems Through the Lenses of Experimental Economics: A Review

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 10 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2015
Vinayak Dixit, Andreas Ortmann, Elisabet Rutstrom and Satish Ukkusuri
University of New South Wales (UNSW), UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics and Purdue University
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Transportation, Experimental Economics, Traffic Equilibrium, Safety, Freight and Logistics, Travel Choices

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Episodes from the Early History of Experimentation in Economics

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-34
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Dec 2013
Andreas Ortmann
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 267 (196,397)
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Experimental methods, Early History of Experimentation in Economics

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On the Foundations of Behavioural and Experimental Economics

UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Andreas Ortmann
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 250 (209,662)
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Foundations of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Rationality, Bounded Rationality, Experimental Practices, Theorizing

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Retirement Savings: A Tale of Decisions and Defaults

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2016
Loretti Dobrescu, Xiaodong Fan, Hazel Bateman, Ben Newell, Andreas Ortmann and Susan Thorp
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, Monash University - Department of Economics, UNSW Sydney, CEPAR, University of New South Wales (UNSW), UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and The University of Sydney Business School
Downloads 248 (211,288)
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pension defaults, retirement savings, method of moments

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How Common Is the Common-Ratio Effect?

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2021
P Blavatskyy, Andreas Ortmann and Valentyn Panchenko
Montpellier Business School, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and UNSW Business School, Economics, University of New South Wales
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Decision Under Risk, Experimental Practices, Common Ratio Effect, Expected Utility Theory, Fanning-out

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The Unbundling Regime for Electricity Utilities in the EU: A Case of Legislative and Regulatory Capture?

CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 328
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Mar 2008
Silvester Van Koten and Andreas Ortmann
Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, FSE and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 213 (244,455)
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electricity markets, regulation, vertical integration, corruption

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Complexity, Attention and Choice in Games under Time Constraints: A Process Analysis

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 01 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2017
Leonidas Spiliopoulos, Andreas Ortmann, Le Zhang and Le Zhang
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Macquarie University, Macquarie Business SchoolMacquarie University - Macquarie Graduate School of Management
Downloads 210 (247,704)
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Response time, time pressure, experimental economics, procedural rationality, games, strategic decision making, Level-k reasoning, Mouselab, process tracing

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The Way in Which an Experiment is Conducted is Unbelievably Important: On the Experimentation Practices of Economists and Psychologists

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2887
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 Jan 2010
Andreas Ortmann
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 198 (261,277)
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Duhem-Quine problem, experimental design, experimental implementation, financial incentives, deception

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Valuing a Risky Prospect Less than its Worst Outcome: Uncertainty Effect or Task Ambiguity?

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Valuing a Risky Prospect Less than its Worst Outcome: Uncertainty Effect or Task Ambiguity?

Jena Economic Research Paper No. 2007-038, CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 334
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 18 Oct 2007
Andreas Ortmann, Alexandra Prokosheva, Ondrej Rydval and Ralph Hertwig
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, Charles University in Prague, Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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risky choice, framing, experiments, task ambiguity, subject confusion

Valuing a Risky Prospect Less than its Worst Outcome: Uncertainty Effect or Task Ambiguity?

CERGE-EI Working Paper Series No. 334
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Oct 2009
Andreas Ortmann, No Name, Ondrej Rydval and Ralph Hertwig
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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Risky choice, framing, experiments, task ambiguity, subject confusion

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Bertrand Price Undercutting: A Brief Classroom Demonstration

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Bertrand Price Undercutting: A Brief Classroom Demonstration

CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 196
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Apr 2003
Andreas Ortmann
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Bertrand Price Undercutting: A Brief Classroom Demonstration

CERGE-EI Working Paper Series No. 196
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 05 Nov 2009
Andreas Ortmann
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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The Beauty of Simplicity? (Simple) Heuristics and the Opportunities Yet to Be Realized

UNSW Business School Research Paper No. 2015-25
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2015
Andreas Ortmann and Leonidas Spiliopoulos
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Downloads 165 (308,013)
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heuristics, simple heuristics, simplicity, model selection, beauty

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The Impact of the Non-Distribution Constraint and its Enforcement on Entrepreneurial Choice, Price, and Quality

CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 299
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 May 2008 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2009
Petra Brhlikova and Andreas Ortmann
CERGE-EI, Center For Econ Research & Grad Education, and Econ Institute, Prague and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Entrepreneurial choice, Nonprofit, For-profit, Non-ditribution constraint, Enforcement on-distribution,

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Are the Unskilled Doomed to Remain Unaware? [The Extended Version]

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 31 Mar 2010
Dmitry Ryvkin, Marian Krajc and Andreas Ortmann
Florida State University, Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 159 (316,204)
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calibration, judgment errors, unskilled, unaware, metacognition, self-image, experiment

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Monetary Incentives: Usually Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient?

CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 307, pp. 1-17, 2006
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 May 2008
Andreas Ortmann and Ralph Hertwig
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Downloads 158 (317,891)
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Experimental practices, monetary incentives, financial incentives, rhetorical tactics

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Exploring the Effects of Real Effort in a Weak-Link Experiment

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Mar 2009
Stefania Bortolotti, Giovanna Devetag and Andreas Ortmann
MPI for Research on Collective Goods, Luiss Guido Carli and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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real effort, weak-link game, coordination, laboratory experiments

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Adam Smith’s Rhetorical Strategy in The Wealth of Nations against the Commercial System of Great Britain

UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Dec 2018
Andreas Ortmann and Benoit Walraevens
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and University of Caen Normandy
Downloads 150 (331,895)
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Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, rhetoric, rhetorical structure of The Wealth of Nations, the American question

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A Reproduction and Replication of Engel's Meta-Study of Dictator Game Experiments

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2012 ECON 44
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 06 Nov 2012
Le Zhang, Le Zhang and Andreas Ortmann
Macquarie University, Macquarie Business SchoolMacquarie University - Macquarie Graduate School of Management and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 148 (335,591)
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dictator game experiments, meta-analysis, meta-regression, reproduction, replication

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Just Interested or Getting Involved? An Analysis of Superannuation Attitudes and Actions

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2013ACTL19
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2013
Hazel Bateman, J. Deetlefs, Loretti Dobrescu, Ben Newell, Andreas Ortmann and Susan Thorp
UNSW Sydney, CEPAR, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Marketing, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, University of New South Wales (UNSW), UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and The University of Sydney Business School
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active decisions, defaults, defined benefit, defined contributions, pensions

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Now You See It, Now You Don’t: How to Make the Allais Paradox Appear, Disappear, or Reverse

UNSW Business School Research Paper No. 2015-14
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Jul 2015
Pavlo R. Blavatskyy, Andreas Ortmann and Valentyn Panchenko
Montpellier Business School, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and UNSW Business School, Economics, University of New South Wales
Downloads 138 (356,628)
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Decision under risk, the Allais Paradox, Common Consequence Effect, Expected Utility, Fanning‐out, Experimental Practices

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Structural Versus Behavioral Remedies in the Deregulation of Electricity Markets: An Experimental Investigation Guided by Theory and Policy Concerns

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Structural Versus Behavioral Remedies in the Deregulation of Electricity Markets: An Experimental Investigation Guided by Theory and Policy Concerns

Cerge-EI working paper
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 10 May 2011 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2020
Silvester Van Koten and Andreas Ortmann
Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, FSE and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 74 (547,565)
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economics experiments, market power, competition, forward markets, EU electricity market

Structural Versus Behavioral Remedies in the Deregulation of Electricity Markets: An Experimental Investigation Guided by Theory and Policy Concerns

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2012-36
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 04 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2013
Silvester Van Koten and Andreas Ortmann
Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, FSE and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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European electricity markets, economics experiments, remedies, forward markets, competition policy

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'It Could, and Maybe Should, Have Been Our Finest Hour. It Hasn’t Been That.' On the Economics of Pandemics, (Some) Economists Losing Their Trade-Off Marbles, and the Dire Consequences

UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 23 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2021
Andreas Ortmann
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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pandemics, economics of pandemics, rules vs discretion, trade-offs

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'The Way in Which an Experiment is Conducted is Unbelievably Important': On the Experimentation Practices of Economists and Psychologists

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2010 ECON 06
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 Feb 2010
Andreas Ortmann
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 126 (380,072)
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Duhem-Quine problem, experimental design, experimental implementation, financial incentives, deception

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Flicking the Switch: Simplifying Disclosures to Improve Retirement Plan Choices

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 24 May 2016 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2018
Susan Thorp, Hazel Bateman, Loretti Dobrescu, Ben Newell and Andreas Ortmann
The University of Sydney Business School, UNSW Sydney, CEPAR, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 123 (391,837)
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fees, returns, prescribes information, financial product disclosures

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Certification as a Viable Quality Assurance Mechanism: Theory and Suggestive Evidence

CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 288
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Jun 2008
Katarina Svitkova and Andreas Ortmann
Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 116 (404,042)
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experience goods, quality assurance, certification, self-regulation, enforcement

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When and Why? A Critical Survey on Coordination Failure in the Laboratory

Devetag, Giovanna, and Ortmann, Andreas, WHEN AND WHY? A CRITICAL SURVEY ON COORINATION FAILURE IN THE LABRATORY, CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, Vol. 302, pp. 1-39, 2006
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2020
Giovanna Devetag and Andreas Ortmann
Luiss Guido Carli and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 113 (411,813)
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coordination games, Pareto-ranked equilibria, payoff-asymmetric equilibria, stag-hunt games, optimization incentives, robustness, coordination, coordination failure

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As Easy as Pie: How Retirement Savers Use Prescribed Investment Disclosures

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2013ECON02
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Mar 2013
Hazel Bateman, Loretti Dobrescu, Ben Newell, Andreas Ortmann and Susan Thorp
UNSW Sydney, CEPAR, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, University of New South Wales (UNSW), UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and The University of Sydney Business School
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consumer finance, diversification heuristics, pensions, choice experiment

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Three Very Simple Games and What it Takes to Solve Them

Downloads 105 (434,076)
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Three Very Simple Games and What it Takes to Solve Them

Jena Economic Research Paper No. 2007-092
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Nov 2007
Ondrej Rydval, Andreas Ortmann and Michal Ostatnický
Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and CERGE-EI, Center For Econ Research & Grad Education, and Econ Institute, Prague
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cognition, bounded rationality, beliefs, guessing games, experiment

Three Very Simple Games and What it Takes to Solve Them

CERGE-EI Working Paper Series No. 347
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Mar 2008
Ondrej Rydval, Andreas Ortmann and Michal Ostatnický
Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and CERGE-EI, Center For Econ Research & Grad Education, and Econ Institute, Prague
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cognition, bounded rationality, beliefs, guessing games, experiment

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Suspicious Minds (can be a good thing when saving for retirement)

UNSW Business School Research Paper No. 2015-06A
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 09 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2015
J. Deetlefs, Hazel Bateman, Loretti Dobrescu, Ben Newell, Andreas Ortmann and Susan Thorp
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Marketing, UNSW Sydney, CEPAR, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, University of New South Wales (UNSW), UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and The University of Sydney Business School
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pension defaults, trust, engagement, retirement savings

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Adam Smith's Reasoning Routines and The Deep Structure of His Oeuvre

UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 27 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2022
Andreas Ortmann and Benoit Walraevens
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and University of Caen Normandy
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Adam Smith, reasoning routines, rhetoric, game theory

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Three Prominent Tournament Formats: Predictive Power and Costs

Ryvkin, Dmitry, and Ortmann Andreas, THREE PROMINENT TOURNAMENT FORMATS: PREDICTIVE POWER AND COSTS, CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, Vol. 303, pp. 1-33, 2006
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 May 2008
Dmitry Ryvkin and Andreas Ortmann
Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 97 (458,383)
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tournaments, design, predictive power

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Ecological Rationality and Economics: Where the Twain Shall Meet

Forthcoming in Synthese, UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2023
Andreas Ortmann and Leonidas Spiliopoulos
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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heuristics, biases, ecological rationality, boundedly rational decision making, behavioral and experimental economics

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Do Donors Care about the Price of Giving? A Review of the Evidence, with some Theory to Organize It

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-22
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Sep 2013
Jade Wong and Andreas Ortmann
UNSW Business School and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 91 (477,752)
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donations, efficiency, price of giving, price-cost trade-off

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Self-Regulating Organizations Under the Shadow of Governmental Oversight: An Experimental Investigation

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-13
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 May 2013 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2016
Silvester Van Koten and Andreas Ortmann
Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, FSE and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 90 (480,918)
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Experimental Economics, Self-regulating organizations, Governmental oversight

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On Uneven Expected Earnings in the Lab

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2014-07
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 25 Feb 2014
Jade Wong and Andreas Ortmann
UNSW Business School and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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uneven expected lab earnings, social preferences, preferences

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Classic Coordination Failures Revisited: The Effects of Deviation Costs and Loss Avoidance

CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 327
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Feb 2007
Giovanna Devetag and Andreas Ortmann
Luiss Guido Carli and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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games, Pareto-ranked equilibria, payoff-asymmetric equilibria, optimization incentives, robustness, coordination failure

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Can a Single Model Account for Both Risky Choices and Inter-Temporal Choices? Testing the Assumptions Underlying Models of Risky-Intertemporal Choice: A Conceptual Replication

UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 104 Posted: 27 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2023
Filip Fidanoski, Vinayak Dixit and Andreas Ortmann
University of Bologna, Department of Economics (DSE), University of New South Wales (UNSW) and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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experimental practices, model selection, reductionist assumption, replication, risky intertemporal preferences, risk preferences, time preferences

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Loss Avoidance as Selection Principle: Evidence from Simple Stag-Hunt Games

CERGE-EI Working Paper No.245
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 17 Nov 2005
Ondrej Rydval and Andreas Ortmann
Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Loss avoidance, Selection principle, Stag-hunt games, Coordination games, Experiment

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Preventing Search with Wicked Defaults

UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2023
Andreas Ortmann, Dmitry Ryvkin, Tom Wilkening and Jingjing Zhang
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, Florida State University, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University
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wicked defaults, costly search, theory, experiment

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How Rewards Enhance Truthful Reporting: An Experimental Analysis

ShanghaiTech SEM Working Paper No. 2018-006
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2020
Regina Betz, Rukai Gong, Andreas Ortmann and Peiyao Shen
Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Donghua University - Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and University of Queensland - School of Economics
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truthful reporting, self-reporting, rewards, experiment

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Testing Leniency Programs Experimentally: The Impact of 'Natural' Framing

CERGE-EI Working Paper Series No. 372
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Oct 2009
Jana Krajcova and Andreas Ortmann
Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
Downloads 60 (602,836)
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corruption, anti-corruption mechanisms, optimal contract, monitoring

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Reading Smith Through the Conceptual Lenses of Game Theory: a Reconstruction of Smith’s Way of Thinking, Inspired by His Lectures on Rhetoric and Languages

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
Andreas Ortmann and Benoit Walraevens
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and University of Caen Normandy
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Adam Smith, eductive game theory, evolutive game theory, rhetoric, reasoning routines

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Exploring the Demand for Elective Egg Freezing: An Incentive-Compatible Experiment

UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Apr 2022
Elena Keller, Andreas Ortmann and Georgina M. Chambers
Centre for Big Data Research in Health, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Centre for Big Data Research in Health
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incentive-compatible experiment, elasticities of demand, elective egg freezing, IVF treatment

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Smith on the Proper Role of Government, Game-theoretically

UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Jan 2022
Andreas Ortmann, Stephen Meardon and Benoit Walraevens
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, Bowdoin College - Department of Economics and University of Caen Normandy
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proper role of government, Adam Smith, game theory

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Defaults and Cognitive Effort

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2022
Andreas Ortmann, Dmitry Ryvkin, Tom Wilkening and Jingjing Zhang
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, Florida State University, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University
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default effect, cognitive costs, cognitive-effort channel, insurance, experiment

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(The Evolution of) Post-Secondary Education: A Computational Model and Experiments

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(The Evolution of) Post-Secondary Education: A Computational Model and Experiments

CERGE-EI Working Paper Series No. 355
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 Oct 2009
Andreas Ortmann, Sergey Slobodyan and Sergey Slobodyan
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of SciencesHSE Moscow
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post-secondary education, for-profit higher education providers, computational simulations

(The Evolution of) Post-Secondary Education: A Computational Model and Experiments

CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 208
Posted: 25 Apr 2005
Andreas Ortmann, Sergey Slobodyan, Sergey Slobodyan and Samuel S. Nordberg
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of SciencesHSE Moscow and Bowdoin College

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Improving Truthful Reporting of Polluting Firms by Rotating Inspectors: Experimental Evidence from a Bribery Game

ShanghaiTech SEM Working Paper No. 2019-005
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 Nov 2019
Peiyao Shen, Regina Betz, Andreas Ortmann and Rukai Gong
University of Queensland - School of Economics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Donghua University - Glorious Sun School of Business and Management
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truthful reporting, corruption, rotation, environmental regulation, experiment

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Understanding the Plott-Wit-Yang Paradox

CERGE-EI Working Paper Series No. 397
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Dec 2009
Katarina Kalovcova and Andreas Ortmann
Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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experimental betting markets, private information, information aggregation

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Self-Regulatory Organizations Under the Shadow of Governmental Oversight: An Experimental Investigation

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. 2014/114
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Dec 2014
Silvester van Koten and Andreas Ortmann
Independent and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Experimental Economics, Self-regulatory organizations, Governmental oversight

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Self-Regulatory Organizations Under the Shadow of Governmental Oversight: An Experimental Investigation

CERGE-EI Working Paper Series No. 519
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2016
Silvester Van Koten and Andreas Ortmann
Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, FSE and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Experimental Economics, Self-regulatory organizations, Governmental oversight

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How Certain is the Uncertainty Effect?

CERGE-EI Working Paper no. 385
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Aug 2009
Ondrej Rydval, Andreas Ortmann, No Name and Ralph Hertwig
Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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Decision under risk, framing, experiments, task ambiguity

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Model Comparisons Using Tournaments: Likes, 'Dislikes', and Challenges

Psychological Methods (Forthcoming)
Posted: 12 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2013
Leonidas Spiliopoulos and Andreas Ortmann
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics

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prediction tournaments, model comparisons, adaptive behavior, heuristics, bounded rationality, ecological rationality

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How Financial Incentives and Cognitive Abilities Affect Task Performance in Laboratory Settings: An Illustration

CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 221
Posted: 10 Nov 2005
Ondrej Rydval and Andreas Ortmann
Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics

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human capital, endogenous growth, total factor productivity and growth accounting

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A Game-Theoretic Explanation of the Administrative Lattice in Institutions of Higher Learning

Posted: 11 Jan 2001
Andreas Ortmann and Richard Squire
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Fordham University School of Law

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Principal-agent games; Organizational behavior of nonprofits in higher education; Administrative lattice; Academic ratchet.