About

The SFB F63 "Credence Goods, Incentives and Behavior" is a joint research project including the project part leaders Loukas Balafoutas, Esther Blanco, Jürgen Huber, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Michael Kirchler, and Markus Walzl.

The project’s aim is to analyze key determinants of individual behavior and market performance in credence goods markets with a variety of methods, combining theoretical work, laboratory experiments and field experiments. The research group consists of more than 30 scholars from economics and finance, thus bridging research across both fields.

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Upcoming Events

• November 21 | Ernest Lai | Lehigh University
  Topic: What is a Label Worth? A Product Market Experiment on Label Uncertainty and socially-Responsible Market Behavior
• November 27 | Martin Holmen | U of Gothenburg
  Topic: Green Choices in the Swedish Premium Pension System
• December 4 | Holger Rau | U of Göttingen
  Topic: The Influence of Environmental Impact Uncertainty on Financial Risk Appetite
• December 5 | Pierre Fleckinger | Mines Paris - PSL
  Topic: tba
• January 8 | Björn Bartling | U of Zurich
  Topic: tba
• January 15 | Barnabas Szaszi | ELTE
  Topic: tba

Participating Institutions

Department of Banking and Finance
Department of Economics
Department of Public Finance
Research Area EPoS Economy, Politics and Society

Related Publications

Buso, I.M., Ferrari, L., Güth, W., Lorè, L., Spadoni, L. (2024), Testing Isomorphic Invariance Across social Dilemma Games, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. [more]

Hall, J., Kerschbamer, R., Neururer, D. Skoog, E. (2023), Uncovering Sophisticated Discrimination with the Help of Credence Goods Markups – Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment, forthcoming in Management Science.

Kerschbamer, R., Neururer, D., Sutter, M. (2023), Credence goods markets, online information and repair prices: A natural field experiment. Journal of Public Economics. [more]

Emons, W., Kerschbamer, R., Muelheusser, G. (2023), Credence Goods: A Symposium. Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics. [more]

Dulleck, U., Kerschbamer, R., Konovalov, A. (2023), Credence Goods: A Symposium. Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics. [more]

Huber, J., Inoua, S., Kerschbamer, R., König-Kersting, C., Palan, S., Smith, V. (2022), Nobel and Novice: Author Prominence Affects Peer Review. PNAS. [more]

Hedegaard, M., Kerschbamer, R., Mueller, D., Tyran, J.-R. (2021), Distributional Preferences Explain Behavior across Games and Time. Games and Economic Behavior. [more]

Credence Goods on Stage