Kiel Policy Brief No. 143: Recent studies have shown that electric cars have lower greenhouse gas emissions than conventional internal...

The literature reports a tendency that future losses are discounted less than future gains, the so-called sign effect in intertemporal...

Prenatal androgens have organizational effects on brain and endocrine system development, which may have a partial impact on economic...

Problem gamblers discount delayed rewards more rapidly than do non-gambling controls. Understanding this impulsivity is important for...

Women in Western societies are typically more risk averse than men in individual risk taking decisions. In real life, however, risk...

The literature suggests that human perception and behavior vary with physical temperature. We provide an experimental test of how...

The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an...

Problem gambling is a serious socioeconomic problem involving high individual and social costs. In this article, we study risk...

Standard economic theory assumes that individual risk taking decisions are independent from the social context. Recent experimental...

It has been observed that in a variety of tasks, losses have a larger impact on behavior than do gains of equal size. This phenomenon...

This study contributes to the public debate on gender quotas and the literature on gender and risk taking by analysing how the level...

The Kiel Canal in Germany connects ports on the Baltic Sea with the rest of the world and is the most-used artificial waterway in the...

While reports state that consumers are increasingly willing to consume more sustainably, no study has considered how the activation of...

Over the last decades, research in behavioural economics has demonstrated that individual welfare (utility), as relevant for economic...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 18: This paper focuses on the legal monopoly for sporting bets in Germany. ...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 44: The increasing black market motivated the discussion of a new regulation of the gambling market in Germany. ...

This study examines structural differences in the subjective quality of health care in Germany using a newspaper survey. We find that...

Most simulated micro-founded macro models use solely consumer-demand aggregates in order to estimate preference parameters of a...