Research Contributions

Working papers

• Markets Reduce Discrimination, [jointly with Daniel Müller]. (Revise and Resubmit: Games and Economic Behavior)

• Preference for Redistribution: Does the Recipient's Residency Status, Education, and Volunteering Matter?, [jointly with Gianluca Grimalda, Lena Detlefsen and Christoph Schütt]. (SSRN Working Paper 4578532)

• In-Group Bias in Natural Groups of Soldiers, [jointly with Janina Kraus]. (Under Review: Journal of Public Economics)

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Krügel, J.P. and Paetzel F. (2024): The Impact of Fraud on Reputation Systems. Games and Economic Behavior 144: 329-354.
   
• Necker, S. and Paetzel F. (2023): The effect of losing and winning on cheating and effort in repeated competitions. Journal of Economic Psychology 98.
   
• Traub, S., Schwaninger, M., Paetzel, F. and Neuhofer, S. (2023): Evidence on need-sensitive giving behavior: An experimental approach to the acknowledgment of needs. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 105.
   
• Maaser, N., Paetzel, F. and Traub, S. (2022): Gender and Nominal Power in Multilateral Bargaining. Games 13 (1), 11.
   
• Tepe, M., Paetzel, F., Lorenz, J. and Lutz, M. (2021): Efficiency Loss and Support for Income Redistribution: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment. Rationality and Society 33: 313-340.
   
• Greiff, M. and Paetzel, F. (2020): Information About Average Evaluations Increases Efficiency: An Experiment on Noisy Reputation Systems. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 180: 334-356.
   
• Maaser, N., Paetzel, F. and Traub, S. (2019): Power Illusion in Coalition Bargaining: An Experimental Analysis. Games and Economic Behavior 117: 433-450.
   
• Paetzel, F. and Sausgruber, R. (2018): Cognitive Ability and In-group Bias - An Experimental Study. Journal of Public Economics 167: 280-292.
   
• Paetzel, F., Lorenz, J. and Tepe, M. (2018): Transparency diminishes framing-effects in an experiment on voting and redistribution. European Journal of Political Economy 55: 169-184.
   
• Lorenz, J., Paetzel F. and Tepe M. (2017): Just don't call it a tax! Framing in an experiment on voting and redistribution. Journal of Experimental Political Science 4(3): 183-194.
   
• Paetzel, F. and Traub, S. (2017): Skewness-adjusted Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence on the Relation between Inequality, Elite Behavior and Economic Efficiency. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 68: 130-139. 
   
• Greiff, M. and Paetzel, F. (2016): Second-Order Beliefs in Reputation Systems with Endogenous Evaluations – An Experimental Study. Games and Economic Behavior 97: 32-43.
   
• Kittel, B., Paetzel,F. and Traub, S. (2015): Competition, Income Distribution, and the Middle Class: An Experimental Study. Journal of Applied Mathematics 501. 
   
• Greiff, M. and Paetzel, F. (2015): Incomplete Information Strengthens the Effectiveness of Social Approval. Economic Inquiry 53(1): 557-573. 
   
• Paetzel F., Sausgruber R. and Traub S. (2014): Social Preferences and Voting on Reform: An Experimental Study. European Economic Review 70: 36-55.
   
• Lorenz J., Paetzel F. and Schweitzer F. (2013): Redistribution Spurs Growth by Using a Portfolio Effect on Risky Human Capital. PLoS ONE 8(2): e54904.

Work in Progress

• Social identity and responsibility [jointly with Miguel Abellan-Ossenbach, Mario Mechtel and Christoph Schütt]. (Working paper is coming soon)

• Non-Events in the Public Health Sector - Causes, Consequences, and Empirical Evidence, [jointly with Jörg Felfe, Pauline Halm, Thomas Jacobsen, Jan Philipp Krügel, Yvonne Nestoriuc, Mey-Ling Sommer and Stefan Traub].  (Working paper is coming soon)

• The Impact of Non-Events on the Efficiency of Risk Communication, [jointly with Jörg Felfe, Pauline Halm, Thomas Jacobsen, Jan Philipp Krügel, Yvonne Nestoriuc, Mey-Ling Sommer and Stefan Traub].  (Working paper is coming soon)

• Fake evaluations and solutions [jointly with Janina Kraus, Philipp Krügel, Matthias Greiff and David Kusterer].

• A little uncertainty diminishes social preferences, [jointly with Ulrich Schmidt and Stefan Traub].

• Heterogeneity, Social Identity and the Social Contract, [jointly with Nicola Maaser, Markus Tepe and Stefan Traub].

• Exclusion aversion, [jointly with Christian Hirschmann, Nicola Maaser and Stefan Traub].

• Skewness-adjusted Social Preferences: Elite-behavior.

• Social identity, migration and structural change.

• Deontology: Some new insights and empirical evidence, [jointly with Diego Conzalez, Janina Kraus and Roland Menges]