On this page you find some links to my current research:

Methods

• Oliver Kirchkamp, Jörg Oechssler and Andis Sofianos (2021), “The Binary Lottery Procedure does not induce risk neutrality in the Holt and Laury and Eckel and Grossman tasks.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 185, pp. 348-369.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (2019), “Importing z-Tree data into R”, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Vol. 22, pp. 1-2.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Hiltrud Niggemann (2017), Review of “An Introduction to Stata Programming (2nd Edition)”, by Christopher F. Baum, Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 77(1), pp. 1-5.
• Christoph Engel, Oliver Kirchkamp (2019), “How to Deal with Inconsistent Choices on Multiple Price Lists”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 160, pp. 138-157.

Auction and Market Experiments

• Oliver Kirchkamp, J. Philipp Reiß (2019), “Heterogeneous bids in auctions with rational and boundedly rational bidders — theory and experiment” International Journal of Game Theory.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Wladislaw Mill (2021), “Spite vs. Risk: Explaining overbidding”. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 130, pp. 616-635.
• Mike Farjam, Oliver Kirchkamp (2018), “Bubbles in hybrid markets — How expectations about algorithmic trading affect human trading”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 146, pp. 248-269.
• Werner Güth, Kirsten Häger, Oliver Kirchkamp, Joachim Schwalbach (2016), “Testing Forbearance Experimentally—Duopolistic Competition of Conglomerate Firms”, International Journal of the Economics of Business, Vol. 23(1), pp. 63-86.
• Hannah Hörisch, Oliver Kirchkamp (2010), “Less fighting than expected—experiments with wars of attrition and all-pay auctions”, Public Choice, Vol. 144/1, pp. 347-367.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Eva Poen, J. Philipp Reiß (2009), “Outside options: Another reason to choose the first-price auction”, European Economic Review, Vol. 53(2), pp. 153-169.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, J. Philipp Reiß, Abdolkarim Sadrieh (2007), “A pure variation of risk in first-price auctions”, under revision at International Economic Review
• Oliver Kirchkamp, J. Philipp Reiß (2011), “Out-of equilibrium bids in auctions—Wrong expectations or wrong bids”, Economic Journal, Vol. 121/557, pp. 1361-1397
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Benny Moldovanu (2004), “An experimental analysis of auctions with interdependent valuation”, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 48/1, pp. 54-85.

Incomplete Contracts, Incentives, Bargaining, Trust and Fairness

• Alexia Gaudeul, Katharina Gangl, Oliver Kirchkamp, Louisa Kulke (2024), “The impact of ethical feedback on moral emotions and managerial behavior: a labor market experiment”
• Lorenzo Cominelli, Francesco Feri, Roberto Garofalo, Caterina Giannetti, Miguel A. Meléndez‑Jiménez, Alberto Greco, Mimma Nardelli, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Oliver Kirchkamp (2021), “Promises and trust in human–robot interaction.” Scientific Reports 11, 9687.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Wladislaw Mill (2020), “Conditional cooperation and the effect of punishment” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol 174, pp. 150-172.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Christina Strobel (2019), “Sharing Responsibility with a Machine”, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 80, pp. 25-33.
• Serhiy Kandul, Oliver Kirchkamp (2018), “Do I care if the others lie? Current and future effects of delegation of lying”, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol 74, pp. 70-78.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Ulrike Vollstädt (2014), “Bargaining with Two-Person-Groups—How Significant are Patient Partners”, Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization, Vol. 108, pp. 433-441.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Henning Prömpers (2013), “Discharge of residual debt—Do private and institutional lenders differ?”
• Katharina Eckartz, Oliver Kirchkamp, Daniel Schunk (2012), “How do Incentives affect Creativity?”
• Marco Faravelli, Oliver Kirchkamp, Helmut Rainer (2013), “The Effect of Power Imbalances on Incentives to Make Non-Contractible Investments”, European Economic Review, Vol. 61, pp. 169-185.
• Fabian Bornhorst, Andrea Ichino, Oliver Kirchkamp, Karl H. Schlag, Eyal Winter (2010), “Similarities and Differences when Building Trust: the Role of Cultures”, Experimental Economics, Vol. 13/3, pp. 260-283.

Macroeconomic Experiments

• Michele Bernasconi, Oliver Kirchkamp, Paolo Paruolo (2009), “Do fiscal variables affect fiscal expectations? Experiments with real world and lab data”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, forthcoming.
• Hannah Hörisch, Oliver Kirchkamp (2010), “Less fighting than expected—experiments with wars of attrition and all-pay auctions”, Public Choice, Vol. 144/1, pp. 347-.
• Michele Bernasconi, Oliver Kirchkamp, Paolo Paruolo (2003), “Expectations and perceived causality in fiscal policy: an experimental analysis using real world data”, SFB 504 discussion paper No. 03-03.
• Michele Bernasconi, Oliver Kirchkamp (2001), “The ‘Expectations view’ on fiscal policy—An experiment using real world data.”, SFB 504 discussion paper No. 02-18.
• Michele Bernasconi, Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), “Why do monetary policies matter? An experimental study of saving and inflation in an overlapping generations model”, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 46, pp. 315-343.

Local Interaction, Fairness, Experiments and Theory

• Werner Güth, Oliver Kirchkamp (2021), “Believing in Corporate Social Responsibility — An Indirect Evolutionary Analysis”, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE). Vol. 177(2), pp. 167-177.
• Robert Böhm, Klaus Rothermund, Oliver Kirchkamp (2013), “Social categorization and group-motivated interindividual—intergroup discontinuity”, European Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 43(1), pp. 40-49.
• Werner Güth, Oliver Kirchkamp (2012), “Will you accept without knowing what?—A Thuringian newspaper experiment of the Yes-No game”, Experimental Economics, Vol. 15(4), pp. 656-666.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Rosemarie Nagel (2007), “Naive learning and cooperation in network experiments”, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 58/2, pp. 269-292.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), “Spatial Evolution of Automata in the Prisoners' Dilemma”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Vol. 43, pp. 239-262.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (1999), “Simultaneous evolution of learning rules and strategies”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Vol. 40/3, pp. 295-312.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), “Evolution of Learning Rules in Space”, in Ramzi Suleiman, Klaus G. Troitzsch and G. Nigel Gilbert, Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation, Physika Verlag, Heidelberg.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (1996), “Spatial Evolution of Automata in the Prisoners' Dilemma—Preliminary Results”, in K. G. Troitzsch, U. Mueller, G. N. Gilbert, J. E. Doran, Social Science Microsimulation, Springer.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), Review of “Individual Strategy and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Theory of Institutions”, by H. Peyton Young, The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), Volume 3, Issue 4.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Rosemarie Nagel (2003), “No imitation—on local and group interaction, learning and reciprocity in prisoners' dilemma experiments”, SFB 504 discussion paper No. 03-04.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Rosemarie Nagel (2001), “Repeated Game Strategies in Local and Group Prisoners' Dilemmas Experiments: First Results”, Homo Ökonomicus, XVIII(2) 2001, pp. 319-336.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Rosemarie Nagel (2002), “Reinforcement, repeated games, and local interaction”, SFB 504 discussion paper No. 02-17.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Rosemarie Nagel (2000), “Local and Group Interaction in Prisoners' Dilemma Experiments—Imitate locally, think globally”, SFB 504 discussion paper No. 00-11.

Migration

• Christian Dustmann, Oliver Kirchkamp (2002), “The Optimal Migration Duration and Activity Choice after Re-migration”, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 67, pp. 351-372.

Experiments on the Internet

• Oliver Kirchkamp (1998), “WWW Experiments for Economists, a Technical Introduction”, SFB 504 discussion paper No. 98-47.